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Conservationist Jane Tipson was shot 15 years ago on her way home.

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Outstanding Saint Lucians Honoured at Investiture Ceremony

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hat’s according to European Business Magazine, Europe's leading subscriber-based publication, which boasts close to 90,000 C-level readers who range from senior corporate executives to decision makers, from some of the leading businesses across Europe.

Saint Lucia emerged as the front-runner, surpassing several other Caribbean islands including Jamaica, which was the 2017 awardee.

Prime Minister and Governor General with awardees.

Newly minted Chief Rear, from left: PM Allen Chastanet, Dr Marius, Mr Adjodha, Mr. Stanislas, Executive Officer (CEO) of Invest GG Sir Neville; front, from left: Mrs Ifill, Ms. Alcide, Ms. Dyer.

Saint Lucia, Roderick Cherry, is s Prime Minister General, His Excellency Sir path taken by these Saint elated by this latest accolade.

Honourable Allen M. Emmanuel Neville Cenac, Lucians serves as an inspiration “This award is testament to Chastanet addressed the and included: Dr. Herbert to others. the hard work and dedication 2018 Queen’s Birthday Honours Marius, CBE, for outstanding

The prime minister also that Invest Saint Lucia has recipients on Thursday October contribution to healthcare; took the opportunity to call on devoted to targeted investment 25th, 2018 at Government Mrs. Augusta Ifill, OBE, for all Saint Lucians to nominate promotion and marketing over House, he called the outstanding Education; Mr. Alphonsus heroes in their community for the last few years,” he noted. citizens heroes in their own Stanislas, MBE, for Education National Awards. The Order

“Indeed, our current right. and Community Service; of Saint Lucia nomination projects, as well as those in

“I look around this morning Mr. Julius Adjodha, BEM, for process is now open and will the pipeline, are as a direct and I see devoted educators community service; be commemorated on the result of our more assertive and who have helped shape the Ms. Christina Alcide, BEM, for anniversary of Saint Lucia’s proactive investment promotion minds of generations, a doctor community service; and Independence on February efforts at related overseas who brought so many lives Mrs. Rita Catherine Dyer, BEM, 22nd, 2019, when recipients events and in various targeted into this world and dedicated for Education and Women will be recognized and awarded international publications. community servants . . . You all Development. for their contribution and

“We are now witnessing qualify as heroes in the history

“We are truly humbled services to Saint Lucia. the benefits of our refocused books of Saint Lucia,” stated the to share this day with you

“Our heroes are branding and promotions, prime minister. and we remain in awe of your everywhere,” he noted, adding which began close to ten

The investiture ceremony achievements . . . You did that as Saint Lucia prepares years ago. ISL’s efforts have is the presentation of the what you had to, for your to mark her 40th anniversary managed to alter the public and Medals of Honour which family, for your community of independence, we must stakeholder perception of the recognise those individuals and for your nation. If we are celebrate our outstanding agency as simply an investment who have made achievements to consider ourselves a caring citizens “as we strive to build a facilitator, landlord and source in public life; committed and strong community we must stronger nation”. of inexpensive land for both themselves to serving and take a moment always to say

On behalf of the commercial and residential helping their community, “thank you” to those who have Government and People of purposes. This repositioning to or done outstanding work contributed and continue to Saint Lucia, the Prime Minister promote Saint Lucia as a more throughout their life. contribute to nation building,” congratulated the 2018 ‘investment friendly’ island,

The awardees received

Prime Minister Chastanet recipients and thanked them for their Medals from Governor stated in his address that the their continued service.

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Castries Mayor Welcomes Guardrails Project

astries Mayor Peterson Francis has welcomed an initiative by the Ministry of Infrastructure, Ports, Energy and Labour to help improve road safety.

From October 1, 2018, 345 metres of galvanized guardrails were erected along the Bananes Bay area and along the Castries waterfront.

Mayor Francis lauded the efforts of the Ministry of Infrastructure to improve road

safety in Castries.

“It’s fantastic to see how committed the Ministry of Infrastructure is to ensuring public safety to help make the city’s roads safer. For eons motorists clamoured and made such suggestions which had fallen on deaf ears. No one saw it fit to install those guardrails. No one saw the need to provide such a level of safety to pedestrians and drivers. The suggestions made

were not at all important to them. I am contented that it was done under this United Workers Party government and I am pleased that I played a big part in helping to deliver on road safety,” stated Francis.

The project was completed within a week following several meetings involving officials from the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Saint Lucia Air and Seaports Authority.

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has apparently paid dividends and we’re looking forward to facilitating additional foreign direct investments into Saint Lucia in the not too distant future.”

According to publisher Nick Staunton, “Saint Lucia’s award for ‘Best Caribbean Island to Invest’ was based on new projects; the expected returns on investment for the new projects in question; the yield and return on real estate; and Government assistance as it relates to tax incentives.

“The island received over 30,000 votes over a 6-month period, with readers citing areas of significance such as standard of living, the preservation of domestic laws and ease of access,” he explained.

Readers were also impressed with the current projects from international investors, which signals investor confidence in the island’s potential as a choice investment location.

Saint Lucia will be prominently featured on the front cover of the international publication’s upcoming edition in December, when the magazine will be doing a special Economic Report on the Caribbean for European executive decision makers and readers. The piece will include information on why Saint Lucia has earned the reputation as the best island to invest in.

It will also feature other new emerging countries in the Caribbean and why investors

are beginning to flock there.

Chairman of Invest Saint Lucia, Pinkley Francis, also weighed in on this latest ISL achievement. “We are cognizant that Saint Lucia’s business environment may dictate the quantum and quality of investments. We’re pleased therefore with the fact that the incentives being offered was one of the factors pointed to in the survey carried out by the European Business Magazine.

Government continues to put measures in place to ensure that Saint Lucia has the most appropriate technological, infrastructural, administrative, legal and regulatory framework, as well as the appropriate social environment to attract and sustain investments that will contribute to Saint Lucia’s economic transformation with its resultant employment generation and technology transfer, as we look towards the advancement of the island’s socio-economic development,” he commented.

The European Business Magazine enjoys a distribution network that includes some of the most prominent decision makers across all of Europe. Both the magazine and website are committed to the very highest standards of journalism and have built up a coveted reputation for excellence. In addition to their established circulation of paid subscribers, the Saint Lucia edition will be distributed at the 2019 World Economic Forum.

RICK WAYNE ON MEN'S DAY PANEL

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he St. Lucia Crisis Centre, under the auspices of the department of Gender Relations, has scheduled a panel discussion for Saint Lucian men at the Castries City Hall on Monday October 29, 2018 from 6:30p.m. All men are invited to listen to a panel consisting of Rick Wayne and John Peters as they discuss the possible fate of men in general, and what can be done to make life better for men and their families. There will be a question and answer segment.

This will be the first in a series of activities to commemorate International

Men’s Day 2018, which will be celebrated on Monday November 19 with a church service at the Castries Methodist Church from 9 a.m.

The St. Luca Crisis Centre has also partnered with the St. Lucia Blind Welfare Association to host a fundraising fun walk on Sunday November 4 from 6 a.m. The walk has been dubbed A La Wout Se’ Tje` and it forms part of the official Creole Day activities organised by the Folk Research Centre.

The walk begins at the George V Park gardens then goes to Jeremie Street and then through the La Toc Road to the Inniskilling Monument at Morne

Fortune before returning through Old Victoria Road and back onto the Morne Road past Government House on to Jeremie Street to end at the George V Park.

There is a registration fee of $25.00 for participants but groups of five or more persons can register at $20.00 per person. This walk is part of celebrations for the 30th anniversary celebrations for the Crisis Centre. A mass to remember founder Ms. Ione Erlinger Ford will be celebrated on Sunday October 28 at the Lady of Fatima Church in La Clery from 10 a.m.

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Don’t mention Dennery Segment to ‘Fish’ Alphonse!

Claudia Eleibox

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hile the country basks in the aroma of bakes, saltfish and cocoa tea during October—the designated month for all things Kwéyòl and cultural—some of us struggle with aspects of what others consider local culture. Case in point: Lucian Kudoru or Dennery Segment.

Dennery Segment music has grown from small localized gigs to a larger scale, including even international performances. Kudoru is now being marketed as an iconic part of the island’s culture and many have expressed pride in the fact that some of the lyrics are in Kwéyòl. This year Dennery Segment artists were provided the opportunity to tour the United States, sponsored by taxpayers and private sector establishments. Individual artists have also performed in Europe and Latin America.

Times have certainly changed for the Dennery Segment. Not so long ago they were widely despised, as much for their lyrics as for their videos. Dennery Segment was also considered “not soca”.

While some people memorized what might be the only Kwéyòl lyrics they know, and gyrated to whatever “piwat” might mean, others refused to acknowledge that the music was anything but degrading. Today, even though the group is forced sometimes

Dennery Segment artists have been touring the world, promoting Lucian culture.

'Fish' believes that the music and lyrics do not reflect the island's heritage— as he knows it.

to defend itself against churchy criticism, it is also true that its music has been officially declared an “export product”.

Shortly before the U.S. tour, its promoter, Shannon Lebourne, said, “We think it’s their lyrics that’s gotten them the international attention.

What stands out now is the uniqueness of the music, the lyrics, the rhythms and the history of what it is. As to my personal views on censorship, I feel like what the fellas are doing now is what the world wants and what is going to give us the unique edge.”

And it’s the truth. While most of the Dennery Segment tour audiences comprised

mainly overseas-based Saint Lucians, the millions of views on YouTube cannot be discounted. Just like Trinidad’s signature soca music and Jamaican dancehall, carnivals from Nottingham to Miami have been clamouring for Dennery Segment performances.

Some of the Caribbean’s most influential DJs, such as Private Ryan, find themselves setting the twanche-shaking mood with Kudoru.

Tourism minister, Dominic Fedee expressed sentiments similar to Lebourne’s. He told this reporter: “Controversial lyrical content has always been a factor in music, whether rock ‘n’ roll or R&B. I’m not

going to be the judge of what’s acceptable. That’s for the consumers to decide. I believe Saint Lucia is represented by a number of different things and our people are diverse and special, they’re interesting and colourful. I think Dennery Segment is just a small but very important part of what’s happening musically.”

