• Dominican centenarian in February 2021- Victoria Edvira Anatol
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    Happy 100 Birthday!

    It's not normally appropriate to give out a woman's age, but when she's lived through a century, we make an exception.

  • Observer
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    Davidson "Observer" Victor: "We are satisfied"

    Despite virtually empty stands for the COVID-affected 2021 Calypso shows, Davidson "Observer" Victor, the president of the Dominica Calypso Association (DCA), says the group's total revenue may have equaled total ...

  • Cecil Joseph , manager of DBS , first in row, at the CCJ accession ceremony in 2015
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    DBS radio says sorry for breaching COVID-19 carnival protocols

    Opposition leader Lennox Linton has demanded equal application of the law following the breach of carnival Covid-19 protocols by state broadcaster DBS radio.

  • Tour vehicles on the Dame Eugenia Boulevard in 2016
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    "It hard, oui,"

    Three months before the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, Andy Hogan built a brand new safari vehicle – his second – for his Lion Tours Safari. The cost: $160,000. At ...

  • Dominica Freedom Party Political Leader Kent Vital
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    We are Only as Strong as we are United – ...

    In the last two articles we have been discussing the three interrelated strategies that are highly important to remove the corrupt current ruling political regime from governance and in so ...

  • Clockwise from left: Justice Saunders, Shillingford and Astaphan
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    CCJ dismisses appeal in treating case

    In a judgment released today, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) dismissed the appeal in the matter of Roosevelt Skerrit & Ors v Antoine Defoe & Ors [2021] CCJ 4 ...

  • Covid-19 Update image
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    Dominica records 13 new cases, WHO says

    The World Health Organisation (WHO) Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Dashboard has reported that Dominica had 13 newly reported cases in the last 24 hours.

  • Kent Vital, former political leader of the Dominica Freedom Party
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    Door shut on Vital as possible APP political leader

    The door to the Alternative People's Party (APP) has been all but slammed shut on Kent Vital, following his shock resignation recently as political leader of the 52-year-old Dominica Freedom ...

  • Dominica Freedom Party Political Leader Kent Vital
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    We Are Only as Strong as We Are United

    In last week's article we noted that we have a huge problem on our hands – the soul of our nation is being sapped and we all know it as ...

  • Resident Judge Wynante Adrien-Roberts
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    Woodford Hill man gets suspended sentence but Judge orders compensation

    Fifty-three-year old Bertrand Benjamin, a Woodford Hill man found guilty of unlawfully and maliciously wounding a fellow Woodford Hill man at the Morocco Hotel building site at the Cabrits, Portsmouth ...

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    Adding Value Via osh in 2021

    July 6, 1988, 120 miles north-east of Scotland, stood the Piper Alpha oil rig. At 14,000 tons, and two-and-a-half times the height of the Statue of Liberty, it was one ...

  • Left to right: Sir Dennis Byron and Electoral Commission Chairman Duncan Stowe
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    June is not too soon

    Government is likely to have a report and recommendations on the way forward for electoral reform here by the middle of the year.