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Ryan Mack is an African-American and president of Optimum Capital Management. By his own account, he is also a “financial advisor working with many prominent clients across the U.S. and charitably lends his support to the inner-city communities by coordinating … Continue reading →

Add two more names to the growing list of murders in St Lucia this year. This weekend was supposed to be the crowning jewel of the St Lucia Jazz and Arts Festival, which had already been applauded for it’s high … Continue reading →

Just when the Saint Lucia Civil Service Association imagined it had outwitted the government, more proof that things are not always as they appear. Last month the CSA ended negotiations with its refusal of a proffered four percent wage increase, … Continue reading →

The glitz, the glamour, the gowns, the fawning hangers-on . . . there was nothing parochial about Saint Lucia HOT Couture, the Jazz & Arts Festival’s first foray into fashion. Unlike the roro-and-rhetoric that for weeks had permeated the airwaves … Continue reading →

It never ceases to amaze me how easily we dismiss one another as whores and sluts. Sadly the disparaged are usually women. As for the stone casters, you’d be so wrong if you imagined the majority are men. Which is … Continue reading →

In November 2012 what would be described as the biggest drug bust of the year had resulted from the interception of a water vessel by police in the island’s north. The police had boarded the vessel Targora, berthed at Rodney … Continue reading →

How revealing, not to say ironic, that for several years now we have relied exclusively on the U.S. State Department for vital information concerning governance in our region, particularly in Saint Lucia. Year after year the media have naively quoted … Continue reading →

It can be described as the case of Ramesh Sinanan vs Monroe College. But what begins this morning at the High Court in Castries is no small matter—not by any measure. It involves the man responsible for establishing the island’s … Continue reading →

I’d just sat down to write a feature centered on what some on the Internet have declared “a huge concern”—young Saint Lucians taking their own lives—when the inimitable tones of Alvina Reynolds redirected my concentration. Mentally kicking myself for once … Continue reading →

Less than a year after resuming office, Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Kenny Anthony handed mini-bus drivers EC$2 million from the government’s empty coffers, by their own account.From all reports, too, the handsome bonus was to ward off any … Continue reading →