The
opposition St. Lucia Labour Party yesterday applied pressure
on Government and the Tourism Ministry in particular to reveal
how much subsidy is being paid to American Airlines for that
company’s three flights per week to St. Lucia by revealing
its own figures. Phillip J Pierre, former Tourism
Minister under the previous administration,
Police
are currently stepping up their investigations into the daring
daylight robbery of six visitors and the assault on two tour
guides in the vicinity of Morne Coubaril and the Sulphur Springs
in Soufriere. One man is said to have been apprehended
and assisting Police. According to reports, the two unknown
assailants who were masked,
Two
critical issues affecting the residents of Praslin and New
Extension, two communities of the east coast village of Micoud,
is expected to be dealt with sometime during the course of
this year. These two issues deal with the ownership
of about twenty-five acres of land at Praslin, and the Vantin
lands at Troumassee that the late Sir John Compton had already
started work on.
A
communiqué allegedly released by the leader of the
Opposition SLP last Thursday, Dr. Kenny Anthony,
says that, a statement by the Minister for Economic Affairs
which suggested that the poor will benefit from the recently
announced increases in fuel, was “reckless, callous
and betrays astonishing insensitivity to consumers. The increases
are oppressive and unfair.”
The
opposition St. Lucia Labour Party yesterday took the Government
to task for its inability to govern the country and in contradicting
its election promises to the people. Opposition parliamentarians
Phillip J Pierre and Alva Baptiste yesterday told reporters
that since its election last December the “UWP Government
has embarked on a course that blatantly contradicts,
The
opposition St. Lucia Labour Party yesterday applied pressure
on Government and the Tourism Ministry in particular to reveal
how much subsidy is being paid to American Airlines for that
company’s three flights per week to St. Lucia by revealing
its own figures. Phillip J Pierre, former Tourism
Minister under the previous administration, 
Police
are currently stepping up their investigations into the daring
daylight robbery of six visitors and the assault on two tour
guides in the vicinity of Morne Coubaril and the Sulphur Springs
in Soufriere. One man is said to have been apprehended
and assisting Police. According to reports, the two unknown
assailants who were masked, 
Two
critical issues affecting the residents of Praslin and New
Extension, two communities of the east coast village of Micoud,
is expected to be dealt with sometime during the course of
this year. These two issues deal with the ownership
of about twenty-five acres of land at Praslin, and the Vantin
lands at Troumassee that the late Sir John Compton had already
started work on. 
A
communiqué allegedly released by the leader of the
Opposition SLP last Thursday, Dr. Kenny Anthony,
says that, a statement by the Minister for Economic Affairs
which suggested that the poor will benefit from the recently
announced increases in fuel, was “reckless, callous
and betrays astonishing insensitivity to consumers. The increases
are oppressive and unfair.” 
