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Corruption charges and counter charges- the curse of Dominican politics
April 23, 2017Undoubtedly Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit and his government are under severe pressure, locally and internationally, because of the alleged sale of diplomatic passports and about the abuse of the Citizenship ...
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Is God Dead? The real meaning of Easter in a ...
April 14, 2017Next week more than one billion Christians around the world will celebrate Easter. Those of us who will participate in the celebration will once again stand in wonder of the ...
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National Health Care Insurance: Refusing to scale back our aspirations ...
April 7, 2017When United States president Barack Obama in March 2010 introduced an historic $938 billion health care overhaul that guaranteed coverage for 32 million uninsured Americans, Republicans immediately promised to repeal ...
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Delayed justice continues to negatively impact Dominican communities
April 1, 2017Just two weeks ago a man who was accused of killing another four years ago walked free because the prosecution could not present the findings of the pathologist who had ...
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World Water Day 2017: We'll certainly miss our rivers when ...
March 22, 2017Rivers and water in general, are integral parts of Dominican life. Without rivers, and fresh, pure water, Dominica would be a poor country indeed. In fact, almost every tourist attraction ...
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Acknowledge the elephant in the room
March 7, 2017The controversy and conflicts surrounding the Citizenship by Investment Programme (CBI) and the subsequent United Workers Party (UWP) protest meeting, followed by Prime Minister Skerrit's so-called coup allegations and the ...
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Designers of Carnival's theme want us to believe: "Domnik ki ...
Feb. 7, 2017Last Saturday, Dominica opened its carnival season with the annual street parade; the season includes Calypso tents and competitions as well as a variety of pageants for the old and ...
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Trump's "Make America Great Again" era begins
Jan. 23, 2017Our world entered a dangerous and uncertain era last week when Donald Trump took the oath of office, on Friday, to become the United States of America's 45th president.
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Dominica's Citizenship by Investment programme: How to shut up Lennox ...
Jan. 22, 2017Since the American television company, CBS, through its extremely popular "60 Minutes" news programme told the world some unsavoury things about the Caribbean's Citizenship by Investment (CBI) programme, Dominican politicians ...
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Drug abuse and the worldwide movement to legalise the use ...
Dec. 18, 2016In a few weeks, Dominica's Ministry of Health will observe its 14th Drug Awareness Month, in January 2017, and officials will again call on the apparently deaf general public to ...
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How much do Dominicans care about road safety?
Nov. 21, 2016Dominicans were shocked when the news broke of the death of 17 year-old Lhana Honore of Thibaud on October 26, 2016 in a traffic accident at Hillsborough. They were also ...
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Climate is changing, food and agriculture must too
Oct. 19, 2016One of the biggest issues related to climate change is food security, says the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations as it prepared to observe World Food Day ...
