Parliamentary Representative for the Castle Bruce constituency, Johnson Drigo, has confirmed that work on the Petite Soufriere / Rosalie Link Road resumed on Tuesday.
Work resumed on the Rosalie end with excavation, drainage and culerting. It is anticipated that within the next two weeks, excavation and other works will begin at the Petite Soufrier end.
When completed, [...]
Regional airline LIAT said Friday that the decision to close its City Ticketing Offices (CTOs) was taken against a background of the need both to cut costs and to adapt the Company’s business model to a changing economic and technological environment and, in particular, to promote the use of web-based and telephone bookings.
Chief Executive Officer [...]
Two Dominican teenagers have become the youngest Purple Dragon Karate black belts in the country’s history. Jodi Simeon and Michael Pemberton both fourteen, achieved the significant milestone at a special grading session in Trinidad from March 25 – 27, 2011. The pair joined 28 other candidates from as far afield as Canada and the United [...]
The new Board of Governors and new President of the Dominica State College have been quietly putting in place a governance system and operational management that is structured to handle a new initiative focused on expanding opportunities for all Dominicans to access higher education and refocusing the College’s mandate towards making students succeed.
In that respect, [...]
Webster Edmund, the Layou man who allegedly kidnapped and held 15-year-old Shanice Jemmot captive in the heights of Clark Hall for 40 days, was remanded at the state’s prison today, but not before he was hit with 10 charges in relation to the matter.
Edmund appeared before Magistrate Ossie Lewis this [...]
Chevron Corporation announced it has completed the sale of its fuels marketing and aviation businesses in the Eastern Caribbean countries of Antigua & Barbuda , Barbados, Grenada, Dominica, St. Lucia, St Vincent & the Grenadines, Guyana, St. Kitts and Trinidad & Tobago to Vitogaz, S.A., a wholly-owned subsidiary of RUBIS, an international downstream petroleum company [...]
The Ministry of Health convened the first in a series of consultations on “Strengthening the Health Systems and Engaging the Private Sector” on Thursday March 31, 2011, at the Garraway Hotel.
Stakeholders from both the Private and Health Sectors participated in the half day consultation to dialogue on priorities for technical assistance in health system strengthening [...]
Health officials say they are stepping up their cleanup activities in the Roseau District to control the rodent population in the city in the hope of checking the spread of leptospirosis.
The Ministry of Health announced in January that there was an increase prevalence of Leptospirosis in Dominica.
Twelve cases were diagnosed in 2010 compared to six [...]
Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has publicly commended the Ministry of National Security and Police for a job well done in coordinating and securing the safe return of Shanice Jemmot to her family.
Jemmot was found by the police on Monday evening in the Clark Hall area after she went missing for more than fourty days.
Webster Edmund, [...]
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