CARICOM heads to consider new direction

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad -- The effects of the current economic climate on member states of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the framework within which the Community can achieve growth and development will be a major agenda item at the upcoming 34th meeting of the conference of heads of government of CARICOM.

The meeting begins in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad with an opening ceremony on the evening of July 3, 2013, with working sessions beginning the next day and ending on July 6.

Kenny Anthony To Business Owners; VAT is not the problem, your stupidity is

Feeding the Flock By: Jeff Fedee

Jeff Fedee

In the world of literature, English playwright William Shakespeare is considered to be the greatest playwright who ever lived. He was the master of the English language as he captured the complexities of the human condition by his exploration of human character and nature and the nobility of some human beings by their capacity to rise above ordinary behaviour by their generosity and compassion towards fellow human beings. On the other side of the spectrum there are those who are depraved, and display sociopathic tendencies, with no conscience or compassion for other human beings. Such characters betray friends with impunity and would stab another in the back for personal gain with no feelings of remors

I saw these characteristics on display at the launch of the Gros Islet constituency conference recently held at the Corinth Secondary School. Instead of elevating the political debate, the leader of the St. Lucia

Saint Lucia to host Caribbean Premiere of Derek Walcott’s Newest Play O Starry, Starry Night

The 16th  Triennial Conference of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies will be held in Saint Lucia from August 5 – 9, 2013.
This important international event will attract over 350 delegates from the world of academia and related fields such as publishing, printing, and research. Previous ACLALS conferences have been held in Vancouver (August 2007) and Cyprus (June 2010).
This year, Saint Lucia has been chosen from a wide field of possible host countries because of an established track record in hosting such events, and because it is the home of the world’s leading poet in English, Nobel Laureate in Literature (1992), the Honourable Derek Walcott.

To mark this unprecedented event, Mr. Walcott has kindly agreed to the staging in Saint Lucia of his newest play, O Starry Starry Night!, critically acclaimed as “a highly poetic recording of one of the most significant and notorious moments in the history of art …Paul Gauguin’s 1888 visit to a troubled Vincent van Gogh at the Yellow House in Arles, France”.

The play first opened in May of this year at the

St Lucia resort cleans beach; secures bridge and river walls

SOUFRIERE, St Lucia -- While the developers await the completion of due process, which is hoped will inform the way forward for construction of the Freedom Bay ultra-luxe five-star eco-resort by Six Senses at Soufriere in Saint Lucia, efforts are being channeled into proactive environment action and championing environmental responsibility.

This is being achieved through remedial works on the Jalousie Road access bridge and advocating for responsible use of the Malgretoute beach at Soufriere.

These are but two of a number of ongoing social partnership initiatives spearheaded by Freedom Bay in close consultation with the Soufriere Regional Development Foundation.

Freedom Bay has embarked upon a project to reinforce the bridge along the Jalousie road connecting Baron’s Drive with Malgretoute. The project will also see remedial works undertaken to secure the eroding banks of the river running beneath that

St Lucia conference promotes solutions for the Caribbean's unemployed youth

GROS ISLET, St Lucia -- The International Youth Foundation (IYF) last week convened in Saint Lucia a two-day regional meeting of business, government, NGO, and youth leaders from across the Caribbean to discuss both the challenges and opportunities facing the region’s youth as they seek to find employment and become fully integrated into the local economy and the broader society.

Nearly one third of all youth in the region are unemployed.

West Indies win thriller - Sports - Jamaica Gleaner - Monday | July 1, 2013

West Indies win thriller - Sports - Jamaica Gleaner - Monday | July 1, 2013