• Prime Minister Skerrit, with Government Band in the background, goes to parliament to deliver the 2018/ 2019 national budget

    Early Election Budget

    The signs are in the numbers. Consider the number 348.59. It's the size of the increase in this year's budget for elections.

  • At the recently reopened HHV Whitchurch IGA supermarket

    Whitchurch is back

    Dominica's relatively fashionable supermarket, Whitchurch IGA, has re-opened its doors nearly one year after Hurricane Maria, and the looting that followed the category five Hurricane, almost crippled the 100 year-old ...

  • Steve John Lewis and his makeshift house on the bayfront at Pottersville

    Steve "Black" Jno Lewis: "Water was reaching me near my ...

    Steve "Black" Jno Lewis is a household name in that Pottersville community known as Baytown; he lives on the shoreline there where the sea constantly caresses the land. Understandably, fishing ...

  • DOC president Billy Doctrove

    Doctrove wants his day in court

    Billy Doctrove, the President of the Dominica Olympic Committee (DOC) said "he is looking forward for his day in court" after he received a demand letter from Attorney-at-law Cara Shillingford ...

  • Life and Times of the late Dermot Southwell

    Farewell, Southwell

    Dermot Eustace McNair Southwell was born in Montserrat on December 24, 1937 to Ada Coipel Heron and Paul Southwell.

  • Ann Graham

    Bwa Agouti's curiosity

    By Ann Graham

  • Centre, Athie Martin; Thomas Letang, right; Jefferson Drigo, bottom left; Mervin Alexander

    Budget Wishes

    Amidst calls for a review of the minimum wage, appointments for teachers, permanent positions for police officers and reviews of the medical system, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit on Wednesday presented ...

  • Michele Henderson in concert

    Golden Drummers

    Six cultural stalwarts are to be awarded the Golden Drum on August 4th at the Old Mill Cultural Centre. Here are they:

  • Southwell, centre wearing green shirt, with Charles Savarin and Dame Eugenia Charles (at podium)

    Dermot Southwell dies

    Dermot Southwell, the last chairman of the Integrity in Public Office (IPO) Commission has died.

  • Gravedigger removes buckets of water from grave at Catholic Cemetery , Roseau

    Drowning the Dead

    As a grave digger for 13 years, Clayton Hector knows better than most how difficult it is to find space to bury the dead; how challenging it is for families ...

  • House  on lower Morne Bruce damaged by Hurricane Maria

    Paid

    By any measure, the payments appear to be handsome.

  • Banana bunch and leaves

    Looking for markets for Dominica's bananas after Maria

    Like all sectors, agriculture, especially bananas, was decimated by Hurricane Maria when the storm swept through Dominica on 18 September 2018.