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CBI CROSSROADS: CASH OR COMMITMENT? CARIBBEAN NATIONS MUST CHOOSE BETWEEN CITIZENSHIP BUYERS AND SUPERPOWER PRESSURE
Times Caribbean
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July 7, 2025
By Times Caribbean Global News Desk July 7, 2025 Caribbean Citizenship by Investment (CBI) programmes are teetering on a knife’s edge, as pressure mounts from both international superpowers and the global investment migration industry. At the...
Saint Lucia Celebrates Top Travel Partners at Piton Awards
St. Lucia Times
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June 20, 2025
The Saint Lucia Tourism Authority honoured the country’s top-performing travel advisors and tour operators at the 5th annual Global Piton Awards, held at the Sandals Grande Resorts Ballroom on Tuesday. This elite incentive programme recognised...
PrimeXBT Rolls Out Major Platform Upgrades and Enhanced Trading Conditions
Finbold
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July 7, 2025
Castries, Saint Lucia, July 7th, 2025, FinanceWire PrimeXBT, a leading multi-asset broker, has introduced a series of updates across its platforms and trading conditions, aimed at delivering greater control, stronger risk management, and enhanced...
Still human: Saint Lucian creatives confront the rise of AI
St. Lucia Times
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June 22, 2025
In his office, graphic designer and videographer Jed Charles tweaks a client’s logo, a task that once took hours. Today, AI shortcuts part of the process, but Charles isn’t losing sleep over it, at least not yet. “They run into problems,” Charles...
The U.S. Is About To Slap The World's Most Positive Country With A Travel Ban
The Travel
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July 7, 2025
The "New American Travel Anxiety" is real, and it's not limited to foreigners planning to visit the U.S. amid the Trump administration's controversial border policies. Experts also revealed that Trump's tariffs are impacting almost half of...
St. Lucia’s Ministry Of Health Advances 24-Hour Service Plans For Gros Islet Polyclinic
The St Kitts Nevis Observer
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June 18, 2025
- Advertisement - St. Lucia – The Ministry of Health, Wellness, and Elderly Affairs is actively progressing with plans to provide 24-hour healthcare services at the Gros Islet Polyclinic. The ongoing infrastructure upgrade at the facility...
SAINT LUCIA GOVERNMENT SIGNS 6-YEAR COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT WITH PUBLIC SECTOR UNIONS
HTS St Lucia
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A major milestone in industrial relations: the government of Saint Lucia has officially signed a six-year collective agreement with several major trade unions, signaling long-term stability for thousands of public sector workers.
From St. Lucia to New Orleans: Nina Compton shares her chef's journey through recipes
KCRW - California
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June 20, 2025
An individual's culinary point of view can be focused or expansive depending on where their footsteps have taken them and how food weaves through their journey. Nina Compton's culinary curiosity led her to places outside her home island of St....
Trump, Musk and The Nigerian Gladiators
This Day
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July 8, 2025
REUBEN ABATI “Bros, looks like one accidented trailer has just passed between Trump and Elon Musk oh, and it gets messier by the day.” “What do you expect? It is just simple common sense. Elon Musk invested over $290 million to bring Trump to...
A Sweet Slice of Progress: Seedless Watermelon Cultivation Takes Root in Saint Lucia
The Voice
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June 19, 2025
In a refreshing step forward for local agriculture, Saint Lucian farmers are diving into the world of seedless watermelon cultivation, thanks to a dynamic initiative under the Seven Crops Project. The recently held Seedless Watermelon Field Day at...
St Lucia to cut food prices by 12.5% with VAT removal
St. Vincent Times
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June 14, 2025
Unprecedented Cost-Cutting Policies to Lower Prices of Everyday Food Items for Saint Lucian Consumers In July, Saint Lucia’s legislators will meet in Parliament to debate an exciting policy proposal to remove Value Added Tax (VAT) on up to seventy...
HELEN’S DAUGHTERS LAUNCHES UNCONFERENCE ON AGRICULTURE
HTS St Lucia
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The women-led non-profit organization Helen’s daughters launched the Unconference on Agriculture – a farm to roundtable event. Her Excellency Amy Quantrill, the Resident British High Commissioner to Saint Lucia, hosted the event at her residence.
Saint Lucia Opposition Flags Decline in Tourism
St. Lucia Times
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June 13, 2025
The opposition United Workers Party (UWP) has challenged the government’s narrative of sustained growth in the sector, citing figures that suggest a downward trend in visitor arrivals and warning of what they describe as an “airlift crisis.” “A...
Saint Lucia’s Preeminent Visual Artist Knighted
St. Lucia Times
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June 12, 2025
Renowned Saint Lucian artist Llewellyn Xavier was knighted during an Investiture Ceremony at Windsor Castle in England on Wednesday. He received the prestigious title of Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) in...
Why my empowerment is based on life-changing packages — Ekiti lawmaker
Tribune Online
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July 8, 2025
The member representing Oye constituency II in Ekiti State House of Assembly, Hon. Idowu Odebunmi, has distributed life-changing empowerment packages to farmers, traders and students to combat poverty, unemployment, school dropout, among others to...
Gang volence should be treated as terrorism, says PM Holness
Caribbean National Weekly
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July 8, 2025
Addressing the opening ceremony of the 49th Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM on Sunday (July 6) at the Montego Bay Convention Centre, Prime Minister Dr. the Most Hon. Andrew Holness called for CARICOM nations to take a...
CARICOM Summit | Gonsalves lauds Jamaica’s tech-driven crime response
The Gleaner
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July 7, 2025
St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister, Dr Ralph Gonsalves, has praised Jamaica for its advances in using technology to combat crime. “You’re doing some splendid work using modern technology to solve crime and bring perpetrators to justice,”...
GLOBAL TO LOCAL: Between Global Oil And Local Pain: Rethinking Saint Lucia’s Fuel Pricing Policy
St. Lucia Times
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June 15, 2025
by Tommy Descartes Despite the steady decline in international oil prices over the last two years, Saint Lucians have continued to pay one of the highest pump prices for fuel in the Eastern Caribbean. This isn’t just a question of fiscal policy,...
Saint Lucia Develops First-Ever National Statistics Strategy to Drive Data-Driven Development
HTS St Lucia
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Saint Lucia is taking a significant step toward modernizing the way it collects, manages, and utilizes national data. For the first time, the island is developing a National Strategy for the Development of Statistics (NSDS), a comprehensive,...
Antigua and Barbuda raises concerns regarding OECS treatment
Loop News
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Jul 7, CMC – Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne has raised concerns that member states of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) are being “treated with benign neglect” within the wide Caribbean Community (CARICOM)...