CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC-Efforts to arrive at a settlement in the protracted wage talks between Government and the Trade Union Federation (TUF) received a further set back Wednesday when the general membership of the Civil Service Association (CSA) rejected the 4% increase with conditions proposed b...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – The St. Lucia Teachers Union (SLTU) has accepted a new offer by the government signalling a possible end to industrial action by public workers that has severely disrupted the operations of public services on the island. The SLTU Tuesday voted to accept the governmen...

WASHINGTON, CMC – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Tuesday said that St. Lucia has weathered the difficult post-crisis environment, becoming the largest economy in the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union (ECCU). The ECCU comprises Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia, St. Vince...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, , CMC – The Trade Union Federation (TUF) is keeping up the pressure on the Kenny Anthony government for a six per cent increase in salaries for public servants who on Monday began the third week of their dispute with both sides sticking to their positions. The TUF, which ...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) says it is moving ahead with plans to develop the yachting sector in the sub-region. A statement issued by the Str. Lucia-based OECS Secretariat Monday, said that a meeting was held late last month in the British Vi...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – Caribbean Community leaders were Wednesday paying tribute to Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez who died Tuesday after a prolonged battle with cancer. St. Lucia’s Prime Minister Dr. Kenny Anthony said that the significance of Chavez's death "looms very large...

NASSAU, Bahamas, CMC - The Ministry of Transport and Aviation says a Haitian “sloop” confiscated during a recent drug enforcement operation had sunk in the harbour of Inagua on Sunday, spilling more than 200 gallons of a mixture of oil and diesel fuel into the water. It said that incide...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – The St. Lucia Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture (CCIA) Monday called for an end to the industrial action by public servants who are demanding higher salaries from the Kenny Anthony administration. CCIA executive director Brian Louisy urged both the Gover...

ST. JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The Antigua-based regional airline, LIAT, Monday announced it had been forced to suspend flights to St. Lucia where public servants have taken industrial action to force the government to increase their salaries and wages. A brief statement from the cash-strap...

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – Prime Minister Dr. Kenny Anthony Monday appealed to public workers to accept his government’s four per cent wage increase and prevent the island from “any further hardship” as workers stayed away from their jobs for higher salaries. "Our country do...