Find the research behind the issue.

Electricity costs & household inclusion

Lower electricity bills. A route for every household.

Compare what could reach your bill, when it could arrive and how renters and households without capital could benefit. Explore the investment choices, proposed support and delivery rules.

Strengthened 31 October 2026

Household protection / public finance

Protect the household before changing the subsidy.

A lower fuel bill matters today. A stronger support system matters tomorrow. Saint Lucia can deliver both by making each subsidy decision visible and proving that any replacement reaches people before withdrawing the protection.

Strengthened 30 October 2026

Public finance · Saving and resilience

A national fund should earn public trust.

Saint Lucia can save for the future without losing sight of today’s bills. Give each dollar a clear job, protect it with sound rules, and let citizens follow the result.

Strengthened 30 October 2026

Investment, work & delivery

From pledged millions to better living

Welcome investment. Then follow the whole journey: money committed, work completed, services operating and income reaching residents.

Strengthened 30 October 2026

Ports & public money

The port deal. The public return.

Two reviewed leases deepen the investigation into land rights, commercial rents, construction deadlines and the public return from Saint Lucia’s cruise concession.

Strengthened 29 October 2026

Business support & results

Beyond the award. Follow the business.

Follow Saint Lucia’s business support from awards to productive use, comparable results and corrective action, with a proportionate evidence and learning proposal.

Strengthened 21 October 2026

Diaspora & local capability

Skills abroad. Capability at home.

Explore a locally requested assignment, compare the delivery options and test what a resident team needs to keep using the result.

Strengthened 21 October 2026 · comparable practice added

Youth prevention & public services

A referral is a start. Did support arrive?

Explore what Saint Lucia’s youth-group research can teach us about prevention, and a bounded proposal to follow referrals through to usable support.

Strengthened 20 October 2026

Households & social protection

A job returns. Has the household recovered?

Follow the 2020 phone-survey evidence, examine the current PAP review and explore separate checks for household strain, case decisions and support received.

Strengthened 20 October 2026

Land, housing & community services

Land and public services in Castries North

Connect an audited Morne du Don workbook, the Gaboo record and 2026 legislation with a practical plan for secure tenure, access, drainage and maintained public space.

Strengthened 20 October 2026

Water service & household protection

Reliable Water at a Fair Cost

Explore Saint Lucia’s water tariffs, shared accounts and the full household cost of interruptions—then follow a funded programme for service standards, household protection and utility finance.

Strengthened 12 October 2026

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

Tourism & resident income

More visitors. Fewer paid nights. What is Saint Lucia actually gaining?

Arrivals recovered, paid nights lagged and real production rose. Read the paper, test income scenarios and explore the measurement and policy plan.

Strengthened 7 October 2026

Transport, time and productivity

Give Saint Lucians their time back.

A practical north–Castries traffic trial: reliable minibus journeys, safer school access, planned deliveries and coordinated roadworks. Measure people’s time and protect neighbouring streets.

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 15 October 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.

A named façade supplier, a proposed civic park and more design detail now strengthen the public record. They do not settle the full taxpayer cost or prove the courts are ready to operate. Here is what changed, what remains open and what should happen next.

Strengthened 16 September 2026 · comparable practice added

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.

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.

Strengthened 28 September 2026

Road safety, transport & emergency care

Get people home safely: Saint Lucia’s next 90 days on the road.

After Cas En Bas, a practical programme for safer walking routes, motorcycle-friendly roads, properly managed works and dependable journeys. Updated evidence reviewed 23 September 2026.

Strengthened 23 September 2026 · comparable practice added

Marine safety, public inquiry & tourism

Anse Cochon: the collision, the families and the questions ahead.

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.

Strengthened 23 October 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 11 October 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.