• Officials of UWI and FirstCaribbean Bank unveil plaque at Cave Hill, UWI
    Local

    CIBC Firstcaribbean and UWI sign new MOU

    Bridgetown, Barbados, 11th June, 2018 – Students around the region will continue to benefit from a number of scholarships following the recent signing of another memorandum of understanding (MOU) between ...

  • Headquarters of the Dominica Red Cross
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    Correction and Apology

    In an article published on page 9 of the March 5, 2018 edition of the SUN newspaper captioned "Dominica Red Cross Reorganizes" the following was stated:

  • His Excellency Charles Savarin at an Independence Day Parade
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    Second Term Coming Up

    It's déjà vu for His Excellency President Charles Angelo Savarin who is unsurprisingly expected to be nominated by the ruling Roosevelt Skerrit administration for a second term as Dominica's head ...

  • Tree at Botanic Gardens severely damaged by Hurricane Maria
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    Re-building Dominica's forests after Maria

    Dominica's forests, one of the most pristine and expansive in the Caribbean, was severely damaged by the category five Hurricane Maria on September 18, 2017.

  • Prison Superintendent Kenrick Jean Jacques and part of the Stockfarm prisons
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    Is the Stockfarm prison a "human garbage dump"? That's rubbish, ...

    Shane Edwards, who has been jailed at the Stockfarm prison on several occasions, claims that the Dominica State Prison (DSP) is unhealthy and calls for an investigation in a five-minute ...

  • Dominica's National Basketball Team 2011. See story for complete photo caption
    Basketball

    Dominica in Sub-Regional Basketball

    Part I of Dominica in Sub-Regional Basketball glanced at Dominica's representative basketball teams, viz. Dominica's Island then State Team, and clubs, engaging teams from other Eastern Caribbean territories for the ...

  • Fans watch World Cup football at Davo's Bar on Upper Lane, Roseau
    Football

    World Cup Football Fever Grips Dominica

    As the rest of the world allows itself to be gripped in the clutches of the 2018 Football World Cup, Dominican football fans are beginning to indulge themselves. As they ...

  • Skerrit as Sports Minister; Rupert Sorhaindo, extreme right (ca 2000)
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    Changing faces of Roosevelt Skerrit

    The pictures relate a compelling story far beyond the proverbial one thousand words. They depict in clear, unambiguous terms, the physical evolution of Roosevelt Skerrit, from the 31-year-old with the ...

  • Mills,left; Allen, centre; Peltier,right
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    Mills wins

    Dominica's court has taught radio talk show hosts an EC$160,000 lesson. That's a very expensive one. The warning from the court: Callers to your programme must get their facts straight ...

  • Grenadian lawyer Arley Gill
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    Magistrate Gill departs

    Five years after taking up a post of magistrate in Dominica, Grenadian lawyer Arley Gill has decided, for personal reasons, against renewing his contract.

  • Judge Stephenson, centre front; Registrar Ossie Walsh,right front, Police Commissioner Carbon and members of the Dominica Bar
    Local

    Lawyers say reopening of court is taking too long

    Lawyers here say the the lack of a fully functional court system in Dominica nine months after Hurricane Maria is extremely frustrating.

  • Windwards Basketball Team Reps.See story for photo caption
    Basketball

    Dominica in Sub-Regional Basketball

    Dominica's national basketball teams, and clubs or teams representing the "Island of Many Rivers", have had their share of successes and disappointments in tournaments involving teams from other Caribbean islands.