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., ...

Considering how much meaning has been attached to the gesture, it’s remarkable how little it says about the nature of man. While a handshake can close deals, say hello and good-bye, seal promises, it ...

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 ...

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 ...

A dapper Peter Josie smiles for the camera. Was he influenced to vote against Allan Louisy’s 1981-82 Budget by the words of his close friend George Odlum? [dropcap ...

There was not so long ago the murder of a female in the Balata area that I sought to investigate when I was still a journalist. It happened just after a shoot-out on Chaussee Road, in Castries. I was ...

Former WICB (now Cricket West Indies) president Mr. Julian R. Hunte. At the time of assuming the office of the President of the West Indies Cricket Board on July 29, 2007 the West Indies Cricket Team ...

This article is a synopsis of the social architecture that keeps us divided. It is not intended to indict any person, institution or family. It is an historical fact that after the abolition of ...

The recent announcements by Saint Lucia’s Prime Minister Philip J. Pierre and the president of the Caribbean Court of Justice, Mr. Justice Adrian Saunders, have signalled our accession to the ...

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 recent ...

Not since we regained independence in 1979 have Saint Lucians been so united in the ethos of a single moment, a single milestone. Yes, there have been other firsts, anniversaries, even Nobel Prizes in ...

For over a decade his relationship with U.S. Immigration has occupied the Saint Lucian imagination. At any rate, since Jeannine Compton let drop her stink bomb during a September 2011 television ...