When I spoke with Allen Chastanet late yesterday he was just coming out of a meeting. He had been in one meeting or another all day discussing everything from tourism policy to day to day office runnings. It’s a life he knows that he has to become accustomed to as Minister for Tourism.

It appears that no one is prepared to say whether they will throw their hat in the ring come October when the St Lucia Labour Party will hold internal elections for a new executive and a new leader.

When it comes to West Indies cricket Darren Sammy’s kinda like the fat kid on the playground. And St Lucians who verbally adore the 23-year-old cricket all-rounder are spitting darts. Over the past couple of days they’ve telephoned every talk show calling for a boycott of  ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 matches. 

Few St Lucians had heard of him before then prime minister Kenny Anthony installed him at the attorney general’s office in place of Petrus Compton, who had been moved to foreign affairs. His public image had changed but little a year later when he was introduced as the Labour Party’s candidate in the by-election brought about by the resignation of Central Castries MP Sarah Flood-Beaubrun.

Mia Mottley is the Caribbean’s defense secretary. Over the past few months she’s been traversing the region to determine its security readiness prior to the hosting of next month’s ICC Cricket World Cup 2007.  She’s determined that the event is kept free of disgruntled people looking to use the Caribbean to make political statements and staunchly defends security steps taken by regional governments—the Caricom visa and upgrades in air and sea ports security measures included.

STAR Publisher and talk-show host Rick Wayne has never denied that he helped propel Kenny Anthony into office back in 1997. Wayne was front and center on political platforms, painting Kenny Anthony as the only viable choice for the electorate—reshaping the former teacher’s image into that of a movie star! My, how things have changed.