News Updates

The St. Lucia Fer-De-Lance has a well-earned reputation for being one of the most venomous snakes in the world. However, the Viper is protected by law. A Fer-De-Lance was caught on the edge of a forest in Fond St. Jacques.  

Tens of thousands of students throughout the region may have to re-sit this year’s CXC Maths examination. This is as a result of the discovery of a massive fraud during this year’s sitting of the Maths examination. That officials at CXC are considering their options.  

The St. Lucia Bureau of Standards observed World Metrology Day on Monday, with the adoption of the latest changes in the metric system. The St. Lucia Bureau of Standards under which the metrology department falls, is blazing the trail in the region for organizations of its kind.  

On Tuesday, ahead of the June 1st official start of the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season, the first named storm formed in the Atlantic South West of Bermuda. The system is being monitored closely, though it is not expected to survive for very long.  

The 2019 summer festival will be launched this coming weekend.  

The government of St. Lucia and the Taiwanese government will be launching another round of the Constituency Development Programme (CDP). The CDP is expected to have a positive impact on communities and their residents.  

Hundreds for persons visited the Gros Islet municipal building to take advantage of the free dental clinic put on by the TOCO Foundation, in association with a group of dentists and other medical persons from the United States.  

The opposition Saint Lucia Labour Party’s calls for the minister responsible for economic development Guy Joseph, to be investigated for the commitment letter allegedly from his ministry. Minister Joseph at Monday’s pre-cabinet briefing, pushed back strongly against that suggestion, accusing the opposition of being hypocritical in its position.  

The normally quiet community of Mon Repos was rocked on the weekend by a car theft, that left the owner of the car slashed with a cutlass and one of the alleged robbers shot and in hiding.  

The member of parliament for Gros Islet Lenard Montoute has again called for the boundaries of the Gros Islet constituency to be re-aligned. Montoute says the disparity in the sizes of the constituency places Gros Islet, which is the largest and fastest growing at a disadvantage.