Commission of Inquiry Report
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STANDARDS IN PUBLIC LIFE IN ST LUCIA

 

A report of the Commission of Inquiry into a trio of events in public administration in St Lucia in the 1990s

 

Pursuant to the warrant by the Governor-General dated 7 April 1998 and Gazetted on 15 April 1998

 

Sir Louis Blom-Cooper
Commissioner


                "Perhaps it is the fog that erases the sins of history................".
                                                 Derek Walcott, The Bounty,
                                                 Santa Cruz Quartet ii (1977) p. 72.

 

 CONTENTS

 

                   Chronology of St. Lucia Commission of  Inquiry

 

 Part A            GENERAL

 

 Chapter I         Introduction: Terms of reference and  procedure (including seminar on September 1998)

 

                   Media coverage

 Chapter II        Background to the two Commissions of  Inquiry

 Chapter III       The politicizing of the Commission of  Inquiry

 

 Part B            THE THREE EVENTS

 Chapter IV        The Roseau Bay affair

 Chapter V         The Shanty Town Road affair

 Chapter VI        The Nationwide Properties affair

 

 Part C            MISCELLANY

 Chapter VII      Public Inquiries : A Study of OECS  Legislation