But George “Fish” Alphonse says he doesn’t think that what Dennery Segment represents should be considered part of our culture.

He said, “Saint Lucia’s culture is a culture of respect. There are certain conversations we hold in public and certain conversations we hold in

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private. As a young child, as a young man growing up, I knew there were certain things I shouldn’t say in the presence of an adult. That’s the culture.

But these days you can say anything in the presence of children, babies. That’s not the culture.”

The Folk Research Centre is responsible for “promulgating Saint Lucia’s rich heritage” and, although Fish agrees that culture is ever-changing, true art “does not remain as stagnant”, as he belives is the case with the Dennery Segment. He adds: “No writer, no performer, writes on the same theme all of their lives.

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body is the main subject. And some of it is very offensive. You listen to them and it’s always fooyay [shove it]. Some of the words sound as if you are doing wickedness to another human being.”

Fish is immovable. “These guys need to open up their minds, stop seeing the lady as some sort of thing that you should jump on her back. It’s much more than that. We’re about changing lives and changing the world and all they doing there is trying to say, ‘It’s okay, it’s all right for us to be derogatory. Say what we want and do what we want. So this year we coming with the same thing, next year we coming with the same thing.’ Yes, Sparrow might have sung nasty things but he is a clear example of an artist that has gone all around the place singing all kinds of things. He didn’t stay year after year telling you saltfish sweet.”

Fish refuses even to listen to Kudoru music. He questions the worthiness of Dennery Segment's governmental support. Referencing the current Jounen Kweyol celebrations he said: “I might even have a problem with them.

I’m listening because I know some fools will come to me sooner or later about putting them on the show. But I’ll stand my ground and refuse. There are other more deserving artistes that are not given the attention given to Dennery Segment. I prefer to have them on that show instead.”

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$94,000 for information on Jane Tipson murder!

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ecently we reported on the unsolved murder of Jane Tipson, an animal rights activist who was fatally shot near her Monchy home fifteen years ago. At 53, Tipson was the founder of the Saint Lucia Animal Protection Society (SLAPS), and at the time of her death had been assiduously campaigning against plans to open a dolphin park in Saint Lucia.

She also worked alongside the U.S.-based Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in exposing the killing of pilot whales here. Following her death the organisation offered a reward of U.S.$25,000 for information leading to an arrest.

So far there have been only rumours. Hopefully this will

change.

Following our story two weeks ago Sea Shepherd decided to increase its reward to US$35,000. This week the group stated, “This is a cold case that needs to be solved.

Jane was a courageous and passionate defender of animals.

She had no enemies other than those who were intent upon building a dolphinarium or in illegally killing pilot whales.”

On Wednesday Captain Paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, told the STAR he is hoping the additional $10,000 will jog some memories and result in the arrest of a person or persons responsible for Tipson’s murder.

“The $25,000 didn’t seem to work,” he said. “Perhaps an increased reward will prove an incentive. We have reward programmes around the world. Sometimes they work,

Many believe Jane Tipson was murdered because she was a persistent campaigner against the captivity of whales and dolphins.

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The Application will come on for hearing at the High Court of Justice, La Place Carenage, Jeremie Street, Castries on Thursday the 22nd day of November, 2018 at 9:00 am.

AND THAT pursuant to CPR 2000 Part 5.13 service of the said Application is effected on you by advertisements of this NOTICE in two (2) consecutive issues of a local Newspaper circulating in Saint Lucia and two (2) consecutive issues of the official Gazette of Saint Lucia. The said Application and Affidavit in Support of the Application can be viewed and copies thereof can be obtained at the Court Office of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, High Court of Justice, Jeremie Street, Castries.

AND FURTHER TAKE NOTICE that if you fail to attend the hearing the Application will be heard and an Order made in your absence.

Dated this 18th day of October, 2018 PETER I. FOSTER & ASSOCIATES per.....................................................

Peter A.H. Marshall Legal Practitioners for the Claimant Presented for filing by: Peter I. Foster & Associates, Legal Practitioners for the Claimant, whose address for service is: Chambers, Robin Kelton Building, Choc Bay, Castries, St. Lucia. West Indies. Tel. No.: 758 453-1100, Fax No.: 758 452-4940, E-mail: contact@piflaw.com.

The Court Office is at La Place Carenage, Jeremie Street, Castries, Tel. No. 758 4687500, Fax No. 758 468-7543. The Office is open between 9:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.

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and sometimes they don’t. We remain optimistic in the matter of Jane Tipson. Her passion was protecting the lives of threatened animals on land and on sea.”

He recalled that a reward of $30,000 had resulted in the arrest of individuals involved in a murder committed in Costa Rica back in 2013. The victim’s name: Jairo Mora Sandoval. As for the more recent proposed plans for a dolphin park in Saint Lucia, Captain Watson said: “I think it’s very disrespectful. It won’t do Saint Lucia much good. Dolphin Parks are certainly out of favour.

Canada actually passed a law banning all dolphin parks throughout the entire country.”

What Captain Watson alluded to was the passing in the Canadian senate on 24 October of Bill S-203 that bans the keeping of dolphins and whales in captivity, and carries a fine of $200,000.

U.S. Consular Officer to Hold Appointments for U.S. Citizens in St. Lucia

he U.S. Embassy to Barbados, the Eastern Caribbean, and the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) is pleased to announce that a Consular Officer will visit Saint Lucia from Tuesday, November 6 to Thursday, November 8, 2018. The officer will provide U.S. citizen services and accept applications for U.S. passports and Consular Reports of Birth Abroad (CRBA). Unfortunately, we are not able to discuss visa cases during these outreach trips.

The embassy no longer accepts handwritten passport application forms. You must fill out all passport application forms online at https://pptform. state.gov/ and then print them.

Please have all forms completed prior to your appointment and bring originals and copies of all supporting documents.

Appointments will be held at the Coco Palm Hotel, Kreole Room, Rodney Bay.

Tuesday, November 6: 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Wednesday, November 7: 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Thursday, November 8: 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

You must make an appointment online to meet with the Consular Officer.

Please follow instructions on the U.S. Embassy’s website at bb.usembassy.gov/

Fees must be paid by international money order or bank draft made out to “U.S. Embassy”. The money order or bank draft must have the correct and exact amount. The embassy will not issue any refunds. Fees are: • Child’s passport (under age 16): US$115 • First adult passport: US$145 • CRBA: US$100 • Notarials: US$50 per signature

If you are renewing a

10-year passport issued less than 15 years ago, and can present your expired passport, you may apply by mail directly to the Embassy. The fee is US$110. If you cannot present a previous 10-year passport issued less than 15 years ago, you must appear in person for an interview with the consular officer. The fee is US$145.

All applicants must provide: A completed passport application; two passportsize photos (2” x 2”); proof of U.S. citizenship such as previous U.S. passport, U.S. birth certificate, U.S. Consular Report of Birth Abroad, or U.S. Naturalization Certificate; and a social security card. Please bring originals AND photocopies of all documents. You must also provide a prepaid air waybill (FedEx, DHL, LIAT QuikPak, etc.) in order to have the new passport mailed back to you.

For a child under age 16, if both parents are listed on the birth certificate, both parents

must appear in person with the child OR a signed, notarized Form DS-3053: Statement of Consent from the non-applying parent/guardian must be submitted. Please bring the documents listed above PLUS the child’s birth certificate and both parents’ passports or other identification. Please bring originals AND photocopies of all documents including copies of the parents’ identification.

For more information visit the embassy’ website.

For a child whose passport was last issued when they were six years old or younger, you must bring age progression photos. The photos must clearly show the child’s face and show their age progression from the issuance of their last passport to present day.

Additional information on U.S. citizen services and links to application forms are available on the U.S. Department of State’s website at travel.state.gov

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Salvation Army grateful for renovation efforts by Sandals

he Salvation Army (SA) has been serving Saint Lucia’s disadvantaged for over a century. Today, children just months old and up to five years of age, are enrolled in the organisation’s Child Care Centre, which has always been committed to providing affordable supervision and educational services in a safe space to offspring of single parent families and those from difficult backgrounds.

The Ministry of Education’s Early Childhood Education Unit has recently set criteria for such institutions as the SA’s centre, according to SA Administrator Captain Sandra Mitchell. The initiative was put in place in an effort to raise the standards of local early childhood education across the island. As it pertained to the organisation’s facilities located in Castries, there were areas of concern.

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In June this year, Sandals hosted the first Saint Lucian edition of Vibes on the Island, a benefit concert featuring Barrington Levy, Spice, local soca stars such as Ezra d’Fun Machine, Arthur Allain, and Sedale Semi. The purpose of the event was to raise money to fund renovation works like the above-mentioned for both The Salvation Army Child Care Centre and Faces of Cancer.

Sandals’ Regional Public Relations Manager, Alex Holder, told the STAR: “At this particular facility we assisted with renovation works to the ceiling

On Monday Advisory Board Chairman, Mr. Malcolm Burns (left), Major Derrick Mitchell (centre) and Captain Sandra Mitchell joined Sandals to reveal the renovation work recently completed on the Salvation Army’s Child Care Centre.

of the school, the computer lab, the sick bay, their dry goods storage space and the kitchenette downstairs. The total value of the project was

just under $18,000.”

The reason Sandals chose this project, he said, was to meet two of their three development goals as it targets

education and it connects well with the community. “Located where it is, we believe for the families of a lot of the children coming out of the inner city

communities, this school is their first choice to bring them into a safe environment while they go to work. So, of course, having the school up to par was important.”

Captain Mitchell expressed the Salvation Army’s gratitude: “It was a very happy moment when Sandals came on board to help us meet these standards.” As for Holder, he added: “Our partnership with the Salvation Army dates back to the arrival of Sandals on the island, about 25 years. So what used to be an annual partnership has blossomed quite a bit over the last few years into more projects throughout the year.”

Holder said the next project will likely be the setting up of a library for the Child Care institution—an initiative that Captain Mitchell welcomed as a primary need.

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Teo Ah Khing’s “dearest prime minister” turns out to be anything but to trusting St. Lucians!

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he political bombshell that Rick Wayne casually tossed viewers during his TALK presentation on Thursday October 18 must have left many slack-jawed, shocked and angry.

