Senior Wildlife Conservation Officer, Pius Haynes has warned that the recent citing’s of monkeys is destructive to crops of value to Saint Lucia. The Forestry department has received reports of monkeys being cited on the island dated back as far as 2008.

A new bug is attacking crops in the neighbouring island of Grenada. The ministry of agriculture and Lands in Grenada issued a statement on the novel pest that attacks, soursop, plums mangos and other fruits and flowers. Cecile Actille spoke to Saint Lucia’s Minister of Agriculture who spoke to the Ministry’s level of preparednessSHOW LESS

The owner of the local company producing Magic Oil has come to the defense of his product following a recall of a few batches of the oil. Senior Correspondent Miguel Fevrier has the details in this follow-up report.