This page highlights books on St. Lucian politics and governance. Since we would like it to represent an exhaustive list, we urge readers to alert us of books we have overlooked.
Books on St. Lucian Politics and Governance represents one of several entries to draw attention to St. Lucian books and authors as a group. The other entries include Significant St. Lucian Authors, The Novels of St. Lucia, and St. Lucia Children’s Books.
No Man’s Land: A Political Introspection of St. Lucia
by Anderson Reynolds
ISBN-13: 978-1-7332913-2-3
260 Pages, Jako Books, February 2021
A narrative on St. Lucian politics and society that pinpoints what is wrong with the country’s political and economic system and how to fix it.
Enough is Enough: Compton’s Stronghold Broken at Last
by Cassius Elias
ISBN-13: 978-1-7332913-0-9
440 pages, Morris Publishing, 2019
Provides a personalized account of the author’s involvement in business and politics, and also insights into St. Lucia’s business and political climate and culture.
Governing in a Small Caribbean Island State
by Dr. James Fletcher
ISBN-13: 9781549717857
110 pages, Soloricon, 2017
Provides advice to a new prime minister on how to govern a small Caribbean state.
Parliamentary Speeches, 1997-2001 (2015)
by Cassius Elias
ISBN-13: 978-1-5144-0672-4
155 pages, Xlibris, 2015
A collection of the author’s parliamentary speeches as minister for agriculture and Micoud South District Rep
Profile: Political Leaders of The Saint Lucia Labour Party
by A.L. Dawn French
ISBN : 1499265611
50 pages, Dawnnbooks, 2014
Provides profiles of the political leaders of the St. Lucia Labor Party starting with Sir George Charles, the party’s first political leader (and the country’s first universal suffrafge chief executive) to Philip J. Pierre the current (2021) political leader.
Profile: Political Leaders of The United Workers Party of Saint Lucia
by A.L. Dawn French
ISBN : 1499264763
30 pages, Dawnnbooks, 2014
Profiles the political leaders of the United Workers Party starting with Sir John Compton, the party’s first political leader (and the country’s first premier and first prime minister) to the current (2021) political leader (and prime minister) Allen Chastanet.
Shattered Dreams: a political odyssey in post-independent St. Lucia
by Peter Josie
ISBN-13: 9781466937383
Trafford Publishing
A first-hand account of the island’s politics by one of its central political figures. Depicts the ups and downs of political activism and the personalities and events that helped shape St. Lucian politics and society.
Lapses & Infelicities: An insider perspective of Politics in the Caribbean
by Rick Wayne
ISBN-13: 978-0615371283
704 pages, Star Publishing, 2012
A front-row seat account of St. Lucia’s political saga by the country’s most renowned journalist.
Decolonization in St. Lucia: Politics and Global Neoliberalism, 1945–2010. (2011)
by Dr. Tennyson S.D. Joseph
ISBN-10: 1617031178
240 pages, University Press of Mississippi, 2011
Explores the impact of global transformation upon the independent experience of St. Lucia and argues that the island’s formal decolonization roughly coincided with the period of the rise of global neoliberalism hegemony.
Talking Truth to Saint Lucian Power: Commentaries on Saint Lucian Politics and Society (2005)
by Sam Bowers
(with contributions by Leevie Herelle)
64 pages, Caribbean Strategies, 2005
At the Rainbow’s Edge: Selected Speeches by Kenny D. Anthony (2004)
by Dr. Kenny Anthony,
edited by Didacus Jules and Tennyson S.D. Joseph
ISBN: 976-637-159-8
387 pages, Ian Randle Publishers, 2004
Presents some of the author’s addresses during his initial bid for political office and his first term as prime minister of St. Lucia and Vieux Fort South’s District Rep.
The Struggle for Survival: an historical, political and socioeconomic perspective of St. Lucia, Third Edition (2003)
by Anderson Reynolds
ISBN: 978-0-9704432-8-1
233 pages, Jako Books, 2018 (Third Edition)
Retells the story of the tragic 1993 banana strike that culminated in the shooting death of two farmers by police officers, in the process providing a multilayered and dynamic narrative of the history, politics, culture, and economics of St. Lucia.
St. Lucia’s Men of the Century: John Compton (Julius Caesar) and George Odlum (Marcus Brutus) (2000)
by Martinus Francois
ISBN: 976-8180-20
130 pages, Martinus Francois, 2000
Provides insights into the political personalities of John Compton and George Odlum by casting Compton in the role of Julius Caesar and Odlum in the role of Marcus Brutus, in William Shakespeare’s play, Julius Caesar.
Reforming Government: Connecting Social Justice to Economic Vision (1999)
by Martinus Francois
ISBN: 976-8157-90-9
227, Freedom Publications, 1999
According to the covercopy, the book advocates for “fundamental changes in the government and politics of St. Lucia and the Caribbean for social and economic success in the 21st century and the eradication of youth unemployment, poverty, and crime.”
The Moral Agenda: Crusader Editorials of the Year—1993 (1994)
by George Odlum
69 Pages, Crusader, 1994
Presents the author’s 1993 editorials as they appeared in the Crusader newspaper in 1993. Besides politics, the editorials covered culture, societal ills, and memorials or tributes to fallen St. Lucians.
The History of the Labour Movement in St. Lucia, 1945-1974: A Personal Memoir (1994)
by George FL Charles
98 pages, Folk Research Center, 1994
A personal account (by the first Chief Minister of St. Lucia) of the history of the labor movement in St. Lucia, from inception to the transformation of labor unions to political parties, and the history of two decades of post universal suffrage St. Lucian politics.
Foolish Virgins
by Rick Wayne
252 pages, Star Publishing, 1986
A front-seat view account (by arguable St. Lucia’s most renowned and controversial journalists) of St. Lucia’s politics during one of its most turbulent and formative political periods.
Of Men and Politics: The Agony of St. Lucia
by Denis Sinclair DaBreo
Traces the political history of St. Lucia from from the 1940s to the early 1980s and examines the interplay of the events, circumstances, personalities, and forces that led to the fall of the 1979 Labour government.
The Grenada Revolution
by Denis Sinclair DaBreo
An account of the events preceding, during, subsequent to and related to the 1979 Grenada Revolution.
It’ll Be Alright in the Morning
by Rick Wayne
247 pages, Star Publishing, 1979
Part memoir, part politics, this is the first installment of Rick Wayne’s St. Lucia political saga, representing perhaps the first published book on St. Lucian politics. The author takes the reader on the edge of your seat ride into St. Lucian politics, from early days to the brink of independence, in which he is as much a player as an observer.
