EDITORIAL: Civility and compassion must guide election victors, losers

By this time next week, it will all be over: the political campaigning, the chants, the songs, the maypwis, the mudslinging.Wounds will have deepened, tears will have been shed, and in the end, there will be winners and losers. There will be celebrations, and there will be retreats into disappointment. Such is the framework of the parliamentary democracy we inherited, part of our five-year cycle, part of life here in Saint Lucia.