on the job
A new employment drive to create 45 hundred jobs within the next 36 months is being embarked upon by the National Initiative to Create Employment -NICE.
DBS’ Don Nicholas reports this morning the organization met with the Private sector to discuss the possibility.
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The Spartan Health Sciences University is in defense mode tonight, following reports of an investigation into its relationship with a medical centre in the US. Reports indicate that an inquiry is underway in the United States into the relationship between the two parties.
A report by the Caribbean Media Corporation indicates that the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office is looking into the relationship between the Wyckoff Heights Medical Centre and the medical school.
According to the report, the investigation is focusing specifically on whether two US-based doctors received payments from Spartan Health Sciences University……..
beauty queen
Carnival organizers held a sashing ceremony last night to introduce the Carnival Queen contestants.
Here’s DBS’ Don Nicholas with the details:
Touch of Class
The Principal of the Soufriere Comprehensive Secondary School is concerned about the number of male students who are either absent from school or do not complete their secondary school education.
And she told a graduation ceremony at the institution of the need for urgent measures to address the trend.
Everyday People
Everyday People
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The Ethiopia Black International Congress Church of Divine Salvation is convening a meeting for it’s members tomorrow.
The meeting will take place at the Food of Seven Vegan Restaurant at Rodney Bay
police force
Residents of Canaries where the incident occurred, say the boy was lured from the street last night by the male officer from the Marine Unit and a male friend.
They say both men were found sodomizing the child in a parked vehicle.
According to the residents, when a Police Officer challenged them, one of the men in the vehicle shouted back that he himself was a Police Officer and showed his badge.
But they say the Officer who issued the challenge drew his firearm and ordered them out of the vehicle.
The teenager who was in the vehicle with them had to be hospitalized.
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One of Saint Lucia’s leading security companies is helping the National Community Foundation to protect itself from burglars.
Guardsman today presented the NCF with an alarm system and one year’s free monitoring, following a burglary of the foundation’s offices recently.
heavy duty
Castries Vendors have met with representatives of the VAT Implementation to discuss their concerns ahead of the implementation of the new measure.
