Sir John Compton’s assertion on Thursday’s TALK with Rick Wayne that his administration had secured the site of the Beausejour sports stadium for similar purpose has incensed Labour Party campaigners in the upcoming general elections.

Dead is 20-year-old Perry Jules of Active Hill, La Clery—a man feared by the community and its environs—who was at the top of the Royal St Lucia Police Force’s most wanted list.

Several years ago, when Allan Louisy was prime minister, the Labour administration took a lot of fire after leading members talked about decriminalizing marijuana. Irony of ironies, the issue again threatens to heat up the political atmosphere, thanks to the recently converted UWP leader Vaughan Lewis.

Sandals, after sacking over 100 workers in the past few weeks, says it does not “anticipate further outsourcing” of its services at any of the hotels on the island. The information came via a press release issued on Friday afternoon titled “Better days ahead at Sandals.”

Derek Walcott, Nobel Prize-winning poet and playwright, sits beneath a dim spotlight casting shadows upon his wrinkled face, his relaxed posture and thick Caribbean accent a testament to the homeland that both inspires his poetry and evokes his anger.

For the average voter in St Lucia not much separates the island’s two main political parties. In the main the parties merely act as proponents and opponents, with the party out of office, whether SLP or UWP, criticizing, for the most part, the governing party’s policies and general governance.