Onstage with him were a dozen or so young men and women in red shirts and black pants. By his own account, they are his most trusted constituents. He described as “unusual” their meeting on a ...

You may have heard the adage that from the mouth of babes is usually the unvarnished truth. I was conscripted by friends to write on what is Saint Lucia and the wider Eastern Caribbean ...

Over the past several weeks, social media has been replete with alleged actions by politicians, and the hierarchy of the Royal Saint Lucia Police Force, against officers, who have allegedly engaged in ...

On Tuesday, March 25th, 2025, Prime Minister Philip J. Pierre formally presented before parliament the Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure for the 2025–2026 fiscal year. Valued at approximately $2.1 ...

During this week, there has been much ado and debate both in and outside of the House of Parliament, about the Amendments to the Child Justice Act. In this Amendment, s.54 of the principal Act i.e., ...

L-R Premier of Nevis and Opposition Leader of St. Kitts and Nevis, Mark Brantley and Saint Lucian, His Lordship Justice Eddy Ventose The integrity of the Eastern Caribbean judicial system is under the ...

Recently the Minister of Education, Shawn Edward, alluded to a systematic crisis, when he stressed upon an audience of scholars that he was worried and needed to see more young men in the room and on ...

In my previous piece entitled “What Trump 2.0 could mean for the Caribbean Region”, only one month after his re-election as President of the United States of America, I argued, that his campaign of ...

The Sir Arthur Lewis Community College (SALCC) is delighted to announce its inaugural Writers in the Spotlight: Book and Literary Fair, taking place on January 24, 2025, as part of the college’s Nobel ...

As Saint Lucia celebrates the 2025 Nobel Laureate Festival, aimed at celebrating our Nobel Laureates, Sir W. Arthur Lewis and Sir Derek Walcott, who received the Nobel Prizes for Economics and ...

Suicide is never an option, because it lets the bullies win, always. Out of curiosity, I dug up on people who made my life hell in secondary and primary school, turns out they are all nowhere near the ...

Lately our young people have been under heavy fire. It’s not uncommon to hear, even from mouths less than fifty years old, that “our youth are lazy, irresponsible, without ambition, criminally ...