His introductory reference to the mid-80s killing of a handcuffed Yamaha by the police may also have caused viewers to shake their heads and mutter, “Here he goes again.” But such unresolved killings are an unsavoury legacy of our justice system about which many would prefer not to be reminded. Regardless, the show’s host seemed determined not to permit viewers the convenience of pretending unspeakable horrors never happened; or that they should be forgotten after a time, whether or not appropriately dealt with.

No sooner had our minds faltered in recalling the names of other victims of unsolved homicides, than bam! Rick unloaded another even more shocking bombshell concerning public matters of more recent vintage. The private correspondence between the former prime minister Kenny Anthony and Teo Ah Khing that Rick Wayne revealed last Thursday evening must have taken even Dr. Anthony’s most trusting apostles off guard. For me,

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Former prime minister Kenny Anthony (left) has since June 2016 been painting a picture of Teo Ah Khing altogether different from what recently emerged from their private correspondence!

the revelation was mind- boggling. Considering all we’ve heard from the opposition about DSH and its CEO, who would have imagined the sweetie-sweetie correspondence exchanged between Dr. Anthony and Teo Ah Khing several days before the last general elections? The information by itself, without all that was said about the DSH project soon after the current prime minister publicly announced it, would not necessarily have been damnable. In fact, one may even have credited the former PM on his efforts to seduce “Dear Teo” into establishing the DSH project in Saint Lucia as quickly as possible.

However, what reverberates most strongly in these disclosures is the conceit and arrogance of the former prime minister, especially in opposition. A mere six months after his party was removed from office, Dr. Anthony mounted his platform in Vieux Fort to continue his election-time failed effort at discrediting the man who had removed him from the prime minister’s chair, and to effectively declare dear Teo and DSH the new, most frightening prospect confronting Saint Lucia. He also reminded his Vieux Fort audience of the annual horse races he had promoted in the constituency, which I suspect was as much news to Vieux Fortians as it was to me.

The way the former PM and his SLP puppeteers began to rave and rant after the UWP government gave the DSH project its blessings, one would have thought that was the worst idea ever proposed. Yet, mere weeks prior to the June 2016 general elections, the former PM was still in secret talks with ‘dear Teo’ and suggesting suitable wording for demands that appeared troublesome to the former prime minister. What deceit! What

hypocrisy! What utter disrespect for the people of Vieux Fort and Saint Lucia! Even the ordained of God were deceived. The pied piper of Hamlin with his cunning rhetoric had marched in the sweltering heat of Vieux Fort followed by the innocent, the uninformed and the naive.

He pretended ignorance and objected to the DSH proposals, even though he had been the key negotiator with dear Teo.

It’s worth repeating that the tone of the exchanged emails between the former PM and Teo Ah Khing of DSH left the clear impression that the former PM was willing to find more suitable language in order to make the DSH proposals more acceptable, to him and his team.

His chief concern was to deliver to Teo, whom he had described at his Vieux Fort meeting as too tough and inflexible, all he demanded. There has never been any doubt in my mind that the former PM had not spoken the whole truth to the people of Vieux Fort and Saint Lucia about the DSH project. Anyone who has followed my articles in this newspaper over the last year would know my feelings toward the anti-DSH protesters and their leader-in-chief.

Frankly, last Thursday’s TALK did not faze me. Neither was I caught off guard. My

mind took flight to former Prime Minister John Compton who, I am reliably informed, had warned Saint Lucians against allowing such characters into their politics. I well recall George Murray, a former General Secretary of the SLP and a close friend and confidant of both John Compton and George Charles, telling me stories about the younger Compton and his encounters with the Barnards at the time of the historic Dennery valley strikes, in the early 1950s. Firearms were allegedly drawn.

Notwithstanding the late protestations of John Compton, the electorate voted as they pleased in those and subsequent elections. Now, twenty-odd years later, there is no John Compton to help return the island to sound economic health following the damage inflicted upon it by poor management and skewed political insight by the Labour Party misfits. Thankfully, today the people do not need anyone to explain to them what John Compton meant. For my part, I continue to thank God that I was gifted with the power of his holy spirit that drove me out of the Labour Party. Yes, I have finally revealed my secret weapon. I meant to do so in my autobiography, but it is a long

work and far from completion.

I’ve therefore decided to thank God here and now that I am no longer a part of the political horror story that the SLP has metamorphosed into. I would have died there, but for the grace of God.

Before ending, here’s a little titbit: After hurricane Allen had ravaged Saint Lucia in August 1980, I, as minister of agriculture, visited banana farmers at Mon Repos and held a meeting near Eddie Gaston’s place. Compton’s frequent visits overseas came up.

Almost to a man, the gathering defended the former PM saying he was away “begging for bread for us, and securing our banana market”. I marvelled at their demonstrated confidence. My hope and prayer is that farmers will look as kindly upon today’s prime minister after Kirk as they once did Compton.

In ending, I call upon the government once more to hurry up and get to the bottom of the cost overruns at St. Jude Hospital, and to seek help in investigating the Grynberg and Jufalli affairs.

I am prepared to be surprised by any financial revelations of these three schemes, even as I continue to marvel at the disclosures contained in those pre-election email exchanges between “dear Teo” and his then “dearest prime minister!”

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What’s Stopping the SALCC/UWI Partnership?

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t a press conference earlier this month the Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies, Sir Hilary Beckles, revealed that UWI had made numerous offers to partner Sir Arthur Lewis Community College with the regional institution. If accepted, the offer would have resulted in SALCC becoming branded as part of the UWI, offering UWI programmes and having access to the university's libraries.

Said Sir Beckles, "We have been trying to persuade governments in Saint Lucia for 20 years to let us develop the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College into a university college, where we can build capacity for young Saint Lucians. It hasn’t happened, and we are disappointed." He indicated that the reluctance to accept the offer may be linked to unfounded concerns that UWI would take over the college.

When contacted for comment, former education ministers

Mario Michel (now a judge) and Dr. Robert Lewis both declined.

The current OECS Director General, Dr. Didacus Jules, was the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Education from 1997-2004, when Michel was education minister. He indicated in an interview with the STAR that there had been many discussions with UWI on how to improve and extend access to university education but UWI's position had not always been consistent.

Said Jules, “This has not been a smooth road. It has been contentious because successive governments have pushed back, insisting that whatever solution is put on the table for improving access to non-campus territories must be a costeffective option, a quality option, and must be in conformity with the needs of member states.”

Meanwhile, non-campus territories stood firm on their position, insisting “the process of determining the programme,

the content, and the direction should be a joint process and it should not be an imposition by UWI”.

In the time of the last Labour Party administration an attempt was made by UWI to partner with SALCC. Saint Lucia’s representation comprised members of SALCC’s board, former governor general Dame Pearlette Louisy and Dr. Jules, who recalls that from the onset communication was poor.

“We kept asking UWI to send the agenda and the proposal in writing, ahead of meetings.

They resisted; they would come and present, and then we would get something in writing.

That didn’t allow for adequate preparation on our end because you don’t go into a negotiation blind.”

He went on: “When they finally put stuff in writing one of the things put on the table was that part of the process of becoming a university college required that UWI audit SALCC

to see what its standards and procedures were. It would cost the government of Saint Lucia almost US$20,000 for that audit to be done. That was a point of objection because our position was, if we’re paying all of this money to the university, why should we then be charged to do that?” Jules also challenged the standards of the audit, and whether UWI themselves had audited their own campuses to that degree.

What followed was a change in UWI’s stance after Sir Hilary Beckles became the Vice Chancellor. “It’s not a simple matter that an offer was made and there was a rejection,” Jules insisted. “There’s a history behind it, of difficult negotiations and unwillingness on the part of the UWI to take into account and listen to what were the needs of the member states. Now that professor Beckles has assured that the university is ready to respect the autonomy of the member states, that they are willing to listen, that they are willing to shape something, you now have a basis for serious discussion.”

Despite being unable so far to agree with UWI, Jules is nevertheless of the mindset that working together is the only viable option for Saint Lucia: “Successive administrations have spoken about SALCC

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Former education permanent secretary Dr. Didacus Jules says the way forward for SALCC should be with UWI.

as a university by itself and I have consistently voiced my opposition to this. If we cannot sustain a community college, what kind of university are you talking about? A university of any international quality will require substantial investment in faculty standards, in infrastructure (libraries, laboratories etc), in research and in alignment with developmental challenges of the society.

“I believe the way forward

has to be cooperation with UWI, but the cooperation has to be on the basis of equal footing; noncampus territories are insistent on that. You cannot treat the non-campus territories as if we are appendages of an empire.”

Meanwhile the education minister Dr. Gale Rigobert has informed this reporter that conversations with Vice Chancellor Sir Hilary Beckles will take place.

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INVEST SAINT LUCIA CALLS FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST FOR INVESTMENT-READY PROJECTS

nvest Saint Lucia recently put out a call for expressions of interest (EOIs) from the private sector in relation to business proposals, project concepts or products that are available for investment.

According to manager for Investment Promotion and Fulfilment, Alana LansiquotBrice, this EOI is being presented to increase the participation of the local, private sector in investment promotion.

“Over the last year or so, we’ve realized that our successes in identifying investors and matching them with assets with the potential for investment, have left us with a severely limited stock of new concepts to present to investors. Taking into consideration our mandate to promote investment-ready projects, we have decided that the best course of action to

garner information to replace those projects that are no longer available, is to publicize our request,” she explained.

She further stated, “ISL needs the local individuals and the private sector to engage with the investment market to ensure that not only large-scale projects receive attention from potential investors. This necessitated a public announcement calling for private citizens and/or businesses to provide us with the information on the specific opportunity, project concept and/or business proposal to augment ISL’s own contribution to the product offerings.”

Following a review by ISL, the information being sought will be uploaded to the Sector Opportunities page on ISL’s website for the consideration by both current and potential

investors, domestic and foreign.

In addition to this promotional avenue, information received will be packaged and presented as part of ISL’s promotional portfolio at overseas conferences, packages, investor missions, etc. This information will also form part of the investmentready project catalogue generated through the Caribbean Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (CAIPA).

Users can log on to www.investstlucia.com to complete the appropriate forms and provide the required information on available investment opportunities.

This campaign is expected to run into 2019, giving project owners sufficient time to provide accurate information and suitable photography/ videography on their respective proposals.

