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John King’s announcement that he will not be seeking re-election represents a new era in local politics, says political scientist Peter Wickham. However, Democratic Labour Party leader Verla De Peiza said the move was an indictment on the leadership of the ruling Barbados Labour Party (BLP). King, the Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office with responsibility for Culture, revealed his intentions on Sunday during a BLP meeting at Gordon Walters …

Mandatory vaccination against COVID-19 developed into a full-blown political tug-of-war on Friday as critics of the government sought to build opposition to the measure even as mandates sweep across a virus-torn region.As a collection of anti-mandate advocates joined by anti-vaxxers moved to frame the issue as people’s right to autonomy over their bodies, president of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) Verla DePeiza warned against hasty moves toward mandatory vaccination.But a prominent political analyst cast the mandates as a politicized issue in which opposition parties sense a “juicy pol...

Saint Lucia: After a National Election Favorable to Cannabis Reform, Activists Start the Countdown Voters may have warmed to the economic case for a new legal industry. Published on Jul 28, 2021 11:38AM EDTCaribbean Share this: Monday’s General Elections in Saint Lucia could have major implications for cannabis in the Caribbean after the Saint Lucia Labour Party, which campaigned on passing the region’s most progressive cannabis reform proposal, claimed victory. The party, led by Philip Joseph Pierre, won thirteen of the seventeen Parliamentary constituencies contested in the election, de...

Social Share CASTRIES – The main opposition St Lucia Labour Party (SLP) was leading in most of the constituencies as counting continued following the general elections held here earlier on Monday. Political strategist and director of the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Research Services (CADRES), Peter Wickham, speaking on television here, said that the results seem to show a “significantly greater swing that I had expected from the ruling party. “As it stands now, the swing is in double digits and the United Workers Party (UWP) would have to do very well to try and contain that...

History of BLP failing children Former United States Vice-President Hubert Humphrey spoke about the treatment of the weakest members of society as a reflection of a government. “The moral test of government”, he asserted, “is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.” If I apply his standard, I have to give the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) a failing grade on education. Any possible bias on my part is informed by the fact th...