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Clear research on the decisions shaping Saint Lucia. Check the sources, explore your community and weigh the choices.
FULL SITTING · Senate, 22 OctoberSix decisions, children’s justice, firearms and the delivery test. Search both transcripts and explore the policy agenda →Search public contractsProcurement Record ExplorerExplore 840 procurement publications. Find suppliers, published values and original sources.Open the explorer Keep SLPA one tap awayInstall the app on your phone or computer →New interactive guide · 31 October 2026
What can reach the bill, how soon—and how can people without money for solar panels benefit?
Explore the electricity guideNew policy series · 30 October 2026
Expanded investigation 29 October 2026
Two reviewed leases sharpen the questions about public land, commercial rents and completion dates. Follow the money and test what Saint Lucia receives in return.
Explore the investigationNew Research in practice · 21 October 2026
Five studies connect the evidence with the services and capabilities people need. Start with the question that matters to you.
Business support & results
Check each step. Act on the finding.
Follow business support from awards to productive use, comparable results and corrective action.
Explore the business results guideDiaspora & local capability
Three bereaved relatives describe their loved ones, notification, search and support. Read the new 21 and 23 October sessions alongside the earlier passenger and operator evidence, with searchable transcripts and clear source limits.
Search testimony · People and boat manifests · Vessels and visuals
Explore what the water tariffs mean for households—and a funded programme to turn service promises into reliable supply.
Arrivals recovered, paid nights lagged and real production rose. Explore the completed paper, income scenarios and a practical policy plan.
Explore the findings and paperToday’s national brief · Edition 105
Investigation + evidence ledger
The GPH investigation remains the lead. Also: a new evidence-to-action series, the latest weather outlook and close-out questions after two 30 October deadlines.NEW · Edition 105 lead story
The two supplied lease copies support reporting on named parcels and specified rights. They have not been independently matched to Registry files. Public company and government records add context, but do not settle the entire concession’s value or all contractual remedies.
What does Saint Lucia receive for the land and operating rights, and which records will let the public check?
The new Evidence into Action series sets out proposals for household protection, a rules-based public fund and investment that produces working services and better jobs.
Read the Evidence into Action seriesA quick island check
Check the dated weather brief, national indicators and policy updates.
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Current research
32 policy briefs + 4 full papers + 1 proposed standardThe national policy collection
Start with a short brief. Open the sources when you need them. Then look at the proposed next step.
Marine safety, public inquiry & tourism
Fifteen examined witnesses across the supplied record. Explore the new 21 and 23 October sessions, family accounts, working manifests, evidence register, searchable transcripts and vessel visuals.
Citizenship, mobility & public finance
The government has confirmed an EU request for a June 2028 phaseout. Prepare the fiscal choices while negotiations continue, protect essential services and distinguish a request from a closure or visa decision.
Decisions and delivery
Those are different questions. Keep them together and it becomes harder for a good idea to disappear between a speech, a ministry and the work itself.
5 active decisions, plus 10 related issues under review.
Open the agenda Then find the officeCabinet portfolio referenceMatch each issue to the formal ministerial responsibility in force now.
Find the portfolio holder Now test a route32 working policy proposalsCompare the first move, likely owners, delivery stages and ways to track results.
Browse the proposal deskProgress ledger · current administration
Here are three recent actions that passed SLPA's source check. Each entry gives credit to the public body that did the work and says only what the source can prove.
Why it helps Practising how to respond to difficult social situations gives adolescents usable skills. Community delivery can reach young people beyond the classroom.
Why it helps Ready access to basic supplies helps students manage an immediate need discreetly. Linking supplies with practical information strengthens the support.
Why it helps Open hearings give survivors, families and operators a formal route to contribute evidence. They also let the public follow the questions being tested and the work needed to prevent another tragedy.
The short version of our method
An official record is labelled. So is an SLPA calculation or recommendation. If a document is missing, the gap stays on the page. No theatre. No quiet leap from “announced” to “done.”
The resident team can carry it forward.
Turn a locally requested assignment into skills a resident team can keep using.
Explore the delivery compactYouth prevention
Every handoff needs an owner.
Follow six handoffs from a young person’s need to useful support and follow-up.
Explore the support pathwayHousehold recovery
Recovery has several dimensions.
Read work, food and assistance evidence together, then consider what a fair review needs.
Read the recovery evidenceCastries North
Plan the land and its services together.
Connect land records and rights with drainage, access, homes and shared spaces.
Explore land and servicesThe official notice announced a temporary move for 12–30 October. A close-out result was not located in the 31 October review, so SLPA does not claim the arrangement occurred, ended physically or produced a particular outcome.
A shorter update ledger
Explore the new land-rights chapter alongside money flows, annual-report findings, vendor support, housing concerns and delivery targets. Supplied leases are described with verification limits and are not reproduced. It includes preserved official statutory instruments and a practical disclosure programme.
Will Government, SLASPA and GPH publish the signed documents and an independently reconciled public concession account?
The September operating notice says Welfare Officers and designated enumerators use the Saint Lucia National Eligibility Tool to update household information and reassess eligibility. The new 1,500-household milestone describes fieldwork reach; it does not establish how many assessments are complete, how many households remain eligible, how many waiting-list applicants will receive places or when individual decisions will be issued.
Water & climate resilience
Saint Lucia has very high network coverage but uneven continuity, high historical water loss, weak operating visibility and too little resilience margin. The plan now joins watershed-to-tap safety, maintenance, measured loss reduction, drought and turbidity rules, capital commissioning and disciplined source options.
Will the Department publish community coverage, completed assessments, unreachable households, decision timelines, referrals and waiting-list movement without exposing personal data?
The new notice gives owners through 8 November to secure stray and wandering livestock before enforcement action begins. The Animals Act permits seizure and impoundment and provides penalties where an owner allows an animal to stray or remain near a highway in a way likely to obstruct, damage or injure road users. The announcement does not publish an enforcement map, patrol timetable or public reporting route.
Will enforcement publish safe reporting channels, impound procedures, owner notification, animal-welfare safeguards and a record of hazards resolved?
The update keeps each rescue route separate, records Larry John as a post-crash rather than pre-impact visual witness, and preserves the new passenger’s qualifications about speed and lights. Darren Joseph’s Kwéyòl evidence contains serious automated-transcription gaps, so only intelligible material and clearly labelled commissioner recaps are used. The two supplied files are not complete records of both hearing days, have not received complete human audio verification and contain no final finding of fault.
Which dispatch, vessel, resort, medical and family-liaison records will turn the reported journeys into a reliable incident timeline?
The linked route still carries an application form for informal-sector workers who were not NIC contributors and lost income from March 2020 to May 2023, plus children under 12 who lost a parent or guardian to Covid-19. A separate official notice says that programme closed in October 2024 after 5,088 one-time EC$1,500 payments. Until a dated reopening notice is published, the homepage placement should not be read as confirmation that a new 2026 benefit window is open.
Is the application window officially reopened, who can apply now, and what are the current deadline, payment and review rules?
The complete regulated price panel is unchanged: kerosene remains EC$10.41 per imperial gallon; the 20-lb and 22-lb LPG cylinders remain EC$36 and EC$40; and the 100-lb cylinder remains EC$324.88. Government publishes per-unit support for each product, but not the expected sales volumes or total fiscal cost for the period. The next adjustment is expected on 16 November.
Will Government publish expected volumes and the total fiscal cost needed to reconcile the higher per-unit support?
