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    10 Tips to Make Your Own Black Gold-Compost!

    At the root of every great garden is a great compost pile. Compost is an amazing organic powerhouse of nutrients. Nutrients that help to keep soil loose, workable, and most ...

  • Dominica diplomatic passport and Government Headquarters

    Come Clean on Diplomatic Passports

    With two eastern Caribbean neighbours – Antigua and Barbuda and Grenada – having published their lists of diplomatic passport holders in recent days, pressure is being applied on the Prime ...

  • Sisserou Parrot, Dominica's National Bird

    BirdsCaribbean Welcomes Renewed Support for Dominica's Native Parrots

    8 October 2020—BirdsCaribbean approves of Dominica's plans to launch new efforts to protect the Sisserou and Jaco parrots. Both species are rare and live nowhere else in the world. A ...

  • DHTA president Gregor Nassief
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    Cap Public Sector Wages: A Needed Reform

    If as most people believe the public sector is not efficient in transforming recurrent and capital revenues into goods and services, then increasing the expenditure on personnel is not going ...

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    10 Ways to Make Gardening Easier and Safer for Seniors

    In our last issue of the Dominica Gardener we mentioned the many benefits of gardening for senior citizens. These included:

  • Winners of the Business Model Competition

    SDM Summit Opens Doors for Caribbean Entrepreneurs

    Entrepreneurs, business leaders, senior government officials, members of civil society and other influencers from the Caribbean, and around the world, assembled in their numbers to attend the virtual OECS Republic ...

  • His Excellency Charles Savarin at an Independence Day Parade

    "Physical distancing is not social isolation"

    President of Dominica, His Excellency Charles Angelo Savarin told Dominicans last week that although visits to senior citizens are restricted because of the Covid-19 pandemic and the need for social ...

  • A young boy marches on Independence Street during the National Dress Parade

    COVID cuts Independence Programme

    There will be no Schools' Parade, no Military Parade, no Sashing of a Cultural Elder, no usual Cultural Gala, no National Parade, no Heritage Day, no Sports Finals, no festivals.

  • Sharon Philogene

    Hurrying along to where?

    The last time I checked, Dominica was 289.5 square miles, 29 miles long and 16 miles wide. I have been trying to figure out if by some stroke of luck, ...

  • Criminologist and sociologist Dr. Peter St. Jean

    Not Red? You're Dead

    The victimisation of political opponents and their supporters is being used as a weapon to solidify power in Dominica and other Caribbean countries, according to a distinguished Dominican sociologist.

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    Saving our Nation - Part V

    Mahatma Gandhi said that seven things will destroy humanity - (1) politics without principles; (2) pleasure without conscience; (3) wealth without work; (4) knowledge without character; (5) business without morality; ...