Contrary to recent claims by PWA President Cameron Laure that the government failed to honor payments to the Association’s insurance plan, evidence has emerged that the government had the funds allocated, but the PWA never submitted the invoices required for payment.

Laure has publicly accused the government of failing officers, pointing to nearly $600,000 in arrears owed to the accident and death benefit plan, which provides $75,000 in medical coverage and lump-sum payments to families of officers killed in the line of duty.

He warned that the survival of the plan depended only on the goodwill of the insurer. “If not for the relationship between the PWA and the insurance company, this plan would already have been cancelled,” he declared, stressing that families have been left waiting for benefits since last year.

Laure also argued that the Ministry of National Security is duty-bound to make monthly contributions, insisting, “This is not a favor, it’s a negotiated right that belongs to police officers. It cannot be withheld, not even for a month.”

But according to sources close to the matter, the government was in fact ready to pay, the holdup was on the PWA’s side.

“The Government had the allocated funds, but the PWA, through its insurer never sent in the invoices to be paid,” one source told Saint Lucia News Online.

It was only at a high-level meeting on Thursday that the PWA finally submitted invoices covering the period July to September 2025, documents that were only prepared on September 26.

The disclosure has raised uncomfortable questions for Laure and his executive about competence, accountability, and whether internal mismanagement is undermining the very benefits the Association accuses the government of neglecting.