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CTO SECRETARY GENERAL SAYS COMPLACENCY PUTS CARIBBEAN PEOPLE, ECONOMIES AT RISK

ecretary general of the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO) Hugh Riley has called on Caribbean states to take tsunami preparedness seriously, stating to do otherwise would put the people and regional economies at risk.

Speaking in Paris, France, during a discussion organised by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to raise awareness of the threats posed by tsunamis, Riley insisted that Caribbean countries risked paying the price for complacency.

He stressed that with the Caribbean being comprised mainly of low-lying states, and with most tourism assets and hotel investments located at or near coastal areas, the tourism sector is extremely vulnerable to the threat of tsunamis.

“Tourism is the main economic driver of the Caribbean, representing 80

per cent of the region’s gross domestic product and more than one million jobs so we cannot ignore a tsunami risk,” he told fellow panelists and the wider audience, which included representatives from Grenada, Saint Lucia and St. Vincent & the Grenadines.

“Complacency puts us in real danger and we must raise the Caribbean’s voice by advocating for our members during this important global forum,” he added.

The event was being held in advance of World Tsunami Awareness Day on 5 November 2018. The secretary general noted that the region had experienced 11 tsunamis in the past, the most recent of which occurred in 2010, and six between 1902 and 1997.

He suggested that because there has been no “recent” impact on the region, tsunamis are not considered an imminent threat, therefore, they are not given sufficient attention.

He called for an increase in tsunami awareness and sensitisation of the tourism sector and the wider Caribbean community, as well as support for training by regional institutions and countries to develop preparedness and response protocols.

“The CTO recognises that tsunami preparedness is critical, which includes well-established and tested response protocols which will ultimately reduce loss of life and economic damage. We also need to enhance collaboration with countries recently and frequently impacted by tsunami hazards in order to develop best practices.”

Riley highlighted several CTO members’ tsunami readiness initiatives, including Anguilla, the first Englishspeaking Caribbean island to be recognised as “tsunami ready” in September 2011 and which has maintained certification status. Since

Honorary Degree will be presented to Shadow at UWI graduation

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he University of the West Indies (UWI) joins the national and regional community in mourning the passing of Mr. Winston Mc Garland Bailey, "The Shadow", one of Trinidad and Tobago’s most prolific singer/songwriters. Mr. Bailey was scheduled to be conferred the degree of Doctor of Letters, Honoris Causa for his contributions as a musical composer at the morning graduation ceremony, Saturday, October 27, 2018 at UWI St. Augustine.

Earlier this year Mr. Bailey was nominated and he graciously accepted the University’s offer for the conferral of the degree. It will be presented at Saturday’s ceremony, in special tribute to him.

Vice-Chancellor of The UWI, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles said, in his reflections on Mr. Bailey, “There is no doubt that ‘The Shadow’ was superbly gifted with an ability to extract from the base of society extraordinary creativity and intellectual energy which he returned to source with; an endless supply of ripping social justice lyrics and a compelling baseline that bombarded the base of the belly. The apparent ease of his effort speaks to the integrity and purity of his performance as an art-form derived from communities living the hell of poverty. No one who knows the hard issues facing these communities could claim ignorance of his public musical conversation. We celebrated The Shadow in life as he illuminated the darkness around us. Now, we shall sing him songs of gratitude.”

Expressing condolences, Pro ViceChancellor and Campus Principal of The UWI St. Augustine Campus, Professor Brian Copeland said, “The country has lost yet another super creative citizen, one who

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"The Shadow" was praised for his musical contributions and was already slated to receive the honorary degree before his passing.

re-energized the calypso and soca world with his unique rhythms, nicely woven into his cleverly crafted commentaries on so many aspects of life and living. I was proud to have witnessed his historic entry into the local arena in 1974—his timing could not have been better. I am so very sad and disappointed that he passed before he could collect his Honorary Doctorate scroll himself on Saturday. May he rest in peace.”

The ceremony for the conferral of the honorary degree will be streamed live on UWItv via www.uwitv.org beginning at 10:00 a.m. (Eastern Caribbean time).

then the British Virgin Islands and St. Kitts and Nevis have received similar recognition, all having established emergency operating centres, national tsunami plans, public outreach and alert systems, public service information programmes and tsunami preparedness and response protocols.

The high-level panel was organised by UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) to discuss policies and practices to reduce tsunami risks in countries highly dependent on tourism revenue.

The meeting opened with a minute’s silence in memory of the 2,000 confirmed dead and 680 officially missing in the tsunami and earthquake which struck Indonesia on 28 September 2018. The double disaster left almost 70,000 people homeless and 11,000 injured in the Indonesian cities of Palu and Donggala in Central Sulawesi.

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he Saint Lucia Fire Service has reiterated its commitment to continually enhance its standard of service delivery to the public.

Its most recent show of unwavering commitment has been demonstrated via the procurement of three new Toyota 2018 Hiace (Diesel Engine) ambulances that are already equipped with Emergency Medical Equipment.

The three spanking new ambulances will comprise two replacements and one addition. They will be distributed to Vieux Fort, Fire Service Headquarters and the community of Babonneau where the Babonneau Fire Station will be commissioned in December.

In 2017 there were 10,958 ambulances calls islandwide. Of that number, 60% were medical in nature, 19% being traumatic and 21% being discharges and transfers. Out of the total calls for 2017, the highest number of calls dealt with patients at the age of 65 and higher. In addition, the highest percentage of responses was within the districts of Castries, Dennery, and Vieux Fort.

The total cost of this purchase amounts to over half a million dollars.

The order of the three ambulances was facilitated

by Simeon Group of Companies in Mon Repos.

The vehicles were officially handed over yesterday at the Gros Islet Fire Station.

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Government like or as a bu Who’s just talking the t I

t would be hilarious if not for its serious consequences.

Every year our governments set aside two or three days for the stated purpose of updating the people on whether money has been expended without due regard to economy or efficiency, and satisfactory procedures have not been established to measure and report on the effectiveness of government programs; how the private sector functioned; payments on bank loans; new loans to be undertaken and how they will be repaid; the extent of the government’s indebtedness; what’s left in the kitty; the condition of government-owned properties including school buildings, hospitals, police stations; roads to be repaired or built from scratch, and so on.

From time to time MPs actually take the opportunity to acknowledge they are mere “servants of the people, always accountable to them.” Or that they are managers of “the people’s business.”

It would appear, however, that since June 2016 the worst sin a politician can commit is to associate government in the slightest way with business.

Hardly a week goes by without an opposition reference to the current prime minister’s promise upon taking office to run his government “like a business.” Almost from the moment the words fell out of his mouth the opposition party (mischievously or out of ignorance) took to misquoting him, substituting his “like a business” phrase—by which the prime minister meant to say his government would operate by the tested rules of good business—with their own “as a business”; that the prime minister was hell-bent on operating government as he had his family’s hotel (wink! wink!),

concerned only with profit and loss.

By the opposition’s twisted measure, a government that operates as a business cannot be concerned about the poor. But we need not travel from the ridiculous to the sublime. The irony is that if our governments have demonstrated one common characteristic, it is their shared propensity to talk the talk (however ungrammatically) but never to walk the walk. Whether or not they admit it, they take turns pretending to conduct the affairs of state in accordance with good business practices.

Our politicians demonstrably abhor accountability. Audited accounts, which by law must be tabled in parliament within a stated time frame, are customarily presented four or five years late, if at all. Of course that has never prevented the governments of our region—where the ayes always have it—from borrowing and spending as they please, regardless of the wisdom in the opposition’s nays. With nearly every submitted account comes a Pandora’s Box of the disclaimer that for several altogether avoidable reasons the tabled document is “not a true reflection of the state’s finances.”

For countless years now prime minister after prime minister has acknowledged the cost of governance is a burden too heavy for this country to carry. It is no secret that more than half of government revenue is swallowed up by our insatiable public service that few would say delivers value for money. But its numbers continue to swell amidst claims that many carry on as if their job description demanded they do all in their power to frustrate

their employer’s best efforts.

Still succeeding administrations grin and bare the consequences rather than take remedial action, for reasons that by now are only too obvious. Meanwhile the official underwriting of every mass-audience fete continues unabated, all in the irreproachable name of culture.

There has hardly been a sitting of parliament over the past forty years (say, from 1979 to time of writing) that adjourned without the worst accusations and allegations hurled as in a food fight by MPs on both sides of the table. Not only have MPs publicly accused colleagues of countless criminal offenses, but they also continue to treat the Speaker as if he or she were invisible and inaudible. Documents that merited serious study by the offices of the AG and DPP are instead routinely published on the Internet while the named suspects carry on as usual, not even bothering to offer clarification or defense.

Small wonder the House that should be the nation’s most respected institution has acquired a reputation synonymous with alley-cat shenanigans. No more are criminal allegations cause for shame and embarrassment; not in parliament, consequently not in private life. It would seem the people not only get the government they deserve, they also embrace their elected representatives regardless of how egregious. (See Tennyson Joseph statement on page 13.)

Edmund Burke comes to mind. The British MP and political theorist is credited with saying that “in all forms of government the people are the true legislator”—which message depends for its meaning on the receiver’s mindset. But what if the people

When it comes to the operations of government, little has changed since the Sir John Compton (pictured)—save for the worse.

don’t know they are the true legislator, don’t care, or have been seduced or coerced into passing on this responsibility to others who by their actions or reputations demonstrate nothing but disregard for common decency, let alone the law?

In Democracy for Realists, published in 2016 by social science professors Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels, the authors argue that the idea that people make coherent and intelligible policy decisions on which governments then act bears no relationship to how it really works. Or could work.

Voters, the authors contend, cannot possibly live up to these expectations. Most are too busy with jobs and families and troubles of their own.

“When we do have time off, not many of us tend to spend it sifting competing claims about the fiscal implications of quantitative easing. Even when we do, we don’t behave as the theory suggests.”

The situation is far worse

in a country where the alleged best brains are either civil servants, therefore silenced by staff orders and contracts, or they produced the troublesome policy and in consequence are complicit. As for the rest of us, the majority of whom cannot or will not read, we are like programmed robots mindlessly regurgitating party propaganda.

