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EditorialsCovid-19 provides the last chance to fix Dominica's carnival
Feb. 11, 2022Like a drunken reveler on Carnival Monday, Dominica's carnival has been lying face-down in a shallow gutter-going nowhere but down- oblivious to change; its potential as a major tourism product ...
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The View from EuropeDrowning in promises
David JessopDec. 27, 2021In a powerful speech at last month's COP26 climate summit, Barbados' Prime Minister, Mia Mottley, seized the day.
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Our Caribbean
Democracy Summit missed an essential ingredient
Sir Ron SandersDec. 27, 2021US President Joe Biden declared at the opening of a "Summit on Democracy", which he convened on December 9, that "democracy needs champions".
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EditorialsEarly Childhood Education: There's none so blind as those who ...
Dec. 12, 2021The solution to almost all of Dominica's education problems has been staring us in the face for decades. But as we stare back unblinkingly, like the visually challenged, we are ...
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EditorialsI'm Diabetic: are you? Then what are we doing about ...
Dec. 12, 2021Diabetes, one of the most destructive non-communicable diseases, has been eating away at the structure of Dominica's health and economy for decades but apart from glib talk, we have not ...
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LettersThe Ten Covid Commandments
Nov. 3, 2021So, Moses came down from Mount Sinai and spoke to the assembled crowd waiting to hear the Word of God inscribed on two huge tablets of stone.
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EditorialsHere's a thought for Independence 2021: Nothing can be changed ...
Nov. 3, 2021When Dominica became independent in 1978, the nation was then experiencing failing agriculture, insignificant levels of manufacturing, a tourism industry not even on the horizon of viable development, a system ...
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EditorialsPlease note that we are about to hold another election ...
Oct. 14, 2021Dominica is again preparing for an election but the electoral reform process that has eluded the country for decades is still caught in the quicksand of political chicanery.
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Our CaribbeanHaitians: fear at home, no hope abroad
Sir Ron SandersOct. 6, 2021The abrupt resignation of the US Special Envoy to Haiti, Daniel Foote, came like a bolt of lightning from a clear blue sky. It was as unexpected as it was ...
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EditorialsHas Dominica recovered after Hurricane Maria? No, it will take ...
Oct. 6, 2021"Did the trees protest as they were mercilessly shorn of their limbs and leaves? Did the aged and sturdy trunks scream as your minion wind snapped or uprooted them?
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Our Caribbean
Venezuela talks – mountain went forth and produced a mouse
Sir Ron SandersOct. 1, 2021It was predictable that, in an attempt to show that they are capable of collaboration, the rival political groups in Venezuela would pick their spurious claim to two-thirds of Guyana's ...
