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St. Lucians Appointed to FIFA Standing Committees
Sponsored Ms. Examin Philbert The St. Lucia football community is proving once again that St. Lucia has the capacity to move up the ranks in the regional football environment. The Saint Lucia Football Association Inc. (SLFA) has announced that...

Caribbean Development Bank and youth agency support mushroom agri-business for young men in St Lucia
Dominica News Online - Wednesday, October 15th, 2025 at 9:23 AM The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), in collaboration with Saint Lucia’s Youth Economy Agency (YEA) and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security, and Rural Development,...
Kuwait Fund seals $12.8mln road deals for Belize, Saint Lucia
WASHINGTON - The Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) signed two loan agreements with Belize and Saint Lucia on the sidelines of the World Bank Group meetings taking place this week in Washington, with Kuwait’s participation. In a...

Kuwait Fund seals KWD8 million road deals for Belize, Saint Lucia
Acting Director General of the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development, Waleed Al-Bahar, signs a loan agreement with Saint Lucia. WASHINGTON, Oct 14: The Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) signed two loan agreements with Belize...

Saint Lucia’s Ministry Of Equity To Host Mini-Consultations On Draft Policy For Persons With Disabilities
- Advertisement - Saint Lucia – Beginning October 13, 2025, the Ministry of Equity, Social Justice and Empowerment will launch a series of national mini consultations aimed at engaging persons with disabilities, their families, representative...

Saint Lucia psychic retreat review: How travelling 4000+ miles opened up my third eye (and heart)
Saint Lucia isn’t just another dreamy Caribbean island shrouded in white-sand beaches, wild jungle trails and those iconic Pitons you’ve seen all over your Instagram (side note: they are worth seeing, but more on that below). It’s also a place to...

St. Martin wins ‘Best Event Destination in the Caribbean’ award in St. Lucia
Communication officers Malaïka Hunt (left) and Roxane Fleury (right) accept the award on behalf of Saint Martin Tourism Office. MARIGOT--Saint Martin has won the “Best Event Destination in the Caribbean” award at the 2025 World Travel Awards...

Region prepares for COP30 at meeting in St Lucia
CARICOM Secretary General, Dr. Carla Barnett News October 14, 2025 Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders met in St Lucia from October 7–10, 2025, for the Second Regional Preparatory Meeting for the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30) to the...

Experts: The key ‘unknowns’ of overshooting the 1.5°C global-warming limit
This hypothesised scenario would see global temperatures initially “overshoot” the Paris Agreement’s aspirational limit of 1.5°C, before they are brought back down through techniques that would remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.On the...

Adoptive Saint Lucian Michael Barratt giving back through sports
More than three decades ago, Michael Barratt made Saint Lucia his home, marrying a Laborie woman with whom he has a beautiful little girl. His older son’s mother is also of Saint Lucian heritage, deepening his ties to the island. But the engineer,...

Agreements Promoting Community-Based Tourism Signed
- Advertisement - Saint Lucia – The ongoing Community Business Revitalization Project (CBRP) marked a significant milestone on Wednesday, October 8, 2025, with two simple yet profoundly important signing ceremonies in its partner communities: Fond...

Financing Secured For Castries-Gros Islet Highway Expansion
- Advertisement - Saint Lucia – Two loan agreements have been signed in Washington, D.C. between the Government of Saint Lucia, through the Ministry of Finance, and two major international development partners — the OPEC Fund for International...

Agri-Innovation Competition Held In Observance Of World Food Day
- Advertisement - Saint Lucia – With an aim to improve student-interest in agricultural science, the Ministry of Agriculture in partnership with the Inter-American Institute for Co-operation on Agriculture (IICA), has introduced an agri-innovation...

GHTA celebrates members’ success at 32nd Annual World Travel Awards
The Grenada Hotel and Tourism Association (GHTA) extends congratulations to its members recognised at the 32nd Annual World Travel Awards, held on 4 October 2025, at the Sandals Grande Saint Lucian in St Lucia. The World Travel Awards honour...

WEATHER: Scorching heat and stifling humidity set to grip SA TODAY
Struggling to decide what to wear? Here’s what today’s weather has in store for South Africa’s nine provinces. Your daily weather, UVB forecast and temperature updates around South Africa. Weather conditions and UVB forecast Gauteng Temperature:...

St Lucia PM chairs first CARICOM climate finance meeting
Prime Minister Pierre Chairs First CARICOM Climate Change and Finance Meeting As Chair of the CARICOM Prime Ministerial Sub-Committee on Climate Change and Climate Finance, Prime Minister Hon. Philip J. Pierre today convened regional Heads of...
SAINT LUCIA JOINS GLOBAL OBSERVANCE OF INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE GIRL
October 11, is recognized as International Day of the Girl under the theme, “The girl I am, the change I lead: Girls on the frontlines of crisis” which focuses attention on the need to address the challenges girls face, promote girls’ empowerment...

Saint Lucia Observes World Mental Health Day
Dr. Naomie Jn Baptiste – Director, Mental Health Services St. Lucia and the rest of the world commemorated World Mental Health Day {October 10} with the aim of raising awareness about mental health priorities. The day also calls for greater...

Rising temperatures see Saint Lucians trying to beat the heat
“Wah, it really hot, I never feel it so!” a woman exclaimed on the Castries Boulevard as she struggled to open her umbrella against the midday sun. Moments later, when approached for comment, she added with a sigh, “My boy, these days, awa awa...

Saint Lucia joins push to strengthen disease surveillance in cruise tourism
A senior health delegation from Saint Lucia recently participated in a high-level regional meeting aimed at bolstering early disease detection and public health surveillance across the Caribbean’s cruise tourism sector. Held in St Maarten last...