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Recognizing Senior Resilience: Looking Beyond the Theme for the Month ...
Sept. 13, 2018If there is another term that is more abused in Dominica than "resilience" has been since Hurricane Maria we do not know what it is. Everyone's talking about resilience and ...
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Crime raises its ugly head, again, but still no crime ...
Sept. 6, 2018Our sister publication, The Chronicle, last week reported on its front page that the police, at a press conference at police headquarters, revealed that law officers have been investigating "a ...
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Dominica must help Venezuela retreat from choas
Sept. 6, 2018Venezuela has been one of Dominica's best friends for decades, as far back as the early years of the Dominica Freedom Party administration of Dame Mary Eugenia Charles. That relationship ...
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The Departure of Ross University and the Need for Diversification ...
Aug. 20, 2018Last week Dr. Basil Fadipe wrote in his weekly column that he shares on a Dominica internet forum that Ross University School of Medicine, which left Dominica last week after ...
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More Dominicans will die on our roads until we begin ...
Aug. 20, 2018If the just-ended August Monday holiday was a typical holiday weekend in Dominica we expect to hear news of at least one vehicular accident and multiple road fatalities. Let's hope ...
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On Emancipation Day let us begin to liberate ourselves from ...
July 31, 2018When Dominicans observe Emancipation Day on August Monday, that is August 6th 2018, they will mark the day that slaves were emancipated with a public holiday but no event of ...
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Dominica's post-Maria national budget must be based on reality
July 24, 2018If this would not sound a little too clichéd, we would be tempted to say that the national budget that Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit is scheduled to present to the ...
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In spite of the police show of force for Tropical ...
July 17, 2018Last weekend Dominica felt the impact of the smallest storm of a decade as Tiny Beryl, as the press named that tropical storm, caused so much chaos here that we ...
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Let's face the truth: Our parliamentary system is broken
July 11, 2018We have said it before, we will say it again; Dominica's parliament is a little more than a rubber stamp for Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit's policies and programmes. There is ...
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In spite of Prime Minister Skerrit's statement, Dominica needs a ...
June 26, 2018When Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit said during a speech in Portsmouth in early June 2018 that Dominica does not need an opposition and further the quality of the men and ...
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The right to free expression has never been absolute
June 19, 2018Police Superintendent Cleville Mills will probably ride into the sunset of his retirement with a hefty bundle of dollars from the damages he was awarded last week in the defamation ...
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On World Environment Day 2018 we still boast of a ...
June 13, 2018First time visitors to Dominica, even after the devastation of Hurricane Maria, gush about the lush greenness of the island. That is not unusual.