Three employees and one former employee of Saint Lucia Electricity Services Limited (LUCELEC) have received close to $16,000 in donations from staff and the electricity company.

The four were severely affected by the Christmas Eve Trough that passed over the country in 2013. One of the afflicted lost his son when the vehicle he was driving plunged into a precipice that formed after the Desruisseaux road collapsed.

St. Lucia Electricity Services Limited (LUCELEC) has been granted approval by its shareholders to establish a subsidiary company. The decision came at the end of a Special Meeting of Shareholders held on Friday, May 9, 2014.

Shareholders of the St. Lucia Electricity Services Limited (LUCELEC) will receive a dividend payment of seventy cents (EC$0.70) for every share of LUCELEC stock they own. The amount represents the disbursement from the electricity company for the financial year that ended on December 31, 2013.