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EditorialsRumours of another nightmare: Snap elections in December 2024
Nov. 3, 2024Dominicans wonder if we will be heading to the polls yet again as December approaches. Rumours of another snap election, potentially before the year's end, cast a shadow over our ...
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EditorialsWhy Dominica needs a Commission of Inquiry into its Citizenship ...
April 5, 2024Dominica's current economic mono-crop, selling passports, is in deep trouble. When the programme inevitably crashes, all Dominicans will feel severe economic and social pain. There is no doubt about it.
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EditorialsIf Easter is fake, billions of Christians are doomed
March 31, 2024"The very first Easter taught us this: that life never ends, and love never dies." - Kate McGahan
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EditorialsParliament's ten million dollar question
Dec. 1, 2023Last week, Dominica's Parliament demonstrated again its complete dominance and absolute control by the ruling Dominica Labour Party. We have made that observation many times before.
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Our CaribbeanVenezuela's Dangerous Referendum: Threatening Peace and International Law
Sir Ron SandersNov. 6, 2023For sixty years, from their entry into school, Venezuelans have been trained to believe that the Essequibo region of Guyana belongs to Venezuela. Consequently, regardless of the facts, this belief ...
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Our CaribbeanThreats to Democracy: The Erosion of Judicial Independence
Sir Ron SandersOct. 19, 2023From Canada in the North to Argentina in the South, including the nations in the Caribbean, the nature of threats to democracy is undergoing a significant transformation.
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EditorialsAssisting Dominica's poor and elderly: Many clouds, a few drops ...
Sept. 12, 2023Dominica is facing a crisis it is either unaware of or could not care less about. The nation's population is ageing rapidly; its youth is migrating in droves, birth rates ...
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Our CaribbeanKenyan intervention in Haiti? More work needed By Sir Ronald ...
Sir Ron SandersAug. 17, 2023No one should yet be pouring champagne to celebrate the announcement by the U.S. government that Kenya has agreed to lead a multinational police force to help subdue gangs and ...
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EditorialsIn electoral reform, trust is everything
Aug. 17, 2023Trust in governments has been steadily declining all over the world. For example, only 31 per cent of the population of the United States of America (USA) trust their government; ...
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EditorialsEmancipation from mental slavery, the struggle continues
Aug. 16, 2023None but ourselves can free our minds."- Bob Marley in "Redemption Song"
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Our CaribbeanCARICOM at 50: there is still hope
Sir Ron SandersJuly 22, 2023July 4, 2023, marks the 50th anniversary of signing the Treaty of Chaguaramas, the foundational document that brought the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) into existence. With high hopes ...
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EditorialsDominica's Electoral Reform Process is Back to Front
July 21, 2023Everything is inside out
