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No, AIDS has not died: It just kills less efficiently
Dec. 5, 2018As Dominica and the rest of the world observe World AIDS Day (WAD), on 1st December, we were reminded that our Government has backed itself into a corner by bull-headedly ...
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Go ahead, Dominicans. Make diabetes a family affair
Nov. 29, 2018One of the major challenges to the attainment of Dominica's goal of being the world's first climate change resilient country is the impending tsunami of non-communicable diseases that Dr. Carrisa ...
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Let's talk marijuana. Then let's act before we miss the ...
Nov. 29, 2018Having left the station, the marijuana reform train cannot turn around, cannot stop and cannot slow down. All we can do in Dominica is to guide it as it speeds ...
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Let's get party politics out of the National Awards process
Nov. 12, 2018National awards issued by the State during the Parade of Uniformed Groups on Independence Day, 3rd November every year has, unfortunately, become a political party affair as far as the ...
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Looking towards 50 Years of Independence: Dominica needs a tsunami ...
Nov. 1, 2018Here's where we were in 1978: failing agriculture; insignificant manufacturing; a tourism industry not even on the horizon; a partially literate population; an inappropriate education system and two political parties ...
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Dominica's Economy: Who's Responsible for the Decay
Nov. 1, 2018Let's start way, way back when Dame Eugenia Charles ruled Dominica with a combination of the iron fists of Britain's prime minister Margaret Thatcher and the matriarchy care of Queen ...
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Our actions are our future. A #Zero hunger world by ...
Oct. 30, 2018One of the biggest issues related to agriculture these days is climate change as it affects food security.
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Ponder this: Can Charles Savarin be anybody else but Charles ...
Oct. 16, 2018Instead of uniting after being devastated by the most ferocious hurricanes of the century and on the eve of the nation's 40th anniversary of independence when everyone will be espousing ...
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World Teachers Day 2018: "The right to education means the ...
Oct. 11, 2018Teachers are having a tough time, here in Dominica and elsewhere in the world. As an example of that fact, TIME magazine, of the United States, published a cover on ...
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New opportunities to rethink agriculture in the age of mega-storms
Oct. 11, 2018As the country grapples with the task of rebuilding and simultaneously planning ahead after the mighty blow that Hurricane Maria struck about one year ago, we believe policy makers have ...
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World Rivers Day 2018: When the river floods, it doesn't ...
Sept. 26, 2018Let's express thanks to Catholic priest Farther Franklyn Cuffy for keeping the waters of World Rivers Day flowing. Utmost single-handily, Father Cuffy has kept Dominicans interested in World Rivers Day ...
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Electoral Reform Chaos: That's What Happens When the People do ...
Sept. 13, 2018As Dominicans nervously watch the approach of another hurricane, the traumatized islanders are also observing the development of another potentially hurtful system as the government and opposition get ready to ...
