{"id":93312,"date":"2026-08-04T06:18:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T10:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/?p=93312"},"modified":"2026-08-04T06:18:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T10:18:53","slug":"sainte-lucie-lance-officiellement-une-allocation-de-1-000-ec-pour-les-nouveau-nes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/sainte-lucie-lance-officiellement-une-allocation-de-1-000-ec-pour-les-nouveau-nes\/","title":{"rendered":"Saint Lucia Officially Launches a 1,000 EC$ Allowance for Newborns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: St. Lucia Times<\/h3>\n

By Quinn St. Juste<\/h3>\n

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Under this program, mothers of eligible, registered newborns will receive a one-time payment of 1,000 EC$. \u2013<\/span><\/h3>\n

The government announced that the Newborn Allowance Program officially took effect on August 1, 2026, in accordance with a promise made by Prime Minister Philip J. Pierre in the 2026\u20132027 budget. The Prime Minister\u2019s spokesperson, Melissa Paul, made the announcement during a press briefing ahead of the Cabinet meeting on Monday.<\/span><\/h3>\n

Under this program, mothers of eligible newborns will receive a one-time payment of 1,000 EC$. This payment is reserved for children born on or after August 1, 2026, whose births are registered within the following six months.<\/span><\/h3>\n

A government press release states that the Birth Allowance is intended to \u00abhelp mothers cover certain immediate expenses related to caring for a newborn.\u00bb.<\/span><\/h3>\n

For more information on the Birth Allowance Program, please contact the civil registry office.<\/span><\/h3>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: St. Lucia Times By Quinn St. Juste Under this program, mothers of eligible, registered newborns will receive a one-time allowance of 1,000 EC$. \u2013 The government announced that the Newborn Allowance Program officially took effect on August 1, 2026, in accordance with a campaign promise made<\/p>","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":93313,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":""},"categories":[1373],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-caraibe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93314,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93312\/revisions\/93314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}