Police Superintendent Peter Davis spent most of Monday combing the Grande Riviere home of Marcia Philbert-Jules, who had been discovered in a pool of blood that morning. Jules was taken to the hospital but succumbed to her injuries. The murder has shocked the small community of Piat. Sad and angry neighbors crowded the area Monday morning, each asking each other if they had heard anything unusual. It was also reported that Jules’ Honda Civic was stolen.

Almost one week following his controversial arrest on suspicion he defrauded the Customs and Excise department Richard Frederick continues to make waves. At least three business people have threatened him with legal action following statements he made while being interviewed by HotFM’s Sam ‘Juk Bois’ Flood.

After the highly publicized recent fracas involving government ministers and the police, two centered on mere traffic violations, you might’ve expected the most recent episode to feature at least a whiff of déjà vu. Au contraire.

For many St Lucians, what was most remarkable about our 83-year-old prime minister’s first budget address since taking office last December was that he had managed to stay on his feet for the full four hours of its delivery. Indeed, not a few still hold on to the view that the Herculean effort had contributed more to Sir John’s current state of health than had his widely reported contretemps with his Cabinet colleagues over St Lucia’s relationship with China.

Why was Rufus Bousquet fired from the Cabinet of Ministers? That is a question that the former foreign affairs minister says he has been asking himself. Bousquet, who took up the post as Minister for External Affairs in January, has said little about his dismissal. There has been much speculation over why exactly Bousquet was sacked. All that is known is that Sir John Compton, who has been ill for nearly a month, rose from his sick-bed to do just that.

Long before his election to public office last December, Keith Mondesir was making headlines, for the most part of an unsavory nature. There was the alleged Sunday morning battering of  Theresa Crafton at Rodney Bay on May 14, 2000—in respect of which Mondesir was convicted and fined $500 in a Gros Islet court on April 15, 2002.