Minister for Community Development, Culture, Gender Affairs and Information, Hon. Loreen Bannis-Roberts highlighted the multi-faceted nature of a special program aimed at poverty reduction being implemented by the Dominica Social Investment Fund in the community of Boetica.
Speaking at the second Annual General Meeting of the Dominica Social Investment Fund in Boetica recently, Hon. Bannis-Roberts lauded [...]
July 8, 2009 | 89 views |
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The implementation of the Waitukubuli National Trail Project (WNTP) has reached an important phase with the signing recently of a Service Contract for verification and design of Pedestrian bridges/crossings and a Works contract for construction of a wood workshop.
Two local firms have been awarded the contracts to undertake activities related to the implementation of the [...]
July 8, 2009 | 100 views |
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A Convent Preparatory School student, Marie Ange Emanuel, is the new winner of the DBS Radio, Ministry of Education & Courts OECS Ltd 2009 Primary Schools’ Reading Competition.
Marie took the top position out of a field of ten readers at the grand finals of the competition which was held at the Arawak House of Culture [...]
July 3, 2009 | 289 views |
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The Labor Party Government of Prime Minister, Hon. Roosevelt Skerrit will on Monday, June 22nd 2009 launch the ‘Yes We Care’ Program- an initiative aimed at assisting families in the provision of personal home care to needy housebound elderly people in Dominica.
The much anticipated event is carded [...]
June 21, 2009 | 135 views |
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Danly Guye, Environmental Officer at the Environmental coordinating Unit says the theme for this year’s World Day celebrations should serve to remind all that that Climate Change and desertification interact with each other at various levels.
Dominica joins the rest of the international community in commemorating the day under the theme: Desertification and Climate Change’ One [...]
June 17, 2009 | 67 views |
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An elderly woman was rescued from a burning building on Elliot Avenue earlier today as fire completely gutted the dwelling house where she lived.
Maria Pitma Smith had just gone back into the house when persons in the area noticed that the house was fully ablaze and that she might have been trapped inside. Smith [...]
June 17, 2009 | 205 views |
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Hundreds of Dominicans, many dressed in red, lined the two mile-stretch from the Canefield airport to the community of Jimmit to greet Venezuela’s President, His Excellency, Hugo Chavez Frias for his much anticipated visit to Dominica on Saturday, June 13th 2009.
The Venezuelan President along with Prime Minister, Hon. Roosevelt Skerrit arrived at the Canefield Airport [...]
June 14, 2009 | 192 views |
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The dream of Venezuelan President, His Excellency, Hugo Chavez Frias to bring about energy security to Latin America and the Caribbean through his PetroCaribe project will manifest itself in a tangible way in Dominica on Saturday with the official commissioning of the new US$35 million “Waitukubuli Fuel Storage and Distribution Plant” at Jimmit.
President Chavez leads [...]
June 12, 2009 | 93 views |
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Less than two months after being sworn in as a magistrate, Tiyani Behanzin is threatening to resign.
Behanzin, son of the later Roosevelt Douglas described his appointment to the bench in April as”the realization of a dream and homecoming…” Today, that drream has turned into a nightmare.
At the heart of the matter is a case involving [...]
June 10, 2009 | 566 views |
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Four passengers aboard a small aircraft escaped unscathed after their single engine aircraft crashed on landing at the Canefield Airport on Tuesday.
Details of the incident are still sketchy. However, Benoit Bardouille, Chief Executive Officer of the Dominica Air and Sea Port Authority noted that he had reported the case to the Easter Caribbean Civil [...]
June 3, 2009 | 259 views |
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