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Dominica's struggle continues towards true emancipation
July 22, 2016Many years ago Marcus Mosiah Garvey, the great Jamaican, admonished us, as descendants of slaves and freedom fighters, to "emancipate ourselves from mental slavery, because while others might free the ...
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It's really the economy, stupid
July 16, 2016In 1992 James Carville, the American Democratic Party political strategist, coined the phrase "It's the economy, stupid" to focus the presidential campaign of candidate Bill Clinton on the essential problem ...
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Honourable Speaker Boyd-Knights conduct in parliament is the product of ...
July 8, 2016Don't cry for Alix Boyd-Knights, the constantly berated Speaker of Dominica's House of Assembly. She's doing her job extremely well and hence Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit and the Dominica Labour ...
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Needed: A crisis-to-recovery budget for fiscal year 2016 - 2017
June 29, 2016Although the presentation of the budget is significant in Dominica's social and political landscape that annual event is usually unfailingly disappointing- like rotten balloons we carelessly inflate that blow up ...
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Freedom of Expression and Dominica's laws
June 21, 2016Apparently nervous about increasing opposition to its policies and practices, the Government of Dominica is reminding its citizens that there are limits to the free expression of opinions in public.
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Graduation season begins and the brain drain opens wider
June 14, 2016As usual the Dominica Community High School started off the annual series of secondary school graduation ceremonies, the traditional send-off for graduates of the secondary school system into the world ...
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Extremely long delay in effecting electoral reform in Dominica
June 10, 2016By tomorrow Tuesday evening Dominicans will know the results of the bye-election in the Soufriere constituency. It would be a major upset indeed if Hidges "Higgs" Adams of the opposition ...
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Hurricane Season 2016 begins but we are definitely not prepared
June 3, 2016This year's hurricane season starts on Wednesday, 1st June but the consensus among environmentalists and disaster risk management experts is that Dominica is even more vulnerable to hurricanes and tropical ...
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The Road to May 29, 1979
May 25, 2016In his four-part account of the events leading to the riots of May 29 1979 and the overthrow of the regime of Patrick Roland John, historian Dr. William Para Riviere ...
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Our Constitution makes PM Skerrit a little dictator shrouded in ...
May 20, 2016During the last general election , held in December 2014, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit invited Dominicans to express their opinions on the qualifications and responsibilities of a prime minister; it ...
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Is Dominica tightening its belt after the devastation of tropical ...
May 12, 2016Businesses of all shapes and sizes - large, micro, mini, cottage-are experiencing their toughest times ever after tropical storm Erika; tourism is seriously challenged as hotels buckle under extremely low ...
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UNESCO: Access to information is your right!
May 4, 2016On Tuesday May 3rd 2016 Dominica should join the rest of the democratic world in the observance of World Press Freedom Day. This year UNESCO has chosen the theme: Access ...
