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Kevin Pietersen has signed for Matthew Maynard’s St Lucia Zouks in today’s Caribbean Premier League draft.

But there was no room for former Glamorgan and England fast bowler Simon Jones in the second CPL this year with Owais Shah and Dimitri Mascarenhas also both undrafted, although Ireland’s Kevin O’Brien was selected in the sixth round by the Red Steel.

The six-franchise competition, which begins its second season in July, is the latest Twenty20 competition to draw star players - past and present - with the likes of Kumar Sangakkara, Shahid Afridi and Chris Gayle set to appear.

Each of the six teams are allowed one West Indies franchise player and one international franchise player which were selected before the draft.

Commonwealth Deputy Secretary-General Deodat Maharaj this week pledged ongoing commitment to continue deepening and improving the delivery of technical assistance to St Lucia.

Mr Maharaj met senior government officials and Commonwealth experts in St Lucia before attending the Commonwealth Third Global Biennial Conference on Small States in the country from 26 to 27 March 2014.

Following the lead of some of its Eastern Caribbean neighbours, St Lucia’s government says it is exploring the development of geothermal energy on the island.

As islands like Dominica, Nevis and Montserrat explore geothermal (albeit at varying stages of development), St Lucia says it is moving “very aggressively moving towards developing this geothermal resource,” according to Minister for Sustainable Development, Energy, Science and Technology, Dr James Fletcher.

Any potential geothermal project would be located at the island’s Sulphur Springs, Fletcher said.

The St Lucia government says it will explore the development of the island’s geothermal resources at the Sulphur Springs in the west coast town of Soufriere.

“The government of St Lucia is very aggressively moving towards developing this geothermal resource for many reasons; we believe it gives us an excellent opportunity to bring down the price of electricity, secondly it gives us some buffer in volatility in world oil prices.

“And the more we can move our dependence away from oil and diesel, then the better for us,” said Dr James Fletcher, the Minister for Sustainable Development, Energy, Science and Technology.

He said the Kenny Anthony administration has been in discussions with a developer, but before the geothermal resource can be operationalised, it was necessary to equate a value to it.