SLP urges gov’t to halt excessive, “below the line” borrowing; $3.5 billion...
Pierre STATEMENT BY LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION HON. PHILIP J. PIERRE ON THE DEBT SITUATION AT THE SAINT LUCIA LABOUR PARTY PRESS CONFERENCE, SEPTEMBER 18TH, 2018 The Saint Lucia Labour Party has...
View ArticleMoses ‘Musa’ Jn Baptiste intensifies mystery of Voice newspaper article’s author
Oswald Augustin (left) and Jn Baptiste (SNO) — The Saint Labour Party’s Chairman Moses Jn. Baptiste, and author of a letter to Police Commissioner Severin Moncherry questioning why information gleaned...
View ArticleAUDIO: Body of Botham Jean to arrive in Saint Lucia tomorrow; “massive...
Botham Jean (SNO) — The body of Botham Shem Jean, the budding St. Lucian accountant, who was shot to death by a female police officer in Dallas, Texas on September 6, 2018, is scheduled to arrive in...
View ArticlePierre writes Chastanet and threatens court action
Pierre (left) and Chastanet (SNO) — The Saint Lucia Labour Party (SLP) is calling on Prime Minister Allen Chastanet to seek parliamentary approval for a loan it has given to the construction company...
View Article40 hours after arrests, 9 protestors of Botham Jean shooting released from jail
Six of the nine protesters released from the Dallas County Jail today were photographed moments after getting out of jail with Lesa Pamplin, (right) one of the attorneys who engineered their release on...
View ArticleOperations resume at BOSL Vieux Fort branch following electrical system fault
(PRESS RELEASE) – On Monday September 17th 2018, service at the BOSL Vieux Fort Branch was interrupted following an electrical system fluctuation and reports of smoke emanating from the air...
View ArticleVisit of EU Court of Auditors to the OKEU Hospital
Owen King EU Hospital (PRESS RELEASE) – The Office of the National Authorising Officer (NAO), would like to clarify to the General Public that the presence of Representatives of the European Union (EU)...
View ArticleCruise port for Vieux Fort still on stream; gov’t “advances” talks with...
This photo accompanies PM Chastanet’s Facebook page post. (SNO) — Government is moving ahead with plans to establish a major cruise port in the south of the island in line with the multi-million-dollar...
View ArticleSaint Lucia records 40-plus new HIV infections every year since 2015
(PRESS RELEASE) — Statistics from the Ministry of Health indicate that there is no spike in the number of new HIV related infections on island which has remained in the 40s for the last three years....
View ArticleSt Lucia press conference ‘descends to the level of a street-side quarrel’
UWP General Secretary Oswald Augustin (left) and Norbert Williams, prime minister’s political attaché at Monday’s press conference. Photo: St Lucia News Online (CARIBBEAN NEWS NOW) — A press conference...
View ArticleUPDATED: Man killed in Marchand is CCC security worker Hardy John
Hardy John in his earlier years. SNO — Police are investigating a homicide in Marchand, Castries this morning, September 20, 2018. Reports are that the body of a man was discovered in the Marchand...
View ArticleDr. Kenny Anthony responds to Sandals’“false and highly defamatory” statements
(PRESS RELEASE) – The following statement is issued by Dr. Kenny D. Anthony, former Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and currently Parliamentary Representative for Vieux Fort South in response...
View ArticleMarchand homicide victim allegedly shot in the head (police press release)
Hardy John in his earlier years. (PRESS RELEASE) — On Thursday, September 20, 2018, about 5:20 a.m. officers responded to a shooting at Marchand, Castries. On arrival, the body of Hardy John was...
View ArticleDust storms from DSH site wreaking havoc on health of workers at Beausejour...
The complex is located just over 200 yards from the DSH work site. (SNO) — A hail of dust which emanates from the general site of the Desert Star Holding (DSH) project where a horseracing track is...
View ArticleIllegal immigrant from St. Lucia said he came to St. Vincent to farm...
(THE VINCENTIAN) — An illegal immigrant, recently held at Owia, told the Kingstown Magistrate’s Court on Monday that he was here to farm “everything”. Appearing before Senior Magistrate Rickie Burnett,...
View ArticleBREAKING NEWS: Consensual sex in adult same-sex unions now legal in Trinidad...
File photo: Gay rights activist Jason Jones celebrates at Woodford Square, Port of Spain with Kelvin Darlington (Saucy Pow), left, and another member of the LBGTQI community after the high court’s...
View ArticleSlain Marchand security guard may have been a victim of his living environment
Hardy John photos. (SNO) — Hardy John, the Castries Constituency Council (CCC) security guard who was fatally shot while on the job in Marchand, Castries on Thursday (Sept. 20), was never a member of...
View ArticleTwo Castries Council security guards murdered a month apart
Stephen “Face” Francis, left, and Hardy John. (SNO) — Investigators are probing a theory that the latest shooting death of Hardy John in Marchand, Castries Thursday morning (Sept. 20) may be linked to...
View ArticleDallas police chief says she can’t fire Amber Guyger right away over Botham...
(WFAA) — The public still has a lot of questions about the shooting death of Botham Jean, including: Why has Dallas police officer Amber Guyger not been fired? That issue was brought up Tuesday night...
View ArticleChief says firing officer in Botham Jean shooting could ‘compromise’ probe;...
Dallas Police Chief Hall (WFAA) — As questions continue as to why Officer Amber Guyger hasn’t been terminated two weeks after she shot and killed Botham Jean in his apartment, Dallas police Chief Renee...
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