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Did Frederick investigation begin under LaCorbiniere?
Tuesday, May 29, 2007 (2795 reads)
 When St Lucia’s prime minister said during a televised interview that it was easier to reach him in New York than it is when he is at his Mahoe estate he blamed the inconvenience on local cell phone problems. The more important point is that he was right.
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The $26,000 controversy Keith Mondesir coughs up!
Friday, May 25, 2007 (3540 reads)
 St Lucia’s Security Minister—in private life “an eye doctor,”—has finally done the right thing: settled a suit brought by Kelvin Daly, a St Kitts & Nevis property owner, that had been pending since 2006.
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Papa comes home!
Wednesday, May 23, 2007 (3824 reads)
 Prime Minister Sir John Compton returned to St Lucia Saturday evening courtesy of Butch Stewart, Sandals International Chairman—aboard one of his private jets.
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Sir John: Will he or won’t he come home today?
Monday, May 21, 2007 (2601 reads)
 The guessing game continues: Is Sir John really as sick as so many have suggested or is he just taking a much deserved break from the Herculean activities of the last several months? After all, Sir John is well on his way to 90 and certainly the last general elections must’ve taken its toll.
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Sir John unlikely to continue as PM!
Friday, May 18, 2007 (3044 reads)
 At 2:30pm yesterday unusually anxious members of the press waited in the GIS lobby for the start of a special press conference scheduled to kick off at 3. All eyes were on the lookout for the arrival of Lenard Montoute, the minister for social transformation, youth and sports and the only member of the government to have spoken with Sir John Compton since he left on Labor Day for his annual check-up in New York.
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Montoute visits Sir John in New York Hospital!
Wednesday, May 16, 2007 (3072 reads)
 It was only last Thursday, following an announcement by Timothy Poleon during his lunch-hour program NewsSpin that St Lucia’s prime minister had suffered a stroke while in New York for medical checks, that acting prime minister Stephenson King told the nation Sir John was expected back two days later.
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How ill is Sir John?
Monday, May 14, 2007 (3385 reads)
 Did St Lucia’s prime minister suffer a mild stroke during his failed attempt to persuade his Cabinet colleagues to reverse themselves on their China-Taiwan decision? That is the question on the lips of St Lucians on both sides of the political divide.
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Who leaked PM’s address to the STAR? Rick Wayne reveals source!
Friday, May 11, 2007 (3850 reads)
 Just when I was beginning to believe my experiences at the hands of primordial politicians and their even more desperate hacks should be relegated to the history books, that our country had moved on since the political debacles of the 80s and mid-90s, that we had finally learned what journalism is all about, well, sadly, I’ve been given reason to think again. The more things change . . .
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Unity at last? Country before Party!
Monday, May 07, 2007 (3119 reads)
 Who could’ve imagined it? After all, just a few months ago they were at each other’s jugulars, hurling verbal brickbats this way and that—in the process further dividing our hardly unified nation. But now it seems all of that has changed; water under the bridge.
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The Taiwan decision. Will it break the Compton government?
Friday, May 04, 2007 (3086 reads)
 The question posed by Rick Wayne on the cover of last Saturday’s STAR—“Will it be China on Monday?”––has been answered albeit controversially. At about 11am Monday the editorial department at the STAR received a telephone call from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to attend a press conference at their Conway Business Center office. No details were provided, despite our questions.
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