• House almost buried at Colihaut
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    Erika's massive cost mountain

    It was the most unwelcome guest to visit the country in nearly 40 years, and possibly the most unexpected and deceptive. And not only was the visit unanticipated, but Erika ...

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    More rain cometh

    More rain is expected. More flooding is feared. More agony for a battered people just beginning to recover from the nightmare of evil Erika, the Tropical Storm. Grace, another tropical ...

  • Marigot residents protest near the Port for the reemplyment of Jones
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    Marigot crab backs dismissal case still unresolved

    It's now almost one year since Vescourt Jones was fired from his job as security officer at the Dominica Air & Seaport Authority (DASPA).

  • Tree trunks block bridge at Checkhall
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    The Response of The UWI in the Wake of Tropical ...

    Open Learning Centre, Cave Hill, Barbados, W.I. August 31, 2015 - The Vice Chancellor Professor Sir Hilary Beckles and The University of the West Indies (The UWI) community are deeply ...

  • River drives a car on the back of another at Massacre
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    Social media makes huge impact during Erika

    Noted Dominican historian Lennox Honychurch spent Thursday 27 August on Facebook captioning photograph and reposting. It was the day Tropical Storm Erika poured 12 inches of rain on Dominica, leaving ...

  • Baron on a PMH bed
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    How a man survived Petite Savanne landslides

    Richard Baron of Petite Savanne has survived a massive landslide following the effects of tropical storm Erika. Baron and his family were one of the many residents of that community ...

  • Reggae singer Nelly Stharre apparently dies in strange circumstances
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    Nelly's star falls

    The agony that the Raffoul family is going through must be beyond anyone's imagination.

  • Small boat with Petite Savanne residents is being pushed from the shore at Petite Savanne
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    Dominica gets world-wide press

    It is difficult to recall another period, another episode when Dominica received more international media coverage. The damage wreaked on the island by the floodwaters of Tropical Storm Erika generated ...

  • Large tree trunks swim in the Roseau River
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    Dominica cricket team stranded in Barbados

    It was the thrill of victory that quickly turned in agony and anxiety for the Dominica men's cricket team.

  • Road eaten away  at Hillsborough on  west-central coast
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    Evil Erica

    Four hours. That's all it took tropical storm Erika to unleash 12 inches of high-intensity rainfall on Dominica in the early morning hours August 27, 2015.

  • Petite Savanne residents leave on a coast guard vessel to Roseau
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    Petite Savanne: A dead village

    Petite Savanne is abandoned. Out of a population of about 600, only 16 people are left in this south eastern bay-oil producing village.

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    Petite Savanne to be evacuated

    On the advice of the Disaster Management Coordinator government is to evacuate all residents of Petite Savanne, a Government press statement said.