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Rebuilding Dominica Better
Time to Market Dominica through a Feature Film?
Parry BellotJuly 4, 2019So… the JAMES BOND film series is once again moving to JAMAICA for production! Any lessons for Dominica? Given our increasingly international recognition as the Nature Isle, and appreciating the ...
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Rebuilding Dominica Better
Post-Maria-looting, highlighting the important contribution of our private sector
Parry BellotMarch 2, 2018Surprisingly, or maybe not, few business people in our country publicly stick out their necks in defense of the private sector and its value to society, namely, it's key role ...
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Rebuilding Dominica Better
Post-Maria-looting highlighting the important contribution of our private sector
Parry BellotFeb. 6, 2018Surprisingly, or maybe not, few business people in our country publicly stick out their necks in defense of the private sector and its value to society, namely, it's key role ...
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Rebuilding Dominica Better
Fighting Serious Crime with ZOSO
Parry BellotSept. 15, 2017It is little consolation for the victims in Dominica, but it is a fact that serious crime, especially murders, is WAY ABOVE Dominica's for other Caribbean countries like Jamaica, Trinidad, ...
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Rebuilding Dominica Better
A wonderful and exemplary visitor experience!
Parry BellotSept. 11, 2017Because the norm is generally NOT especially good service in the Caribbean's hotel sector – yes, including Dominica – I reproduce this article from my good friend Adrian Loveridge, It ...
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Rebuilding Dominica Better
Government's Role in Building the Small Business sector
Parry BellotAug. 22, 2017The establishment and nurturing of SME's (Small & Medium-size Enterprises) is a vital ingredient in creating a dynamic market economy in the economic and social development of any, but especially ...
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Rebuilding Dominica Better
The Future of Agriculture
Parry BellotJuly 30, 2017Readers of this weekly column will understand why for this week I have delayed the promised Part II of my "Crime of Intolerance" article, and chosen to write instead on ...
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Rebuilding Dominica Better
Fun & Games with the Heads – not any way ...
Parry BellotJuly 17, 2017It was more conflict and confusion when the CARICOM Heads met in Grenada last week. Just two weeks before there was the the very public collapse of Caribbean unity over ...
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Rebuilding Dominica Better
The value of our right focus on infrastructure
Parry BellotJuly 9, 2017In my very first REBUILDING DOMINICA BETTER article in this series of weekly columns (after T.S. ERIKA struck in August 2015) I posited that roads, housing, facilities in our rural ...
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Rebuilding Dominica Better
Part II: Dealing with that irascible garbage dilemma
Parry BellotJune 24, 2017Looking at the total picture (especially in the context of post ERIKA and REBUILDING DOMINICA BETTER…) one thing Dominicans would very much like to see the gov't give serious and ...
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Rebuilding Dominica Better
That Garbage Problem!
Parry BellotJune 18, 2017There is no doubt that the garbage situation in Roseau and environs – and apparently in the rural communities – is becoming quite an eyesore. Not only an eyesore but ...
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Rebuilding Dominica Better
Agriculture & agro-industry – again!
Parry BellotApril 30, 2017As I indicated in Part I, much of this article comes from the recent FAO Sourcebook. In an industrialized, globalized and increasingly urbanized world, agribusiness and agri-food systems in general ...