Anthia Lafeuille Retires - 41 Years of Shaping and Molding Minds!

By Vern Charles

" Miss Anthia Lafueillee is an outstanding educator from the tranquil community of Le Riche, Choiseul. This amazing individual bid farewell to the system as she retired from the teaching service, on Wednesday 9th June, 2021, after having served for 41 years.

41 years of shaping and molding minds, impacting lives and homes and making a positive difference at her school with both staff and students. Twenty years of great leadership as a Principal and active member of the National Principals' Association. Many years serving as an active member of the St. Lucia Teachers' Union.

No doubt, coordinating the merger of the Infant and Primary Schools was quite a task in 2003. This she seamlessly did and under her reign, the Reunion Primary Roman Catholic School saw students continuing to excel in national exams and other endeavors. (http://www.govt.lc/news/reunion-primary-wins-app-development-competition)

Reunion primary Yapp-athon-2017

Miss Lafeuillee was an exemplary Principal, from personality to decorum and always set the pace in fashion. Matching bags and shoes from conferences, to normal workdays, to sports day; it was a must. Hence why her farewell cake was a bag.

We say a hearty thank you to our dear Teacher Anthia for her indelible contribution to our nation, our community Choiseul and the Reunion Primary Roman Catholic School. The very

best wishes

on your new journey.

Happy Retirement.

Lafeuille Sadz"

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• • Virginia Edward

    Congratulations Miss Lafeuille

    Welcome to the retirement boat ride

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  • Tifary James

    

    All the best. Always a pleasure to interact with you as a parent. You were always welcoming, patient and accommodative. Thank you for your exemplary service.

    

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  • Emily Stephen

    Happy retirement

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    • • • Virginia Edward

          Congratulations Miss Lafeuille

          Welcome to the retirement boat ride

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        • Tifary James

          

          All the best. Always a pleasure to interact with you as a parent. You were always welcoming, patient and accommodative. Thank you for your exemplary service.

          

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        • Emily Stephen

          Happy retirement

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5 YEARS AGO LUCIANS REMOVED A FAILED SLP AND REPLACED IT WITH A WORKING UWP!!!

 By Minerva Ward 

 Happy 5th anniversary MAMAI FLAMBEAU!!!

5 years ago we removed a government that caused St Lucia’s unemployment rate to skyrocket to record levels. 5 years ago we replaced it with a government that lowered the unemployment rate by over 10%.

5 years ago we removed a government that presided over the highest rate of business closures especially in Vieux Fort. 5 years ago we replaced it with a government that has seen record new businesses registered, especially in the south.

5 years ago we removed a government that had done little for Vieux Fort, expect to build a square after 17 years. We replaced it with a government that has completed the first phase of DSH, built a private jet facility, the Anse de Sable redevelopment- 100 acres of land, sub dividing and selling fully serviced beach front lands to St Lucians, complete with concrete roads, boardwalk, life guard station, food outlets, recreation facilities, washrooms on the beach. Delivered water to fond Campeche, Vieux Fort, new WASCO headquarters for Vieux Fort- almost completely designed and constructed by St Lucians, Vieux Fort water supply project. $85 million project increasing the water production from 1 million gallons a day to 4.5 million gallons per day. New pipes to Laborie, Vieux Fort Nort and South. In the midst of Covid, this project is not only increasing water reliability, it’s creating jobs in construction, transportation, and pumping money into the constituency. The redevelopment of Hewanorra International Airport, and the near completion of St Jude’s Hospital.

5 years ago we removed a government that seemed bankrupt of ideas on how to move St Lucia forward, and after the rest of the Caribbean had moved on from the 2009 global financial crisis, still used it as an excuse for why they couldn’t get the economy going again, 4 out of its 5 years they saw NEGATIVE GDP growth. 5 years ago we saw a government that got the economy going again, positive GDP growth in every year except for 2020, obviously due to COVID.

5 years ago we removed a government that no international agency would lend to as they did not have their financial house in order. 5 years ago we replaced it with a government that has the full confidence of all international lending agencies.

5 years ago we removed a government that promised to immediately inject $100 million for job creation, but caused the youth unemployment rate to reach unprecedented levels of 44%. 5 years ago we replaced it with a government that has created thousands of jobs for young people especially in the south, and has developed the creative industries, built a sports academy and has focused on developing youth entrepreneurship.

5 years ago we removed a government who had no clue how to raise revenue except to tax, tax, tax St Lucians. 5 years ago we replaced it with a government that has reduced VAT, granted a waiver on property taxes and has introduced absolutely no new taxes in its 5 years.

5 years ago we removed a government that had corrupted our diplomacy, dragged St Lucia’s name through the mud internationally, had media outlets like Aljazeera referring to us as a banana republic whose diplomacy is for sale by the highest bidder. We replaced it with a government that has had ZERO scandals and not embarrassed our sweet St Lucia to the world.

Happy 5th anniversary of the liberation of St Lucia. Let’s keep working

A LOOK AT PROBABLE CAUSES FOR OUR CRIME SITUATION - BY SILVANIUS FONTENARD

On a recent Facebook post Mr Fontenard has this to say. Thought it interesting as many salient points were made with regards to probable causes for the crime  surge on island.. 

By Silvanius Fontenard.

Silvanius Fontenard

"Everyone seems to be frustrated with the crime situation in the country and most people appear to believe there can be a quick fix.

For over 30 years society has been marginalising it's male children at home, in the school system, the job market and the society in general. Consciously or otherwise there has been a deliberate effort to give the female gender preferential treatment in conformance with the new world order. A paradigm shift orchestrated by the white world to take the attention away from racism when they created what they call the women's rights movement. 

I am not in any way suggesting that some countries treated women unequally but in most of those countries little has changed in that regard with religion and tradition being strongly upheld.

Strangely, it is the countries where the issue was not significant which made the big shift and in the process forgot the boys. In the process few male teachers have been employed thus subjugating sports and reducing the attention males students got in the school system, parents also went overboard in many instances by ensuring that their daughters got all the attention to conform to the new order leaving the majority of boys in the cold.

There is nothing wrong with looking after our girls. After all my daughter has a Phd, but all children should be treated equally everywhere. The result of this shift is a huge amount of under educated, under trained boys who are unprepared for our fast paced societies in the Caribbean and elsewhere in the West . The result is that they are easily persuaded to jump into fast money schemes and false ego building endeavours.

Therefore the problem cannot be fixed in the short term. Our society will need to change its focus so in addition to addressing the social disaster which has been created we need to work hard to prevent another generation of boys from joining the lost club. After all, who will father the children of the future? There is no other choice because otherwise crime , violence and disorder among our males will be with us for a long time to come.

It's a direction in which we need to go together, not just left for any govt to address and it needs to be done with the greatest urgency. As for the short term auctions to the crisis this one is for our Sociologist to lead us on but we all need to jump in to nip this crisis as quickly as possibly. Both the long and short term solutions will require very deliberate actions on the part of parents, the school system, government, and the society at large."

Read the Facebook article and comments here.

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