Chamber’s Political Forum with the Prime Minister a success

Published on October 13, 2025

Prime Minister Philip J. Pierre and Leader of the St. Lucia Labour Party addressed the Second 2025 Political Forum hosted by the St. Lucia Chamber of Commerce Industry and Agriculture on Tuesday September 30th at the Financial Center Point Seraphine.

The 2025 Political Forum Series was kicked off by Allen Chastanet in August 21, 2025, when he engaged the Members of the Chamber of Commerce, setting out his party’s agenda if they were to be elected to lead the Government at the next general elections. Prime Minister Pierre gave an overview of his government’s stewardship over the last four years and emphasized the area of Citizenship Security as a priority issue for his government if returned to Office. 

He also spoke passionately about his concern for the state of young men and the apparent challenges they were exposed to particularly the high Secondary School dropout rate, and their apparent marginalization, saying that this issue needs to be addressed by all of society.

Chamber members took the opportunity to thank the Prime Minister for giving of his time to dialogue and raised two critical issues which they enquired about his perspective and approach to resolving. The first being the experiences at Port Castries and the poor public transportation situation leading to congestion on the main thoroughfares.

The Prime Minister called on the chamber to play a stronger advocacy role in matters related to politics and development that he thought would positively affect the national development, taking away the political edge to critical issues.