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Editorials
Freedom of the Press and Dominica's General Elections: Is this ...
May 16, 2019"If our elections are to be free and fair, journalists must understand that the coverage of elections is not like a regular beat. It is tracking a complex system with ...
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Editorials
Dominicans are strange people: we ignore issues that affect our ...
May 8, 2019On April 22nd hundreds of millions around the world observed Earth Day, the date that the United Nations has set aside for communities to clean up litter, plant trees, or ...
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Spotlight
Let us Recognize the Notre Dame of Song
Ian JacksonMay 3, 2019Yes, in case you did not know, Notre Dame is French for "Our Lady" or "Our Mother" as in the Blessed Virgin Mary. So it's no wonder that the Christian ...
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Spotlight
Sound Engineering: What are we doing to improve?
Ian JacksonMay 3, 2019As far as I can recall not even one young person has been offered a scholarship far less encouraged to do sound engineering as a vocation. Sure we have about ...
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Editorials
For Whom the Bells Toll This Coming Election
May 3, 2019Some people firmly believe that the election of 2020 is already decided and that the United Workers Party (UWP) has already won. They should hold their horses. Determining who will ...
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Spotlight
The Voice
Ian JacksonApril 11, 2019Yes, indeed there are those who are born with it and we must listen when they talk. It has nothing to do with charisma or style or good looks; it's ...
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Our Caribbean
Selling or saving the soul of the OAS
Sir Ron SandersApril 11, 2019The Organisation of American States (OAS), already a broken institution, was shattered even more on April 9 at a meeting of its Permanent Council. It is now an organisation whose ...
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Editorials
The economy will grow by 9% in 2019. Really? That's ...
April 11, 2019Since ECLAC, the Economic Commission of Latin America and the Caribbean, declared recently that the post- Maria Dominican economy will grow by nine percent in 2019, the Government of Dominica ...
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Letters
Police Take Heed
April 11, 2019In case you are wondering why I do not directly write to you Mr. Commissioner, concerning matters of public interest, please allow me to enlighten you, Sir.
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Spotlight
Nasio and Calypso a Must for WCMF 2019
Ian JacksonApril 10, 2019It's been a cry, seemingly unheeded, since no clarifications have been given to explain why Dominica's premier Reggae artiste, and one of the world's greatest, is yet to grace the ...
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Editorials
Great expectations: Free and fair general elections following a clean ...
April 10, 2019Although Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit is keeping the date of the general election close to his chest, the two main political parties here have been moving their election campaign into ...
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Spotlight
Famalay lay, lay, lay
Ian JacksonApril 2, 2019'Famalay'-a song written and performed by Bunji Garlin and Machel Montano from Trinidad and Tobago and Skinny Fabulous from St. Vincent and the Grenadines has been breaking record views across ...