Electoral constituency I · West & south
Choiseul joins the village and working coast to La Pointe, Delcer, Morne Sion, La Fargue, inland farming settlements, Saltibus and Piaye. The official polling descriptions reach well beyond the village waterfront.
“Household population” is not total resident population. It counts people recorded in private households in the provisional 2022 constituency tables and excludes people outside private households.
Choiseul village, district and constituency are different geographies. Census Table 7/A.8 reports 10,424 household residents and 3,883 households; A.10's Choiseul aggregate gives 7,119 and 2,615. Reconcile the geographic coding before using the apparent 2010–22 change. Population rank and trend are withheld; see the census audit.
Facts, analysis and open questions are kept separate. A proxy is a stand-in from a different geography. A project announcement is not proof of completion or results. Questions are prompts for local checking, not findings of neglect.
Choiseul · A flagship community profile
Skills with deep roots. A community with work to do—and people who know how to do it.
The scene uses original modeled geometry informed by public aerial and waterfront photographs, historical JICA plans and the port contractor’s completion photographs. Reference photographs are not copied into the artwork. The historical layout and visible later works guide the illustration; submerged works, precise dimensions and current water depths are not represented.
Start with something tangible
Practical first steps for your work, household or organisation.
Your first steps
Confirm opening hours and programme availability before travelling.
The short read
The numbers in context
Conflicting totals; trend withheld.
Table 7/A.8 reports 10,424 household residents; A.10 gives 7,119. Geographic reconciliation is needed.
Read the census audit →5,705 ballots cast against 9,539 published register entries. Register-quality concerns can affect this denominator; do not read the comparison as a resident-adult participation estimate. Why this matters →
Status labels organise the record. They do not score performance.
These labels show where each source came from. They do not score whether a project worked.
History and place
Choiseul’s history lives in clay, cultivated ground, fishing knowledge, music, institutions and the stories people choose to keep.
The government’s historical account records Indigenous petroglyphs and the association of Pointe Carib with Indigenous settlement. It also describes canoe making, fishing and farming. Those connections matter. They do not justify claiming that Indigenous ancestry disappeared, or that every later craft has one unchanged origin.
Patricia Fay’s Creole Clay offers a more specific account of pottery: women potters whose self-sufficient Creole way of life developed after nineteenth-century emancipation, with African inherited production methods, family transmission and continual adaptation. This review draws on the book’s publisher description and scholarly record. The distinction changes policy. Protect the practitioner’s knowledge, income and capacity to adapt.
Finola Jennings-Clark’s 2010 field account describes local clay, family labour, preparation, coiling, drying and open firing in places including Morne Sion, Matin, Fiette and La Pointe. Making a pot takes work before there is anything to sell. A sensible craft programme should ask about material access, arduous preparation and the cost of time as well as packaging and promotion.
At Balenbouche, research published in 2026 brings enslaved people’s lives and resistance into the history of the sugar works. It records 203 enslaved people in 1815 and documented escape attempts in 1827; the sugar works were largely abandoned by 1896. The authors worked with local archaeological and educational partners during 2022 fieldwork.
The current electoral record lists Balembouche in I9. The spelling differs from the estate and research literature. Interpretation should connect these records carefully, and place labour, resistance and community knowledge alongside the surviving machinery and buildings.
The National Trust’s 2020 statement welcomed efforts to acquire and protect a Morne Sion windmill property. This review did not establish completed acquisition, restoration or current public access. Ask for that record before advertising a visit. Care for heritage includes ownership, upkeep and permission.
Name names
Some were born here. Others grew up here, taught here or contributed through local institutions. Those relationships are stated explicitly; older accounts do not imply current activity.
Morne Sion · master potter
A 2010 firsthand account places Osman’s pottery hut at Morne Sion and describes its use for teaching. Patricia Fay’s professional record documents Osman demonstrating Caribbean bonfire pottery in Fort Worth in March 1998. The university’s later account recognises her contribution to Fay’s research.
Lesson for Choiseul. Pay experienced makers as teachers and knowledge holders. Their expertise can support local learning and international exchange.
Matin · pottery and sculpture
Alphonse also took part in the 1998 international demonstration. Jennings-Clark’s 2010 visit records her showing students a sculptural cocoa-farmer figure, alongside traditional pottery practice and learning from Eudovic.
Lesson for Choiseul. Give makers room to adapt. A tradition can remain recognisable while its practitioners develop new forms and customers.
Grew up in Choiseul · silk painter
In his own biography, Jean-Baptiste connects childhood fishing from Choiseul’s wooden jetty with the marine and tropical life in his silk paintings. A familiar waterfront became a lasting source of artistic material.
Lesson for Choiseul. Help young people observe, make and document their own surroundings. Local experience can support a distinctive creative practice.
Choiseul-born · visual artist
John Robert Lee’s signed review identifies Xavier as Choiseul-born and discusses his 2024 Cultural Icon exhibition, including ecological themes and work with recycled materials.
Lesson for Choiseul. Invite established artists into sustained local programmes: workshops, school visits and public conversations tied to actual work.
