The Millennium Highway was still several months from completion when, on an especially promising Saturday morning, en-route to Castries from our Coubaril residence, I abruptly encountered a speed demon behind the wheel of a battered and muddy Suzuki.

St Lucia’s “pride and joy” West Indies Senior Cricketer Darren Sammy, returned home Friday afternoon following his triumphant tour in England. Sammy who is the first St Lucian male to play Test Cricket on the West Indies Senior team, touched down at Hewanorra Airport on Virgin Atlantic at approximately 1:30pm.

In three issues, the STAR had advertised its indisputably hottest story of the year with a simple white-on-black question: “Who Is Bruce Tucker?” It attracted not a single response. Meanwhile—according to reliable information—the man who best knew the answer to the newspaper’s query chose to remain tightlipped. Much later, too late, perhaps, he would say publicly that “the thing happened in 1997.

It will no doubt come as a surprise that even STAR personnel were taken off guard by Rick Wayne’s front-page story in the weekend’s STAR. Reporters at this paper know as much about the real identity of Bruce Duane Tucker as does the average reader: next to nothing! For now, anyway our publisher is hanging on to that particular secret and, we suspect, several others related to the Tucker story.

I first met Lisa J Weekes three years ago. Flanked by her manager/partner Christopher Hunte the then 18-year-old came to our offices to promote the start of her singing career. She oozed youthful optimism as she told me about her plans to put St Lucia on the map. I was not surprised when I learned later than Lisa was filming a video for her local hit Hold Me Close—which had also enjoyed some serious airplay in Trinidad and Tobago.

When it was announced by the UWP government that Jeff Fedee would be appointed Director of Information Services some jaws certainly dropped. As a regular contributor to the STAR Fedee had thrown some daggers at the former SLP administration which caused many to suggest that his appointment by the UWP was a reward for him writing articles in their favor.

It is unclear what prompted the surprise attack but there could be no denying the targets: Ausbert d’Auvergne and ailing Prime Minister John Compton. Pressing the buttons that dropped the cluster bombs on what some have described as “soft targets”—despite their ostensible powerhouse positions in the government—was none other than MP Rufus Bousquet, scarred but undeniably a survivor of previous encounters of the current kind.