• Prime Minister Skerrit and Venezeulan officials at the opening of the Petro Caribe plant

    PetroCaribe celebrates 10th Anniversary

    The common sentiment echoed by each speaker at the closing ceremony of the 10th Anniversary of the Petro Caribe Agreement was that Petro Caribe is here to stay.

  • Photograph of Canefield playing field and dirt road

    Unheard cries of the Canefield youths

    I am writing to you in fullness of hope that our laments, which have been sounding for about four years now, will be published, then finally some respite will be ...

  • Timothy Symes

    All for the love of country

    Some people are such an indelible part of the cityscape-- their niche in Roseau so firmly and prominently carved-- that it's hard not to know them.

  • Dr. Colmore Christian

    A Dominican appointed to serve as interim Dean of the ...

    Effective July 1, 2015 Dr. Colmore S. Christian, a Dominican, will serve in the office of interim Associate Prevost for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Graduate School at Alabama ...

  • FILE Photo : Dr Benjamin, Psychiatrist

    Suicide Shocker

    The figures are shocking, frightening, tragic, even.

  • Left to right: President Granger, Prime Minister Skerrit and President Maduro

    Peace, Brothers, Peace

    If the reports are true we can call him the mediator-in-chief. Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, brokering a settlement to the fiery dispute between Guyana and that Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country's ...

  • Signboard at the NP gas station at Canefield on July20 2015

    Gas prices go up again

    Dominican drivers now have to pay an additional 25 cents per gallon of gas at the pump. Today prices jumped from EC$13.05 to EC$13.30 per gallon.

  • Pesticide control boards of the Caribbean meeting in Dominica

    Strengthening Pesticides Management towards Sustainable Agriculture in the Caribbean

    Roseau, Dominica (IICA). Members of the Coordinating Group of Pesticides Control Boards of the Caribbean, CGPC, convened their 20th Annual Meeting to discuss issues of regional importance in the areas ...

  • DA team in Nassau

    Dominican artistes compete in Nassau

    A seven member team comprised of songwriter Ian Jackson; singers Janae Jackson, Ellaina "Lyrique" Joseph, Carsim Birmingham, and petite /print and spokes model Shivaughn Johnson, under the direction of local ...

  • Jason Timothy

    Dominican Jason Timothy to participate in a U.S. Government-Sponsored Leadership ...

    Jason Timothy will travel to the United States as the latest Eastern Caribbean candidate of the U.S. Department of State's International Visitor Leadership Programme (IVLP).

  • Roosevelt Skerrit  at a rally in the Kalinago Territory

    Skerrit to present an EC$526 million budget on Friday

    When parliament meets on Friday next week, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit will present to the nation a budget of EC$525,959,958 for the fiscal year 2015-2016. The recurrent budget is $341,738,098 ...

  • President Maduro, left, and Prime Minister Skerrit

    Loud silence over Bird Island

    Of all the issues that arose at the recent Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Heads of Government summit in Barbados, Venezuela's controversial Presidential Decree 1787 generated all the noise.