- 6 days ago
Today Monday August 8, 2022 the Ministry of Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs reports a total of 72 new cases of COVID-19 from samples processed from Friday August 5, 2022 to Sunday August 7, 2022. This is from a total of 313 samples, of which 28...
- 1 week ago
Police have identified the deceased in the fatal shooting at Jacmel as 34-year-old Gavaska Shangoo of Odsan. According to a police statement, about 12:30 am on Monday, August 8, 2022, officers attached to the Anse La Raye Station responded to a repo...
- 1 week ago
Police Commissioner Milton Desir has acknowledged the need for outside help amid Saint Lucia’s current violent crime wave. The country has recorded 41 homicides this year, including three fatal police shootings. “At that point I think we need some h...
- 1 week ago
Emergency responders from the Babonneau and Gros Islet fire stations rushed three people to the OKEU Hospital Sunday night after three vehicles collided at Marisule near Sunset Motors after 8:00 pm. According to the Saint Lucia Fire Service (SLFS),...
- 1 week ago
The public is advised that Millennium Heights Medical Complex (Owen King EU Hospital, National Mental Wellness Centre and Turning Point) is currently experiencing disturbance in making and receiving external calls. Internally, the staff and phone op...
- 1 week ago
Police say they have arrested Shern Curt Emmanuel of La Perle, Saltibus, and charged him for intentionally causing the death of Mary Julietta Charles of the same community on November 2, 2021. According to a statement on the Royal Saint Lucia Police...
- 1 week ago
Police have opened a homicide investigation after the discovery of a man’s body on the road at Jacmel. According to reports, the body had apparent gunshot wounds. Sources told St Lucia Times that someone discovered the deceased after midnight...
- 1 week ago
Food prices dropped significantly in July, marking the fourth consecutive monthly decline since hitting record highs earlier in the year in the wake of the war in Ukraine, the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) reported on Friday. The UN agenc...
- 1 week ago
The Public Relations Officer of the National Association of Driving Schools has defended driving schools and blamed indiscipline for a surge in road accidents. Kingson Jean observed that NADS has recently noted a steady increase in road collisions d...
- 1 week ago
The Ministry of Agriculture is working ‘assiduously’ to enforce guidelines and standards for beekeepers, Chief Veterinary Officer Dr. Sharmaine Melville-Edwin has announced. Last month, a swarm of bees attacked a 55-year-old Grace, Vieux Fort woman...
- 1 week ago
Police are investigating a drive-by shooting at Gros Islet on Saturday afternoon, resulting in a 23-year-old man sustaining a gunshot wound to the leg. Law enforcement officials said the shooting occurred around 5:00 pm on Dauphin Street. Reports in...
- 1 week ago
As monkeypox cases continue to rise in several countries of the Americas, Member States of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) held a Special Session of the Directing Council on Friday to consider a Resolution to address the outbreak, includ...
- 1 week ago
Opposition leader Allen Chastanet says the unexpected passing of former international tax and trade expert Ben Arrindell leaves him saddened and reflective. Arrindell, who served as an adviser to the Barbados Government for over three decades, passe...
- 1 week ago
Prime Minister Philip J. Pierre has congratulated the St. Kitts Nevis Labour Party (SNKLP) on its election to office, declaring that the people’s will brought about the administration change. The SKNLP won six of the eleven contested seats on...
- 1 week ago
Saint Lucia’s track dreams at this year’s Commonwealth Games remain alive as the Men’s 4x100m Relay Team qualified on Saturday at the Alexander Stadium in Birmingham, United Kingdom. The quartet of Delan Edward, Lenyn Leonce, Michael Joseph and Step...