The research summarized by Achen and Bartels suggests most people possess almost no useful information about policies and their implications, have little desire to improve their state of knowledge, and have a deep aversion to political disagreement. Our political decisions are based on who we are, not on what we think. Put another way, we act politically, not as individual, rational beings but as members of social groups, expressing a social identity. Did someone say party hacks?

“We seek out the political parties that seem to correspond best to our culture, with little regard to whether their policies

support our interests. We remain loyal to political parties long after they have ceased to serve us.”

Recently, the always controversial SLP activist and one-time election candidate Tennyson Joseph (he proved easy meat for the UWP’s Rufus Bousquet) repeated for the umpteenth time his conviction that business people ought to be denied the opportunity to serve their country in government, on the dodgy premise that they care only for the bottom line and the hell with the poor and disfranchised. He cited Trump as proof of the wisdom in his observation, altogether ignoring that it was America’s so-called deprived and ostracized that were largely responsible for Hillary Clinton’s shocking defeat. He ignored, too, the popular notion that very rich politicians are unlikely to steal from the people they represent.

Of course Trump was, for Tennyson Joseph, a stepping stone, albeit a slippery one, to where the SLP’s golden boy was headed.

Before long he was prating about a burgeoning neo-liberalism movement whose ideology, he said, demanded the removal from office governments

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the country generally is to risk being labeled a sell-out by the SLP. The reverse is equally true.

And so the self-hate prevails.

It must be obvious by now that they will change their counterproductive ways only when we the people adopt a new attitude toward our elected representatives. To borrow a phrase from a most unlikely source, “no more talk, no more talk, no more talk!” We are on the brink of the abyss. It’s action time.

As earlier insinuated, of the several seemingly unsolvable problems hanging over Helen’s delicate naked neck, the worst is our chronic shortage of funds combined with our addiction to spending borrowed money with no returns. In our government’s fiscal circumstances a regular business would long ago have been forced into bankruptcy. But then private sector businesses are not operated by unregulated vampires with over 185,000 exposed jugulars at their disposal.

When a private business since the heyday of finds itself in apparently e. irreversible financial straits, its bankers demand urgent that cared for the poor. That is to salutary action, regardless of say, governments such as Kenny how disconcerting. Usually, Anthony’s, trounced in 2016 by the bank’s recommendation “businessman” Allen Chastanet’s is “do more with less.” A United Workers Party—despite that distressed private business Anthony held all the cards! often is forced to send home

The truth is that from its cherished, long-serving staff, to inception in 1964 the United make cuts until there is nothing Workers Party had been labeled the left to cut . . . and then the businessman’s party, comprising as bank takes over the operation, it did such as John Compton, George effectively rendering its Mallet, Hunter Francois, Maurice owners and skeleton staff bank Mason, Henry Giraudy and so on. employees. Yes, the mother of Actually, the more prominent among all nightmares! the UWP leadership were lawyers.

The International Monetary

On the other hand the Labour Fund is equally hard on the Party, under its original leader George people when their government Charles, proudly described itself has finally brought their country as the party of the downtrodden to its knees. As I say, only the laborer, the relatively uneducated— worst cowards go down without consequently poorer Saint Lucian. a fight. Our country is headed Admittedly, that was a long time down the toilet. We must not ago. Still the SLP’s leaders continue allow it to pick up more speed. to bleed for all it’s worth the notion I think I may have a possible that class separates our two political remedy. Bitter though it may be, parties. what awaits around the corner

Kenny Anthony did little to if we don’t act together—and ameliorate the resultant lose-lose with common purpose—is far civil war. Neither the Oxford graduate worse. Tune in next Saturday.

George Odlum before him. For a In the meantime read “Massive Labour camper to promote UWP Cuts in Barbados Government government policy he believes serves Spending" on page 14!

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Holy Black Or Not, A Kettle Is A Kettle Is A Kettle!

By Tennyson Joseph

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nyone who continues to doubt the quality and the uprightness of the leadership of the Saint Lucia Labour Party might want to reflect on what is happening in other parties in the Caribbean that have recently found themselves in opposition. I am here from the island of Barbados which just had a general election in May which saw the defeat of the Democratic Labour Party which had been in government for two terms since 2008.

Less than two months after the change of government in Barbados a former minister who was the minister of commerce in the last government was arrested in the USA on charges of money laundering and is now being tried in the US court.

The same can be said of the UNC of Trinidad and Tobago with the Jack Warner-FIFA scandal with former minister Warner paying extradition to a U.S. court. All over the Caribbean and in Saint Lucia itself, there have been credible reports of parliamentarians who have had their U.S. visas revoked. All over the Caribbean we have been receiving reports of ministers being fired from their cabinets for reasons of corruption and impropriety. In Saint Lucia, just a few months after the UWP was elected into office, a minister for agriculture from Dennery North, whose name no one cares to remember, was hastily dismissed from the cabinet leaving all of us to speculate about the reasons.

Just after one year after the UWP was elected to office all the little sons and daughters of Saint Lucia were seeing pictures on their cell phones of a minister in the ministry of finance, Ubaldus Raymond, with a red rooster in his hands like a man going to a cock fight. Who can forget the last cabinet of John Compton and Stephenson King who gave us a

UWI's Dr. Tennyson Joseph addressing the SLP's most recent Conference of Delegates.

man convicted of Grand Theft Auto in the USA as a candidate and who gave us scandal after scandal from Tuxedo Villas gate to Taiwan gate to red envelope gate and Tom Chou gate?

It is a glowing statement on the quality and the uprightness of the leadership of the Saint Lucia Labour Party that more than two years after losing the 2016 general election and after being in office from 1997 to 2006 there has not been one credible or real instance of one of

its ministers being in trouble with global or local authorities for acts of corruption and you have already clapped for that.

And yet despite being the best and only party in the past 20 years which has shown the ability and willingness to govern in the best interest of Saint Lucia as a whole, we find ourselves in a situation where the best and most prepared group of men and women have been put out of office in exchange for the worst and least prepared group of

men for public office since independence. We have lived to witness the best prime minister so far, Kenny D Anthony, being cast aside for an unknown quantity, a djab en sac, a political misfit, a 'give me a try' prime minister, someone so socially and culturally alien to the soul of the people of Saint Lucia, an opportunistic pretender, a tech flow Allen Chastanet.

(From address delivered at SLP’s most recent convention in Laborie)

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Document Outlines Massive Cuts in Government Spending S

everal state-owned entities will be restructured or shut down as part of phases 2 and 3 of the Barbados Economic Recovery and Transformation (BERT) plan, starting the next fiscal year.

Some of the first casualties, identified in a document called Proposed Public Sector Expenditure Reduction Programme, are the National Initiative for Service Excellence (NISE), the Department of Constituency Empowerment and the Productivity Council.

NISE and the Productivity Council will be replaced with a “small unit formed in the Divisions of Economic Affairs and Investment to deal with competitiveness.” The Department of Constituency Empowerment will be disbanded with no indication of an alternative unit.

The document also revealed that major cuts are coming to several other

Government departments.

For instance, the Cultural Industries Development Authority and Pan African Commission will be reabsorbed into the National Cultural Foundation (NCF) before the end of the fiscal year, while the Barbados Conference Services Limited, which operates the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre, is currently undergoing a rationalization programme through the lease of the office building to Ross University.

The Barbados Defence Force’s (BDF) Sports Programme is continuing as is, but with no funds from Government.

The document also proposed to send home workers from the Government’s Public Affairs Department which comprises the Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), the Government Printing Department and the Barbados Government Information Service (BGIS) by the end of October.

CBC’s Multi-Choice Television (MCTV) will remain, but is being restructured.

The Mia Mottley-led administration also intends to divest the Caves of Barbados as a business and lease the caves, a major tourist attraction, to the private sector.

Kensington Oval Management Inc (KOMI), the company which operates the mecca of cricket, will be managed through a joint venture between the Government and the Barbados Cricket Association, while Gymnasium Limited, the entity that runs the Wildey Gymnasium of the Garfield Sobers Sports Complex, is being incorporated into the National Sports Council (NSC).

The Government is also targeting its Registries to be operated under a public-private partnership arrangement. The document noted though that Government officials must first

meet with staff of the Supreme Court Registry, the Land Registry and the Corporate Affairs and Intellectual Property Office before the proposed plan could be implemented.

In the third phase of the public sector spending cuts plan, the Barbados Water Authority (BWA) and the Transport Board will be fully restructured in four phases.

Regarding he BWA, the first phase is expected to result in layoffs and will be completed

by November 15, the second phase by March 31, the third by December 2019 and the final by June 2020.

Workers at the Transport

Board will be sent home during the same time period as the BWA.

The National Housing Corporation (NHC), the Rural Development Commission, Urban Development Commission, the Grantley Adams International Airport (GAIA) and Government’s agricultural agencies will also be impacted by the spending cuts.

A rationalization study is to be conducted by the Office of Public Sector Reform and MCS and its recommendations will be implemented with regards to the NHC, UDC and RDC. Phase 1 is to be done by March 31, 2019

and phase 2 by June, 2020.

The airport is to have a new structure by September 30, 2019, through a private-public partnership in conjunction with the International Finance Centre.

The document also itemizes a $2 million efficiency rationalisation programme of the Barbados Agricultural Development and Marketing Corporation (BADMC), a $10 million – $12 million rationalization of the Barbados Agricultural Corporation (BAMC) and the closure of the Barbados Cane Industry Corporation (BCIC).

---Barbados Today

BAY GARDENS BANISHES PLASTICS TO SAVE ST. LUCIA B

ay Gardens Resorts will phase out the use of plastic by November 2018 in favour of biodegradable vessels and utensils made from wood, paper, compostable plastic and sugar cane bagasse.

The resort chain's reduction of its carbon footprint follows increased global awareness of the harm that plastic litter causes.

Over a year ago the company began to reduce its impact on the environment by ending the use of all Expanded Polystyrene (Styrofoam) products at its properties. It has also embraced other ecological innovations such as installing GEM Link occupancy sensors in its guestrooms, leading to a 15 per cent energy-use reduction per occupied room.

Bay Gardens Executive Director Sanovnik Destang states, "Adding to the growing awareness amongst local and regional companies about plastic usage, this move consolidates Bay Gardens Resorts' commitment to sustainable practices at every

Sanovnik Destang, Executive Director, Bay Gardens Resorts.

level of our organisation. We cannot expect tourists to visit a Caribbean turned into a Sargasso Sea of plastic. They come to see marine life, not plastic bags and bottles bobbing in the waves."

