Saint Lucia
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Civil servants vote to end strike
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – Civil Servants were returning to their jobs on Tuesday after voting on Monday to end a near three week strike in support of demands for higher wages. Their decision to end the strike will also allow their union – the Civil Service Association (CSA) to return to the bargaining table with the government negotiating team…
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Civil Servants denied permission to march
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC-A planned protest march by Civil Servants failed to materialise on Thursday, as organisers were not granted Police permission to take to the streets. Acting Police Commissioner Errol Alexander said in planning their march the Civil Service Association did not conform with the Public Order Act, which requires that permission be sought three days ahead of a…
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Civil servants plan street protest in support of wage demands
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – Civil servants have voted to take to the streets on Thursday in support of their demands for increased salaries of more than four per cent that the St. Lucia government says it is not able to pay. The action by the Civil Service Association (CSA) also indicates a growing spilt within the Trade Union Federation…
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St. Lucia PM wants greater role for WINFESH
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – Prime Minister Dr. Kenny Anthony says the Windward Islands Banana Production and Marketing Company (WINFRESH) has a “moral” obligation to ensure the survival of the banana industry in the St. Lucia, Dominica, Grenada and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Addressing the opening session of the Windward Islands Agriculture and Bananas Technical Management Symposium, Prime Minister…
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OECS Assembly to sit on March 26
26 CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC- Nearly eight months after its official launch the OECS Authority has scheduled a sitting of the OECS Assembly for March 26. The Castries based OECS Secretariat has announced t hat in preparation for this sitting a seminar has been planned to facilitate discussion of the Rules of Procedure for the OECS Assembly and aspects of…
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LABOUR-Government issues veiled threat to striking civil servants
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – The St. Lucia government Wednesday expressed its “most sincere gratitude and appreciation” to civil servants who have defied strike action by their colleagues over demands for increased salaries and have turned out to work. In a statement, the Kenny Anthony administration said that their selfless actions have ensured that vital governmental services to the general…
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Urgent meeting to discuss new threat to banana industry
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC-Agriculture Ministers from the Windward Islands will be meeting here on Thursday to prepare for another major threat to the still vital regional banana industry. The industry is grappling with the Asian banana disease, described as a new and formidable enemy, which authorities describe as being worse than Black Sigatoka. Officials say the disease is fairly new…
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OECS examining efforts to reduce or eliminate juvenile delinquency
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – Officials from the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) are meeting here this week examining the use of credible data from social development programmes to further inform policies for reducing or eliminating juvenile delinquency in the sub-region The OECS Secretariat’s Juvenile Justice Reform Project, which is being funded by the United States Agency for International…
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Civil servants take strike action, cripple government services
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – Civil servants stayed away from their jobs on Monday disrupting several government services and ignoring appeals from Prime Minister Dr. Kenny Anthony and the main private sector organisation to end their industrial dispute over increased salaries. The workers, represented by the Civil Service Association (CSA) had voted over the weekend to stay away from their…
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St. Lucia company secures grant for regional projects
CASTRIES, St. Lucia CMC – A St. Lucia owned company Cellestial has been awarded an EC$1.3 million (US$500,000) grant to pursue innovative projects in the region. The company was selected from among thousands of applicants that were shortlisted to 7 finalists and then finally to winner status following months of investigation, heavy competition and deliberation. Regional Communications Ltd., Cellestial’s parent…
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