Saudi King overturns woman driver’s lashing sentence
RIYADH (BNO NEWS) — Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah on Wednesday overturned a court ...
Month: September 2011
Nokia to cut 3,500 jobs, close Romanian plant
ESPOO, FINLAND (BNO NEWS) — Nokia, the world’s largest manufacturer of mobile ...
Power outage at Mexico City airport disrupts hundreds of flights
MEXICO CITY (BNO NEWS) — A large power outage at Benito Juárez International Airport ...
Oregon babysitters accused of raping young girls
HILLSBORO, OREGON (BNO NEWS) — A couple from the U.S. state of Oregon has been arrested ...
WCMF online store launches, offers custom festival products
World Creole Music Festival-goers – both those in Dominica and abroad – are now able to ...
UPDATE: Chavez scoffs at health emergency rumours
Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez today mocked a U.S. media report that he had been ...
Dual citizenship case continues today
The hearing in the election petition matter involving Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerritt and ...
PHOTO OF THE DAY: A helping hand
Residents of Massacre give a helping hand in an attempt to stem rising flood waters into a ...
No dead bodies – Police
Police PRO Kent Matthew has sought to clear the air concerning reports that three dead bodies ...
Haiti needs us now
“We may have come on different ships, but we are all in the same boat”. That is a most ...
Trinidad PM in Hospital- ‘Health Emergency’
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar spent last night at the St Clair Medical Centre as a ...
St Lucia and Dominica call attention to their vulnerability to weather disasters
The small island states of Saint Lucia and Dominica on Tuesday at the United Nations urged the ...
ADVISORY: No school today
Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has announced that there will be no school today. This is due ...
Rain Forest Aerial Tram Dominica opens major attraction ‘Gorge Zip Challenge’
Rain Forest Aerial Tram Dominica will launch its thrilling new Gorge Zip Challenge zip line ...
Kelver Darroux says situation in Layou is ‘terrible’
Parliamentary Representative for the Layou Kelver Darroux is reporting that his community has ...
OECS Joint Mission set to host groundbreaking Green Growth Investment Forum
The Brussels based Mission of the Eastern Caribbean States is set to host the Green Growth ...
PHOTOS: Heavy rainfall causes flooding across Dominica
Heavy rainfall associated with Tropical Storm Ophelia has been causing widespread flooding ...
Marlon Samuels’ bowling action found to be legal
The International Cricket Council today confirmed that following significant remedial work, an ...
HEALTH TALK: Your eyes speak… about your health
Some agree that eyes are the “windows to the soul”, as the ancient proverb has it. Maybe, ...
We deserve respect and to be treated on equal terms – Gay DSC student calls for change
Editor’s note: Below is a letter submitted by a gay 18-year-old economics major at the ...
UPDATED WITH PHOTOS: Flooding in Mahaut, Layou
There has been significant flooding in Mahaut this morning. This has forced the closure of the ...
One injured in accident at Woodbridge Bay
One person was injured and rushed to hospital following an accident at Woodbridge Bay this ...