News Updates

Here’s a bit of good news: There’s a $650 million lottery prize up for grabs. Yet again, there were no winning tickets for the latest Powerball drawing Saturday night. The winning Powerball numbers were 17, 19, 39, 43, 68 and the Powerball number was 13 The grand prize could rank …

CASTRIES SAINT LUCIA – August 17, 2017 – Internationally acclaimed Chef Walter Staib has been named the recipient of the Historic Hotels of America 2017 Historian of the Year Award.   Chef Staib will be honored with this distinguished award on September 28, 2017 at the Historic Hotels Awards of …

England 514 for 8 dec (Cook 243, Root 136) beat West Indies 168 (Blackwood 79*, Anderson 3-34) and 137 (Brathwaite 40, Broad 3-34) by an innings and 209 runs Scorecard and ball-by-ball details.  A historic Test match was dealt a humiliating conclusion under the Edgbaston floodlights, as West Indies crumbled to one of …

Meanwhile, the director of nemo is lamenting that members of the public continue to ignore warnings during adverse weather conditions. Many cavalier Saint Lucians failed to heed the advice of the authorities by venturing out when the all-clear had not been given by the Met Office and NEMO.

Press Release: You know that summer is not over just yet, not until the rhythmic vibes of Heineken Green Synergy begins to fill the air. Andas expected, excitement has been brewing among the local DJ fraternity as well as the thousands of fans, as plans for the highly anticipated Heineken …

Tropical storm Harvey continues to track away from Saint Lucia and the threats from the hazards associated with this system have diminished considerably. Tropical storm warnings have been discontinued for Saint Lucia from 1:00pm today. As a result the Saint Lucia Meteorological Services will issue no more advisories on tropical …

THE PARTICIPANTS ADDRESS CRITICAL TOPICS SUCH AS PLASTIC POLLUTION ON BEACHES AND CONTAMINATION IN FISH. On Aug. 20, the Ocean Generation Project in conjunction with the Ministry of Education in Saint Lucia, proudly graduates 60 young people from a technology and innovation summer school held in Micoud. Working at the …

GIS:THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH STRIVES TO HALT THE THREAT OF CHRONIC NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES. The Government of Saint Lucia through the Ministry of Health, has prioritized the management and control of chronic non-communicable diseases in order to reverse the epidemic. Such diseases include diabetes, hypertension, cancer, heart disease, and kidney disease, …

GIS: THE GWAN FÈT WILL BE HELD IN DENNERY VILLAGE ON AUG 30. Fèt La Wòz is the celebration of one of two “floral societies which expresses an exhaustive system of mock administration from a royal family to an army, police force, judiciary, health service, and education system,” (from The …

GIS:The Minister for Agriculture, Hon Ezechiel Joseph, has voiced continued support for Saint Lucia’s cassava industry as part of a wider plan to improve food security in the Caribbean region. The minister’s comments were made earlier this year, at an inception workshop and cassava value chain cluster meeting, that was …