30 Sept 2013
29 Sept 2013
St Lucia Minister Expands Legal Threat To Media
Ironically, the foundation for the threatened action by La Corbinere and others for alleged damage to their reputation appears in turn to relate to allegations that so far unnamed members of the St Lucia Labour Party (SLP) tarnished the reputation of former housing minister Richard Frederick by supplying false information to US embassy officials.
In his formal statement on Friday, the minister did not elaborate on what that legal action was; what conduct or comment he found objectionable; or what others are going to be included in the threatened action.
However, he now claims that he will “not have his reputation destroyed by Caribbean News Now,” which he described as “a ragtag called Caribbean news because it’s nothing more than a ragtag.”
In saying this, La Corbiniere seems to be ignorant of the fact that Caribbean News Now, along with its predecessor publication, has been publishing regional news for over ten years and outranks any other regional website in every measure, usually by several orders of magnitude, with website visitors and page views measured in the millions annually.
28 Sept 2013
27 Sept 2013
UWP Appoints New Communications & Strategy Manager:
According to a press release, “Anatole will lead a team of experts in all aspects of communications to ensure that the Party’s latest news, views and concerns are shared with all citizens, both here and abroad. “His proven background as an author, journalist/reporter at the STAR newspaper and CHOICE TV, not to mention creative skills and ambitions will be an asset to the Party.”
Chairman of the UWP Ezechiel Joseph said: “Mr. Anatole is a respectable and talented young man and we (at the United Workers Party) welcome him with open arms. He has a great task ahead of him and we know that he is more than capable of delivering results.”
Anatole expressed thanks to the Party for having confidence in him.
He said: “This is a new turn of events in my life. I welcome this opportunity as one that will not only help me grow but also help the Party grow and evolve to be a more modern and appealing Party for both the young and the old. I am happy to be a part of the team and look forward to achieving great things together.”
Anatole’s appointment comes almost two months after Allen Chastanet successfully won his bid for leadership of the Party at July’s National Convention, with the installation of a new communications and strategy manager being one of his first objectives.
26 Sept 2013
Was Emma Hippolyte Technically fired as Minister between August 23rd to 28th, 2013?
Castries, Saint Lucia – September 26, 2013 – In the August 26, 2013 Extra Ordinary Issue of the Gazette of Saint Lucia, the United Workers Party notes that the Prime Minister of Saint Lucia Acted as Minister for Commerce, Business Development, Investment and Consumer Affairs for the period August 23-28, 2013.
Our information confirms that during that period, the Minister for Commerce, Business Development, Investment and Consumer Affairs, Hon. Emma Hippolyte was out of state on official business approved by the Prime Minister. In fact, based on information from a reliable source in the United States, Minister Hippolyte attended a number of meetings in her capacity as Minister with a number of State institutions and organizations.
The United Workers Party is baffled by the need for Prime Minister Dr. Kenny D. Anthony to assume the office of Minister for Commerce, Business Development, Investment and Consumer Affairs while Minister Hippolyte was overseas conducting legitimate business in her capacity as Minister. It is also important to note that according to our information, Minister Hippolyte was not on vacation or medical leave.
As a result of these perplexed events, the United Workers Party wants the Prime Minister to provide answers to the following questions:
1. Is it a new policy of this Labour Administration for the Prime Minister to act as Minister for any Minister who travels overseas on Government business?
2. If the Prime Minister assumes a Minister’s portfolio, does the Minister who has travelled have full Ministerial responsibilities, authority and privileges while overseas?
3. Do we expect to see the Prime Minister assume other portfolios when other Ministers travel on official Government business?
4. Given that this Prime Minister has not assumed the portfolio of any of his Ministers in the past when they travelled on Official Government business, can he tell us why he found it necessary to act for Emma Hippolyte in this instance or was she technically fired as Minister for the period August 23-28, 2013?
