• Allan Guye, former minister of health in Dominica Freedom Party Administration
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    Allan Guye dies

    Allan Guye, the former Parliamentary Representative for the Roseau North Constituency and former Minister of Health and Social Security in the Dominica Freedom Party (DFP) administration of Dame Eugenia Charles ...

  • Michael Brown's father (5th L), Michael Brown Sr. leads a march in Ferguson, Missouri, U.S., on August 9, 2015.
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    State of Emergency declared in Ferguson after gun battle between ...

    FERGUSON, the United States, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) -- A state of emergency has been declared for the city of Ferguson on Monday following gun battle between police and protesters Sunday ...

  • CARACAS, Feb. 22, 2014 (Xinhua) -- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro attends a press conference at Miraflores Palace, in Caracas, capital of Venezuela, on Feb. 21, 2014.
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    Venezuela slams U.S. "interference" in midterm elections

    CARACAS, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Venezuela's government Wednesday rejected what it described as "intervention" from the U.S. State Department in upcoming legislative elections.

  • United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
    World

    UN chief welcomes upcoming elections in Haiti

    UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Friday welcomed the upcoming presidential, legislative and local elections in Haiti, which will begin Sunday with the first ...

  • The View from Europe

    Too big to fail- Baha Mar

    Hardly a day passes without a new twist in the increasingly tense and acrimonious legal battle over the unfinished US$3.5 billion Baha Mar resort on New Providence in the Bahamas.

  • Skerrit meets Venezeulan Vice President
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    Venezuelan Vice President Visits Dominica

    Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit and the Vice president of Venezuela have held discussions in Roseau on Venezuelan assistance to Dominica and the Caribbean.

  • Author and publisher Polly Pattullo
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    Launch of Maroons book and play for Literary Festival

    Among the millions of documents in the National Archives in London that record the UK's history are crumbling leather-bound volumes that tell the story of what happened in Dominica in ...

  • Paula Harts,Scotia Bank Dominica's new Country Manager
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    Harts is Scotiabank new Country Manager

    The Bank of Nova Scotia Dominica has a new Country Manager. Paula Harts of the Bahamas recently joined the staff at the bank's Hillsborough Street branch in Roseau, replacing Jim ...

  • Parents, scholarship winners and staff of Bank of Nova Scotia
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    Two awarded Scotiabank scholarships

    Scotiabank Dominica has again this year awarded two scholarships for secondary school education to two eligible children of customers of the Bank. The successful candidates are Olivia Mary Natalie Deserve ...

  • Janet Azzouz in concert
    Music

    Music: a lifelong passion

    Put her on a stage. Throw her a 'mic'. Give her a band that can crank up the rhythm. And you've caught Janet Azzouz's attention.

  • Senator Jahisiah Benoit
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    Benoit in contract mess

    Government's contractual appointment of a senator as Public Awareness Officer, has been declared illegal by the United Workers Party (UWP) which has vowed to put up a legal challenge.

  • Taking Blood Pressure at an All Saints University Clinic
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    No Comfort

    On an ordinary day last week, a young working Dominica woman queued up at the Dominica Grammar School along with hundreds of other people hoping to see medical personnel from ...