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Government's new budget will tell us how Dominica will deal ...
June 30, 2020Government's financial year ends on June 30, 2020, that is in about one week's time. But as usual not a whisper has been heard- Dominicans are absolutely silent- about this ...
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Elder abuse stinks to high heaven; let's stop it
June 24, 2020Friends and relatives relegate elder persons to the dark corners of the house that, they, the elders built; they rob them of their meagre riches, even their small old age ...
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Oppressors, get your knees off our necks
June 16, 2020The cruelty of George Floyd's death, captured in a shocking video that shows the white Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin casually kneeling, with his hands in his pockets to boot, ...
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Two threats together in 2020: Hurricanes and COVID-19
June 10, 2020When it comes to the annual hurricane season, Dominica and the rest of the Caribbean are like prisoners on death row. We sit in our cells, waiting, hoping, praying: but ...
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Go ahead, Dominicans: continue pretending May 29, 1979 did not ...
June 4, 2020Many Dominicans will observe the momentous riots of 29 May 1979 reeling from another major crisis- the COVID-19 pandemic. But comparatively, May 29, 1979 was a completely avoidable man-made disaster; ...
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Time for an active by-partisan approach to this coronavirus public ...
March 28, 2020On Thursday at 10 a.m. the United Workers Party (UWP) held a press conference on the coronavirus at its party headquarters on River Street, Roseau. The topic: coronavirus.
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More hurricanes like Dorian are coming our way: What are ...
Sept. 26, 2019As Dominicans prepare to observe the second anniversary of Hurricane Maria, the category-five storm that devastated the island on 18th September 2017, the people of the Bahamas are just waking ...
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Dominicans ask yourselves this question: Why are you making the ...
Sept. 13, 2019Like a runaway train Dominica seems to be heading towards a disastrous crash. Yet many of the passengers and crew are apparently too drunk on hubris, too unconcerned that the ...
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Money in Dominica's elections is now on steroids: Don't say ...
Sept. 13, 2019"There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can't remember what the second one is"
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If we have learnt the lessons that David and Maria ...
Sept. 13, 2019Next week Thursday we remember David, the Category 5 hurricane that devastated Dominica on 29th August 1979, that is, four decades ago.
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Dominicans must be convinced that old age is far more ...
Sept. 13, 2019In September each year Dominica observes a Month of the Elderly. And 2019 is no exception. The Dominica Council on Ageing (DCOA) has presented a programme to celebrate ageing, to ...
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Putting the last first: Transforming Dominica by focusing on the ...
Sept. 4, 2019Government's agricultural department is busy planning again, like it has been planning for the past five decades but not much happened to production and productivity in that sector.
