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General Elections 2016 Candidates Take the Nomination Line Today! NationWIDE THE OFFICIAL NEWS MAGAZINE OF THE GOVERNMENT OF SAINT LUCIA NationSATURDAY WIDEMAY 28, 2016 General Elections 2016 Candidates Take The Nomination Line Today! t is Nomination Day today and all parties and candidates are lining-up at the des- ignated points in the various Electoral Districts to nominate candidates. There n Iwas much ado about nothing after the date was announced last week, but it turns out candidates do not have to be present to be nominated. At least four parties – $540M Choiseul Hotel to Employ 200 at Start! - SLP, UWP, LPM and Green Party – have been known to have officially registered to Page 2 contest. But only the SLP and UWP have filled all slates for the 17 seats. Several independents indicated they would run, but the number to contest is still uncertain. The Electoral Department started upgrading the Voters List several months ago Diabetic Centre Established Here, As Promised! - and the final list is expected by May 31. From today, it will be the final week left -- Page 2 and the last lap to Polling Day on Monday, June 6. The two major parties have been holding daily activities and nightly meetings in the final countdown in the short- Invest Saint Lucia Targets US $1.5 Billion by 2020! est General Election campaign here ever. In this issue, Nationwide offers five full - Page 3 pages of wide coverage of election-related issues (Pages 4 to 8), including what the Elections Act says about various aspects of the process leading to the poll and on Wind Farm Construction Starting This Year - Page 3 Voting Day (Page 8), the national addresses by the Prime Minister announcing the election date and explaining the change of date for Nomination Day (Pages 6 and Exploring New Tourism Markets in Europe 7), election-related quotes from the 2016 Throne Speech by the Governor General (Page 5) and the response by the Public Service Minister to some very outrageous and USA - Page 9 and absolute fabrications (Page 7). Also in this issue, as always, are other features and news items highlighting the continuity of government and governance, despite Musical Therapy Working the suspension of parliament for the upcoming General Elections. Read on and pay Well at Wellness Centre! special attention to the advice from the Police Force (Page 8) – and standby for an- - Page 10 other two editions of Nationwide before June 6! Meanwhile, browse the Nationwide Website at stlucianationwide.com and view NationwideTV on NTN. Happy Reading! Happy Viewing! Happy Browsing! WHAT’S INSIDE Page 2 NationWIDE Saturday May 28, 2016 National Coordinating Centre established to Editorial positively transform fight against Diabetes Time will soon tell! he Government of Saint Lu- cia has announced a major Tnational initiative that will transform the fight against diabe- tes in the country designated as the diabetic capital of the world. The positive transformation will be through a unique public- private partnership between the Ministry of Health, Wellness, and Gender Relations and a non-profit supported by Switzerland-based W Science. The initiative, which was long The centre will identify mechanisms to better prevent, diagnose in coming and which the govern- and treat diabetes. ment always insisted was no pipe dream, will create a new standard Speaking at the launch, Minister will drive improved treatment for the diagnosis, treatment and for Health Alvina Reynolds said and care of people with diabetes research into this chronic condi- the impact of diabetes of public in Saint Lucia, alongside provi- tion. health resources in significant. sions for an immediate expansion It will be led by the newly-es- The launch followed more than of medical equipment and medi- tablished National Diabetes Co- a year of in-depth feasibility stud- cation available through island- ordinating Centre (NDCC) and ies on diabetes by W Science. wide primary healthcare centres. accompanied in the next twelve The research team was led by The centre will be run by a team months by a nationwide diabetes Prof. Philippe Halban, a global of newly-recruited local clinical screening program, an education- authority on diabetes research and administrative specialists, al awareness-raising campaign, with more than 40 years of expe- who will coordinate all aspects a training program for diabetes rience in the field. of the project with full involve- specialists and a national registry The NDCC will be directed by ment from primary healthcare elf-proclaimed truth the wider (Greater) Caribbean of people with diabetes that will a team of national and interna- centres, government ministries, gladiators always draw placed in the top 35. greatly enhance clinical care and tional diabetes, healthcare and IT regulatory authorities, academic horror pictures of night- After Saint Lucia, Jamaica and research in Saint Lucia and the expert advisors. institutions