Saint Lucia
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Trade Unions accuse PM of attacking Civil Servants
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC- President of the Trade Union Federation (TUF) Julian Monrose has accused Prime Minister Kenny Anthony of attacking Civil Servants by accusing them of being greedy, unproductive and unpatriotic. The TUF President was responding to this weeks’ address to the nation in which Prime Minister Anthony outlined the islands fiscal situation in response to public servants demands…
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PM attending PetroCaribe talks in Venezuela
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC Prime Minister Dr. Kenny Anthony is heading a two-member delegation to Venezuela for a meeting of PetroCaribe, an initiative of Caracas allowing many Caribbean countries to purchase oil on conditions of preferential payment. St. Lucia has not joined the alliance that was launched in 2005, but a government statement said that attending the meeting would allow…
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Unions mum following talks with Prime Minister Anthony
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – Trade union officials were keeping mum on Tuesday, one day after Prime Minister Dr. Kenny Anthony indicated that while his government is anxious to bring closure to the wage and salary negotiations involving public servants it is not going to endorse salaries that would force the island into the clutches of the International Monetary Fund…
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Prime Minister warns of consequences in meeting increased salary demands of public servants
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – The St. Lucia government says while it is anxious to bring closure to the wage and salary negotiations involving public servants it is not going to endorse salaries that would further affect the economic situation in the country and force the island into the clutches of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In a nationwide radio…
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Prime Minister warns of economic problems for St. Lucia
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, Jan 4, CMC – Prime Minister Dr. Kenny Anthony says St. Lucia has the largest fiscal deficit in the Caribbean as he prepares to address the nation on Sunday on the economic challenges facing the island. “Where as other Caribbean states might have a fiscal deficit of seven to eight per cent of GDP (Gross Domestic Product),…
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Saint Lucia’s Poet and Economist calls for an enabling environment for cultural industries
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) Last week Thursday, Audrian Augier, co-Chair of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Regional Task Force on Cultural Industries, told a meeting of youth, culture and sport ministers that the Caribbean Region had failed to maximise its advantage in the creative cultural industries and as such had forfeited significant potential revenue which could be derived from…
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Public statement by the CARICOM electoral observer mission on the conduct of the Saint Lucia general elections held on 28 november, 2011
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) In response to an invitation from the Honourable, Mr. Stephenson King, Prime Minister of Saint Lucia, the CARICOM Secretariat sent a CARICOM Elections Observer Mission to monitor the just concluded Saint Lucia General Elections. The Mission comprised the following persons: Ambassador Rudolph Collins, Guyana Mr. Eugene Petty, St. Kitts and Nevis Mr. Anthonyson King,…
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CARICOM fields electoral observer mission to Saint Lucia
(CARICOM Secretariat, Turkeyen, Greater Georgetown, Guyana) The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) will mount an Observer Mission to elections in Saint Lucia on 28 November 2011. The 10-member team will be headed by Chief of Mission, Ambassador Rudy Collins of Guyana. Deputy Chief of Mission is Mr. Eugene Petty of St. Kitts and Nevis. Other members of the Electoral Observer Mission…
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Saint Lucia to Inaugurate and Chair CARICOM Task Force on Sustainable Development
The island's Minister for Sustainable Development, Hon. Dr. James Fletcher will chair the high-level meeting. The Government of Saint Lucia, on Thursday 19th June 2014, will host the first meeting of a High-Level CARICOM Task Force on Sustainable Development in the Conference Room of the Ministry of the Public Service, Information and Broadcasting. Saint Lucia’s Minister for Public Service, Sustainable Development,…
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Press statement by H.E Ambassador Stuart Leslie, former Chief Elections Officer, Belize, and chief of the CARICOM observer mission to the Saint Lucia elections
Good morning and thank you for being here today. Our delegation is pleased to be with the people of Saint Lucia and to serve as observes in the December 11th General Elections. Our presence on the island is at the invitation of the Prime Minister of Saint Lucia; our mandate comes from CARICOM Heads of State and Government who instructed…
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