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Taking the OECS to the Next Level
June 24, 2013The Secretariat of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) held a one-week campaign in Dominica recently. The stated objective: informing the Dominican public of the progress the OECS has ...
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Shame on Grand Bay's Catholics
June 17, 2013With much bewilderment, Dominicans last week witnessed a large number of Catholics of Grand Bay making a mockery of their church. With trumpets, drums and placards, the group of disgruntled ...
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Hurricanes 2013: Hope Alone is not Enough
June 10, 2013Last week was the official start of the six-month Atlantic hurricane season and already storm activity is heating up in the region. As the Sun goes to press, Tropical Storm ...
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Let's Build CARICOM sans Jamaica
June 3, 2013It is obvious to many Caribbean nationals that Jamaica has had enough of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) experiment and that Jamaicans wish their country would sever that umbilical cord connecting ...
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For Free and Fair Elections
May 27, 2013On the long and winding road to electoral reform in Dominica two crucial issues were brought to the foreground last week: voter identification cards and campaign finance regulation.
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MWAD is not the Only Problem
May 13, 2013Last week Wesley Gibbings, the president of the Association of Caribbean Media Workers (ACM), at a function to observe World Press Freedom Day 2013, advised the Dominica Media Workers Association ...
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When Natural Disasters or Negligence Cause Accidents
April 29, 2013This week Dominicans continue to mourn the loss of two young men, national football coach Kirt Hector and footballer Noran Jno Hope who perished last week in an unfortunate road ...
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Trade Unions: Are They Dead?
April 22, 2013The death and burial last week of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher should have reminded most of us of the turbulent Seventies when trade unions literally ruled the world. ...
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High Blood Pressure Increases the Already High Cost of Health ...
April 15, 2013If hypertension was a real, hot-blooded human serial killer that you may have watched on Dexter, the Showtime television programme, or read about in a James Patterson novel, the average ...
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Speak with Words that Heal
April 8, 2013Most Dominicans would expect an educated and intelligent person, someone like an attorney-at-law or a senior priest of the Catholic Church, to do all in his or her power to ...
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Press freedom and the people's right to know
April 1, 2013There has never been a better time for the press in Dominica to take a hard look at itself with a view to do some internal cleansing. As journalists around ...
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Hope, Easter and Dominica's future
March 25, 2013Easter has always reminded Christians of the unrelenting darkness that currently surrounds the world. Every day we are bombarded with news stories of rampant violence, war, diseases, genocide, rape, hunger ...