With three of its four properties now Green Globe-certified, Bay Gardens Resorts remains committed to environmental protection by doing its part to ensure a greener planet throughout its operations; improving the social, environmental and economic sustainability of Saint Lucians; and keeping its island home green.

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Students Exposed to Full Folk Experience

entered the National Cultural Centre on Tuesday to a full house of joyous shrieks, clapping and snippets of the entire crowd singing “Woy Tinday”.

The Schools’ Folk Festival reemerged since it last occurred around 2009 after only two outings, one in Piaye the other at the then Marigot Secondary School. “We had to stop it,” said organiser Jason Joseph this week. “The main reason was the lack of funding. Through Events Company of Saint Lucia and the Folk Research Centre I was able to bring it back this year on a small scale.”

The aim was for a better than ever comeback. There was a focus on entertaining the students while educating them about folk culture. In Joseph’s vison, he meant for it to be exposure to all the elements spanning masquerade, storytelling, some modelling of the traditional wear, Kwéyòl songs and dances. Usually students experience only a few aspects of folk culture in the classroom and learn just one song or dance by the time creole month swings around. This time every participating school performed its own tailored number which contributed to having some of everything.

The students were also afforded opportunities to ask questions about any new concept, and encouraged to speak Kwéyòl throughout the show.

“It also helped the teachers who had to do research for the performances,” Joseph said.

“Some were not familiar with certain aspects of the folk culture.”

A workshop was held for music and theatre arts teachers from all over the island two weeks prior to the Schools’ Folk Festival.

They explored the sounds and elements of folk music and festivals participating in practical exercises to reinforce information and to learn new details to relay to their students.

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Students learned how to wear their national dresses the correct way in preparation for the Schools’ Folk Festival.

“The point of it was so that they can go back to their schools with solid material,” said the organiser.

A music teacher at the Babonneau Primary School, Mrs. Small-Biro, found the experience especially informative. “I learned some of the drumming patterns, which were quite difficult, and I had to try to perfect my timing with the shak-shak so I could properly teach my students. Even 'Mary Ansente', although I’d heard the song before, I didn’t realize there was so much to it.”

The festival started at 10

a.m. and went on until lunch time. I personally enjoyed 'Cock Chante' as rendered by the St. Aloysius R.C. Boys’ Primary School, featuring a saxophonist on the melody and eight little drummers keeping the beat. Throughout the show the young audience, giggling self-consciously at some of the Kweyol phrases, sang along to popular folk songs, and even got up and danced, despite their teachers’ urges to remain seated—understandably!

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he Sandals Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Sandals Resorts International, has noted with alarm the terrible flooding situation in Trinidad and Tobago which has left so many families in dire need of basic items.

Like so many others who have responded in this time of need, Sandals intends to do its part to help ease the burden of those affected, and on October 23 donated US$50,000 (TT$335,000) to the Living Waters Community which has been actively involved in relief efforts.

Living Waters will be using the funds to help provide relief items such as cooked food, water, baby food, diapers, toiletries, non-perishable food items, medical and cleaning supplies. The affected areas that will receive assistance include Sangre Grande, Kelly Village, Oropune, Arima, Tunapuna, Caroni, Chaguanas

and Couva.

Since its inception in 2009 the Sandals Foundation has always sought to respond wherever there was a need among the people of our beloved region; from earthquake relief efforts in Haiti in 2010 to last year’s hurricane relief efforts after the devastation in several islands such as Dominica, Bahamas, Turks and Caicos and Barbuda.

Several of Sandals' team members, including a number of its senior managers, are citizens of Trinidad and Tobago, and have been actively involved in reaching out to their families and friends back home.

Director of the Sandals Foundation Heidi Clarke said the Foundation is happy to support their efforts and to have seen first-hand how natural disasters have negatively impacted communities and families. She said, “ We feel it is our duty whenever possible

to play our part to help return lives to normalcy as quickly as possible. Our neighbours in Trinidad and Tobago have suffered tremendously due to this unprecedented flooding and we are pleased to support the Living Waters Community in their efforts to reach those most in need.

“The Sandals Foundation is committed to the growth and development of our Caribbean people, and it is our promise to diligently undertake the sustainable development of their lives as we improve opportunities for education, protect and preserve the environment and build healthy communities where families can have their hopes and dreams realised.”

Flooding in Trinidad left thousands of people on the move and with damaged property.

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The job incumbent is responsible for the full range of Sales & Distribution activities within the company. (S)he must ensure the company’s sales growth is maximized each year according to established key performance indicators. The major duties will therefore include achieving annual sales volume and revenue targets, building relationships and understanding customer trends as well as developing and reporting on action plans to achieve year on year growth.

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ary Butte is an artist whose pieces resonate deep within me. His depictions of masks and faces painted with a thick tribal abstract tone, calls me home, to memories of growing up in Africa. His first “Mask Parade” Collection was exhibited in 2011 and toured across the Dominican Republic, Martinique, Grenada, Guadeloupe and England.

The MeCurator Art Gallery will be home to Butte’s “Mask Parade 2” collection, featuring 16 paintings, all depicting masked characters that reflect the variance of cultures that form the Caribbean. As creole month draws to an end in Saint Lucia, we must never forget the diversity within the Caribbean people, which spreads across many regions and groups of people. Butte attempts to recreate these complex relationships by putting paint to canvas within this collection “Mask Parade 2”.

Butte's signature style is bold, energetic and exposes the beauty in our multiculturality. Butte describes his work as an "incoming tide of the waves, etching the shores of our land with a rich history of the people. With each wave that washes over the sand, another moment is shared, another memory is formed and another heart is touched."

Experience this powerful collection on the opening night Friday 2 November from 7pm at MeCurator Art Gallery.

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The Rural Unknown

Lest We Forget Sesenne! become synonymous with Saint Lucian culture, in Sesenne’s days, Kwéyòl speaking and even the customs of flower festivals f you’re a Saint Lucian, then were frowned upon, and in you know the significance of the name Sesenne Descartes, some cases prohibited, by the British elite who governed the and if you’re a millennial like island. While I can go on and me, then the name brings to on about Dame Sesenne’s life images of Jounen Kwéyòl biography, what strikes me is and folk singing without truly understanding the impact of this her persistence in preserving ‘chantwelle’ (folk singer). At first Creole culture and her nonI really didn’t mean to make this conformance to colonial laws that were put in place to erase article a “Did you know” piece but I can’t help myself because our Creole heritage.

We know the history of the of all I’ve come to learn about Harlem Renaissance and names the cultural queen. like Langston Hughes and

While it’s right to equate Claude McKay, who used their Sesenne’s contributions to folk singing with the preservation of art as cultural activism against culture, she was quite the rebel; racism, and the Jim Crow era in one could even say Saint Lucia’s the South of the United States; but we don’t quite recognize first female cultural activist. the contributions of our own Let me explain: while we live like Sesenne, who musically in a time when, for the most took a stance against British part, the Kwéyòl language has

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colonialism and its efforts to fragment Saint Lucian society and to make us loathe what is our own.

I grew up with parents who told me that at one point they were treated with contempt for speaking Creole because it was a “bush” language, but that’s how colonialism works, right? Our former “masters” told us that our language was unrefined, and in many ways we believed it. Today, Creole is a heritage celebrated around the world, and it is very present in the music and culture that is exported from Saint Lucia (just look at the rise of Dennery Segment).

Simply put, a Saint Lucia without the contribution of Sesenne, is a Saint Lucia that I would not want to call home.

So now when I hear the Taboo

Melee, shak-shak or even see the madras cloth, they won’t be symbols of patriotism that I don’t understand, but will represent a victory over colonial struggle.

All praise to you Sesenne, a true “Cultural Rebel”.

Helen’s Daughters is a Saint Lucian non-profit with a special focus on rural women’s economic development through improved market access, adaptive agricultural techniques, and capacitybuilding. It was formed in 2016 in a winning proposal for UN Women Empower Women Champions for Change Program. To learn more about the initiative, you can visit: Facebook page: Helen’s Daughters Instagram page: helensdaughters.slu Website: helensdaughters.org Dame Sesenne Descartes; she was a true cultural rebel.

The Jounen Kwéyòl after Tomas

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onsidering that Jounen Kwéyòl was more or less a complete wash-out in 2010, people came back in 2011 eager and excited to take in Saint Lucia’s premier Creole festival. Thankfully there were no disappointments in terms of a “Tomas part two” coming through, which was something most people talked about as the day neared. Apart from the scattered showers that weather reports predicted, bad weather was the last thing to worry about that year.

The search for the ultimate Creole experience took Saint Lucians to communities like Dennery, Anse La Raye, Laborie and other areas on Sunday, October 30. For most the occasion was all about getting in touch with their Creole roots, and appreciating the island’s culture, particularly that of music, food and old time games and dances. Although it’s needless to say, Jounen Kwéyòl was, for a lot of people, more of a food festival than anything else. People could take in the best of Creole music in the midst of great company but were more focused on eating any and everything under the sun! There’s nothing quite like the food that comes out around Creole time—green fig and salt fish, bouillon, floats, breadfruit

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After celebrations came to an abrupt end in October 2010, things picked up with full force for Jounen Kweyol the next year.

with salt fish, salted sardines or smoked herring, crab callalou, bwigo, roasted breadfruit, crayfish, local juices, cocoa tea, which is what everyone missed from the previous year.

In Anse La Raye that Sunday there was an entire programme of activities planned, which included a masquerade through the village organised by the Soufriere Action Theatre, performances by the Cecilian Rays, steel pan music and calypso performances. There were a host of activities taking place in the fishing village and, as part of the occasion, elderly folk were shown appreciation for their contributions in various areas, including farming, fishing, teaching, sports and more, by being gifted at a small

ceremony.

Despite the usual traffic problem of getting from place to place, every venue was packed with people from all over the island. Getting into Dennery was a nightmare and once people got there later in the day the mud was another slight setback. One thing’s for sure as it is every year: early birds certainly got the best of everything. Some people set out from the wee hours, had breakfast in one place, lunch in another and an overall good time at every other venue if they chose to brave the traffic.