25 Sept 2013
23 Sept 2013
22 Sept 2013
Flambeau Bags A Hot Collectors Item
Saint Lucians are finding not so subtle ways of sending messages to this failed SLP Government. The calypso lyrics resonated loud and clear. The "Talk Shows" are loaded with disappointed electorate who are reaping a harvest of "Bitter Days". The hottest item at the Castries Market this past Saturday was not food but "Flambeau Bags" without VAT. The bags had a simple message printed: "Always do Good"! Do the Electorate know something that Kenny does not understand? Perhaps the Electorate are already preparing for the next elections whenever they are held. next year or 2016.
Bolivian president to sue US govt for crimes against humanity
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| Bolivia's President Evo Morales |
“I would like to announce that we are preparing a lawsuit against Barack Obama to condemn him for crimes against humanity,” said President Morales at a press conference in the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz. He branded the US president as a “criminal” who violates international law.
In solidarity with Venezuela, Bolivia will begin preparing a lawsuit against the US head of state to be taken to the international court. Furthermore, Morales has called an emergency meeting of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) to discuss what has been condemned by Venezuela as “an act of intimidation by North American imperialism.”
The Bolivian president has suggested that the members of CELAC withdraw their ambassadors from the US to send a message to the Obama Administration. As an additional measure he will call on the member nations of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas to boycott the next meeting of the UN. Members of the Alliance include Antigua and Barbuda, Cuba, Dominica, Ecuador, Nicaragua, Venezuela and Saint Lucia.
21 Sept 2013
PRESS STATEMENT
The United Workers Party Women in Action (WIA) is concerned with the technical expertise and capacity of the Forensic Laboratory, in light of the many murders that remain unsolved to date. Approximately Ten Million Dollars ($10,000.000) was spent on the construction and commissioning of equipping of what is a state of the art Forensic Laboratory.
WIA understands that after the contract of the Senior Forensic Scientists responsible for Crime Scene, Trace Evidence and Forensic Biology was terminated in January 2012, the contract of a visiting American Forensic Consultant was also discontinued.
The other scientist who was considered senior then proceeded on study and maternity leave, the Lab remains largely unmanned and idle except for the Director and two Junior Forensic Scientists who do not possess the necessary Case Work and Crime Scene Management expertise, to provide critical support to the Royal St. Lucia Police Force and the office of the Director of Public Prosecution which was the main reason for the establishment of the lab.
Housing minister faces fraud allegations as St Lucia government celebrates low-cost housing programme
CASTRIES, St Lucia -- At the same time that the government of Saint Lucia is celebrating the commencement
of a multi-million dollar low-cost housing project in the north of the
island, allegations of fraud have been made against minister for
physical development, housing and urban renewal Stanley Felix.
In 2011, Bau Panel Systems Limited, a company incorporated in Gibraltar, entered into a joint venture agreement with the National Housing Corporation (NHC) of Saint Lucia for the construction of low-cost homes involving the development of approximately 400 acres of land, including 58 acres at River Doree, Choiseul. Charles Broomfield, a quantity surveyor, was engaged by Bau Panel Systems as an exclusive consultant in relation to the joint venture.
According to legal pleadings filed in the High Court in London, Bau Panel Systems now claims it has been the victim of a conspiracy between Broomfield and Felix to destroy its joint venture with the NHC. The purpose of the conspiracy, it is alleged, was to divert the development opportunity vested in the joint venture company, NHC Bau (St Lucia) Limited (NHC Bau), to a new joint venture partner in which Broomfield has an interest, and in the process to take the benefit of the substantial investment by Bau Panel Systems in the development under its joint venture.
In 2011, Bau Panel Systems Limited, a company incorporated in Gibraltar, entered into a joint venture agreement with the National Housing Corporation (NHC) of Saint Lucia for the construction of low-cost homes involving the development of approximately 400 acres of land, including 58 acres at River Doree, Choiseul. Charles Broomfield, a quantity surveyor, was engaged by Bau Panel Systems as an exclusive consultant in relation to the joint venture.
