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No Chicken Pox Outbreak at Stock Farm Prison

A top official at the Dominica State Prison located at Stock Farm says that "things are back to normal" after a few prison inmates at the island's lone penal institution ...

Government Moves to Implement Multipurpose ID Cards

Dominica will become the first country in the Eastern Caribbean to implement the multipurpose identification card as it seeks to make and implement changes in the public sector from manual ...

Criminal Trials Begin This Week

Having twice escaped legal custody, Dexter Jno Baptiste is due to be tried during the May Assizes for wounding Burton Henderson on November 2, 2006 at Pichelin with intent to ...

Skerrit Weds

Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit on Saturday May11, 2013 married Melissa Poponne, "his sweetheart for many years," an official statement issued by the Government Information Service (GIS) stated.

Special Justice

Suspicion surrounds the police's treatment of Andrew Armour who was arrested almost six months after a boating incident which claimed the life of a US citizen. Law officials are also ...

NCCU's president says the Credit Union had impressive year

Dexter Ducreay was not re-elected president of the National Co-operative Credit Union (NCCU) for another three-year term despite the financial institution's "impressive" performance in 2012. Michael Augustine was selected by ...

Clubs of DOC want Special AGM

Fifteen affiliated clubs to the Dominica Olympic Committee (DOC) want a special annual general meeting and like the Internet Children of Mighty Lugar's 2012 calypso they want it now. Well, ...

May Criminal Assizes Begins

The High Court is making final preparations for the May Criminal Assizes scheduled to begin on May 14, 2013. Acting Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Julien Prevost will prosecute for ...

Health Minister Recovering

The Sun reported last week that Health Minister Julius Timothy who was airlifted by air ambulance to Martinique after suffering from stroke.

DOMLEC Shines in 2012

A number of other lights and power companies in the region recorded decline in sales in 2012 but the Dominica Electricity Services (DOMLEC) led the way with a 1.4 percent ...

Tourism Sector Gives Awards to Begin Tourism Awareness Month

Jodie Johnson is the ABRSM Student of the Year

A total of 101 students played at the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) practical exam and the Dominica Association of Music Educators (DAME) practical exams from ...