Castries market vendors receive their $500 cheques for relocation
Castries Mayor Peterson Francis encouraged the vendors to put the money to good use (PRESS RELEASE) — Castries city provisions market vendors are all smiles following delivery of promised relocation...
View ArticleFond Doux Plantation earns TripAdisor and Hotels.com awards!
(PRESS RELEASE) – Fond Doux Plantation & Resort today announced that it has received a TripAdvisor® Certificate of Excellence Hall of Fame. Now in its ninth year, the achievement celebrates...
View ArticleWhatsApp ads coming in 2020: Here’s how they will look
(GULFNEWS.COM) — One of the things that attract people to WhatsApp is that they can chat with friends and family for as long as they want without any interruption. Unlike in YouTube, Facebook and...
View ArticleSaint Lucia cylinder prices increased
(PRESS RELEASE) — The public is hereby notified that in keeping with changes in international oil prices and government’s application of the modified market pass-through petroleum pricing mechanism,...
View ArticleInaugural investment symposium applauded by attendees
(PRESS RELEASE) — The 2019 Investment Symposium hosted by the St. Lucia Chamber of Commerce in collaboration with Invest Saint Lucia and the St. Lucia Development Bank titled “Alternative and...
View ArticleSaint Lucian cricketer Keddy Lesporis launches merch line
Keddy Lesporis (PRESS RELEASE) — Keddy Lesporis hails from the fishing village of Laborie. As a cricketer he has served nationally, also playing for the Windward Islands Volcanoes and the Sagicor High...
View ArticleUPDATED: Mara is Employee of the Year as LUCELEC recognizes 50 employees
2018 Employee of the Year, Mara Ferdinand-Jankie (PRESS RELEASE) – It was a day of celebration for all employees, especially the fifty-four (54) recognized by the St. Lucia Electricity Services Limited...
View ArticleCastries mayor says vendors must accept change to improve their business
A video-still image of a vendor refusing to move as an officer (right) looks on. This incident occurred on Wednesday, May 29 in Castries. (PRESS RELEASE) — The Office of the Mayor and Castries...
View ArticleNew Saint Lucian business provides mobile payment solution — Squeeze Cash
(PRESS RELEASE) — Saint Lucians will be able to use their mobile phones and tablets to send and receive money and make and receive payments as of Saturday, June 1 2019. This comes as Squeeze Cash...
View ArticleFour Bay Gardens women leaders selected for Caribbean tourism forum
Four women from St. Lucia’s award-winning Bay Gardens Resorts will join an elite group of 21 up-and-coming hospitality professionals in the first Young Leaders’ Forum at the Caribbean Hospitality...
View ArticleI.A.M. Jet Centre to ‘raise service profile’ of Hewanorra International...
(PRESS RELEASE) — The St. Lucia Air and Seaports Authority (SLASPA) is pleased to announce the signing of an agreement to set up a Fixed Base Operation (FBO) at the Hewanorra International Airport...
View ArticleSaint Lucian to receive ‘distinguished service’ award from international...
Theo Morille-Hinds United States-based Saint Lucian, Theo Morille-Hinds, has achieved Food Safety Magazine’s Distinguished Service Award. Morille-Hinds, an employee of The Kellogg Company, will receive...
View ArticleSaint Lucian entrepreneur Martin Hanna wins regional startup competition
Martin Hanna during his presentation (PRESS RELEASE) — Martin Hanna and “Penny Pinch” are the winners of the 2019 TEN Habitat Caribbean Startup Summit’s pitch competition. The flagship event, held in...
View ArticleMinister Stephenson King pledges government support for local bakers
Officials and Caribbean Grains team (PRESS RELEASE) — Minister in the Ministry for Infrastructure, Ports, Energy and Labour, Stephenson King, paid a visit to the Caribbean Grains Flour Mill on Friday,...
View ArticleSaint Lucia nurses and government sign new collective agreement
Building housing government offices. (PRESS RELEASE) — The Government Negotiating Team (GNT) and Saint Lucia Nurses Association (SLNA) have ended a lengthy period of negotiations with the signing of a...
View ArticleSaint Lucian nominated in top 50 EMpower Ethnic Minority Future Leaders list
Jonathan Charlery The 2019 Yahoo Finance-supported EMpower Ethnic Minority Future Leaders list is out and a Saint Lucian is one of the 50 nominees. He is Jonathan “JC” Charlery, a senior software...
View ArticleSaint Lucian farm workers hit by new security restrictions in Canada
(CBS NEWS) — An Ottawa farmer who’s waited six weeks for seasonal labourers to come help plant his crops says new restrictions on foreign workers is threatening to ruin his business. For the past 25...
View ArticleDigicel invites St. Lucia’s mobile users to switch and love the experience
Siobhan James-Alexander (PRESS RELEASE) — With June 3 marking the effective date that mobile users across five countries in the eastern Caribbean can switch networks without losing their numbers,...
View ArticleSaint Lucian wins TEECA Caribbean Entrepreneurship Challenge
Winner of the TEECA Caribbean Entrepreneurship Challenge Sophie Klein. The final of the TEECA Caribbean Entrepreneurship Challenge was held on June 6 at the Domaine de la Pagerie in Martinique....
View ArticleSandals Resorts hailed as good corporate citizens by Jamaica’s minister of...
(PRESS RELEASE) – Minister of Tourism Hon. Edmund Bartlett has hailed Sandals Resorts as a prime example of indigenous companies in the tourism sector that are taking their Corporate Social...
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