The St. Lucia Folk Research Centre will, on Saturday 13th March hold a traditional wake to pay final respects to Pat Charles, a former director of the Folk Research Centre and to celebrate her entry into the afterlife.
The traditional St Lucian Lavéyé has its roots in African tradition. Normally, friends and family gather at the [...]

The St. Lucia Writers’ Forum (SLWF) will this Thursday, February 18, host its first free public reading for 2010 at the Castries Central Library.
The reading, dubbed “30 Plus 1: Independence with a twist of Love,” will consist of thirty individual poems with the themes of independence and love, while one group poem will focus on [...]

A nationwide scientific study of St. Lucia’s reptiles and amphibians, completed this month, has uncovered that the island’s endemic reptile populations are approaching critically low levels. The study, under the National Forest Demarcation and Bio-Physical Resource Inventory Project, also reports that these species face extinction if measures are not taken to conserve St. Lucia’s unique [...]

The Cultural Development Foundation will be organizing, under the distinguished patronage of Her Excellency, Dame Pearlette Louisy, a special Arts Festival to launch the reestablishment of an annual National Arts Awards and National Arts Festival in 2010.   This event is scheduled to take place from November 28th to December 6th at the National Cultural Centre.  [...]

The Folk Research Centre in collaboration with Alliance Francaise de Saint Lucie, will this month host a series of seminar presentations on various themes related to the rich Creole heritage of St Lucia. On Friday, 23rd October, 2009, St Lucian cultural activist Travis Weekes will make a presentation on “Kont and Nine Night: African Derived [...]

The Banana Industry Trust (BIT) is calling for partnership and collaboration among primary stakeholders as well as strong community support for the Choiseul Economic Revitalization Project scheduled to commence next week.
The EC$1.4 million project, funded by the EU under the SFA 2003 ‘Environment Management Fund’, will see the installation of a 150,000 gallon water storage [...]

Castries, St. Lucia (July 02, 2009) – Pressure is mounting on St. Lucia’s natural resources as the demand for land for agriculture, housing, industrial and hotel development increases. Over the past two years, the Banana Industry Trust (BIT) has therefore undertaken several initiatives, with funding from the European Union (EU), to reduce the negative impacts [...]

The Cultural Development Foundation (CDF) of st. Lucia has announced  the re-establishment of two major national cultural events in its 2009 – 2010 programme of activities.  The annual National Arts Festival will take place in November and December 2009.  This will be followed by an evening of national awards for the Arts which is being [...]

St. Lucian artist, Craig George, is preparing for an exhibition of his work, May 11 – September 14, 2009, at the Zurich Hilton Airport Hotel.  Some 50 pieces of George’s work will be on display in Zurich.  “I am hoping this exhibition will be a vehicle for exposure not only for myself as a St. [...]