Commentary
COMMENTARY: It’s the economy people, not politics
September 5, 2011 | Comments: 40On June 29th 2011, the Prime Minister of Dominica presented a national budget of $432.5-million in parliament. Without much deliberation from members of cabinet the ...
COMMENTARY: Labour’s unfulfilled promises in Portsmouth
September 2, 2011 | Comments: 37It is with a sense of satisfaction and at times bemusement that I have read comments in the media over the past weeks and months emanating from the sleeping giant ...
COMMENTARY: Ian Jackson’s article a clear case of irrational analysis
August 26, 2011 | Comments: 63I read with great eagerness the article penned by Ian Jackson in the Sun Newspaper of August 22nd, 2011 titled “Our youth simply do not care” only to be ...
COMMENTARY: UWP leadership woes
August 25, 2011 | Comments: 94From time to time the question of the leadership of the United Workers Party comes up in conversation with ordinary rank and file citizens of Dominica. What do you ...
Sean Douglas crying over spilt milk – Eisenhower Douglas
August 24, 2011 | Comments: 129Reference is made to an article by Mr. Sean Douglas, former Government Press Secretary. In that article, Sean sought to portray Prime Minister Skerrit and the ...
COMMENTARY: The fall of Qaddafi
August 22, 2011 | Comments: 106The long, forty two year old nightmare of Colonel Qaddafi’s brutal and chaotic rule appears to be coming to an end in Libya as rebel forces seeking his removal ...
COMMENTARY: NATO loots Libyan gold as Tripoli falls
August 22, 2011 | Comments: 59Precisely as we predicted last month, NATO forces and their Al-Qaeda backed rebels launched a massive assault on Tripoli in order to wrap up the looting and ...
Seeing the ‘red’ in REDjet
August 16, 2011 | Comments: 10Just when you thought air travel couldn’t get any worse, it did: more confusion, exploitation, manipulation and the occasional molestation. But wait! What’s ...
I am sexually attracted to my father
August 16, 2011 | Comments: 148I know this sounds weird and outrageous and I thought hard before writing to you. But I could not take it anymore and decided to write. I am an 17-year-old young ...
Another Douglas and concerned Dominican speaks out
August 13, 2011 | Comments: 115Forever tangled in a seemingly elaborate web of political warfare, we are steadily approaching two years since the December 2009 general elections were held in ...
Dominica: A country sliding towards dictatorship – Former Government Press Secretary breaks silence
August 12, 2011 | Comments: 313Saturday, August 13th 2011 will mark one year since the sacking of Sean Douglas as Government Press Secretary in the Roosevelt Skerrit administration. One year on, ...
COMMENTARY: So this is Ramadan and what have you done?
August 2, 2011 | Comments: 18It is the ninth and holiest month of the Islamic calendar. It is a period of fasting and spiritual reflection. It is one of the five “pillars” of ...
How the Public works Corporation can have a multiplier effect on the economy
July 28, 2011 | Comments: 12Half a century ago Dominica had up to 25 factories dispersed throughout the island. They were all were run on renewable energy and adding value to our raw ...
The airport issue
July 26, 2011 | Comments: 11I am somewhat puzzled by the efforts of Norris Prevost and his UWP cohorts to re-litigate the matter of the international airport or to revisit the wisdom of ...
COMMENTARY: Regarding the death of Amy Winehouse
July 25, 2011 | Comments: 17Amy Winehouse’s public decent into the primitive abyss of promiscuous sex, profanity and drugs is a reflection of a society that, as her last album title ...