Find the research behind the issue.

Water & coasts

Reliable water and safer coasts

Make water service standards work by supply zone, and turn sargassum equipment into a funded coastal response service.

Strengthened 14 September 2026

Health & justice

Care that connects and justice that moves

Close the gaps between community care, referrals and follow-up. Make court progress depend on complete cases, fair process and safe witnesses.

Strengthened 14 September 2026

Households & work

Household protection and better work

Protect essential household spending while testing a route from local farm orders and paid placements to lasting earnings.

Strengthened 14 September 2026

Delivery & sovereignty

Working projects and sovereign choices

Connect procurement to functioning services, and make migration commitments conditional on rights, costs, capacity and workable routes onward.

Strengthened 14 September 2026

Labour market & opportunity

Unemployment at 10.1%: What Improved, Who Benefited, and How We Know

Watch Pierre’s Briefing Room remarks, explore the employment gain and labour-force denominator, and check how the survey measures progress.

Strengthened 9 September 2026

Maritime safety, law & public policy

A modern Maritime Act for Saint Lucia

Safer voyages, independent investigation and practical protection for people, livelihoods and the sea. Research and a first model Bill by Kevin L. Michel.

Strengthened 7 September 2026

Law, sovereignty & state capability

Who writes Saint Lucia’s law?

Article 917A explained, the Canadian reform investigation, four full papers and two detailed model bills. Explore the law, proposed changes, worked disputes and searchable source inventory.

Strengthened 6 September 2026

Migration, rights & state capacity

Saint Lucia’s third-country transfer programme: who may come, why the United States is building it, and what follows.

A deep record of compatible cohort profiles, U.S. law and motives, Caribbean agreements, disclosed payments, Saint Lucian law, scenario forecasts and the facts still missing.

Strengthened 14 September 2026 · comparable practice added

Justice infrastructure · public finance · Castries

Halls of Justice: What Saint Lucia is building, what it may cost, and what must be published.

The court complex answers a real facilities failure. Its headline build price and broad room programme are visible. The executed lease, full payment path, procurement evaluation, final design schedule and operating plan are not.

Justice, policing & public-service capability

Train police prosecutors—but build the safeguards around them.

Four law scholarships can strengthen Saint Lucia's prosecution pipeline. They will not, by themselves, fix weak files, delay or divided legal authority—and a five-year bond is useful only if the job, qualification and safeguards are designed with equal care.

Workplace safety, labour rights & public delivery

Safe work must work in practice.

Saint Lucia has important workplace-safety duties in law and a national policy process under way. The next decision is to turn them into triage, inspection, correction, worker protection and public results.

Prices, productivity & household affordability

Lower the costs Saint Lucia adds: an anti-inflation strategy built on productivity.

Saint Lucia cannot command world prices or run its own monetary policy. It can reduce spoilage, port delay, energy waste and inefficient public purchasing, while protecting vulnerable households through temporary, funded relief.

Social assistance, public integrity & service delivery

Protect SSDF help. Make every decision easy to trace.

Every SSDF request should enter one recorded system. Public officers should check eligibility, approve help under written authority and track every payment. Each applicant should receive a reason and a fair appeal.

Strengthened 1 September 2026 · comparable practice added

Household economics, social protection & market relief

Prepare household-support rules, records and payments before the next shock.

Different households face different pressures. Saint Lucia can measure those pressures, finish one shock-ready social registry and release capped support under public rules when food, fuel, jobs or disasters move against families.

Strengthened 16 August 2026 · comparable practice added

Public integrity, government machinery & due process

Set clear integrity rules for appointments, contracts, audits, complaints and records.

Saint Lucia already has constitutional and statutory integrity bodies. The missing layer is a visible operating system for recusals, appointments, contracts, audit findings, complaints, records and transitions that protects independence and due process.

Food security, population & care

Plans for food security, an ageing population, childcare and the care workforce.

Saint Lucia needs a food system that can withstand price and supply shocks, and a separate care system built for fewer births, migration and a larger older population. The two should share delivery channels only where the evidence supports it.

Strengthened 16 August 2026

Regional integration & delivery

Five results for Saint Lucia’s CARICOM chairmanship.

The chairmanship ends on 31 December 2026. A five-track compact can convert existing commitments on movement, ferries, payments, food trade and mobility protection into dated instruments, safe pilots and a public handover record.

