There is an old phrase that a photo or painting is worth a thousand words; I assumed the same would be true with emoji’s and how young people communicate. Last week when seeking consent to ...

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 ...

Their appointments were highly praised. But not because of their special qualifications. What had got them the all-important affirmative nod had nothing to do with school certificates and employment ...

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., ...

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 Caribbean Community (CARICOM) expresses its profound gratitude for the posthumous pardon granted by the Biden administration to the Right Excellent Marcus Mosiah Garvey, a distinguished civil ...

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 ...

Fellow Saint Lucians, let me start by wishing each and every Saint Lucian, both at home and abroad, a happy, healthy, productive and prosperous New Year. Let us pledge to build together a better Saint ...