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Editorials
Government and Parents Must Stop Brutalizing Children
April 2, 2019At last, some states in the Caribbean are looking towards the abolishment of corporal punishment in the home and especially in schools. Dominica must join the line.
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Editorials
World Water Day 2019: Dominica has "extremely high" levels of ...
April 2, 2019It is not surprising that of the 37 countries that the World Resources Institute has identified as having "extremely high" levels of water stress, seven are from the Caribbean: Dominica, ...
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Spotlight
Ash in the Mas
Ian JacksonApril 2, 2019In his January 2019 article entitled "A Brief History of Carnival in the Caribbean" Christopher Curley acknowledges that Carnival has mixed roots of African culture and Catholicism
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Editorials
Are We Serious? Did we take two decades to pass ...
April 1, 2019It has taken Dominica more than 20 years for parliament to enact a law to regulate the legal profession. This inordinate and embarrassing delay could be the result of gross ...
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Editorials
Dominican Women: "Think equal, build smart, innovate for change"
April 1, 2019Men beware! Women may have begun taking up their rightful position in representative politics in Dominica and hence men's dominance of leadership at the level of parliamentary representative will soon ...
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Editorials
How Democracy Dies: The Case of The Commonwealth of Dominica
April 1, 2019Read "How Democracies Die" by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt and you are guaranteed to shiver because the signs of the slow death of Dominican democracy stares you in the ...
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Spotlight
Calypso: Put Your House in Order
Ian JacksonApril 1, 2019It will happen; it's just a matter of time. How long? One decade possibly is my prediction before Bouyon completely overhauls Calypso and then it will become merely a staged ...
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Letters
It's Crazy
April 1, 2019We complain with: "If God loved us He would not let this happen or that happen" when we may be the ones who create the schisms that have us in ...
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Spotlight
Calypso, respect and pageants
Ian JacksonApril 1, 2019Congratulations to all winners of Mas Domnik 2019 shows with especial the nine-time Monarch, the Dice. He is now in position number two in the region after Antigua's Short Shirt ...
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Spotlight
Kaiso, running with eyes open: A review of the Calypso ...
Ian JacksonFeb. 28, 2019Intruder's perennial persistence and his success at making the semis in 2019 after over two decade since he produced "Pull string" and "Cellular Phone" serves as a yardstick or measurement, ...
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Editorials
Are we Really Going to Have General Elections Again without ...
Feb. 22, 2019Are we Really Going to Have General Elections Again without Basic Electoral Reform?
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Spotlight
The Kaiso Effect
Ian JacksonFeb. 22, 2019He hears the announcement on radio stations and it just jolts him as the decision he made last year- "I want to sing Calypso'. There are many things on his ...