Prime Minister Philip J. Pierre promised Monday during a presentation of $US 612,000 in Constituency Development Programme (CDP) funds from the Taiwanese government to distribute the money to all 17 local constituencies. Pierre described the presentation as a bitter-sweet moment as he recalled that Saint Lucia Labour Party (SLP) MPs, while in opposition, never had the pleasure or honour of being involved in the receipt of CDP money. 'That was sad because our constituencies – the people who lived in our constituencies, they deserved these funds, and they thought that their representatives should have been given the privilege of not
