For Immediate Release: Castries, St. Lucia, May 20, 2025 PRESS RELEASE St. Lucia Chamber of Commerce Business Performance Survey (Take 13)

The Chamber has delivered the first component of its recently revamped and rebranded ELEVATE Program that seeks to provide a portfolio of essential business support programs of a high quality to interested Small Businesses on the island. The Chamber will be working closely with partners in the small business support ecosystem to reach and impact the target beneficiaries.

TheSt. Lucia Chamber of Commerce is pleased to announce its upcoming four-day Business Continuity Planning Workshop hosted under the “Elevate Program”, set to take place on June 2nd to 5th, 2025, from 4:00PM to 7:00PM at the Chamber's Conference Room, Orange Park Commercial Center, Bois D’Orange.

In direct response to the needs of its smaller members and micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), the St. Lucia Chamber of Commerce, Industry, and Agriculture is proud to announce the launch of a specialized training program focused on the crucial topic of “Costing and Pricing.”

The Chamber of Commerce as part of its ongoing engagement with critical economic players hosted an Executive Luncheon where the St. Lucia Air and Sea Ports Authority (SLASPA) updated members of the Business Community on its plans for addressing some of the most pressing issues affecting its operations.

In a continued framework of regular dialogue and collaboration around tough issues, the St. Lucia Air and Seaports Authority will on Friday March 21st present a detailed update on its Major Initiatives of upgrade and problem resolution strategies to members of the St. Lucia Chamber of Commerce, Industry, and Agriculture at an Executive Luncheon.

The St. Lucia Chamber of Commerce is pleased to offer its members an exceptional opportunity to enhance the management skills of their sales teams through a special Sales Manager Training Program. Following the success of Mr.Francis Lewis's recent Sales Champion Training Program, which saw nearly twenty sales executives attend, the Chamber is excited to announce that Mr.Lewis will be in St. Lucia once again to provide further training.

Know Your Labour Act Workshop 2025 A Resounding Success Castries, St. Lucia - 6th March 2025 – Ms. Cheryl Godard-Dorville, lived up to her sterling reputation delivering and excellent well pieced together workshop seminar titled "Know Your Labour Act" on March 5th, 2025, on behalf of the St. Lucia Chamber of Commerce. Twenty-nine attendees are now better-informed and conversant with the St. Lucia labor Act cap, 2006.

The St. Lucia Chamber of Commerce invites members and the wider businesscommunity to join a two- hour Webinar that will be hosted by the Customs &Excise Department on March 6th, 2024,from 2:00 via Zoom. Thispublic information Webinar will introduce traders to a suite of new digitalinitiatives designed to enhance the import export trade, streamline processes,and reduce costs for traders as part of the Customs & Excise DepartmentTrade Facilitation agenda, all aimed at enhancing the “customer journey”.