• Policeofficers attend opening of the 2014 Law Year
    Local

    Promotions vex police

    On Friday September 12, 2014 members of the Police Welfare Association (PWA) were holding a meeting to discuss government's alleged tardiness in responding to requests for salary and fringed benefits. ...

  • MARPIN building on Great Marlborough Street , Roseau
    Local

    Isidore sues MARPIN

    Former general manager of MARPIN2K4 Ltd Pericson Isidore has filed a Civil lawsuit against his former employer. In suit DOMHCV314 OF 2014 and filed on September 5 2015, Isidore is ...

  • Morne Rachette Community Centre
    Local

    Morne Rachette has new Community Centre

    Residents of Morne Rachette now have a community centre and hurricane shelter thanks to the hard work of the Morne Rachette Development Committee (MORADCO) and the Government of Dominica.

  • A LIAT aircraft in flight
    World

    JA, here comes LIAT

    Today it's Haiti, but come next year, it could be a whole new world for the regional carrier, Liat.

  • Don Leogal presents a book at the launch ceremony
    Football

    The Harlem Stories Vol. I

    Dominica's most enduring and successful football club ever, Harlem United Sports & Community Club (HUSCC), has broken new ground with the publication and launching of its inaugural magazine, The Harlem ...

  • OECS Chief Justice Dame Janice M. Pereira
    Local

    Dame Janice Pereira: Questions about independence of the judiciary

    Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC) Dame Janice Pereira has expressed serious concerns about the independence of the judiciary in the region. On Wednesday last week, Dame ...

  • Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit and bitcoin sign
    Local

    Bitcoin: Biting a bit

    Like all coins bitcoin has two sides: bitcoin is something positive for Dominica; bitcoin is toxic, avoid it. But bitcoin is not a real coin; it is internet money and ...

  • KINGSTON, Sept. 22, 2014 (Xinhua) -- Jamaica's Prime Minister, Portia Simpson-Miller, delivers a speech, in Kingston, Jamaica, on Sept. 21, 2014.
    World

    Jamaican government confident in economic performance, promises further growth

    KINGSTON, Sept. 21 (Xinhua/Sun) -- Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller said Sunday that the Jamaican government has met all its economic targets and promised further economic growth before fresh ...

  • Members of the Dominica Bar at the Opening of the new Law Year
    Local

    Lawyers say they want Legal Profession Act

    Inadequate financial resources and some level of tardiness in meeting commitments by some of the nine jurisdictions making up the members of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC) were among ...

  • President Savarin and Mrs Savarin and Tourism Minister Ian Douglas at fundraiser
    Local

    Rotary Portsmouth says sweet jazz is a sweet success

    (Portsmouth, September 18th 2014) The renovation and re-equipping of the Portsmouth Hospital Emergency Room is closer to becoming a reality following the successful staging of Sweet Jazz at the Ross ...

  • NEW YORK, Sept. 19, 2014 (Xinhua) -- Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop attends a UN Security Council meeting on the situation of Iraq, at the UN headquarters in New York, on Sept. 19, 2014.
    World

    UN Security Council calls for int'l support to fight ISIL

    UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 19 (Xinhua/SUN) -- The UN Security Council on Friday urged the international community to "further strengthen and expand support" for Iraqi government in fighting Islamic State in ...

  • NEW YORK, Sept. 20, 2014 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (R) and American actor Leonardo DiCaprio during at the UN headquarters in New York, on Sept. 20, 2014.
    World

    Leonardo DiCaprio named UN Messenger of Peace

    UNITED NATIONS, Sept.16 (Xinhua/Sun) -- Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio was designated Tuesday by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon as a United Nations Messenger of Peace with a special focus on ...