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Saint Lucia’s Employers Join National Fight for Healthier Workplaces
The St Kitts Nevis Observer
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July 11, 2025
- Advertisement - Saint Lucia – The Saint Lucia Employers’ Federation (SLEF) is lending its voice to the national campaign for healthier lifestyles by calling on businesses across the island to make workplace wellness a strategic priority. At a...
Saint Lucia Launches National Event-Based Surveillance System for Public Health
The Voice
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July 10, 2025
Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Sharon Belmar-George Saint Lucia has taken a bold step toward enhancing its national health security with the official launch of a National Event-Based Surveillance (EBS) System, designed to ensure early detection and...
Saint Lucia’s Ministry Of Equity Deepens Ties With Martinique-Based Donor Organizations
The St Kitts Nevis Observer
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July 11, 2025
- Advertisement - Saint Lucia – In an effort to continue strengthening regional partnerships in support of Saint Lucia’s social protection systems and disaster resilience efforts, officials of the Ministry of Equity, Social Justice and Empowerment...
Saint Lucia Medical And Dental Association Partners With The Blood Bank
The St Kitts Nevis Observer
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July 9, 2025
- Advertisement - Saint Lucia – The Saint Lucia Medical and Dental Association recently took the opportunity to partner with the Blood Bank to undertake a blood drive activity. This activity was aimed at ensuring the doctors also play their part...
Regional Operators Reaffirm Caribbean Water Always Safe In Their Hands
The Voice
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July 16, 2025
Water operators from across the Caribbean gathered in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (PHOTO Courtesy CAWASA) The Caribbean Water and Sewage Association (CAWASA) hosted its 8th Caribbean Water Operators Conference in Saint Vincent & The...
Innovative Insurance Scheme to Benefit Local Farmers
The Voice
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July 16, 2025
Agriculture Minister Alfred Prospere Saint Lucian farmers will benefit from an innovative insurance program initially designed to support banana and plantain producers, with plans to extend coverage to the entire agricultural industry in the...
FOREIGN DOCTOR CHARGED FOR PRACTICING MEDICINE WITHOUT LICENSE IN SAINT LUCIA.
HTS St Lucia
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A shocking breach of medical protocol has landed a foreign national in legal trouble, after authorities discovered that he had been practicing medicine in Saint Lucia without a valid license. This triggered swift action by the office of the chief...
Medical Support Equips Communities Experiencing U.S. Floods, Earthquakes in Guatemala, and More
Direct Relief
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July 11, 2025
By Staff Over the past week, Direct Relief has delivered 328 shipments of requested medical aid to 42 U.S. states and territories and 17 countries worldwide. The shipments contained 12.3 million defined daily doses of medication. Medications and...
OPINION: Brand New Jet For Flying To St Lucia: How Nigeria Became The 12 Poorest Nation On Earth
The Will
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July 9, 2025
July 09, (THEWILL) — A few months ago, I came across a video on Facebook that deeply troubled me. In the video, a young boy attempted to snatch a phone from a passenger on a moving bus. The passenger caught his arm, and as the bus slowed, the boy...
Nigerian Connection Set to Establish Strong Links with Saint Lucia and OECS
The Voice
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July 9, 2025
. Following the landmark visit of President Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu of Nigeria to Saint Lucia, the government is actively implementing several strategic initiatives to strengthen ties with the country and the wider sub-region. In a media...
A Hub For Artists: Capital Hill Boys Club Art Gallery
East of The River - Washington D.C.
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July 16, 2025
In the two interviews I conduct with the founders of the Capital Hill Boys Club (CHBC) Art Gallery (1603 Good Hope Rd SE), I meet a lot of people. Folks stream in, making a beeline for founders Dietrich Williams and Mark Garrett. One woman asks if...
President Tinubu’s historic visit to Saint Lucia: Renewing and expanding the Nigeria-Caribbean partnership
Business Day
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July 8, 2025
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s official state visit to Saint Lucia this past week was a watershed moment in the relationship between Nigeria and the Caribbean. The only previous official visit to the Caribbean was that of President Goodluck...
St. Lucia: Pregnant woman killed during shooting
Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation
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July 6, 2025
CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – Police say they have launched an investigation into the shooting deaths of two people and two others who have been hospitalised following a shooting at Wilton’s Yard in the heart of the capital, Castries, on Thursday...
St. Lucia and Presidential Omniscience
This Day
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July 5, 2025
femi Akintunde-Johnson It must take an extraordinary kind of calmness – bordering on either detachment or delusion – to abandon a country in severe distress for an extended “official visit” to a Caribbean island no one imagined featured on...
Free movement is coming to CARICOM: The United States of the Caribbean must follow
Barbados Today
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July 16, 2025
207 With free movement taking effect by October, Caribbean governments face a broader question: Can this fractured bloc transform into a strategic regional power? Last week, four CARICOM nations — Barbados, Belize, Dominica, and St Vincent and the...
Tinubu secretly sent Shettima to visit Buhari in London hospital
Nigerian Eye
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July 11, 2025
President Bola Tinubu deployed his deputy, Vice-President Kashim Shettima, to visit former President Muhammadu Buhari in a London hospital on Monday, sources privy to the development disclosed. The former president has been ill for a while, as...
Tinubu Exports Doctors, Nurses to St. Lucia Despite Healthcare Crisis in Nigeria
Foundation for Investigative Journalism
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July 5, 2025
On Wednesday, Nigeria and St. Lucia signed a Technical Manpower Assistance that will see Nigeria export some of its experts in exchange for St. Lucia’s experts. According to the statement disclosed by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the president...
Farmers From The Communities Of Monchy And Babonneau Receive Health Screening And Education
The St Kitts Nevis Observer
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July 11, 2025
- Advertisement - Saint Lucia – The Ministry of Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs recently collaborated with the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food Security and Rural Development to host the 3rd annual Farmer’s Health Fair and Market for...
Health Upgrades Coming to Central Babonneau and Fond Assau
The Voice
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July 8, 2025
Residents of central Babonneau and Fond Assau will soon benefit from improved healthcare access and enhanced facilities... The post Health Upgrades Coming to Central Babonneau and Fond Assau appeared first on The Voice St. Lucia News.
Saint Lucia’s Ministry Of Health Mourns The Passing Of Beloved Nurse-Midwife LaToya Alexander
The St Kitts Nevis Observer
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July 3, 2025
- Advertisement - St. Lucia – The Ministry of Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs deeply mourns the passing of a dedicated and compassionate nurse-midwife, LaToya Alexander who worked at the Millennium Heights Medical Complex. Nurse Alexander’s...