Former St. Lucia Minister Resigns From Senate

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, CMC – Former senior government minister, Lenard “Spider” Montoute, says he has resigned from the Senate, but denied reports he was quitting active politics.

“Tell them they will be tired of seeing my face…I was born in this town, I will die in this town, nobody will run me from where I come from,” Montoute told supporters at a meeting in the northern town of Gros-Islet, which he formerly represented in Parliament.

Montoute, who was leader of the opposition in the Senate, said he had resigned effective December 5.

The former minister, who served in both the government of Stephenson King and the late Prime Minister, Sir John Compton, gave no indication as to why he was quitting the Senate.