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Export Saint Lucia helps local business secure new market
Some of Viking Traders’ products. (PRESS RELEASE) — Viking Traders Limited has been one of the beneficiaries from a recently conducted Export Saint Lucia mission to the neighboring French isle of...
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ECFH and BOSL announce new Board appointments
Mr. Myers (left) and Mrs. Denbow-Bullen (PRESS RELEASE) — The East Caribbean Financial Holding Company Limited (ECFH), parent company of Bank of Saint Lucia Limited (BOSL), is pleased to announce the...
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Baron Foods St. Lucia announces entry into Russia
Russia loading (PRESS RELEASE) — On the quest of maintaining its company vision in creating a world-renowned brand, inspired by the Caribbean, the team at Baron Foods (St. Lucia) Limited is extremely...
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Business profile: Meet the ‘Superior Broom Producers’ from La Pointe, Mon Repos
(SLHTA) — “Superior Broom Producers” was officially formed in June 2005. The local business consists of a small group of farmers, comprising men and women, with women as the leaders. The Superior...
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Instagram removes ability to see others’ likes, comments and follows
(THE VERGE) — Instagram’s Following tab, the activity feed that displays what posts your friends are liking, commenting on, and following, is going away this week. The company quietly removed the tab...
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A ‘new home’ awaits Castries vendors in November
Artist’s impression of the new Castries market. Inset photo is that of Castries Mayor Peterson Francis (PRESS RELEASE) — Castries provisions market vendors will have a fresh start at their new home in...
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Invest Saint Lucia rebrands, to place emphasis on marketing to local investors
(PRESS RELEASE) — Declaring that it has adopted “the royal standard” of investment promotion and facilitation, Invest Saint Lucia (ISL) has officially announced its rebranding as a national agency,...
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Martin Hanna to represent St Lucia at Entrepreneurship World Cup
(PRESS RELEASE) — Martin Hanna continues to make strides in the technological and entrepreneurial spheres as he has been selected to attend the Entrepreneurship World Cup in November 2019. The...
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Local business Creole Delight featured as Saint Lucia prepares to observe...
Etheline Lansiquot, owner of Creole Delight. She is also known as Ms. St. Rose (GIS) — The Ministry of Agriculture will, on Sunday, host a food fair in commemoration of World Food Day 2019. The fair,...
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NWU to elect new management
(PRESS RELEASE) — The National Workers Union (NWU) is stepping up its preparations pace for the organization to hold its 2019 Annual Congress of Delegates on Sunday, November 3, 2019, from 9 a.m. One...
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Singapore overtakes US as world’s most competitive economy
Singapore pushed the world’s largest economy down to second place this year (CNN) — Singapore has knocked the United States out of the top spot in the World Economic Forum’s annual competitiveness...
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NCPC to launch Productivity Awareness Week
(GIS) — The National Competitiveness and Productivity Council (NCPC) will launch the 2019 Productivity Awareness Week next Monday. The theme for the observance is “Embracing Competitiveness through...
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Caribbean region enters ‘new phase of weak economic performance’: World Bank
World Bank Headquarters WASHINGTON, October 10, 2019 —The Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region has entered a new phase of weak economic performance, but increased integration in international...
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Church pays off US$7.8 million in medical bills for 6,000 families
(WFAA) — A Carmel church is making good on their promise to pay off people’s medical debt. Northview Church said they were actually able to help more people than they originally thought. They...
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BREAKING NEWS: ‘Visa Application Centre for Canada’ opens in Saint Lucia
Prime Minister Allen Chastanet on Thursday evening announced that “a new Visa Application Centre for Canada has opened in Saint Lucia”. Chastanet made the announcement via his official Facebook page...
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Visa Application Centre opened in Saint Lucia by Canadian gov’t is “permanent”
Anton Edmunds is Saint Lucia’s high commissioner to Canada and ambassador to the United States (PRESS RELEASE) — The government of Saint Lucia welcomes the news that the government of Canada has...
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ECCU’s digital currency project gains interest outside region: governor
The ECCU is to launch its digital currency project (GIS) — The Digital Currency Pilot Project within the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU) is inching closer to becoming a reality — and it also...
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NWU heads to Martinique
(PRESS RELEASE) — Two shop stewards employed with branches of the National Workers Union (NWU) will leave the island on Sunday, October 13, 2019 for Martinique. Phil Neptune from the Saint Lucia Air...
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Mastercard, Visa, eBay abandon Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (BBC) — Mastercard, Visa, eBay and payments firm Stripe have pulled out of Facebook’s embattled cryptocurrency project, Libra. Their move,...
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ECFH ‘minority shareholders’ to get update on company
Bank of Saint Lucia is the sole subsidiary of ECFH. (PRESS RELEASE) — In keeping with its commitment to engage its valued shareholders, the East Caribbean Financial Holding Company Limited (ECFH),...
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