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Living with diabetes
Dec. 14, 2015No one wants to get diabetes. It changes lives dramatically and permanently—and it can kill. Yet more and more persons in Dominica are getting diabetes.
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Hypertension: A personal account
Dec. 14, 2015Many people are hypertensive but do not know it because sometimes there are no symptoms of this disease. That is why it is often called the "silent killer".
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What 'pressure' is and why it kills
Dec. 14, 2015What is 'high blood pressure'? What causes it? And why is having normal blood pressure so important?
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An erupting volcano
Dec. 14, 2015Pan American Health Organisation Director Dr Carissa Etienne recently issued a terse warning: Dominica is sitting on an erupting volcano of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs). She urged the authorities to ...
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Dominican priest to re-apply for citizenship
Dec. 14, 2015Incredulous as it sounds when Dominican priest Father Franklyn Cuffy went to the relevant authorities recently to renew his Dominican passport which was about to expire he was asked to ...
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Judge sends clear message to child sexual abusers
Dec. 11, 2015A 51-year old man of a north-eastern community will spend the next 35 years at the Stock Farm Prison after appearing before trial judge Justice Errol Thomas at the Roseau ...
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Lowest gas prices in 2015 recorded this week
Dec. 11, 2015The price of petrol dropped again this week making prices in December the lowest in 2015.
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Dr. Grenade: We need to build resilience as the people's ...
Dec. 10, 2015Storms, political tribalism, drug trafficking, crime and violence are some of the demons that threaten to fracture Caribbean civilization, a regional intellectual has stated.
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Questions about Nelly
Dec. 10, 2015It was inevitable; sooner or later the questions would come. The international community is now beginning to ask questions about the results of investigation into the death of reggae singer ...
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PJ at PMH
Dec. 10, 2015Dominica's first Prime Minister, Patrick Roland John, popularly known as "PJ", the man who took Dominica to political independence in 1978, is now a patient at the Princess Margaret Hospital ...
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Dominica holds Climate Change Day of Action
Dec. 10, 2015Last Saturday, children of Mother Earth sang songs, recited poetry, beat drums, painted drawings and built a sculpture of empty bottles on brown, long, hanging roots of a large tree ...
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