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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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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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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 ...
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The View from Europe
Europe to consider future of ACP relationship
David JessopOct. 2, 2015In a matter of days the European Commission will launch a communication (policy paper) on the options for post-Cotonou arrangements with the ACP; the grouping that brings together 79 African, ...
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Living Today
Respect for the environment
Clement S. Jolly C.Ss.ROct. 2, 2015Recently, Pope Francis of the Catholic Church issued an Encyclical on Care for the Environment. It was the first time that the head of the Roman Catholic Church had veered ...
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Spotlight on Sport
Getting down to brass tacks
Reginald St. H ShillingfordOct. 2, 2015A visit to Windsor Park on Tuesday afforded a small glimpse of preparations in progress by the Windward Islands team for this year's regional cricket tournaments. The oppressiveness of the ...
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Spotlight on Sport
Will Jason find his golden fleece
Reginald St. H ShillingfordSept. 28, 2015West Indies have laid a near wholesale investment on youth by its recent appointment of Jason Holder as captain of the Test cricket team. Holder's elevation follows his installation to ...
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Spotlight
WCMF out, relief concert in
Ian JacksonSept. 28, 2015Yes, the title is correct; there will be no World Creole Music Festival this year due to the destruction that Tropical Storm Erika wrought on Dominica's infrastructure. However, some middle ...
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Living Today
Making sense of our lives
Clement S. Jolly C.Ss.RSept. 28, 2015We live in a very crucial moment in our history. There are immense challenges which confront us. Prominent among them are events like, Tropical Storm Erika. These are special, unusual, ...
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Our Caribbean
The Meaning of Pope Francis
Sir Ron SandersSept. 25, 2015Let me admit from the outset that as a baby I was baptized a Roman Catholic and for many years in my early childhood I was a faithful acolyte to ...
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The View from Europe
Climate Change, the Pope and the Caribbean
David JessopSept. 25, 2015In a little over a month's time negotiators from around the world will gather in Paris to try to reach a final and globally binding agreement on a new treaty ...
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The View from Europe
Little Time Left to Act on US Tax Bill
David JessopSept. 22, 2015The Caribbean has just eighteen congressional working days from Sunday September 20 to try to have the US Congress or the District of Colombia address an act naming seventeen Caribbean ...