La Pointe · fishing and traditional music
Interviewed in June 2004, Jn Baptiste described learning fishing from his father, playing a homemade banjo as a child and performing with the La Pointe Shack-Shack band. His story documents how livelihood and musical knowledge can share the same family and community networks.
Lesson for Choiseul. Ask elders which skills and stories they want passed on. Record with consent, return copies and budget for the time involved.
Raised in Saltibus · educator and cooperative service
ECLAC’s 2025 biography records a 37-year education career, including seven years as Delcer principal and ten at Grace, teaching in Saltibus and Piaye, and service through the Saltibus Credit Union.
Lesson for Choiseul. Build leadership across schools and community organisations. Practical administration and patient follow-through are community assets.
Choiseul school and athletics connection · from Morne Paul, Laborie
The athletics association’s 2025 CARIFTA team record identifies Emmanuel with Choiseul Athletics. Local reporting locates her home community in Morne Paul, Laborie. Her connection illustrates the reach of Choiseul’s learning and sporting institutions across neighbouring communities.
Lesson for Choiseul. Support the surrounding system: qualified coaching, regular practice, transport, school support and inclusion. Be precise about where a person comes from.
Babonneau-born sculptor · taught at La Fargue
In a 2004 interview, the sculptor described returning from Trinidad to teach at La Fargue’s government training centre and helping shape the handicraft centre. The account also records his 1972 UNESCO scholarship to Nigeria.
Lesson for Choiseul. Make room for skilled people to return and teach. Institutions grow through continuing instruction and exchange.
Craft and local income
There is a centre to use and a history of reaching buyers. The unfinished task is dependable access, paid learning and orders that leave makers better off.
Government’s October 2025 account describes an approximately EC$800,000 upgrade of the existing Arts and Crafts Centre, with NSDC as custodian. Studios, training and exhibition space, offices and equipment were part of the investment.
The immediate request is straightforward: a current timetable, named coordinator, equipment access, maker selection and selling terms. This review did not locate a current tenant list, training intake or earnings series.
The Maryland shipment is a useful example because a buyer introduction in 2021 led to inspection, an order and completed shipment in 2022. It is an earlier achievement, not evidence of a new 2026 export.
Repeat the useful sequence with a manageable group. Cost the product. Confirm what the buyer wants. Pack a test piece. Agree delivery and payment. Then track the next order.
In August 2026, National Trust deputy director Finola Jennings-Clarke again described the risk of craft knowledge losing successors. Earlier CDF work had already identified poor returns, arduous work and weakened commercial channels. A paid master-and-learner commission addresses both transmission and the working conditions around it. That is the proposal; its results still have to be demonstrated.
Real FM’s 31 August Facebook caption also flags the craft-succession concern. The full post and video were unavailable; the MBC account and Daily Post article provide readable corroboration.
Local visitor trade can complement household and wholesale sales. Leo and Hattie Barnard’s River Dorée gallery is one existing enterprise, separate from the NSDC centre. Its published schedule closes in August and September, so confirm reopening before planning a visit or referral.
A working tool
Try an invented example, then enter your own figures. All money fields use EC dollars. This is a simple costing aid, not a forecast of local earnings.
A worksheet for makers
Use a small batch to test your price before committing to a larger order. The starting values are an invented example—not Choiseul market prices or a recommended wage. Replace them with your own costs.
Illustrative example
This is what remains after the entered batch costs, sales fee and value of your time. It is not a forecast or a complete business profit figure.
Sales = items × price. Surplus = sales − sales fees − materials − packaging/other costs − delivery − hours × hourly value. Break-even price = batch costs including time ÷ [items × (1 − fee percentage)].
Count all production costs, including materials used on rejected items, against the sellable items. Add appropriate overhead to other batch costs. Taxes, borrowing, currency conversion and unsold inventory need separate consideration. Values stay on this page; saving creates a worksheet on your device.
The working coast
A fisher needs access, handling space, ice for keeping the catch cold and a route to a buyer. Every part needs somebody responsible for keeping it working.
A 2003 government account describes Choiseul’s ice-making plant as part of the fishing facility. This is manufactured ice for preserving catch. That historical record does not establish today’s availability, price or a shortage.
St. Lucia Times reported sargassum landings in Choiseul and Soufrière in May 2025. Seaweed and harbour sand are different problems. Record the current location, date and effect before choosing a response; the 2025 report is not a September 2026 shoreline update.
JICA’s grant scope includes coastal works, dredging and monitoring with possible modification after construction.
Hazama Ando explicitly lists 2024 as the completion year. The public portfolio does not establish present channel depth or a handover date.
UBEC requested life-cycle maintenance and sustainable-financing plans including Choiseul. Award and accepted outputs were not found.
The indexed Japan/UN commitment gives a programme horizon ending 31 March 2027; the full page was unavailable during review. JICA’s retrieved scope already shows why construction and subsequent monitoring can have different dates. That is a reasonable interpretation, pending the handover and monitoring records. It is not a finding that all port issues are solved.
