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Protecting Dominica's water resource is everybody's business
March 24, 2015Rivers and water are integral parts of Dominican life. Even the country's national anthem proudly attests to that when it says: "Rivers, valleys, hills and mountains /All these gifts we ...
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Ban child abuse in schools and homes
March 3, 2015Child brutality in the guise of discipline seems to be everywhere in Dominica, in public and in the privacy of our homes. It seems to be okay in modern Dominica ...
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St. Kitts taught Caribbean a lesson
Feb. 28, 2015Voters in the twin-island state of St. Kitts and Nevis taught Dominicans, and the rest of the Caribbean, a few valuable lessons last week when they effectively kicked out Prime ...
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Is Dominica's Parliament a waste of resources?
Feb. 21, 2015Dominica's application of the Westminster model makes Parliament a particularly impotent, largely farcical and definitely ineffective institution. Some persons may, rather bluntly but largely accurately, describe Dominica's parliament as a ...
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OECS welcomes Martinique but how far towards the major goal ...
Feb. 10, 2015Sir Shridath Ramphal, the former Guyana Government Minister, University of the West Indies (UWI) Chancellor and three-term Secretary General of the Commonwealth has been highly critical of the failure of ...
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Forward we don't go
Feb. 3, 2015Oft-times, the statements of government officials are intended to delude the masses into a false sense of euphoria. It reminds us of the potentially manic sense of happiness represented in ...
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Carnival: "De kontry nice, boy"
Jan. 28, 2015Last 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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Christmas 2014: a yearning for peace
Dec. 25, 2014It is traditional for community leaders to present Christmas messages to the press in which they essentially urge Dominicans to share the joy and peace of Christmas, no matter how ...
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Toupatou ké ni twaka (Everywhere will have trouble)
Dec. 20, 2014Until the philosophy which holds one party rich/
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AIDS still a serious health and social problem
Dec. 20, 2014Occupied by the 2014 election campaign, Dominicans almost forgot the annual observance of World Aids Day (WAD) on 1st December 2014.
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Dominicans must vote wisely next Monday
Dec. 3, 2014Monday next week is the day that Dominicans are scheduled to choose a new administration, either by electing the new-look United Workers Party (UWP) Team Dominica or the 15-year old ...
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Early Childhood: the real foundation to education
Nov. 26, 2014When the Roosevelt Skerrit administration took the absolutely necessary step about two years ago to elevate the status of the early childhood education sub-sector to the position that it deserves, ...
