Commentary

COMMENTARY: Customer service turned inside out

COMMENTARY: Customer service turned inside out

October 29, 2011 | Comments: 11

Local businesses for the most part know that it is important to give good customer service. Honestly, I don’t think there is any business that purposely goes out ...

Vybz Kartel gets second murder charge

Vybz Kartel gets second murder charge

October 25, 2011 | Comments: 22

Police last night slapped a second murder charge on controversial deejay Vybz Kartel, a development that his lawyer said has shocked the artiste. A news release ...

Creole in the Park and World Creole Music Festival can take LIME from “Good to Great” – Norris Prevost

Creole in the Park and World Creole Music Festival can take LIME from “Good to Great” – Norris Prevost

October 25, 2011 | Comments: 18

Editor’s note: Below is the address given by Member of Parliament for Roseau Central Norris Prevost at the official launch of Creole in the Park yesterday ...

COMMENTARY: Don’t serve your customers

COMMENTARY: Don’t serve your customers

October 22, 2011 | Comments: 37

At the least, you are probably continuing to read this article because you are outraged at the title. What on earth do I mean, “don’t serve the customers?” ...

COMMENTARY: The Jamaican and Dominican courts on dual citizenship

COMMENTARY: The Jamaican and Dominican courts on dual citizenship

October 21, 2011 | Comments: 42

The last half of the twentieth century has witnessed a significant increase in global migration and dual citizenships as a key dynamic of globalization. World ...

Dual citizenship debate – Keeping it alive

Dual citizenship debate – Keeping it alive

October 20, 2011 | Comments: 23

The debate on whether individuals with dual citizenship should contest parliamentary elections here in Dominica and certainly the region seemingly has suffered some ...

COMMENTARY: United we stand, divided we fall

COMMENTARY: United we stand, divided we fall

October 19, 2011 | Comments: 92

Our national focus in Dominica needs to change as a matter of urgency. Constructive action is critical to diffuse the political muddle that continues to hover over ...

COMMENTARY: Myths about homosexuality – Part one

COMMENTARY: Myths about homosexuality – Part one

October 18, 2011 | Comments: 111

1. Homosexuals were born the way they are. It’s natural to be “gay.” Answer: Firstly, if this was the case there would not be opposite sexes. We ...

COMMENTARY: Dominica: Speak! Or forever hold thy peace

COMMENTARY: Dominica: Speak! Or forever hold thy peace

October 17, 2011 | Comments: 59

Suddenly, like the violent crash of a bomb-blast, Dominica nationals at home and in the Diaspora are awakened. They were once entrenched in a tradition of ...

REDjet gets go-ahead in five more Caribbean countries

REDjet gets go-ahead in five more Caribbean countries

October 13, 2011 | Comments: 29

Five more Caribbean nations have given permission for low-cost carrier REDjet to operate flights from their countries. This was revealed by REDjet chief executive ...

COMMENTARY: After the honeymoon – A masculine perspective

COMMENTARY: After the honeymoon – A masculine perspective

October 12, 2011 | Comments: 5

Many times we hear people say that marriage changes people.  Is it a matter of change? or is it a matter of reverting to the characteristics we have managed to ...

COMMENTARY: Protection against self-incrimination

COMMENTARY: Protection against self-incrimination

October 10, 2011 | Comments: 68

Editor’s note: The following article was first published in The Chronicle and is being republished with permission. Irony of ironies: the man who has twice ...

My communist breakfast

My communist breakfast

October 10, 2011 | Comments: 43

A cup of tea, some sugar to sweeten it and a leader who appears to be excavating the bones of Hitler himself. Now while I have no interest in politics it is getting ...

The call for reviewing Dominica’s Constitution –  The context

The call for reviewing Dominica’s Constitution – The context

October 7, 2011 | Comments: 18

On Thursday September 15th 2011 a “very powerful” message was delivered at the Harlem Plaza in Newtown. At one of the “peoples’ gathering” a former Prime ...

Disqualification simplicity at the watershed

Disqualification simplicity at the watershed

October 5, 2011 | Comments: 165

Before the long, tortured journey of trying to determine the lawful constitution of the Parliament of Dominica following the 2009 general election, Roosevelt ...