‘People’ Archives
New Saint Lucia National Mental Wellness Centre to be Commissioned on March 1st, 2010
The new State-of-the-Art Saint Lucia National Mental Wellness Centre will be commissioned on Monday, March 1st, 2010 during an official ceremony to be held at the location of the new facility at Coubaril (off the Millennium Highway). The ceremony which begins at 10:00 am marks the commencement of operations of the new centre. The programme for [...]
A Lenten message from Archbishop Robert Rivas.”PRAYER, FASTING AND MERCY”
“Man does not live on bread alone” My dear sisters and brothers in Christ, For forty days of Lent we shall have the opportunity to grow in our relationship with God, review our lives, renew our faith and baptismal commitment in living a genuine Christian life, and deepen our commitment to Christ and the Church. Lent is a Season of [...]
The St. Lucia Association of Montreal Celebrates St. Lucia’s Independence
The St. Lucia Association of Montreal will be celebrating the 31st anniversary of St. Lucia’s independence with a Church service and a brunch on Sunday February 21st 2010, at the St. Paul’s Anglican Church 3970 Cote Ste Catherine Road. The Church service will be at 11.00 am, followed by the brunch at 1.00 pm. The Association welcomes anyone [...]
Police say death of St. Lucian living in Ottawa was a homicide
The death of Stevenson Auguste is being treated as the city's first homicide of 2010. Auguste, a 41-year-old Ottawa resident, died from injuries he received in a barroom brawl early Thursday morning at a Lansdowne St. strip club. City police Staff Sgt. John Lyons said police are still waiting for a coroner's report to rule out any underlying [...]
CARICOM’s Declaration on PARAMARIBO on the future of youth in the Caribbean Community
We, the Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), meeting at the Torarica Hotel, Paramaribo, Suriname on 30 January 2010 on the occasion of a Special Regional Summit on Youth Development: Conscious that regional integration holds the key to the optimal development of the small developing countries of the Community and the [...]
Family to take Ottawa / St. Lucia man off life support.
The Ottawa man viciously beaten in a Peterborough bar Thursday morning was scheduled to be taken off life support Sunday night after his mother and daughter arrived from St. Lucia said goodbye to him. They were scheduled to land in Toronto earlier in the afternoon. Stevenson Auguste, 41, who also has a wife and two young sons in Ottawa, was [...]
LIME $100,000.00 winner John St. Louis donates $5,000.00 to charity
Wednesday morning, in a brief ceremony at the Ministry of Agriculture, John St Louis, winner of the LIME Christmas jackpot, announced charitable donations totaling $5000. Minister of Agriculture, Ezechiel Joseph, attended the ceremony, along with acting LIME Country Manager, Goretti Lawrency. The career civil servant made his first presentation [...]
St. Lucia’s St Jude Hospital Reconstruction Project Moves into Implementation Phase
The planned reconstruction of St Jude Hospital moves into another phase with the appointment of an eight (8) person Project Technical Team, which will be headed by a Project Manager. This team will be responsible for providing technical advice related to construction to the St Jude Task Force, which is headed by Prime Minister Stephenson King and [...]
The Governor of the ECCB presents the 2009 Economic review of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union.
Governor of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) Sir K. Dwight Venner will present the 2009 Economic Review of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) on 28 January 2010 at 8:00 p.m. on radio and television stations throughout the ECCU. The Governor’s presentation will focus on a review of the global and regional issues that impacted [...]
Haiti thanks Caricom for the quick response to their crisis
Haiti Prime Minister Honourable Jean-Max Bellerive has expressed his country’s gratitude for the quick response of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in the wake of the devastating earthquake of Tuesday 12 January 2010. Speaking to the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC), which was part of CARICOM’s Tactical Mission to Haiti, Mr Bellerive said [...]
