Wife of police officer shot and killed
(CMC) – Police are investigating the murder of the wife of a police officer, who was shot on Monday night on the Morne, just outside of the capital. They said Kimberly de Leon, an accountant employed...
View ArticleSLPWO comments on sex slave accusation
(PRESS RELEASE) – According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking, 2009 “Sexual exploitation makes up 79% of identified forms of human...
View ArticleThree killed in vehicular accident
(CMC) – Three people, including two children, were killed on Tuesday night after the vehicle in which they were travelling slammed into a trailer on the Cul de Sac Highway, east of here. Police have...
View ArticleConcession on barrels imported at Christmas
(PRESS RELEASE) – The Government of Saint Lucia has once again approved concessions with regard to the importation of barrels at Christmas. Concessions are from the period November 15, 2018 to January...
View ArticleSaint Lucia’s Doxilly on target for Cali in Pro League win
(SNO) – Saint Lucia international defender, Melvin ‘Baby Boy’ Doxilly scored his first Trinidad and Tobago Professional League goal on Tuesday night, as Morvant Caledonia United stretched their...
View ArticleFatal accident along Bexon Highway (police release)
9 year old Leilahi Beaubrun and the 6 year old in critical condition (PRESS RELEASE) – Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of three (3) individuals as a result of a...
View ArticleECCO appoints new Chief Executive Officer
(PRESS RELEASE) – Months after electing a new board and making several critical administrative and operational changes the Eastern Caribbean Collective Organization for Music Rights (ECCO) Inc. has...
View ArticleGov’t to undertake road markings from Castries to Gros Islet
(PRESS RELEASE) – The Department of Infrastructure, Ports and Energy wishes to inform the motoring and pedestrian public that we will be undertaking road markings from Gros Islet to Castries. These...
View ArticleSALCC: Cleaning, maintenance works completed; $1.5M cheque collected from...
(PRESS RELEASE) — The Sir Arthur Lewis Community College informs that agreed to cleaning and maintenance works, at the Morne Fortune Campus have been completed and authorization has been given by the...
View ArticleSt. Vincent poised to become leading producer of medicinal cannabis
(PRESS RELEASE) — The Caribbean nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) is on the brink of becoming a globally leading producer of organically certified medicinal cannabis, rivalling any other...
View ArticleDid the authorities give permission to block public lane in Castries? (letter)
Castries Dear Editor: Before the 1948 fire, which ravaged most of the Town of Castries, a street known as Bourbon Street ran from Brazil Street to Jeremie Street. With the rebuilding of Castries, the...
View ArticleSaint Lucia international makes Antigua move
(SNO) — Saint Lucia international footballer Andrus Remy has made a move to play in Antigua and Barbuda, coming from B2 FC in Marchand. Remy, a 25-year-old centre-forward for B1 in the SLFA First...
View ArticleSchoolgirl cricket bowls off in Saint Lucia!
(SNO) — Female cricket has finally been introduced in schools, with the start of the Under-17 girls’ Twenty20 tournament this week. The initiative, which one truly hopes will continue uninterrupted for...
View ArticleUPDATE: Cop among 12 killed by gunman in California country bar
Others were injured in the bar, where a heavy police presence remains (BBC) — At least 12 people have been killed, including a police officer, at a country music bar in Thousand Oaks, California. The...
View ArticleSix Saint Lucians to participate Taiwan Vocational Training Project
(SNO) — Six Saint Lucians have been selected to participate in the 2018 Vocational Training Project for the Caribbean in Taiwan. The project runs from November 12, 2018 to January 22, 2019 in the Asian...
View ArticleDominica to hold national consultation on marijuana legalization
Skeritt (SNO) — Dominica is to hold a national consultation on the controversial topic of marijuana legalization on November 16, 2018. Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit said his government intends to...
View ArticleSaint Lucian manufacturers meet stakeholders in Dominica
(SNO) — Manufacturers from Saint Lucia are to meet with stakeholders in Dominica today (Nov. 8) to see how they can collaborate and work together as the island continues to recover from the ravages of...
View ArticleFive Saint Lucians capture coveted spots in Sandals Management Trainee Programme
(PRESS RELEASE) — Committed to investing in the development of young people across the Caribbean and continuing to strengthen its succession planning strategy, Sandals Resorts International (SRI) has...
View ArticleSaint Lucia Gov’t pumps $20M into SLDB for housing and local business...
(PRESS RELEASE) — The Government of Saint Lucia has delivered on its promise to support the local housing sector and the development of local business by guaranteeing the injection of EC$20Million into...
View ArticleLGBT group wants its turn to meet with government
Allen Chastanet (left) and Bennet Charles (SNO) — With the government of Saint Lucia recently meeting with the Cannabis Movement, a group representing lesbians, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT)...
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