Leadership, Power Struggle Problems within Government

St. Lucians, last week, watched with interest the internal politics played out within the Cabinet of Ministers, as a group of eight ministers, dubbed the “super eight” by the media, appears to have outmanoeuvred Prime Minister Sir John Compton in a diplomatic tussle that ended with China suspending diplomatic relations with St. Lucia and Taiwan re-establishing diplomatic ties with St. Lucia.

ONE speaks on Taiwan/China affair

The Organization for National Empowerment (ONE) wishes to express its dismay at the current situation in which the country finds itself because of the mishandling of the China/Taiwan diplomatic blunder by the current UWP Administration. The party is of the opinion that the severing of ties by the current Administration with the People’s Republic of China is the biggest diplomatic and political blunder by the government and if not reversed will have serious implications for the political and international relations viability of the government and the country as a whole.

08/05/07

Invest in the future, Plant a tree

This belly ache has nothing to do with politics but the pain is nonetheless severe. However, there are many important issues present on our island which should be of concern to us but which we simply ignore. (By the way, here’s a quick quiz question: How does one know that CWC is over?

Warm and Friendly Relations

As St. Lucia joins hands yet again with the Republic of China (Taiwan), not in any rudimentary fashion, but rather in a deep heartfelt manner rooted way back in the mid 1980’s, one can’t help but recognize that St. Lucia, once considered to be self-sufficient in a number of agricultural products, can no longer lay claim to that fact.