Those who stayed home with their own family had just as good a time, making the national festival one of the biggest annual celebrations in Saint Lucia!

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Protect Yourself Against Back Pain U

pper back pain may not be as common as neck and back pain but can be just as uncomfortable and can spread to your whole back if ignored. The upper back, known as the thoracic spine, sits between the neck (cervical spine) and lower back (lumber spine). Although it consists of vertebrae and discs, it differs as it also forms the attachment for the ribs. This makes the area fairly immobile but it is still susceptible to stress and strain caused by our posture and lifestyle. Pain in this area may be the result of direct trauma or an accident, overuse, muscle strain or poor posture; it can even be caused by stress.

If you are involved in a car accident the impact may cause the seat belt to activate and the force at which we are thrown forward can lead to injury to the chest and upper back area.

However, most times pain in the

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Your back pain could be caused by many things from slouching to a displaced rib.

upper back is caused by muscle irritation and tension, either from poor posture, overwork or strain.

Poor posture can often be visible as an increased

National Trust and Government Reach Agreement on Former Prison

he Government of Saint Lucia and the Saint Lucia National Trust (SLNT) have agreed to hold consultations regarding conservation of the buildings which comprise the former Royal Gaol located at Bridge Street, Castries.

The site of the former Royal Gaol has been earmarked for the construction of a new Police Headquarters as well as a structure to house the Criminal Courts. The former Royal Gaol was abandoned in 2003 when all prisoners were transferred to the Bordelais Correctional Facility. The SLNT obtained an injunction restraining the demolition of the former Royal Gaol on the grounds that the buildings were of historical significance.

The consultative process shall begin with a joint site visit

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by a team of experts designated by the SLNT and a team representing the government.

Thereafter, further consultations shall take place in accordance with a timetable agreed upon between the parties.

As part of the agreement, the court proceedings initiated by the SLNT have been withdrawn and the injunction previously obtained has also been discharged. Although not bound by law, in the spirit of compromise, the government has agreed that no further demolition shall be carried out on the former Royal Gaol until the agreed process of consultation with the SLNT is completed.

The government and the SLNT shall provide a further update at the conclusion of these consultations.

hump—with the chin poking forward—or in some cases an S-shape can be observed when looking from the back; this is known as scoliosis. These postures not only put pressure

on our internal organs but they overstretch our muscles and generate tension which may be felt not only in the back but sometimes in the neck, lower back and arms. In severe cases it may even affect our breathing.

How we sit and carry our bags can also contribute to the problem. Slouching at our desks or in front of the TV, or carrying a heavy bag or rucksack can put unnecessary strain on the muscles and ligaments in our upper backs, leading to pain.

However, not all aggravating factors that can cause pain are so obvious; the pain may be because of a displaced rib, degeneration of the facet joints, a herniated disc or even a fracture. In fact it may be possible that pain is not mechanical at all and it is our organs referring pain to this area. Our stomach, intestines, kidneys, even our heart and lungs, can be responsible for our symptoms. If in doubt, consult your healthcare provider.

Most of the time we will feel pain across our shoulders and around the shoulder blades but it is not uncommon for pain, numbness and tingling to be felt in our arms and hands. Our first thought when this happens is that we have nerve damage but that may not be the case;

tightness in the muscles can cause pain to radiate and also affect nerves.

Back pain can affect anyone at any age but there are some factors that can increase the likelihood of experiencing pain and discomfort: Age: As we get older the spine is susceptible to degeneration.

People over the age of 30 may have changes to their discs and it is usual, by the time we get to 60, to have signs of a degenerative disease like osteoarthritis.

Genetics: Some studies have shown that developing back pain may be hereditary.

Occupation: People who spend a lot of time bending over or picking up heavy objects have a higher chance of developing upper back pain. For example, hairdressers and barbers spend the day bent over a chair using their arms to make us look pretty; unfortunately this may come at a cost. Manual

construction workers, nurses and office workers are also at risk.

Lifestyle: people who are sedentary or overweight are also more likely to develop upper back pain

The key to treating and, even better, avoiding upper back pain is to stay fit and healthy and monitor your posture when active and at rest. Standing or sitting with rounded shoulders for any length of time increases your chances of developing symptoms. So stay mindful and stay active. Simple exercises at your desk or on your coffee break or even whilst you are sitting on the sofa can go a long way to keeping you fit and healthy. A physiotherapist can give you advice on how to manage your pain and the best exercises to avoid pain in the future, from simple breathing exercises to tips and tricks on improving your posture.

Kim Jackson is a UK-trained physiotherapist with over 20 years’ experience. She specialises in musculoskeletal pain and dysfunction including back pain and sciatica, stroke and other neuro conditions plus sports physiotherapy, having worked with local, regional and international athletes and teams treating injuries and analysing biomechanics to improve function and performance. She is registered with the Allied Health Council and is a member of PASL. She currently works at Bayside Therapy Services in Rodney Bay, O: 458 4409 or C: 284 5443; www.baysidetherapyservices.com

Calling all Kids to Practise Yoga With Mo

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onetta Wilson carries both a bachelors and masters degree in environmental science and once taught Mathematics at Vieux Fort Secondary School.

However, Monetta chooses yoga as her breadwinning strategy by offering private sessions and running the Sayana Studio in Mon Repos, a decision which gained her the national Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2015.

Monetta began practicing yoga during her stint in New York where she often tuned into Denise Austin’s programme, Fit & Lite, that was based on yoga.

“It was the only time my body responded to fitness activity,” she said. She also participated in her college’s yoga progrmme, which she enjoyed. But, it was after the untimely shooting of her brother, Leezy Wilson, during the 2012 carnival that Monetta had no other choice but to turn to yoga for life. She developed a condition called

fibromyalgia—an incurable, painful illness—from the trauma of the incident and her doctor recommended yoga to ease the symptoms. Monetta also suffers from asthma and endometriosis, also incurable conditions that she claims practising yoga greatly helps to keep at bay. During her interview with the STAR, she smiled and laughed so much and sat upright, looking strong and healthy, not once betraying any of her health conditions, so I suppose the yoga must be working!

While obeying her doctor’s recommendation she decided, “I always wanted to train to be a yoga teacher so I thought, why not do that?” Monetta left Saint Lucia for a 200-hour training course but returned to no vacant teaching position. “So I made a business out of yoga,” she said. Her first participants were from Mon Repos in an after-school programme where she tested children’s responses to yoga. Then the scores of little cousins and godchildren in the vicinity of Monetta’s living space all wanted to be yogis too.

When her responsibilities and commitments grew and she was no longer able to practise with all her original students, Monetta tried her best not to leave them without yoga. Eventually, she decided that she would develop a programme from which all children could benefit: “I trained teachers to use yoga in the class and the training programme is built around a poem.” This month Monetta officially launched a picture book of the poem, called Yoga with Aunty Mo, that children can use anywhere to help them remember the positions for their yoga routine. And who

Monetta presents her book at the children’s party book launch of “Yoga with Aunty Mo” on October 14.

best to be featured in the photographs?

Monetta’s home-based Mon Repos yogis!

Monetta’s love for children, especially her young relatives, is deep but she doesn’t have any of her own. And she attests that the pleasure of contributing the gift of yoga to them might be greater than any feeling she might get from serving in environmental science.

Her book is available for purchase at the Daher Building in Vieux Fort and by contacting Yoga with Mo on Facebook.

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Understanding Dementia

WHERE AM I?

By Regina Posvar

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n last week’s issue this column explored the third out of ten warning signs of Alzheimer’s disease which is having problems with language or communication.

This week I’ll discuss the fourth warning sign. If you experience any of these signs, see your doctor or contact the Saint Lucia Alzheimer’s and Dementia Association for more information or for a memory screening.

Warning Sign Number Four: Disorientation in time and space.

This is scary and raises a lot of anxiety when a person experiences getting lost in what should be a familiar place.

An example is trying to get back

home from elsewhere along the road you live on or getting to a location and then realizing you do not know how you got there or why you came there.

This warning sign can also manifest as the patient having no awareness of time, as in whether it’s day or night. The person can lose a whole day or miss an important event.

People typically will forget the day of the week, especially if they do not have a school schedule or a routine workschedule, but usually will figure it out easily. Imagine driving along and not recognizing the place you need to turn to get home, so you keep driving. An hour later you are at the other end of the Island and don’t know how you got there. You call your partner and they ask why you are there, when you said you were only going to the store to pick up bread.

confusion. That is reversible and it doesn’t mean dementia.

If you or someone you love is experiencing disorientation in time and space regularly, however, it is recommended they see a doctor.

Questions about warning signs: Q: How do I explain Alzheimer’s to my little one?

Travelling somewhere and not remembering why might just be scarier than accidentally getting lost.

This symptom is attached with anxiety, and the fear of it happening again can cause drastic alterations in someone’s life like them deciding to no longer go out anywhere. As the condition progresses, the person may wander around with no direction and say they want to go home when they are actually already home.

It is important to know that disorientation related to dementia is slow and progressive when it starts.

Disorientation related to delirium is sudden and can last for a few moments to a couple of days depending on the cause.

Infections and dehydration are common in the elderly and can cause disorientation and

Connecting People, Partners and the World

JOB OPPORTUNITIES

The Saint Lucia Air and Sea Ports Authority (SLASPA), hereby invites suitably qualified parties to submit quotations for the following:

The Saint Lucia Air and Sea Ports Authority invite applications from suitably qualified persons for recruitment to the positions of:

1. Supply of Two (2) 40 – 80 Ton Non Metal Tyre Roll Trailers

Proposers must provide evidence of experience in similar procurements Requests for both Quotations (RFQ) packages are available for collection from the Customer Service Desk, SLASPA’s Headquarters Building located on Manoel Street, Castries from Monday 22nd October, 2018 to Monday 29th October, 2018.

Opening hours:

Monday to Friday 8:30 am to 4:30 pm (except 12 noon – 2 pm)

The RFQ packages must be individually submitted and labelled “Quotation for Supply of Two 40 to 80 Ton Non Metal Tyres Roll Trailers” and “Quotation for Supply of 13 to 15 Ton Factory Refurbished Vacuum Sweeper Truck” and should be submitted to the address below no later than Friday November 9th, 2018 at 4: 00 pm local time.

