St Lucia – Stimulus activities for Christmas, have already started in St. Lucia
According to Castries South MP Ernest Hilaire, “It has started. There are activities that have started from last week . In my constituency it starts this week so there are a number of different stimulus programmes, clean ups as well as small infrastructural works to deal with flood mitigation and landslides, for since the last Hurricane Elsa we still have cleaning up to do so there’ll be quite a lot taking place over the next few weeks.”
the Minister of Tourism, Investment, Creative Industries, Culture and Information stated “People are going through real difficult times now with COVID. It is true the tourism sector has opened up and a lot more persons are now back in employment in the tourism sector, but it’s certainly very difficult times and people are looking for some support, some relief and a few million dollars will be pumped into the economy in the next two to three weeks providing relief to many persons. There’ll be food vouchers – MP’s will be given food vouchers”.
He said a notable feature of the Saint Lucia Labour Party (SLP) administration is that it has treated the two opposition MPs’ quite generously’.
