Eight Dominican students earned degrees at Midwestern State University’s December 2011 Commencement exercises last Saturday. They were part of a group of 20 Caribbean students who also walked the stage.
Deborah Anthony earned her master’s degree in human resource management. She earned her bachelor’s from Midwestern two years earlier.
Caesarina Paul earned cum laude honors [...]
Cutting Edge Communications announces its list of Top Ten Movers and Shakers of 2011. A “Mover and Shaker” is a person, group, or organization (or thing) that has been a game changer; that has moved people; influenced or that has had impact for better or for worse.
This is the second successive year that Cutting Edge [...]
Today’s world is one filled with diverse peoples striving to cope with the demanding economic climate. While great emphasis is placed on rescuing countries straining under an ever increasing burden of debt, children all over the world, suffer quietly in an atmosphere of violence and abuse. Every year millions of children around the [...]
Violence against women and girls touches Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean just as it does every other part of the world. Gender-based violence is a global pandemic that cuts across all borders – ethnicity, race, socioeconomic status, and religion. It can threaten women and girls at any point in their life – from [...]
Caribbean author and New York resident Mario Picayo will (almost) follow the text of his popular and best-selling title “A Caribbean Journey from A to Y (Read and Discover What Happened to the Z)” as he travels from A (Anguilla and Antigua) to S (Saba, St. Thomas, St. John, St. Kitts, St. Vincent) on a [...]
Police are on the lookout for six masked men in connection with a violent robbery in Canefield during the early hours of Sunday morning.
Dressed in army fatigues and armed with pumps and other small arms, the masked men raided Rhona’s BBQ along the Canefield highway on Sunday morning and made off with an undisclosed sum [...]
Dominicans are being cautioned to be on the alert for a possible outbreak of gastroenteritis. The Ministry of Health last week issued a health bulletin informing the public of an increase in the reported cases of the illness.
Gastroenteritis is a condition that causes irritation and inflammation of the stomach and intestines. It is caused by [...]
Kingston, Jamaica: November 23, 2011 – Tourism Minister, the Hon. Edmund Bartlett has welcomed Monday’s announcement by JetBlue Airways that the company will be expanding its operations in Jamaica with the addition of new flights. The expanded service will see the introduction of two daily nonstop flights between Kingston and Fort Laudadale, Florida.
Speaking at a [...]
One of Dominica’s most loved and greatest musical icons, Jeff Joseph, has died.
The 58 year old Joseph reportedly died at 2: 30pm on Wednesday at the La Meynard Hospital in Martinique following unsuccessful emergency surgery on Tuesday.
Family members nor hospital officials have officially reported on the cause of death but Music promoter and longtime friend [...]
A late night fire on Monday on King George V Street has left an elderly woman dead and a community in mourning.
Eighty-two year old Vernie Julien perished in the fire that completely gutted her dwelling and consumed Julien’s Jewelry which occupied the ground floor. The fire was reported about 11:30pm.
Julien, who resided on the [...]
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