A Wednesday to Remember
Wednesday was a busy day for me.
A Venezuelan navy supply ship left here Wednesday for St. Vincent and the Grenadines with supplies from Saint Lucia, Cuba and Venezuela.
It was another of those newsworthy events that wasn’t deemed worthy enough to attract local media interest, but it was welcome news elsewhere, including St. Vincent, Cuba and Venezuela.
Not that it was a quickie, as the Venezuelan ship spent all of five days in Port Castries.
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But while the media continued monitoring COVID-19 numbers in 2021 just the same old way like in 2020 and speculating on when the Prime Minister may call the next election, NEMO, SLASPA, the Cuban and Venezuelan Embassies in Castries and the Government of Saint Lucia worked to ensure water, special rubber masks and other essential emergency supplies were loaded onto the large vessel – including six Cuban doctors.
Ambassador of the Republic of France Presents Credentials to DG of the OECS
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AMBASSADOR of the Republic of France to the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), H.E. Jacques-Henry Heuls presented his Letters of Credence to Dr. Didacus Jules, Director General of the OECS, on Wednesday March 31, 2021.
Ambassador Heuls expressed his honour at being received at the OECS Commission’s Morne Fortune compound in Saint Lucia given the adjustments to protocols in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Commission, as an adaptable and innovative institution, further expanded its operations to encompass virtual and physical services as a blended approach to its work programme.
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UWI Open Campus Saint Lucia to Host Virtual Country Conference
February 9, 2021
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The UWI Open Campus Saint Lucia, in collaboration with the GEF Small Grants Programme UNDP, will host its 4th Country Conference from the 15th to 17th February 2021. The theme of this year’s Conference is “Visioning Sustainable Futures – Confronting the Threats of Climate Change and Climate Variability”, and it is expected to provide an avenue to share existing research and disseminate information on Saint Lucia. The conference will take place using a virtual Zoom platform, anchored at the Conference Room, Floor 5, Finance Centre, Pointe Seraphine, Castries, Saint Lucia.