Start with a short operating log: blocked access, availability and cost of fish-preservation ice, equipment downtime and fish rejected or spoiled. Bring fishers, vendors, the operator and Fisheries into one discussion. Ask what can be repaired, who is competent to do it, and where the recurring money comes from.
Grenada’s experience below shows why facilities, repair capacity and customers have to be planned together.
Agriculture’s December 2024 record documents cooperative raft-farming support, training, processing space and reported US FDA registration. Registration does not mean product approval or prove export revenue. Before putting in money, ask about membership, permitted production, quality requirements, buyer arrangements and costs.
FISH-ADAPT’s February 2026 report includes Choiseul in fisheries assessments. Ask Fisheries about confirmed local opportunities and dates. Its island-wide target must not be presented as a Choiseul allocation.
Beyond the waterfront
Saltibus, Delcer, the farming settlements and the Piaye end of the constituency need practical access to buyers, water, care and decisions.
The January 2026 Agriculture account documents hands-on tillage training in Choiseul under BRACCCVAS. The useful follow-up is a machinery service people can understand: what is available, who operates it, how to book, the charge and what happens when it breaks. Buyer specifications should guide production before a grower spends more on expanding it.
Victoria’s 100,000-gallon storage facility opened in August 2024. Its reported service area includes Belle Vue, Dacretin, Derriere Morne, Morne Sion, Fond Cacoa, Bois Den and Mongouge.
WASCO’s 18 August 2026 Delcer notice makes a different distinction: a transmission restriction at Unionville had been resolved, restoring former plant capacity, while low source flows continued. These are different constraints. A useful local record follows supply hours and faults by service zone, alongside the repairs and source conditions that explain them.
Delcer Wellness Centre reopened in August 2025 after SMART rehabilitation, including water-storage and accessibility work. La Fargue’s January 2026 notice documents outreach and a published Monday–Friday 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m. schedule, with Saturday 8 a.m.–noon. Confirm current hours and the particular service before travelling.
A rotating assistance day in existing inland venues could help residents complete agreed applications and referrals. It needs a receiving agency, a trained operator, working supplies and a follow-up route. The Bhutan evaluation below explains why a computer alone is insufficient.
SLPA’s household-infrastructure analysis identifies housing and information-access concerns using Choiseul district data and published definitions. It can guide questions about access. It cannot identify current constituency households needing help, establish income poverty or measure hours of water service.
Read the district analysis and definitions →Saltibus and geothermal exploration
The 28 July 2026 tender seeks drilling services for three exploratory wells, including a projected 1,500-metre well at Saltibus. The published bid deadline is 7 October 2026.
As of this review, the tender establishes procurement for exploration. It does not establish an award, drilling start, commercially usable resource or lower household bills. The bid requirements include a Local Labour Method Statement; actual local work and its duration should be reported as it happens.
The project’s grievance mechanism names community liaison officer Windia Jaunai: 758-732-0030 and grievances.resdp@govt.lc. It also publishes an online form and feedback-box locations including Saltibus Post Office.
Keep a copy and ask for a reference. The published acknowledgement standard is two working days; that is a service commitment, not a verified performance rate. Confirm physical access before travelling.
Learn from other small nations
Four useful mechanisms from Samoa, Bhutan and Grenada. These are evidence-informed adaptations for Choiseul; their local results are not guaranteed.
Women in Business Development links sponsored fine-mat production to contracts, payments during production, fortnightly progress visits and financial-literacy support. Master teaching helps transmit finer techniques.
Choiseul adaptation: a small commissioned craft apprenticeship with separate teaching fees, learner support and agreed milestones.
Limit: continuing buyers and field administration cost money. The evidence describes an operating practice and participant experience; it does not establish average hourly earnings or a causal income gain.
The EU–Bhutan project's 2022 closing account reports 320 new textile-handicraft designs and more than 2,000 units exported. Design, production and marketing support were connected to transactions.
Choiseul adaptation: a short catalogue, tested packaging, identifiable buyers and one reliable fulfilment contact.
Limit: exported units are not net maker income. A separate ITC ecosystem study found gaps in growth-stage, packaging and follow-up support; it was not an evaluation of the EU programme.
UNDP's 2013 G2C evaluation found reported travel and time savings from assisted local services. It also found only 23 of 101 centres online, missing consumables, unfinished agency processes and a likely need for subsidy.
Choiseul adaptation: rotating assistance in existing venues, agreed with the agencies that can complete the work.
Limit: this is a historical evaluation with fieldwork constraints. Budget operators, printing and follow-up; measure completed cases and repeat journeys before adding centres.
Gouyave's evaluation documents daily machine logs and technician visits, but also prolonged ice-machine failure and weak use of a new market. A later equipment evaluation, conducted in December 2022, found ice production at 55% of its 2019 target and constraints in staffing, spare parts and maintenance finance.
Choiseul adaptation: an operating compact with repair cover, backup ice for fish handling, replacement reserves and vendor participation.
Limit: the evaluations cover different investments and periods; COVID restricted later site visits. They show why construction and dependable service need separate measures.
Eight practical proposals
SLPA proposals, not adopted policies or funding commitments. Start with three agreed priorities, obtain local costs and publish what changes within 90 days.
