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Spotlight on Sport
Brazil 2014: Dream or Nightmare
Reginald St. H ShillingfordJune 11, 2014By far the most famous football playing nation, and for very good reason, Brazil invites the rest of the world to its sumptuously presented extravaganza. When the curtain lifts at ...
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Our Caribbean
Importing Food is damaging the Caribbean: Why no action?
Sir Ron SandersJune 6, 2014(The writer is a Consultant, Senior Fellow at London University and former Caribbean diplomat)
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Commentaries"Does Dominica have a color problem?"
June 3, 2014Nowadays in Dominica, our daily wardrobe choices have become 'identities'. I notice that when I wear blue or red people comment as if they have the power to influence my ...
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You and the Law
Workers' Rights - 1
Dr. William Para RiviereJune 3, 2014In employing workers there are certain standards which employers are bound by law to follow. These are called labour standards or, better yet, workers' rights. They are set out in ...
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Living Today
Where have all the fathers gone?
Clement S. Jolly C.Ss.RJune 3, 2014Any well-meaning person must realize that one of the most crucial problems in our society is the lack of paternal responsibility. If any real leader, social, political or religious, wishes ...
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In Retrospect
To win the UWP must employ a bottom-up strategy
Dr. Emanuel FinnJune 3, 2014How does the UWP win the next elections? Does the party have adequate resources, good candidates and a short campaign message that can resonate with the masses? Is there a ...
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Spotlight on SportCongrats Clive Atwell- first Dominican based boxer to challenge for ...
Reginald St. H ShillingfordJune 3, 2014The bizarre shenanigans of world title professional boxing appear to have stood firmly in the way of Dominica based Guyanese Clive Atwell when he challenged for the World Boxing Council ...
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Editorials
Using statistics to convert black to white
June 3, 2014"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
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Letters
Dear Mobile Phone Provider and other Companies within Dominica
June 3, 2014I am filled with despair at receiving another of your unsolicited marketing texts and automated phone calls. It costs me time and energy to answer these unsolicited calls, or to ...
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Spotlight
Brutalize me with music!
Ian JacksonJune 3, 2014Oh yes, they will drink jump, prance, misbehave, put their butts out, show off their navels and all, in the name of culture and entertainment and it's all good because ...
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Spotlight on Sport
The smothering of Sammy
Reginald St. H ShillingfordMay 27, 2014Street and Media Talk in the Caribbean showed an undercurrent that Darren Sammy's tenure of the captaincy of the West Indies has at best been precarious. Recently, the ebullient all-rounder ...
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Spotlight
OECS Song-writer's & Producers Work-camp
Ian JacksonMay 27, 2014Where else in Dominica or even the Caribbean which could be more ideally suited for an OECS song writer's work-camp but at the Atlantique Resort and Spa perched above and ...
