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Some months ago I had a very informative discussion with Ronald “Boo” Hinkson, who has in my view a remarkable understanding of the issues facing Saint Lucia. “Boo” was saying that there is need to teach our young people their history and that if a people do not know their past they will not understand their present and be able to chart their future. This was music to my ears, more melodious than any music penned by my dear friend. What are we teaching our children in the secondary and primary schools as History? History at the primary school level is almost non-existent, they will be told something about Caribs and Arawaks and the irrelevancies of our changing hands 14 times. In the secondary school, if you do history up to CXC you may learn a bit more. There is a part of our history in Saint Lucia, that we know very little about and one which has a profound impact in understanding...

I have asked myself when substance will begin to be poured out by our political parties here in Saint Lucia. When will the intellectual stimuli be felt? Have we been ‘Trumpasized’? I have been a student of Caribbean politics for over 40 yrs; I have following the general elections in every Caribbean State during that period. I have lived in four Caribbean countries during the intense periods of political campaign. As a young 19 yr old University student, I was very involved in opposition politics. I was also then attracted to a political party that presented new thought and a new vision. So yes there is an internal yearning. I fully agree that there has to be a little picong in our politics as that is our tradition, but the picong has to be the ‘pepper sauce’ placed on a balanced meal. We need a balanced meal, and I believe that it is unfair to leave a nation intellectually...