On Tuesday July 9, St Lucia Electricity Services Limited (LUCELEC) employee Malaika Chester will challenge nine others for the title of Inter-commercial Calypso Monarch 2013. Miss Chester is employed in the LUCELEC Generation Department; she won the title in 2011. 

Miss Chester who goes by the stage name “Miss Kitty” will compete with “Missing You,” a calypso written by Jon “Buffalo” Odlum. It is a description of old Saint Lucian values and an appeal for their return.  

For the first half of 2013 LUCELEC customers paid less per unit of electricity than they did last year.  So says LUCELEC Corporate Communications Manager Roger Joseph.

The reduced rate is due to a drop in the fuel surcharge applied to every unit of electricity sold.  Joseph says since February the fuel surcharge has been negative resulting in a tariff reduction for customers.

Sixty five students have been selected for the 2013 St Lucia Electricity Services Limited (LUCELEC) Summer Employment Programme. Beginning in the early 1980s, the programme facilitates internships for students on summer vacation from secondary schools, the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College, as well as provides employment for students on vacation from universities.