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Spotlight on Sport
Can Serena raise the bar?
Reginald St. H ShillingfordSept. 23, 2016To the great majority of commentators and both the live crowd at the U.S Open, added to that many millions on world-wide television, were looking upon Serena Williams in her ...
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The View from Europe
The Changing face of the Caribbean – part 2
David JessopSept. 20, 2016How should we regard the Caribbean's future? Should it be with pessimism as some commentators suggest, or with optimism? The answer seems to lie in how one measures the likely ...
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Commentaries
The Zika Virus: The Existential Threat to the UN Sustainable ...
Sept. 19, 2016By Rebecca Theodore
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Rebuilding Dominica Better
Why is Dominica Behind in This?
Parry BellotSept. 13, 2016Any impediment to trade including any restrictions on money transfers always has a negative effect on development and economic growth. So why is Dominica among the few Caribbean countries who ...
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Living Today
Education of our emotions
Clement S. Jolly C.Ss.RSept. 13, 2016Today our educational system is wonderful. When I compare what is offered today, in the 21st century, with what was offered 60 years ago, I marvel at the progress which ...
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Editorials
What are you doing on 25th September, World Rivers Day?
Sept. 13, 2016On 25 September 2016 Dominica is expected to join the rest of the world in observing World Rivers Day (WRD). But given the importance of rivers to the very existence ...
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Spotlight on Sport
Drifting away from essentials
Reginald St. H ShillingfordSept. 13, 2016In 1995, the year before Dominica's first appearance in the Olympic Games at Atlanta, U.S.A, we participated in the Pan-American Games for the first time in Mar del Plata, Argentina. ...
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Rebuilding Dominica Better
This should be posted in every school in Dominica!
Parry BellotSept. 6, 2016Bill Gates reportedly gave a graduation speech at a High School about some important things they did not and will not learn in school. He spoke about how feel-good, "politically ...
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Editorials
Month of the Elderly: Time to Fight Elderly Abuse with ...
Sept. 6, 2016Last week Thursday His Excellency Charles Angelo Savarin, the President of the Commonwealth of Dominica, officially opened the Month of the Elderly, an annual period when the nation focuses some ...
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Spotlight
Welcome Cadence Day
Ian JacksonSept. 6, 2016What an initiative by Manager of DBS Radio, Cecil Joseph, to declare the birth date of one of the founders of Cadence as Cadence Day, a day when the entire ...
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Spotlight on Sport
Tokyo – here we come!
Reginald St. H ShillingfordAug. 31, 2016The celebration of youth, of life, of humanity that was Rio 2016 has simmered down to go hidden beneath the humdrum that is our daily life. Tokyo prepares – the ...
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Spotlight
Find a Book and Read
Ian JacksonAug. 31, 2016The summer is almost over and I have observed that many people have engaged the library, including young children, to obtain books to read. One remembers fondly from the 70's ...