Commentary
THE MUSINGS OF AN IDIOSYNCRATIC ECONOMIST: The Copyright System in Practice (part 3)
February 3, 2013 | Comments: 6Answer to last week’s question. Last week “Producer’ asked a question as to whether or not a local collective management organization could be formed in ...
Something Old for Something New
January 20, 2013 | Comments: 15It was a slow gathering on Friday night. But the sparse crowd enabled for better appreciation of the transformation of PSU. What a fantastic job. The ambiance, the ...
COMMENTARY: Clarifying my position on geothermal development
January 18, 2013 | Comments: 41People have been calling saying that I have been referred to as “the culprit stirring discontent against geothermal in the Roseau Valley”. Since this is a gross ...
DENNIS JOSEPH WEEKLY: Of Lennox and Freedom of Information
January 18, 2013 | Comments: 70Happy New Year! I am starting this new 12 week series today and will revert to the regular Thursdays after this. I write at a time when calypso is in the air and ...
COMMENTARY: Who’s the Smartest of Them All?
January 14, 2013 | Comments: 7There are so many different ways to understand smart. One can be smartly dressed, one can outsmart someone else. It’s possible to even be too smart for your own ...
COMMENTARY: Whetted Appetites!
January 7, 2013 | Comments: 14So, that historical snapshot that is calypso is back. Calypso is back to preserve the mood and experiences of a people, of a time. The songs have been trickling in, ...
December 21: Not the end of time, just the beginning of another cycle
December 20, 2012 | Comments: 53As we draw close to December 21st 2012, I would like to reassure everyone that this date is not marking the end of the world, or the end of time as popularly ...
COMMENTARY: Renaming the mountains – an attack on reason
December 12, 2012 | Comments: 144I see no other way to say it: it is a disgrace and an embarrassment to Dominica that Morne Diablotin and Morne aux Diable are to receive new names because of the ...
COMMENTARY: 18th CPC National Congress: Inherit and forge ahead on China path
November 15, 2012 | Comments: 11EDITOR’S NOTE: Below is an article submitted by the Chinese Ambassador to Dominica, Wong Zonglai, on the conclusion of the 18th National Congress of the ...
KADANS-LYPSO RAINED
October 26, 2012 | Comments: 8After 34 Years of Political Independence is there anything to really boast about as far as our socio-economic and cultural well-being is concerned? Have we become ...
COMMENTARY: Mr. Minister of Education, what are your concerns about homosexuality?
September 21, 2012 | Comments: 73At the end of the last academic year, Dominica News Online (DNO) reported that the Minister of Education, Petter Saint-Jean, in an address, stated that he was ...
COMMENTARY: A nurse’s cry
September 11, 2012 | Comments: 135Can you hear us? We are shouting out to you from our actions and hitting you like asteroids from the sky. You say we are rude, but forgive us, for if you understand ...
COMMENTARY: Emancipation revisted
August 3, 2012 | Comments: 6“As truly emancipated human beings, we are neither Afro-centric, Kalinago-centric, not Euro-centric – rather, we are humanity centred. We see ourselves ...
DENNIS JOSEPH WEEKLY: Dominica would be a better place if more politicians were women
July 19, 2012 | Comments: 31I almost expected to hear an outcry “Captain, there is a traitor on board examine the horns” in the meeting hall where I had found myself after being ...
How to solve problems of deviance and underachievement in schools
July 13, 2012 | Comments: 21There has been a very important debate around Dominica and The Caribbean on the subject of how best to solve the problem of deviance and academic underachievement ...