First 30 days: publish craft-centre terms, obtain port operating records and choose a small set of village and inland service problems with residents.
Days 31–90: deliver a paid craft commission, test agreed buyer or assistance arrangements, and report repairs, payments and completed tasks.
SLPA proposal
Keep pottery, basketry and other chosen craft skills alive through paid practice and repeat demand.
Who leads. NSDC and participating master makers, with the craft association, National Trust, CDF and willing buyers.
What residents can do. Identify a skill you want to learn or teach. Cost one small product with the order tool. A buyer or diaspora group can commission an agreed batch and pay a deposit through the maker or an accountable organisation.
SLPA proposal
Help makers retain more from a sale and give visitors a bookable local experience.
Who leads. Craft association and NSDC with Export Saint Lucia, participating makers, local hosts and transport operators.
What residents can do. Prepare photographs, dimensions, materials, capacity, lead time and a costed price. Test packaging with a sample. A host can refer a small pre-booked group to a consenting maker and agree the maker's payment first.
SLPA proposal
Reduce lost fishing days and avoidable loss of value between landing and sale.
Who leads. Fisheries Department, the responsible facility operator and Choiseul Fishermen's Cooperative, with UBEC, engineers and vendors.
What residents can do. Keep a voluntary four-week record of access interruptions, availability and cost of fish-preservation ice, handling losses and equipment downtime. Ask the cooperative about current sea-moss membership, raft access and purchase arrangements before investing.
SLPA proposal
Make training and equipment useful to small growers without expanding production into an uncertain market.
Who leads. Agriculture extension and participating farmers, with machinery operators, processors and willing household, hospitality or institutional buyers.
What residents can do. Ask your assigned extension officer about machinery access and safe-operation training. Record the crop, expected harvest window and realistic quantity you can offer. Ask a buyer for quality, quantity and collection requirements.
SLPA proposal
Make water service improvements visible in homes, schools, clinics and small businesses.
Who leads. WASCO with the Ministry of Physical Development and Public Utilities, essential facilities and participating residents.
What residents can do. Keep dates and hours of actual supply and report leaks with a location. Ask for a case reference. Follow current WASCO notices and use harvested rainwater for non-potable purposes as advised; leave valves and network equipment to authorised personnel.
SLPA proposal
Reduce repeat journeys for applications, learning and care, including from Saltibus and dispersed settlements.
Who leads. Local government and participating receiving agencies, with schools, health teams, trained operators and accessible community venues.
What residents can do. Record the task, fare and number of visits a service has required, without publishing private documents. Ask the receiving office what can be completed locally. A school-approved mentor can offer a regular learning slot.
SLPA proposal
Let residents understand exploratory work, raise concerns and see whether promised local opportunities materialise.
Who leads. RESDP project team and Physical Development/Public Utilities, with affected residents, land users and the competent environmental and technical agencies.
What residents can do. Use the published project contact to ask about your location, access, anticipated disruption and grievance procedure. Keep dated correspondence and submit private land or compensation documents directly to the authorised team.
SLPA proposal
Bring land users, makers and inland communities into decisions, then show what was done.
Who leads. Local government convenes with the MP, relevant agencies, National Trust, CANARI and participating community organisations; each authority retains its lawful duties.
What residents can do. Bring one documented problem or useful offer to an existing organisation. Elders and young people can record an agreed oral history with consent, credit and a copy returned to the family. Landholders and customary users can identify access concerns privately where needed.
Practical guidance
Published organisational routes checked during research on 5 September 2026. Phone and email responses were not tested; confirm appointments and programme availability.
NSDC · 758-458-1677 · mail@nsdc.edu.lc
Ask for the Choiseul coordinator, calendar, equipment access, fees, selling terms and current apprenticeship intake. Contact supported by indexed official content; its full page was unavailable.
Export Saint Lucia · 758-468-2145 · info@exportsaintlucia.org
Bring product photographs, dimensions, materials, price, capacity and lead time. Ask for current buyer opportunities and freight costing.
Fisheries Department · 758-468-4143 · deptfish@govt.lc
Ask about current port access, the cooperative contact, maintenance planning and confirmed FISH-ADAPT opportunities.
Region 6 extension office, Tredu · office secretary 758-468-6857
Confirm the assigned officer for your settlement, machinery availability, booking, charges and trained-operator arrangements.
La Fargue service notice · Delcer reopening record
Use these to identify the facility, then confirm today's service, appointment needs and referral arrangements before travelling.
RESDP grievance route · 758-732-0030 · grievances.resdp@govt.lc
Ask for a reference, expected response and current information for your location. Open the project's feedback form.
Evidence that needs reconciliation
The profile retains the headline constituency table with a visible caution. It does not use these records to claim rapid growth or rank Choiseul's population.
| Published record | Household population | Households | How to use it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Constituency Table 7 / A.8 | 10,424 | 3,883 | Headline retained; reconciliation needed |
| A.10 Choiseul aggregate | 7,119 | 2,615 | Conflicts with headline constituency record |
| Choiseul district tables | 7,122 | 2,614 | District geography; not a constituency substitute |
The apparent change from the published 2010 value should not be interpreted as measured demographic growth across a stable boundary. Ask CSO for a settlement-level coding crosswalk and corrected constituency tables. The 2025 election register is a separate administrative record, not an alternative population count.
