Monthly Archives: December 2011

The Caribbean Year in Review

For the Caribbean, it was the Year of the Vote. By year’s end, five countries, Jamaica, Guyana, St Lucia and Haiti and the British Virgin Islands, will have ...

Posted in Regional | 4 Comments

Registry being modernized R...

Tourism Minister Ian Douglas has said the legal affairs department is progressing well with the improvements of registrations of births, deaths and marriage in ...

Posted in Economy/Development | 30 Comments

UPDATE: PM Skerrit & Thom...

If Thompson Fontaine was bluffing, it would appear that Prime Minister Skerrit has called his bluff. Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, through his attorneys, on ...

Posted in Crime/Court/Law | 159 Comments

Former Prime Minister and wife...

The commitment continues …16 years successively.. of the gifts to the Carib children through the former Floral Gardens Christmas gift program of former Prime ...

Posted in General | 31 Comments

Dominican nabbed at airport in...

A 42-year-old Dominican national has been arrested in connection with the seizure, by law enforcement officials in Antigua, of more than USD$60,000 (ECD$163,000). ...

Posted in Crime/Court/Law | 77 Comments

PNP wins Jamaican election

Defying a series of pre-election polls, Jamaica’s opposition People’s National Party has won the Jamaican election, according to preliminary tallies from the ...

Posted in News | 14 Comments

PM Skerrit files lawsuit again...

According to information just reaching Dominica News Online, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, through his attorneys, has filed a lawsuit against Dr. Thompson ...

Posted in News | 73 Comments

Cutting Edge Communications na...

Cutting Edge Communications (CEC) announces its list of Top Ten Movers and Shakers of 2011. A “Mover and Shaker” is a person, group, or organization (or thing) ...

Posted in General | 66 Comments

PM calls for increase in publi...

Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit is calling for an increase in public health education. In an end of year Government Information Service interview, he said a ...

Posted in Health | 10 Comments

10 theft offenses equals seven...

Chester “Chucky” Valmond of Stockfarm has been sentenced to a total of seven years imprisonment after pleading guilty to committing 10 theft offenses over the ...

Posted in Crime/Court/Law | 31 Comments

Dominica’s economy held ...

The Dominican economy has held its own throughout 2011 despite economic challenges, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has said. It was a very difficult year for ...

Posted in Economy/Development | 51 Comments

UWP says $200,000 in legal fee...

The Opposition United Workers Party says it has had to spend more than $200, 000 in legal matters against the ruling Dominica Labour Party (DLP). However,Leader of ...

Posted in Politics | 39 Comments

Man votes for wrong candidate ...

Jamaica – A 70-year-old man died after reportedly voting for the wrong candidate in Mullet Hall, West Portland this morning. Sylvester Nugent, a farmer, ...

Posted in Regional | 39 Comments

PHOTO OF THE DAY: Loubiere and...

Photo by Cherry-Ann Paul Photographers – novice, amateur or professional – in Dominica are asked to submit photos, photographer credit and caption to ...

Posted in Photo of the Day | 6 Comments

Iranian president to visit Cub...

Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will make a Latin American tour in the second half of January 2012, which will include Cuba, Nicaragua, Ecuador and ...

Posted in Regional | 33 Comments

More charges in connection wit...

Two other individuals have been charged in relation to a recent Tarish Pit shooting incident which left one man injured. Kessler Alcendor of Goodwill and Jess ...

Posted in Crime/Court/Law | 36 Comments

More than 1.6 million Jamaican...

Jamaicans will today journey to approximately 7,000 polling stations across the island to cast their votes to determine the party which will form the next ...

Posted in Politics, Regional | 3 Comments

Priests brawl in BethlehemR...

Scuffles have broken out between rival groups of Greek Orthodox and Armenian clerics in a turf war at Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity. Bemused tourists ...

Posted in General | 27 Comments

Dominica seeks funding from Wo...

Dominica is seeking financial help from the World Bank to address road damages in the east of the island after heavy rains caused landslides and flooding there late ...

Posted in Economy/Development | 33 Comments

US Congress takes next step to...

Ten United States Congressmen have introduced a Congressional Resolution expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the “Government of Antigua and ...

Posted in Regional | 54 Comments