• Marigot residents protest near the Port for the reemplyment of Jones

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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.

  • 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.

  • Meeting in the Cabinet Room to coordinate disaster relief (Photo provided by Prime Minister's Office)

    Skerrit asks for national and international help

    Tropical Storm Erika has taken the lives of 20 or more Dominicans, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit said.

  • Men walk near buried cars at Massacre

    Dominica is major disaster area

    Over the past two days Dominica's blessing became its curse.