FIRST ST. LUCIAN TO WIN PRAYZE FACTOR AWARDS (SEE VIDEO)
(PRESS RELEASE) — Shem Meluce was named the best Country/Bluegrass Solo artist for the 2018 Prayze Factor People’s Choice Awards in Atlanta over the past weekend. The Prayze Factor awards is a...
View ArticleUWP concerned about SLP sabotage
Pierre (PRESS RELEASE) – The United Workers Party continues to be extremely concerned by the continued attempts of the St. Lucia Labour Party to undermine confidence in this administration with...
View ArticleCSA accuses LUCELEC of fighting “lower level employees” and “adequately”...
Paul (PRESS RELEASE) – The Saint Lucia Civil Service Association (CSA) has taken note of the recent press statements made by LUCELEC relating to the ongoing dispute with the company. In the interest of...
View ArticleSLP says UWP in “desperate state”
Prime Minister Allen Chastanet of the UWP (PRESS RELEASE) – The United Workers Party is in a desperate state. In their latest release the Party has again tried to mislead the public for their failure...
View ArticleNew search warrants served in Botham Jean investigation
Dallas police officer Amber Guyger, left, was arrested and charged with manslaughter Sunday for the Thursday night shooting of Botham Jean, right. (NBC) — Newly released court records show three...
View ArticleVIDEO: Botham Jean family homecoming underway
https://www.stlucianewsonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/video-1537558135.mp4 (SNO) — Saint Lucians from all walks of society came out today, Friday, Sept. 21 to welcome home the relatives of...
View ArticleDallas officer seeing increased hostility from citizens in wake of Botham...
Sr. Cpl. Larry Bankston (FOX) — A Dallas police officer said he’s seeing increased hostility from Dallas citizens in the wake of the shooting death of Botham Jean by an off-duty DPD officer. Sr. Cpl....
View ArticleUWP had circulated Fresh Start resolution in Parliament – Did the government...
(PRESS RELEASE) – The UWP in their Press Release attempted as usual to accuse the Saint Lucia Labour Party and its Leader Hon Philip J Pierre for what they call sabotage. Here is a copy of the...
View ArticleAuthorities seek doorbell camera footage for night Botham Jean was shot
(NEW YORK DAILY NEWS) — Authorities working to untangle the events leading up to the death of Botham Jean are seeking doorbell camera footage from townhouses near the apartment complex where the...
View ArticleBotham Jean’s case takes centre stage in U.S. senatorial debate
From left: Botham Jean, Ted Cruz and Beto ’Rourke (STAR-TELEGRAM) — Garrett Hull, Botham Jean and Amber Guyger — and the tragic circumstances that surround them all — suddenly became part of a...
View ArticleAllison Jean’s son, Botham Jean, was careful to avoid police officers. Then...
Botham Shem Jean’s parents, Allison and Bertrum, and brother, Brandt, in New York on Sept. 20. Botham Shem Jean was fatally shot by a Dallas police officer who says she mistook him for a burglar in his...
View Article‘We want to get it right’: Dallas County DA asks for patience in Botham Jean...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, from left, Dallas County District Attorney Faith Johnson, center, and 1st Dallas County Assistant District Attorney Mike Snipes, right, address the media during a...
View Article“I am at a loss”— Pierre dismisses UWP’s response to his letter as “bizarre”
Pierre (SNO) — Opposition Leader Philip J. Pierre has described the United Workers Party’s response to his letter to Prime Minister Allen Chastanet as “bizarre”. “The United Workers Party must be in a...
View ArticleWho will challenge Allen Chastanet’s UWP leadership?
Guy Mayers (right) and Allen Chastanet (left) after the election results were announced at the November 2015 Convention. (SNO) — The United Workers Party (UWP) is expected to hold its second Zonal...
View ArticleTropical Storm Kirk forms, shoots for the eastern Caribbean
Tropical Storm Kirk is expected to track near the Windward Islands next week. (National Hurricane Center) (AL.COM) — There’s a new tropical storm in the Atlantic: Kirk. The National Hurricane Center on...
View Article2 police officers shot after breaking into wrong apartment in the U.S.
(CBS) — Two Maryland police officers were shot while serving a drug-related search warrant at the wrong apartment late Wednesday, according to law enforcement officials. The resident shot the officers...
View ArticleIs the construction of a Hall of Justice still possible?
Chastanet (left) (SNO) — It seems that the grand idea of establishing a Hall of Justice, a building that would hold the various departments of the justice system, has been shelved for smaller...
View ArticleHere’s where Tropical Storm Kirk is Sunday and where it’s going (see SLU...
National Hurricane Center (MIAMI HERALD) — Tropical Storm Kirk picked up speed in the Atlantic Ocean in Sunday’s first hours, but only maintained its winds just at tropical storm force level. As of...
View ArticleDallas church desires justice in Botham Jean’s death
Minister and elder Sammie L. Berry talks with the news media after a Sept. 9 worship assembly at the Dallas West Church of Christ, Botham Jean’s home congregation. (RNS photo / Bobby Ross Jr.) (BAPTIST...
View ArticleTropical Storm Kirk speeds up, Leslie forms and forecasters keep eye on...
Hurricane forecasters are keeping an eye on Tropical Storm Kirk as it moves west toward the Caribbean and also on a disturbance located between Bermuda and the Bahamas. And Subtropical Storm Leslie is...
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