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Economic Fantasy and Political Reality
Nov. 6, 2013The United Workers Party (UWP) was scheduled to hold a Jobs and Economic Growth Forum at the Fort Young Hotel on Thursday, a day after the Sun went to press. ...
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Happy 35th Anniversary, Dominica
Oct. 29, 2013Occasions such as our anniversary of political independence should provide us with an opportunity to mark the achievement of another benchmark in the nation's journey towards complete independence. It also ...
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World Food Day 2013: Hunger in a World of Plenty
Oct. 22, 2013Last Wednesday, October 16th, Dominica joined the rest of the world in the observance of World Food Day (WFD). As we stated a few World Food Days ago, we shouldn't ...
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Gender Inequality in Schools Persist
Oct. 8, 2013The issue of gender inequality in education has been a regular talking point for decades but the problem continues to persist as we observe World Teachers Day 2013. One of ...
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Charles Severin: Hero or Villain but certainly not President of ...
Oct. 1, 2013Depending on whom you speak with about veteran politician Charles Angelo Savarin, the new nominee for the post of Head of State, is either a monstrous villain or one of ...
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Our Constitution and the Power of a Prime Minister
Sept. 24, 2013When Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit invited Dominicans to express their opinions on the qualifications and responsibilities of a prime minister it was obvious that he was asking the nation to ...
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Let's End LIAT's Crazy Days of Summer
Sept. 9, 2013Is LIAT, the regional airline, programmed to self-destruct? This is a logical question in that it is not easy to understand why a company would be so inclined on hurting ...
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New Ammunition in Drug War
July 29, 2013If Dominicans had any expectation that the storm of abuse and trafficking in illegal drugs would have dissipated soon, they have had rude awakenings over the past few months as ...
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Dominica's Annual Budget: Doing the Same Things, Getting the Same ...
July 22, 2013Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Roosevelt Skerrit is expected to present his government's 2013/2014 budget on Wednesday July 24, 2013. As we stated last year in an opinion piece ...
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None but Ourselves can Free the Mind
July 15, 2013*"We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because whilst others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind. Mind is your only ruler, sovereign. The ...
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CARICOM at Forty: Many More Mountains to Move
July 8, 2013"CARICOM is in crisis". This unequivocal statement is not the assessment of a fanciful editorial writer; it is actually the first sentence of the executive summary of a report produced ...
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A Crisis is a Terrible Thing to Waste
July 1, 2013It is an undeniable fact that Dominica is currently enduring its worst economic crisis since 1978, the year the island became politically independent. The evidence is overwhelming: a dying economy, ...
