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Editorials
Crime and Development: the Impact on Tourism
Feb. 4, 2013Last week the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) revealed that crime and violence have had a dramatic effect on the economic and social development of the Caribbean. The Washington-based financial institution ...
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In Retrospect
The Opposition & a Coalition of the Willing
Dr. Emanuel FinnJan. 28, 2013You've probably heard by now that PM Skerrit's attorney said that if he loses the citizenship case general elections will be called. I am not sure who elected this dude ...
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Smart Living
Becoming agents of transformation
Jayson Grell FMIJan. 28, 2013In defining his ministry in 2 Corinthians, St. Paul says: "God…commanded light to shine out of the darkness, which has shone in our hearts to give the light of the ...
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Spotlight
Our Calypso Judges Must be Tired
Ian JacksonJan. 28, 2013As a former president of the Dominica Calypso Association (DCA) and one who has performed, composed and has judged calypso at the highest level here and in Trinidad, I have ...
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You and the Law
The Official Executive - 2
Dr. William Para RiviereJan. 28, 2013The offices of the Director of Public Prosecutions (D.P.P), the Director of Audit, the Chief Elections Officer, the Chief of Police and the Deputy Chief of Police are cut in ...
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Columns
Consumed and Obsessed by Self …
Dr. Francis O. SeverinJan. 28, 2013The embattled leader of Syria, President Bashar Hafez al-Assad - in power since July 2000 - like all dictators who have preceded him, refuses to voluntarily relinquish power. This is ...
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Health Wealth
Government meets villagers in Wotten Waven about geothermal project
Dr. Janet TaylorJan. 28, 2013The Dominican government is telling the locals that ongoing geothermal sensitization meetings will continue to take place as this very sensitive energy possibility is debated and discussed. On Friday, January ...
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Editorials
Geothermal project debate: the issue of trust
Jan. 28, 2013Over the past few weeks Dominicans at home and abroad have joined the debate about the geothermal project currently being implemented in the Roseau Valley. This sometimes noisy debate began ...
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Fine PointRemembering Glensworth 'Tom' Lafond (1947-2012)
Phillip AlleyneJan. 21, 2013It is said that a game reflects the character of those who play and those who serve it. By this token cricket in Dominica is made infinitely poorer by the ...
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Spotlight
Calypso assessment and lamentations after The Quarters
Ian JacksonJan. 21, 2013Yes, it could be aptly described as lamentations because very few calypsos in the quarter finals of 2013 were political in nature but rather they concentrated on societal ills such ...