By contrast, the 2025 election, led by Prime Minister Philip J. Pierre, was far more measured. It was neither a protest vote nor a leap ...

Lately our young people have been under heavy fire. It’s not uncommon to hear, even from mouths less than fifty years old, that “our youth are lazy, irresponsible, without ambition, criminally ...

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 recent ...

Word traveled as fast as the bullets that had torn apart Adolphus ‘Bonnie’ Clarke while he sat behind the wheel of his customized Mercedes Benz. He had perished by the sword he’d lived by for most of ...

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Not since we regained independence in 1979 have Saint Lucians been so united in the ethos of a single moment, a single milestone. Yes, there have been other firsts, anniversaries, even Nobel Prizes in ...

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 ...

The Times – Caribbean nations will seek $33 trillion from European governments and an apology for their role in the transatlantic slave trade as part of a new push for reparations. A bloc of 15 ...

It is said of candidates and elections that an ideal political candidate comes around once in a generation. Maybe even once in a lifetime. We have had in Barbados Errol Barrow, in Cuba Fidel Castro, ...

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 reference ...

The Sir Arthur Lewis Community College (SALCC) is delighted to announce its inaugural Writers in the Spotlight: Book and Literary Fair, taking place on January 24, 2025, as part of the college’s Nobel ...