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Rebuilding Dominica BetterSometimes public servants actually excel
Parry BellotApril 14, 2017It is well known that I am a generally critical of the public service in respect of a systematic (and cultural?) tendency to under-perform. Just by empirical day-to-day evidence (ask ...
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Living TodayStoop to conquer!
Clement S. Jolly C.Ss.RApril 14, 2017Life is not a continuous series of endless struggling to live a human life. It is not a senseless battle with forces that are beyond our control. Stormy weather may ...
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SpotlightCostumes, Revelry and Pan
Ian JacksonApril 14, 2017Carnival precedes Lent and so this final article on the aftermath of carnival takes a look at what makes carnival fun. When we speak of fun, we talk of clean ...
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The View from EuropeCuba's cautious transition to a new generation
David JessopApril 14, 2017In just under a year's time, if President Castro keeps to his previously announced timetable, he will step down and cease to lead Cuba's Council of State and Council of ...
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Spotlight on SportVolts in the bolt of lightning
Reginald St. H ShillingfordApril 7, 2017Every, now and again there is a tendency to indulge in the assertion that so and so is the best performer of all time in a particularly sport and track ...
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Rebuilding Dominica BetterCan the IMF and the EU make productivity enhancement more ...
Parry BellotApril 7, 2017From the IMF report of 24 March 2017: "…better target education programs in order to improve labour productivity…" From the 2016 / 2017 literature of the NAO / EU launching ...
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Living TodayTriumph of the cross
Clement S. Jolly C.Ss.RApril 7, 2017Central to the drama of Christianity is the Cross. It is not a popular image, but one which too many is most unwelcome. It seems to speak to us of ...
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SpotlightDerek Walcott passes on
Ian JacksonApril 7, 2017Another Caribbean great is called to the Great Beyond and again there was no fanfare.
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The View from EuropeHow might the Caribbean respond to Brexit?
April 2, 2017On March 29, after forty years of membership, the British government formally gave notice that it will leave the European Union (EU) in 2019.
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Our CaribbeanOAS dysfunctionality requires Charter review
Sir Ron SandersApril 2, 2017On March 28, the Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) experienced a public spectacle of disarray that, in 36 years of diplomatic life in many international and ...
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Spotlight on SportTailoring a more effective national football team
Reginald St. H ShillingfordApril 1, 2017A case, hopefully, of fourth time lucky has now surfaced for Dominica's football at national level as the DFA imports from Trinidad a coach to chart the way forward. Older ...
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Rebuilding Dominica BetterPlans for a replacement CRUISE SHIP BERTH?
Parry BellotApril 1, 2017I was a little surprised that, neither in the formal announcement by the Permanent Secretary of ministry of planning for another consultancy to facilitate developing further various aspects of Dominica's ...