This flagship review was completed on 5 September 2026 using official electoral and census records, dated project and service reports, original biographies and historical research, practitioner accounts and external programme evaluations. The profile separates documented milestones, analytical interpretation and proposed actions. Named people’s connections are stated rather than assumed.
Unverified items remain explicit: current craft-centre access and earnings, port handover and operating condition, maintenance-plan award, machinery rules, current service calendars, geothermal award and mobilisation, and landscape designation. No new local interviews or first-hand observations are claimed. Historical and undated sources are labelled; public contact routes were not tested by calling or emailing.
The illustration is an original model based on reference images, and the calculator starts from invented inputs. Neither is new geographic or economic measurement. The source register below records provenance and limitations.
People and places
These names come from official electoral descriptions and polling-place records. A community may cross everyday social or service boundaries.
66 selected place labels
66 of 66 entries carry a polling-district code in this release. A missing code means it was not present in the assembled source rows, not that the place sits outside a polling district.
The CSO PDF is an older official reference map with a 2010 map vintage. It may not show later boundary or coding changes. Use it alongside the current official Electoral Department description when that page is available.
Services and resilience
These notes identify assets, service gaps and risks. They do not turn the number of notes into a performance score.
SLPA discussion priorities
These are SLPA proposals for discussion and local validation. They are not an official plan, ranked mandate or finding about what residents want.
Pay master makers to teach through real commissions
How to check: Mentors paid; learner pieces completed independently; earnings per working hour; repeat orders; learners still practising after three months.Build one dependable order, packing and booking service
How to check: On-time orders; damage and returns; net maker receipts; repeat customers; paying visitors; supplier payment time.Give the fishing port an operating and maintenance compact
How to check: Blocked-access days; surveyed channel condition; fish-preservation ice availability; repair response; equipment uptime; fish rejected or spoiled. Higher catches alone are not proof of healthy fish stocks.Connect shared farm machinery to real buyer demand
How to check: Machine hours and waiting days; cost per serviced plot; fulfilled orders; produce left unsold; payment delays; voluntary net receipts.Measure reliable water at the end of the pipe
How to check: Supply hours with a consistent definition; repeated interruptions; leak response; facility disruption; repairs still working at follow-up.Take assisted services to existing inland venues
How to check: Completed cases; repeat trips; waiting days; estimated travel cost saved; referrals completed; sustained learner participation.Give Saltibus a clear geothermal information and follow-up desk
How to check: Dated milestones; concerns acknowledged and resolved; agreed safeguards disclosed and checked; local paid work; restoration completed.Protect living heritage and publish a 90-day delivery record
How to check: Commitments completed; operating funds assigned; affected groups participating; concerns answered; records corrected; practitioners credited and paid.Projects and public action
Status reflects the latest clear source in this research base. “Planned,” “under way” and “operating” are different claims.
Latest sourced status: Existing centre upgraded; NSDC custodian
Government reports approximately EC$800,000 investment. Current opening hours, artisan terms, training intake and net earnings remain to be verified.
S438GIS / Government of Saint LuLatest sourced status: Construction completion reported by contractor
Obtain handover and present channel-condition records. Later monitoring and possible modification belong to the wider JICA programme; completion does not prove navigability today.
S441JICAS442Hazama Ando CorporationLatest sourced status: Raft farming, training and processing support documented
Reported FDA registration is not product approval, a current validity check, export revenue or evidence of profitability.
S445Agriculture Ministry / JICALatest sourced status: Hands-on farmer training delivered
Confirm current machinery, booking, operator and maintenance arrangements. Local output and income effects unverified.
S446Agriculture MinistryLatest sourced status: 100,000-gallon facility opened
Storage is a delivered asset. Current continuity must be measured at served settlements and essential facilities.
S449Govt. of Saint LuciaS450WASCO / Government of SaintLatest sourced status: Rehabilitation and reopening documented
Includes water storage and accessibility work; confirm current sessions and referral routes.
S451Health Ministry / GovernmentLatest sourced status: Open day, health fair and service schedule published
Published schedule includes Saturday morning; confirm current hours and the service needed before travel.
S452Health Ministry / GovernmentShared city or regional asset: the location and service area are described below.
Latest sourced status: Choiseul included in fisheries needs assessment
Island-wide project; local training delivery and beneficiary counts require confirmation. National targets are not constituency allocations.
S447Agriculture MinistryShared city or regional asset: the location and service area are described below.
Latest sourced status: Exploratory drilling services being procured
Three-well procurement includes Saltibus. Deadline 7 October 2026; award and drilling start not established. No commercial-generation promise inferred.
S453Physical Development / GoverS454Govt. of Saint LuciaShared city or regional asset: the location and service area are described below.
Latest sourced status: Maintenance and sustainable-finance plans requested
Choiseul and Soufrière are included. June submission deadline has passed; award, accepted plans and funded implementation not located.