According to legal pleadings filed in the High Court in London, Bau Panel Systems now claims it has been the victim of a conspiracy between Broomfield and Felix to destroy its joint venture with the NHC. The purpose of the conspiracy, it is alleged, was to divert the development opportunity vested in the joint venture company, NHC Bau (St Lucia) Limited (NHC Bau), to a new joint venture partner in which Broomfield has an interest, and in the process to take the benefit of the substantial investment by Bau Panel Systems in the development under its joint venture.
Dame Calliopa Pearlette Louisy
She began her university education in October 1966, having obtained a scholarship from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) to read for a Bachelors' Degree in English and French at the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill in Barbados. In 1972 she was awarded another scholarship under the Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan to read for a Masters' Degree in Linguistics, in the field of Didactics at the University of Laval in Quebec City, Canada. In 1991, she took up studies at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom where she read for a Ph. D in Education. Her doctoral studies focused on the management and provision of tertiary education in small nation states.
Dr. Louisy's entire professional life has been spent in the field of education. She was first exposed to the classroom when she served as a pupil teacher at the Laborie Mixed Infant school while she waited for an opportunity to begin her secondary school education. She later served on the staff of St. Joseph's Convent during the years 1969 - 1972 and 1975 - 1976. From 1976 - 1981, she served first as a tutor of French, and then as Principal of the Saint Lucia ‘A' Level College. When the ‘A' Level College was merged with sister institutions to form the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College, she served as Dean of the Division of Arts, Science and General Studies, then Vice Principal and then Principal, the position she held until her appointment as Governor-General on September 18, 1997.
Dr. Louisy complemented her abiding interest in education with a love for culture and the performing arts. She was an active member of the Creative and Performing Arts Society (Drama and Chorale), the New Day Theatre Movement, and then the Bel Canto Choral Group. In culture it was the Folk Research Centre and the Mouvman Kweyol Sent Lisi which spearheaded her work in the promotion of and research into creole culture and language, an interest she still actively pursues.
On 19 September 1997 she was the first woman to be appointed Saint Lucia's Governor-General, a position she still holds.
10 Sept 2013
IS THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TELLING US THAT THEY DON'T TRUST KENNY ANTHONY?
SIPDIS
STATE FOR INL - TERRY JOHNS
STATE FOR WHA/CAR - KAREN MCISAAC
STATE FOR NEA/MAG - HEATHER KALMBACH
AMEMBASSY BRIDGETOWN PASS TO AMEMBASSY GRENADA
E.O. 12958: DECL: 2020/02/24
TAGS: PREL PGOV ECON MASS SNAR XL
SUBJECT: PM King: Rising Crime Threatens St. Lucia's Expanding
Tourism Sector
CLASSIFIED BY: D. Brent Hardt, Charge; REASON: 1.4(B), (D)
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Summary
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¶1. (C) St. Lucia Prime Minister Stephenson King told the Charge in
a February 10 meeting that his government is struggling to stem the
tide of violent crime that has begun to adversely affect the
country's vital but vulnerable tourism sector. He is hiring more
police, weeding out corruption in the ranks, and looking to partner
with U.S. local and federal law enforcement agencies in his effort
to reverse the trends. He was very pleased that St. Lucia will be
the first country in the Eastern Caribbean to receive vessels and
communication equipment through SOUTHCOM's Enduring Friendship
program. He welcomes the emerging U.S. focus on at-risk youth and
entrepreneurship programs, and would like to see them expanded
through the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI). St.
Lucia's, Minister of Tourism Chastanet outlined his ambitious plans
for tourism expansion in St. Lucia and challenges he faces in
convincing the government that it needs to do more to support the
industry. He proposed an agreement in services between the U.S.
and Caribbean to make the Caribbean part of U.S. airspace for
travel purposes, with both sides agreeing to reduce air travel
taxes, which now account for a sizeable portion of air travel costs
in both directions. End Summary.
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