Citizenship, mobility & public finance

How Saint Lucia can protect passport mobility and public revenue.

UK and Irish visa rules have changed, EU scrutiny has widened, and CIP reported EC$402.2 million in FY2024/25 revenue. Saint Lucia needs reconciled programme accounts, a remediation plan and budget scenarios for a sharp fall in net receipts.

Road safety, transport & emergency care

A 90-day plan to reduce road deaths.

Reconcile every fatal and serious crash, identify the first three high-risk corridors, treat hazards quickly, verify enforcement tools and publish trauma-response results.

Strengthened 4 August 2026 · comparable practice added

Marine safety, public inquiry & tourism

Anse Cochon: the inquiry, public participation and the safety reforms that matter.

The commissioners were sworn in on 8 September. The inquiry invites public submissions and runs to an 8 March 2027 report deadline. What should this process change in everyday maritime safety?

Strengthened 9 September 2026

Energy & competitiveness

A power system Saint Lucia can afford, rely on and own.

A solar-and-storage-first strategy can reduce fuel exposure, harden critical services and give Saint Lucian households and firms a real stake in the assets of the transition.

Strengthened 16 August 2026 · comparable practice added

Water & climate resilience

A national plan for reliable water, from watershed to tap.

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.

Strengthened 27 August 2026 · comparable practice added

Youth, skills & work

A faster path from training to a first paycheque.

Saint Lucia’s youth challenge is not only a shortage of courses. It is a broken sequence between learning, work experience, tools, employer trust and a first durable paycheque.

Strengthened 4 August 2026 · comparable practice added

Tourism & domestic value

How much visitor spending stays in Saint Lucia?

A million arrivals can coexist with weak domestic capture. The next tourism metric should reveal how visitor spending becomes local wages, profits, taxes, purchases and productive assets.

Safety, justice & social cohesion

One national system for prevention, policing and justice.

Saint Lucia needs one architecture that can see risk early, earn reports, disrupt firearm networks, move cases fairly and show the public whether prevention is working.

Strengthened 9 August 2026

Land, housing & digital government

One trusted public record for every parcel of land.

The e-Land Registry, national spatial-data infrastructure and 2022 Census create a rare opening to join title, planning, valuation, addressing, climate risk and public access.

Strengthened 4 August 2026

Government delivery & public finance

Track public money from the budget to the result.

Saint Lucia’s next governance reform should connect appropriations, procurement, projects and public outcomes in one visible operating rhythm.

Strengthened 21 August 2026 · comparable practice added

Public rights, beaches & planning

A clear public route to every public beach.

Beach disputes are rarely one ownership question. They involve title, foreshore, rights-of-way, Crown interests, planning conditions, signs, gates and the reality of enforcement.

Castries, flood resilience & urban delivery

One renewal plan for Castries: drainage, streets, housing and public space.

Drainage, streets, markets, public buildings, housing, mobility and the port interface should move through one blue-green capital portfolio with visible delivery and maintenance.

Public safety, justice & responsible AI

A safe AI assistant for police casework.

A tightly governed AI support layer can turn reports, interviews, CCTV logs, receipts and evidence requests into source-linked timelines while preserving human judgment, disclosure duties and due process.

Public health, fisheries & blue economy

A national system for sargassum health, seafood safety and useful products.

Saint Lucia needs one operating picture that forecasts landings, measures coastal gases, protects workers, samples seafood and permits commercial use only after contaminant testing.

Strengthened 8 August 2026 · comparable practice added

Visitor safety, criminal law & shared public space

A fair, practical plan for visitor and community safety.

Saint Lucia can respond firmly to visitor-targeted crime while preserving equal victim worth: punish deliberate exploitation, complete cases across borders and make the places residents and visitors share safer together.

Public finance & delivery

Protect the budget’s EC$5.1 million current-account surplus.

A three-year operating envelope can connect cash, refinancing, CIP exposure and project readiness before tight fiscal room becomes a service problem.

Digital government & public rights

Set the rules that make digital public services safe.

Privacy enforcement, incident command, procurement gates and a public AI register should be in place as identity, payment, land, health and benefit systems scale.

Health access & service readiness

Open each St Jude service when it is ready and safe.

Published safety gates, extended primary care, one referral path and clear benefits can make St Jude the southern anchor of an island-wide health network.