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Will there be another 29th May 1979? Not in a ...
June 7, 2018The events that occurred exactly 39 years ago today, on 29 May 1979, was unique in the history of Dominican politics.
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Unfortunately the 2018 hurricane season catches us woefully unprepared
May 29, 2018Next week Friday the 2018 hurricane season officially begins and if predictions are accurate the new season could be as terrible as the 2017 period during which Hurricane Maria's destruction ...
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Next general election: Should the United Workers Party boycott it ...
May 23, 2018To boycott or not to boycott the next general election must be the major question on the minds of the leadership of the opposition United Workers Party (UWP) as it ...
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Dangerous Complacency about Freedom of the Press
May 19, 2018"A free press is essential for peace, justice and human rights for all. It is crucial to building transparent and democratic societies and keeping those in power accountable. It is ...
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Electoral Reform will be Dominica's perfect storm
May 10, 2018Comments last week from Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit following a consultation on electoral reform organised by a group of concerned citizens and the ensuing response to Mr. Skerrit's statements from ...
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Wake up, trade union movement; a new age is dawning
May 3, 2018Two events over the past year will have significant impacts on the trade union movement in Dominica in the near future.
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The "independent" Joseph Isaac and the need to slim down ...
April 26, 2018Well, Joseph Isaac, you're a minister now and we have concluded that since you believed that it was unlikely that you would ever achieve your dream of becoming a minister ...
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The real meaning of Easter in an era of mega ...
March 30, 2018The real meaning of Easter in an era of mega Maria-like storms
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World Water Day in the era of Maria-like hurricanes
March 30, 2018Following Hurricane Maria Dominicans may have developed an acute love-hate relationship with rivers and streams but undoubtedly these waterways belong to the group of natural assets that the writer of ...
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Soon, very soon, society will begin appealing for an end ...
March 15, 2018Undoubtedly women in Dominica have made much progress, especially over the past two decades; but, unquestionably, serious levels of inequality and prejudice remain. As Dominica joined the rest of the ...
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CARICOM: Time for action has passed
March 8, 2018It is significant that CARICOM Heads of Government have just concluded their Twenty-ninth Inter-Sessional Meeting in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 26 – 27 February 2018, and the process and results of that ...
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Dominicans "doh know how to change"
March 2, 2018While Dominicans were celebrating the achievement of Daryl Bobb their new Calypso Monarch (who decisively demonstrated to young and old alike that persistence pays) in Trinidad and Tobago there was ...
