This year’s carnival, Too little too late?

Well, there’s no more team to rally ‘round, and the jazz line-up is all but settled. So, what’s happening with carnival? It’s no secret that the Minister for Tourism wants carnival to be a rousing success, meaning, that the event must be bigger, better organized, financially viable and more creative than before. How is this to be done?

The Falling Highway

Over the last few months I have had to ask questions about the way we give contracts to people who are supposed to be experts at building roads or otherwise. Questions I would like to ask are simple and short. What are their credentials? What is their past history? Where do they come from? Have we checked their work background from other countries in which they have worked? Above all how competent are they?

Open Letter to:

Admiral James Stavridis, Commander,
United States Department of Defence
Southern Command

Debate over China

THE EDITOR:
As the Debate over China/Taiwan continues to occupy the minds of so many St. Lucians, not tuned to Foreign Affairs, I wish to comment, on the hypocrisy, surrounding this issue. We have just come out of an election campaign, which polarized this small nation of ours, and now, instead of focusing on uniting our country, we are once again fighting each other over an issue totally foreign to our people.

Virtues training needed for Mini-bus drivers

Despite the many complaints leveled at mini-bus drivers, passengers continue to receive many insults from mini-bus drivers.
One Wednesday morning at 9:15 a.m. I boarded a bus (Route 1A), from Rodney Heights to Gros-Islet proper. On arrival at my destination, the driver stopped in the middle of the road at the corner of Dauphin Street and Bridge Street, making way for another mini-bus to turn. I did not realize that he had stopped for passengers to disembark. He then uttered “You reach Gros-Islet already!”