S441JICAS443Japan Ministry of Foreign AfS444Government of Saint Lucia /Shared city or regional asset: the location and service area are described below.
Latest sourced status: Land-use and tenure assessment requested
Wider landscape process. Completed assessment, legal designation, access arrangements and benefit scheme unverified.
S448CANARIThese programmes apply across Saint Lucia. The amounts below are national 2026/27 budget envelopes; this research base does not establish how much is allocated to or spent in Choiseul.
National programme reference; estimates require revalidation. No Choiseul allocation inferred.
S006Government of Saint Lucia, MNational programme reference; estimates require revalidation. No Choiseul allocation inferred.
S006Government of Saint Lucia, MNational programme reference; estimates require revalidation. No Choiseul allocation inferred.
S006Government of Saint Lucia, MSources and missing information
The notebook keeps sourced facts, institutional context and SLPA analysis visible as different kinds of evidence.
A sourced official or primary record
An older or broader institutional source
Analysis that must not be read as an official finding
A testable question that needs local evidence
Table 7/A.8 gives 10,424 household residents and 3,883 households; A.10 differs. The 2010–22 change and constituency population rank are withheld pending geographic reconciliation.
S420CSOThe Maryland craft shipment occurred in 2022 after a 2021 buyer introduction. January 2026 tillage training is documented; neither record establishes present earnings or sustained output gains.
S439The STARS462Export Saint LuciaS446Agriculture MinistryThe port contractor lists construction completion in 2024. JICA's scope includes subsequent monitoring and possible modification; a May 2026 UBEC notice seeks maintenance and financing plans.
S441JICAS442Hazama Ando CorporationS444Government of Saint Lucia /Victoria's storage facility opened in 2024. WASCO's August 2026 Delcer report separates a resolved transmission restriction from continuing low source flow.
S449Govt. of Saint LuciaS450WASCO / Government of SaintDelcer rehabilitation and La Fargue's 2026 open day demonstrate facility and outreach activity, not measured changes in population health.
S451Health Ministry / GovernmentS452Health Ministry / GovernmentSt. Lucia Times reported sargassum landings in Choiseul and Soufrière on 10 May 2025. This is a dated local report, not a finding of current accumulation or blocked access in September 2026.
S481Keira St. Rose / St. Lucia TJuly 2026 procurement includes a projected 1,500-metre exploratory well at Saltibus. The published deadline is 7 October; commercial generation and tariff savings are not established.
S453Physical Development / GoverS454Govt. of Saint LuciaCatty Osman and Irena Alphonse demonstrated pottery internationally in 1998. Named artists, educators and cultural practitioners offer further examples of community knowledge and contribution.
S430Finola Jennings-ClarkS431Patricia J. FayS434UN ECLACS437SLHTA / Island VisionsThe October 2025 craft-centre record describes an approximately EC$800,000 upgrade of an existing facility with NSDC as custodian. Current access, income and training results require follow-up.
S438GIS / Government of Saint LuThe proposed Dorée–Piaye landscape's assessment scope includes land tenure, customary access and benefit sharing. It is not treated as an already designated protected landscape.
S448CANARIChoiseul's Indigenous archaeological record and its Creole pottery history require distinct treatment. Fay's research identifies African technical inheritance among women potters whose Creole way of life developed after emancipation.
S424Saint Lucia Department of FiS425Patricia J. Fay / UniversityThe 2025 result records 5,705 ballots, 247 rejected and 5,458 valid. Keithson Charles received 2,941 votes and John Bradly Felix 2,517; turnout was 59.81% against 9,539 register entries.
S421Electoral Dept.S422Govt. of Saint LuciaPlace labels, districts and constituency aggregates cannot be interchanged.
Useful next source: CSO correction with settlement-to-constituency coding and electoral boundary reconciliation.An upgrade or training announcement does not establish access or viable work.
Useful next source: NSDC calendar, access agreement, paid apprenticeship records and consenting maker cost/order logs.Construction completion and a wider project end date describe different possible stages.
Useful next source: Fisheries/JICA handover and monitoring records; UBEC award, accepted plan and operating budget.Training, equipment and registration do not show net income.
Useful next source: Extension booking/maintenance records; cooperative production, handling, sales and cost records.Facility openings and old schedules do not capture present household experience.
Useful next source: WASCO zone records; consistent voluntary supply logs; verified clinic and assistance calendars.Exploration and proposed designation need accessible, dated information.
