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Teachers are still our most undervalued, underappreciated resource
Oct. 15, 2020We repeat ad infinitum. Teachers are Dominica's most valuable resource yet they are undervalued, under paid and seriously underappreciated. And the on-going COVID-19 pandemic has seriously underscored that fact, here ...
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Here's the naked truth: Dominicans can't be shamed into taking ...
Oct. 8, 2020Here we go again! World Rivers Day (WRD) is here, actually-was here, and the vast majority of Dominicans couldn't have cared less.
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No, not really: Dominica has not "recovered" from the devastation ...
Sept. 30, 2020Dominicans were counting their blessings, giving thanks and remembering, and more than a few were thumping their chests with pride, last week Thursday, September 17, the anniversary of the pounding ...
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Dominicans, are we waiting for a major accident before we ...
Sept. 24, 2020There's no more avoidable, and more common practice that is more dangerous, than driving a vehicle while the driver uses a phone to text or to talk. Yet that recklessness ...
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Old age is NOT a disease
Sept. 10, 2020Old age is far more than white hair and wrinkles and weak knees and forgetfulness.
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Hello, David; we will NOT miss you
Sept. 3, 2020On Saturday August 29, Dominicans, especially those over fifty, will remember this extremely traumatic weather event 41 years ago that totally transformed the Dominican landscape.
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The tale of three budgets: the good, the bad and ...
Sept. 3, 2020Both Lennox Linton, the Leader of the Opposition and Kent Vital, the political leader of the Dominica Freedom Party (DFP), are convinced that the budget Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit delivered ...
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You want to Curb Crime? Confront the Causes
Aug. 18, 2020Last week there was a blast of bullets in the restricted cove of the Blast, a gaming establishment in Loubiere that could have become Dominica's first modern-day massacre. One life ...
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From Speaker Alix Boyd Knights to Speaker Joseph Isaac: The ...
Aug. 18, 2020When Alix Boyd-Knights vacated the seat of the Speaker of the Dominica House of Assembly late last year, after the 2019 General Election, you would be forgiven if you entertained ...
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So, you don't think that racism is alive and well ...
Aug. 18, 2020"Do not remove the kinks from your hair - remove them from your brain"-Marcus Garvey.
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Prime Minister Skerrit: Remember your electoral reform promise?
July 21, 2020Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, the former premier of the Soviet Union (1958 to 1964) once said: "Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges when there are no ...
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Don't even think of celebrating LIAT's demise: the airline's departure ...
July 15, 2020In a letter dated 2 July to the prime ministers of Barbados, Dominica and St. Vincent and the Grenadines, the Antiguan prime minister, Gaston Browne, made clear his "deep regret" ...