The Chairperson –Tenders Committee Saint Lucia Air and Sea Ports Authority (SLASPA) Manoel Street P.O. Box 651, Castries Quotations are to be handed to an actual person upon which a receipt will be provided to the person submitting the quotation. Please note that submissions/quotations received after the closing date and time will be rejected.

Regina Posvar is the current president of the Saint Lucia Alzheimer’s and Dementia Association and has been a licensed nurse for 25 years. SLADA is supported by volunteers and donations and aims to bring awareness and support by providing awareness public workshops, family support, memory screenings, the Memory Café, counselling and family training for coping skills and communication with persons living with dementia.

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A: Great question! Alzheimer’s disease or related dementia does have an impact on children of all ages. Some children stay away from their loved ones when they see unfavourable changes and others adapt better than adults. You can sit your little one down and talk to them about changes they have noticed in their grandparent or other family member. Once you have talked about the changes that were noticed you can tell them they have a disease called Alzheimer’s that is causing these changes. You know your child best to know how much detail to give them or not to give them any at all.

I find that most children learn in story form and there is a great children’s book by Dawn French called Peanut and the Alzheimer’s Saga. The story book has real insight to Saint Lucia with simple and clear understanding of Alzheimer’s.

I think children of all ages and adults will find the story helpful.

When there are children that are actively participating with the care of a family member or they live in the home with the person living with Alzheimer’s, they too will need support.

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Gaston Browne lashes out at the United States

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rime Minister Gaston Browne has lashed out at the U.S. Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, for comments he made about China’s relations with small island states.

Pompeo said he intended to tell the entire region that when China comes calling, it’s not always to the good of small island citizens. And Pompeo didn’t stop there. He said further that countries had to watch out for Chinese companies that show up with deals that seem too good to be true.

But Browne, who condemned the statements, said the U.S. should be ashamed for criticising a country that has assisted in the development of Caribbean countries for decades. He said that the United States should learn from China and stop wasting resources on useless wars. “Perhaps they may wish to consider spending less on artillery, useless wars and interventions into the affairs of other independent states; the savings from which could be utilised, in part, to help under- privileged countries,” Browne told OBSERVER media.

According to him, right now, the world needs less conflict and more cooperation.

“End the useless, idiotic conflicts and ideological warfare; help underprivileged peoples globally. There is no superior alternative to assisting human advancement globally,” he added.

He said that those who are opposed to China’s deepening influence in the hemisphere need to talk less, get into action, and put some impactful diplomatic dollars or developmental assistance dollars and debt relief on the table.

Browne said that economically underprivileged island states in the Caribbean need impactful development assistance from the wealthy countries to continue to develop.

“There has been a void created by the benign neglect of the powerful states,” he said.

The People’s Republic of China, according to Browne – with significantly less resources than those wealthy states – has gone beyond the call of duty to assist Caribbean countries with meaningful grants and concessional loans, to develop their crumbling socio-economic infrastructure to include schools, roads, hospitals,

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airports, seaports and stadia.

“The developmental prospects of many underprivileged countries in the Caribbean, including Antigua and Barbuda, would have been significantly less without Chinese funding,” he said.

Antigua and Barbuda is the recent beneficiary of a housing grant of EC$100M to build more climate resilient and affordable homes for the poor.

“Whereas, we owe China a debt of gratitude for its developmental assistance, I do not see how this act of generosity could be detrimental to the national interest,” the prime minister said.

He added that developing countries globally need help and they, from time to time, leverage their foreign policy to obtain much needed developmental assistance for their peoples.

“These underprivileged countries do not have the luxury to align based on geography, ideology and the narrow nationalistic ideals of the mighty. They ally with those countries that treat them with respect and support their developmental agenda,” he said.

---Antigua Observer

What are the Geopolitical Consequences of China’s Increasing Influence in the Caribbean and South Pacific?

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n the beginning of 2018 the People’s Republic of China formally invited countries in Latin America and the Caribbean to join its Belt and Road initiative (BRI). Created in 2013, the BRI has mainly been seen as an endeavour to secure steady supplies of raw materials, principally from Africa and the Middle East, and to tie the economic fates of its Asian neighbours to that of China. The big question: why would China want to include the Caribbean and South Pacific in the BRI?

As neither region is highly promising in terms of critical raw materials, speculation about Chinese engagement has focused on geopolitical motives.

HCSS’ latest report, ‘The Belt and Road Initiative Looks East,’ aims to understand the consequences of China’s dealings with the nations in the Caribbean and the South Pacific, and offers recommendations to the Netherlands and its strategic partners on how to respond to these developments.

In both regions, the Chinese engage in largescale infrastructure projects, including building highways, hospitals and schools but also

government buildings and presidential palaces. A variety of motivations has been suggested explaining this largesse: 1) the Chinese have money and the island nations need this to prop their economies; 2) China seeks to wean away countries that recognize Taiwan (many of which are located in these regions) and 3) the Chinese seek long-term support for their world views in multilateral fora.

As is the case with BRI and related projects elsewhere, China’s economic inroads also have geopolitical consequences and affect good governance at the local level. In the Caribbean Beijing benefits from the strategic neglect on the part of the United States, which traditionally considered the Caribbean as its own backyard.

In the South Pacific it’s a different story. There is, for instance, demonstrated Chinese appetite with regards to future permanent military basing in the South Pacific. Pacific countries could face more pressure to facilitate this because of their sizeable external debt to China. Moreover, China is also interested in using its strategic leverage to gain support for its

policy positions, for instance in relation to the South China Sea. Because of these developments, the nations of the Pacific and the Caribbean will soon be compelled to reconsider their China engagement policies. The Kingdom of the Netherlands –which includes the Dutch Antilles- has had a direct stake in this process.

The most important policy recommendations for the Netherlands and its partners include advice on how to help the islands’ societies to become more resilient to Chinese influence, economically, socially, and politically. This can be done by offering alternatives for Chinese loans and investments, including through supporting existing regional organisations; supporting good governance in the region through civil society; empowering local media outlets; teaming up with like-minded countries who have interests in the region; and, when opportune, to reach out to China in seeking to make it a responsible security partner both in the Caribbean and in the South Pacific.

---Hague Centre for Strategic Studies

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A city in China wants to launch an artificial moon into space

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t might sound like a plot cooked up by a cartoon villain, but a city in southwestern China is aiming to launch into space an artificial moon that could replace streetlights by bathing the ground in a “dusklike glow”.

City officials in Chengdu said they plan to launch the so-called illumination satellite in 2020, the Chinese news site People’s Daily reported. The audacious plan was announced

by Wu Chunfeng, chairman of the Chengdu Aerospace Science and Technology Microelectronics System Research Institute Co., a private company, at an October 10 event in Chengdu.

In an interview with China Daily, Wu said the satellite’s mirror-like exterior would reflect sunlight down to Earth, creating a glow about eight times brighter than the moon.

The artificial moon, which he said would orbit about 500 kilometers above Earth, could save $174 million in electricity from streetlights.

Not much else is known about the illumination satellite, including its size or cost.

It’s also unclear whether introducing another light source in the sky would adversely affect the local population or wildlife—perhaps by disrupting the daily light-dark cycle.

This isn’t the first time the idea of putting new light sources into space has been floated.

In the 1920s, a German physicist named Hermann Oberth proposed the idea of using a space-based mirror to reflect light to Earth.

Nothing came of that idea.

But seven decades later, on February 4, 1993, Russian cosmonauts released a small experimental mirror from the Mir space station, Bruce Hunt, an associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin, told NBC News MACH in an email.

Dubbed Znamya, the mirror briefly reflected a beam of light to Earth that was two to three times as luminous as the moon,

The city of Chengdu in China is aiming to launch an artificial moon, or "illumination satellite," in 2020.

The New York Times reported at the time. A few days later, the mirror burned up as it reentered Earth’s atmosphere.

But despite the long interest in such ideas, Hunt, who specializes in the history of science and technology, is

dubious of the Chinese project.

“I don’t think space mirrors would be very practical because I doubt they could

be reliably steered to light just desired areas, they would contribute a lot of light pollution (astronomers would be very unhappy with them), and even then they would not provide enough light to obviate a demand for ground-level lighting,” Hunt said. “Space mirrors strike me as a solution in search of a problem.”

William Schonberg, a professor of civil engineering at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, said he’s intrigued by the idea—but raised similar concerns.

“What happens when the 'light' burns out (i.e., the reflector degrades to where it no longer functions)?”

Schonberg told MACH in an email. “On the environmental side is the concern about light pollution. Will residents of the illuminated city no longer be able to see the night sky? How much spillage will there be to neighboring cities, and how will that affect their ‘night vision’?”

---NBC News MACH

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he suspect in a mail bombing spree targeting critics of President Donald Trump has been identified. Cesar Altier Sayoc, 56, was taken into custody on Friday morning in Plantation, Florida in connection with the 12 suspicious packages that have been discovered this week.

According to Sayoc's Facebook page, he is a Trump fan who posted pictures and videos of himself at one of the President's rallies in October 2016. He posted a photograph of himself wearing a MAGA hat in front of the US Capitol in 2017.

Sayoc was convicted of a threat to “throw, place, project or discharge any destructive device” in 2002 in Dade County, Florida, court records show. He claims to be Native American, and according to a picture posted on his social media page, he is a member of the Seminole Tribe of Florida. Other information from his LinkedIn page suggests that Sayoc is Filipino.

In a post a year ago, Sayoc shared a photograph of Governor Rick Scott and Donald Trump, writing: “The greatest Governor in Country Florida Rick Scott and great friend of We Unconquered Seminole Tribe. Trump Trump Trump.”

He shared bodybuilding pictures and appears to have worked in a strip club. He expressed his dislike of Hillary Clinton and posted stories about incidents of Islamic terrorism. Trump addressed the arrest in remarks at the White House, saying: “We must never allow political violence to take root in

Cesar Altier Sayoc was taken into custody on Friday morning in Plantation, Florida in connection with the bombs.

America.” He promised “swift and certain justice” and said the suspect would be prosecuted “to the fullest extent of the law.”

The suspect was arrested in front of an AutoZone store in Plantation, a police source tells DailyMail.com.

---MailOnline

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