• LIAT leaves Melville Hall Airport
    Local

    High winds result in flight cancellations

    LIAT, the Caribbean airline, has apologised to its customers travelling to/from St. Vincent and Dominica for the inconvenience they have been experiencing due to an increase in cancelled flights and ...

  • Marlon Samuels and Shane Shillingford
    Cricket

    Shane banned

    Dominica and West Indies off-break bowler Shane Shillingford has been suspended by the International Cricket Council (ICC) from bowling in international cricket. His team-mate Jamaican Marlon Samuels has also been ...

  • Local

    Irene John is Mayor of Roseau

    Roseau has a new female mayor. She is Irene John, a retired civil servant

  • Elections

    For whom the bell tolls this election

    Almost everyone believes that the upcoming general election, the eighth since Independence, will be one of the most closely fought contests. Although Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has predicted a sweep-all ...

  • Urban Baron
    Elections

    Urban Baron: I will, if I must

    Politics make strange bedfellows. And in Petite Savanne the strangest things appear to be happening in the beds of fellow politicians as Dominicans gear up for general elections.

  • DIGICEL outlet and Marpin Building on Great Marlborough Street
    Local

    DIGI marries MARPIN

    If DIGICEL is now the "bigger better network" then by the addition of MARPIN, will it become the "biggest best network?" Well, not necessarily; but, at least, DIGICEL will not ...

  • Jones,left, and Baron. The Chronicle masthead
    Local

    Jones and Baron negotiate sale of Chronicle

    For the third time in its 104-year history, the Dominica Chronicle is about to change hands. So why is that news making some people, especially the opposition, apprehensive? Maybe it's ...

  • Catherine Daniel
    Elections

    Colihaut wants Catherine

    This is about burying the demons born out of the sins of an indifferent incumbent, erasing the ghosts of present ineffectiveness.

  • Jefferson James
    Local

    James says he wants to reverse neglect in Portsmouth

    A Cuban-trained engineer, 34 year-old Jefferson James says he is ready to sacrifice his life as he embarks on the journey as the United Workers Party (UWP) candidate for the ...

  • Blanc, Prison Chief
    Local

    Prison population declines again

    The inmate population at the Stock Farm State Prison has declined yet again, according to figures released by Superintendent of Prisons Dennis Blanc minutes before resident judge Justice Birnie Stephenson ...

  • Garlin and Lyons (Bottom left and right and Crazy Tee and Marie (Top)
    Local

    Let the music play

    One good thing about music, said the late great Bob Marley, when it hits, you feel no pain. But brother Bob forgot to warn that nowadays there may be mental ...

  • Nelson Mandela
    Local

    Mandela dies

    CNN has reported that Nelson Mandela -- the iconic world figure who spent decades fighting apartheid and led his native South Africa as its first black president -- died Thursday ...