• Pinard , centre, and PM Skerrit meet Soufriere man during recent visit (OPM Photo)
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    Ian goes as Parl Rep too

    Dominican politics in normal times is a roller coaster ride but Ian Pinard's resignation tonight as Parliamentary Representative for the Soufriere Constituency is like having a seat in a high-flying ...

  • Francis,left, and Linton
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    UWP dumps Sikiwi as deputy

    Roseau South Member of Parliament Joshua Francis is no longer the Deputy Leader of the United Workers Party.

  • Pinard-Byrne,left, and Lennox Linton
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    KPB wants LL to pay legal costs

    Chartered Accountant Kieron Pinard-Byrne wants Lennox Linton, the political leader of the opposition United Workers Party (UWP) to pay his legal costs of EC$340,926.39.

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    Another blow for Venezuela

    Last week in Doha, many of the world's major producers of crude oil tried, but failed to agree to freeze production, in order to stabilise and eventually increase prices. It ...

  • Artist impression of the proposed West Bridge in Roseau
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    Roseau West Bridge project begins

    Government has planned an elaborate ground-breaking ceremony on Friday afternoon starting from 4.00pm for the construction of a new West Bridge in Roseau.

  • Frderick Baron, right, takes a look at his father's body at the State House this morning
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    Farewell, Frank

    On Saturday family, friends and Dominicans generally said goodbye to the late Franklin A.M. Baron, the Chief Minister of Dominica from 1960-1961.

  • FILE PHOTO:Rev. Dr. William Watty
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    The next prime minister?

    I have, for some time now, been intrigued by Dr. Philbert Aaron's unrelenting obsession with the Leader of the Parliamentary Opposition, Mr. Lennox Linton, and especially with his qualification, or ...

  • Cover of the book, The Orchid House
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    New edition of THE ORCHID HOUSE

    Papillote Press is delighted to bring back into print the acclaimed Caribbean classic novel The Orchid House by the important Dominican writer and politician Phyllis Shand Allfrey.

  • Francis,left, and Linton
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    Jump, Joshua, jump

    The highway to hell is paved with peril and precariousness for the deputy leader of the United Workers Party (UWP) Joshua Francis.

  • Judge Errol Thomas,lawyers and other officials at the opening of Law Year
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    Two plead guilty to sex offences charges

    Two men will return to the Roseau High Court on Friday April 29, 2016 for sentencing on sex related matters.

  • Prime Minister Skerrit meets IMF officials after TS Erika
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    IMF predicts 1.3% growth in Dominica in 2016

    Dominica's economy has declined by 3.9 percent in 2015 as a result of Tropical Storm Erika, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) reported on April 16, 2016 following a mission to ...

  • Cuba's President Raul Castro, makes a keynote address at the opening of the Seventh Congress of Cuba's Communist Party (PCC), at the Convention Palace of Havana, capital of Cuba, on April 16, 2016.
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    Raul Castro calls for political reforms, warns Cubans of U.S. ...

    HAVANA, April 16 (Xinhua) -- Cuban President Raul Castro on Saturday called for political and constitutional reforms to the island's socialist system and warned of the U.S. "real intentions" in ...