Dominica was recently recognized with two (2) travel writing awards as a result of hosting two (2) German journalists last year.
The Discover Dominica Authority participated at the ITB Trade Show in Berlin, Germany, from Mar. 9 – 13, 2011. The event is the world’s largest international travel trade fair. During Caribbean Day at ITB on [...]
The government of Dominica has placed its support behind the possibility of pooling regional social security resources together to foster improvements within these systems.
Minister for Telecommunications Ambrose George, who presented remarks at the 22nd Meeting of Caribbean Social Security Heads at the Fort Young Hotel this morning, said that such an initiative would create a [...]
A 15 percent increase in water rates which was said to have been necessary to cushion the financial constraints facing local water company Dominica Water and Sewerage Company (DOWASCO) is set to continue for one year, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has said.
Manager of the company Bernard Ettinoffe announced recently that starting next month this increase [...]
Beginning in May, consumers will pay an additional 15 percent on their water bills. They will also be expected to see an increase in their sewage bill.
Bernard Ettinoffe, General Manager of the Dominica Water and Sewage Company (Dowasco) says the increases became necessary because of the financial challenges facing the company.
This is the first time [...]
After much talk of the economic benefits that the exploitation of the country’s geothermal resources will bring to the country, the government of Dominica has signed a contract with an Iceland Company to begin drilling geothermal wells in the Roseau Valley area.
The contracts for the nearly $17 million project were signed yesterday between the Icelandic [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Interested parties will have to wait another two weeks to know which contractor will be awarded the contract to build a 500,000 gallon water tank in Morn Bruce.
Bernard Etinoffe, General Manger of the Dominica Water and Sewage Company Ltd (Dowasco), says the winner of the tender will be announced shortly.
“The evaluation process is now nearing [...]
Notwithstanding government’s willingness to assist the financially strapped company, General Manager of the Dominica Water and Sewage Company (Dowasco) Bernard Etinoffe says the Dowasco will have to undertake some restructuring to put is financial house in order.
Last month Etinoffe informed staff that the company was considering cutting jobs and salaries in an effort to restore [...]
Trade Officer in the Ministry of Trade Ronnie Guiste says automobile owners can expect to pay higher prices for fuel as long as world oil prices continue to rise.
World market prices have trended upwards over the last six weeks, influenced mainly by the recent upheavals in the Middle East and North Africa.
“We are continuing to [...]
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