Useful next source: RESDP award/mobilisation notices and grievance reporting; CANARI accepted assessment and consultation records.Government of Saint Lucia, Ministry of Finance · 2026
Inherited 2026/27 estimates remain unavailable for revalidation; amounts withheld. National reference is not a constituency allocation.Central Statistical Office / CARICOM · 2022 census; Release 2
Table 7 p26/A.8 p46: 10,424 household residents and 3,883 households. A.10 p62: 7,119 and 2,615. District tables report 7,122 and 2,614. Geographic reconciliation needed; trend and rank withheld.Saint Lucia Electoral Department · 2025 election
5,705 ballots include 247 rejected; 5,458 valid. Charles 2,941; Felix 2,517. Register 9,539; turnout 59.81%. Register entries are not resident population.Government of Saint Lucia
Checked 5 September 2026: Keithson Hermine Charles, Physical Development and Public Utilities. Current role, not a claim of project delivery.Saint Lucia Electoral Department
Checked I1–I9 including I7(a)/(b), Saltibus I8 and Balembouche I9. Selected labels are not parcel boundaries. Historical representative section is outdated.Saint Lucia Department of Finance
Indigenous petroglyphs, canoe-making, fishing and farming history; name attributed to Duke of Choiseul. Not a current economic survey; no Indigenous disappearance claim adopted.Patricia J. Fay / University Press of Florida; UBC distribution · 2017 book; 2019 paperback
Description and bibliographic record read, not the full book. Two decades of research; post-emancipation Choiseul women potters and African inherited techniques. Do not equate all local pottery with unchanged Indigenous practice.Finola Jennings-Clark · 27 June 2010
Documents clay preparation, family labour and open firing in named communities in 2010. No present practitioner count or land-tenure finding; recalled mineral chemistry omitted.CDF / Government of Saint Lucia · 15 September 2017
Reports low returns, arduous work and declining transmission. Proposed cultural district is not verified implementation or UNESCO inscription.Arun Sood, Marenka Thompson-Odlum and Ashley Coutu / Island Studies Journal · 2026; 21(1), pp230–250
2022 fieldwork at Balenbouche with AHS and SALCC; 203 enslaved people in 1815, escape attempts in 1827, sugar works largely abandoned by 1896. Suggested escape routes are inference; current electoral spelling is Balembouche I9.Saint Lucia National Trust / The STAR · 24 July 2020
Morne Sion property-acquisition negotiations; completed purchase, restoration and public access not established.Finola Jennings-Clark · 11 June 2010
Catty Osman at Morne Sion; Irena Alphonse at Matin; teaching and sculptural adaptation. Historical roles, not present activity claims.Patricia J. Fay
Records Osman and Alphonse demonstrating Caribbean bonfire pottery at NCECA, Fort Worth, 25–28 March 1998.Daniel Jean-Baptiste
Supports growing up in Choiseul, childhood fishing from its wooden jetty, and silk-painting practice. No unsupported earnings, collections or superlative claims.John Robert Lee / Jako Productions · 3 January 2025; reviews May 2024 exhibition
Identifies Xavier as Choiseul-born and discusses ecological/recycled-material work. Article date is not exhibition date.UN ECLAC · 2025 Sustainable Development Forum
Saltibus upbringing; 37-year education career, Delcer and Grace principalships, school and credit-union service. 2025 political office is not used as current title.Saint Lucia Athletics Association / Government · 10 April 2025
Supports Jady Emmanuel's Choiseul Athletics affiliation; does not establish Choiseul birthplace.St Lucia Times · 13 March 2026
Morne Paul, Laborie native with Choiseul school/club connection. No personal health detail repeated.SLHTA / Island Visions · 2005 edition; interviews June 2004
Heran Jn Baptiste of La Pointe: fishing and Shack-Shack music. Eudovic discusses teaching at La Fargue. Historical contribution; neither is assumed currently active.GIS / Government of Saint Lucia · 17 October 2025
Approximately EC$800,000 upgrade of existing Choiseul centre; NSDC custodian. Programme plans are not verified current intake, maker earnings or operating results.The STAR · 10 March 2022
Securely dates the Maryland shipment to 2022, following a 2021 buyer introduction. No export value or repeat-order series.Sharefil Gaillard / Saint Lucia Daily Post · 31 August 2026
Finola Jennings-Clarke describes succession concerns. No practitioner age census; questionable international observance date omitted.JICA · 11 November 2022
Up to ¥1,263m; 54-month programme includes sedimentation monitoring and possible modification after construction. Provisional dimensions are not as-built quantities.Hazama Ando Corporation · Completion 2024; page undated
Explicit completion year 2024 and photographs. No handover certificate, exact date, present operating depth or proof of permanent sediment control.Japan Ministry of Foreign Affairs / UN SDGs
Indexed UN record lists 1 October 2022–31 March 2027. Direct retrieval failed on review; planned programme horizon, not delivery proof. Main stage assessment also rests on retrieved JICA scope and contractor record.Government of Saint Lucia / UBEC · 13 May 2026
Choiseul and Soufrière included; sustainable finance and maintenance plans requested. Deadline 18 June, expected four-month engagement. Award and accepted outputs not verified.Agriculture Ministry / JICA · 18 December 2024
Raft farming, training, processing space and reported FDA registration. Registration is not product approval, export sales or proven profit; current validity not established.Agriculture Ministry · 29 January 2026
BRACCCVAS hands-on tillage training. No machine entitlement, current booking rules, hectares served or measured yield gains established.Agriculture Ministry · 11 February 2026
