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Our Caribbean
Hail to Jamaican accomplishment
Sir Ron SandersOct. 15, 2015On 13 October 2015 it was 44 years since a West Indian won the Man Booker Prize for the finest fiction written in English for the year. The first and ...
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Spotlight
The Reggae identity and sub-culture
Ian JacksonOct. 15, 2015In America once you are black and from the Caribbean and do not talk like Americans people assume you're from Jamaica. Now, if you have dreadlocks you are more than ...
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Living Today
Loss and gain
Clement S. Jolly C.Ss.ROct. 15, 2015No one likes to lose anything. People strive hard to win a simple game, although there is no material reward. People work hard to win a competition. Most of the ...
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Editorials
Is the President of the Commonwealth of Dominica above the ...
Oct. 15, 2015Based on arguments that lawyers presented to Judge Bernie Stephenson in the High Court case, the Attorney General vs the Integrity Commission, we have concluded that the President of the ...
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Spotlight on Sport
Crowd pressure
Reginald St. H ShillingfordOct. 15, 2015Generally, the biggest crowds are these days expected in India for international cricket matches. It is not unusual to have as many as forty or fifty thousand turning up for ...
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CommentariesUnited Nations 70th General Assembly: Hope Springs Eternal?
Oct. 7, 2015By Rebecca Theodore
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Spotlight on Sport
Times of disaster
Reginald St. H ShillingfordOct. 7, 2015LOOKING back during my lifetime, the great Hurricane David of 29th August, 1979, was the only real storm of such magnitude to strike Dominica since the previous one in the ...
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LettersErika, Antrim and Check Hall: contributing factors
Oct. 7, 2015In last week's article "Lessons from Erika", Severin McKenzie suggested that contributing factors related to the damage at Check Hall should be investigated and in particular, the knock-on-effect of the ...
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Living Today
Growth in maturity
Clement S. Jolly C.Ss.ROct. 7, 2015Throughout the world, there is the tendency to recognize important social needs only when there is a crisis. However, we need not wait for a time of crisis to attend ...
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Editorials
How Sustainable is the "One Tablet per Secondary School Student" ...
Oct. 7, 2015Two issues were at the forefront of the minds of Dominican teachers as they observed World Teachers Day (WTD) on 5th October. These were, firstly, the introduction of tablets to ...
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Our Caribbean
Caribbean countries under attack
Sir Ron SandersOct. 2, 2015Once again Commonwealth Caribbean countries are under attack as "tax havens", even though they are nothing of the sort. This time it is not only the usual countries that have ...