and non-govern- S mares in pursuit of Press St. Vincent and the Grenadines Caribbean region. Clinical research at the centre mental organizations. Freedom along paths strewn (along with Costa Rica) placed with the most barbaric beasts a collective 2nd, with Barbados barring free access to their placing 5th (alongside Canada), $540 Million new Choiseul hotel development imagined worlds. But none Saint Kitts and Nevis in 7th can point to one major road place, The Bahamas at 8th, Be- or stumbling road in Saint Lu- lize at 9th (alongside USA), Ber- project to employ 200 in construction phase cia, which has been found by muda at 11th, Dominica at 13th, Freedom House to be the Most Trinidad & Tobago at 14th, Su- new $540 million dol- cost some US $200 Million. we are trying to [employ] about Press Free country in this part rinam at 15th, Guyana at 17th, lar foreign investment The developer, GP Group, is 200 local people. After we finish, of the world, according to its Antigua and Barbuda at 18th, A in Choiseul is poised to a leading European-based con- [we are looking to employ] at least latest report after examining Dominican Republic at 20th and raise the standard of living for struction and project develop- 250 or 300 people for the main- 190 countries worldwide. Haiti at 25th. Venezuela scored residents and spur economic ment company. tenance service. Also, we would The Freedom House Press 34 on the list, with Cuba at 35. growth in Saint Lucia. GP's CEO of Overseas Opera- like to [put in] a beer garden, Freedom Report for 2015 placed For reasons no one will un- The new luxury development, tions, Christo Pancheff, says Saint and a sports centre. The idea is to saint Lucia at the vert top of the derstand, these signal achieve- Sunset Bay Saint Lucia, plans Lucians will benefit from several evolve that part of the island." list of 199 countries surveyed for ments for Saint Lucia and the to have 40 villas and about 110 employment opportunities. The earmarked development their respective levels of Press Caribbean were not appropri- rooms on property, while will He says, "During construction site is Sab Wisha in Choiseul. Freedom. ately registered or reported The methodology employed here. Their significance was by Freedom House is the same absolutely and completely ig- since 1980. It used 90 analysts to nored. Venezuelan ambassador defends country ask 23 methodological questions But hardly anyone is fooled. and another 132 sub-questions. Some in the local press behave against international aggression The questions looked at how the like the role of the press is to press relates to or is being treated hound governments out of of- enezuelan Ambassador economic decline in the country, that the homeland of Bolivia will vis-à-vis legal, political and eco- fice. to Saint Lucia, Her Excel- leading to cause for a political mi- continue to defend it sovereignty nomic issues. Then, based on the But with public confidence in Vlency Leiff Escalona, ad- litia intervention. and the principle of no interfer- findings, it grades countries from the local pres put to the test over dressed matters relating to the He stressed that the media cam- ence in their internal affairs. Zero to 100 – from Best to Worst – the next week, it will be left to current situation in Venezuela paign against Venezuela is de- Finally, President Maduro says to place them in brackets of Free, be seen which offers a more true via a press conference here last signed to generate an impression we need to launch a political and Partly Free and Not Free. representation of the local real- Friday. of chaos and violence, leading to diplomatic counter-offensive and Saint Lucia and the Caribbean ity -- the Freedom House 2015 Ambassador Escalona said that intervention by the United States the mobilization of global aware- (CARICOM and OECS) region Press Freedom Report, or those President Nicolas Maduro has de- government.” ness in defense of the right to placed better than the rest of here who continue to dream nounced international aggression Her Excellency also said that peace, independence and democ- the world, registering in the they can simply wish it away. against Venezuela. President Maduro has called for racy in Venezuela.” top 25 of the 199 surveyed. And Time will soon tell! “He stated that Venezuela is strengthened solidarity among The diplomat sais she hopes facing an attack via world media sister nations in dealing with this that media attacks against Ven- that seek to establish a false pic- issue. ezuela will be curbed. (See The ture of uncontrollable social and “The Head of State stressed Diplomatic Courier on Page 11) New President has eyes Careers dependent on biodiversity set on new horizons as highlighted in observance of Day CSA celebrates 65 years he International Day for of service to members! Biological Diversity was Trecognized here on May he Civil Service Associa- May 16, 1951.
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