Choiseul among assessment locations. National beneficiary target is not a constituency allocation; planned boatbuilding training is not a local completion count.CANARI · 28 May 2026
Proposed protected landscape; land tenure, customary access, gender and benefit sharing. Completed assessment, formal designation and agreed benefits not established.Government of Saint Lucia · 13 August 2024
100,000-gallon facility, opened 9 August. Named service areas include Belle Vue, Dacretin, Derriere Morne, Morne Sion, Fond Cacoa, Bois Den and Mongouge. Does not prove 2026 continuous supply.WASCO / Government of Saint Lucia · 18 August 2026
Unionville transmission restriction resolved, restoring former plant capacity; low source flow persisted. Alleged interference remained under investigation; no individual blamed. Not a live September schedule.Health Ministry / Government · 26 August 2025
Structural, electrical, plumbing/water storage and accessibility improvements. Current sessions and clinical outcomes require separate confirmation.Health Ministry / Government · 22 January 2026
Published Monday–Friday 8–4:30, Saturday 8–noon; confirm before travel. Screening and education activities are not disease prevalence or outcome measures.Physical Development / Government · 28 July 2026
Three exploratory wells including projected 1,500m Saltibus well; bid deadline 7 October 2026. Local Labour Method Statement required. Award, drilling start, commercial generation and tariff savings not established.Government of Saint Lucia · 2 September 2025
Links RAP and project grievance procedure. Historical consultation deadline has passed; not advertised as a current application window.Women in Business Development Inc., Samoa
Master-weaver teaching, sponsored production and adaptation difficulties. Not a causal earnings evaluation or proof of financial self-sufficiency.Samoa Ministry of the Prime Minister and Cabinet · 9 March 2023
Contracts, payments during production, fortnightly field checks and financial literacy. Participant accounts do not establish average earnings or causal impact.European Union / EEAS · 19 September 2022
2018–22 programme: 320 textile-handicraft designs and over 2,000 units exported. Outputs, not net income or sustained jobs; 1,400 beneficiaries cover farmers and SMEs as well as artisans.International Trade Centre · 2019 research snapshot; publication undated
Growth-stage, packaging, quality and follow-up gaps. Study excludes international-agency programmes; contextual counterevidence, not evaluation of the EU project.UNDP · 2013; April–June evaluation
Reported travel/time savings; only 23 of 101 centres online, consumable and agency-process failures, subsidy concerns. Historical study with sampling limits, not a causal trial.JICA / IC Net · 2015; evaluation November 2014–October 2015
Logs and technician checks; effectiveness high, sustainability fair. Ice-machine failure and only two of eight intended vendors operating. Filename year is not final survey date.JICA Saint Lucia Office · December 2022
Ice output 55% of 2019 target, reduced technical staff and maintenance funding constraints. Partially satisfactory; COVID restricted site visits. Filename 2021 is not evaluation date.Export Saint Lucia · Original shipment 2022; displayed date lacks reliable year
Buyer introduction in 2021 led to shipment dated by contemporaneous STAR report to 2022. Apparent 2026 search date not used as event date. Published support contact: 468-2145, info@exportsaintlucia.org.National Skills Development Centre
Indexed official content supports 458-1677 and mail@nsdc.edu.lc. Direct retrieval returned 502. Contact not tested; current Choiseul timetable unverified.Agriculture Ministry
Tredu; office secretary 468-6857. Confirm assigned officer for settlement. Undated contact content; inconsistent region-head labels not reproduced.Government of Saint Lucia
468-4143; deptfish@govt.lc. Undated directory, not telephone-tested.Renewable Energy Sector Development Project
Windia Jaunai: 732-0030, grievances.resdp@govt.lc. Dedicated procedure and 2023 government notice agree; contact-page 723 variant not used. Published response standards are commitments, not measured performance.Stan Bishop / Saint Lucia Tourism Authority · 20 April 2020
Parish 1765, River Dorée Anglican church 1846, school 1848, village Catholic church completed 1914. Erroneous English 'chosen' etymology omitted; no 2026 officeholder inference.Nina Barbero / FGCU360 · 26 October 2017
Corroborates Catty Osman's collaboration in Patricia Fay's Choiseul research.Leo and Hattie Barnard
Distinct River Dorée enterprise. Published seasonal closure August–September; confirm before visiting. No current sales or visitor totals.Saint Lucia Policy Analysis · 2022 census-based analysis
Choiseul district weighted household base 2,614; information and housing indicators use stated definitions. Not current constituency caseload, income poverty or water continuity.Government of Saint Lucia / NationWide · 24 May 2003
Pages 1 and 8 describe manufactured ice for catch preservation, clean handling and water. Not a record of 2026 output, machine condition, prices or shortages.Keira St. Rose / St. Lucia Times · 10 May 2025
Reports heavy landings in Choiseul and Soufrière; photograph identifies Soufrière Bay. Named fisher testimony is from other communities. No September 2026 shoreline condition or local blockage inferred.MBC Saint Lucia · 1 September 2026; report dated 31 August
Companion to Real FM public post and 31 August local reporting. A named heritage official’s succession concern, not a census of makers or measured apprentice retention.Real FM 91.3 · 31 August 2026 caption
Full Facebook post/video unavailable. MBC companion and Daily Post article provide readable corroboration. No new SLPA interview claimed.