US President Biden’s proclamation on National Caribbean-American Heritage Month, 2022
America’s strength has always been rooted in our diversity. Since our Nation’s founding, ...
REVISITING 29th MAY 1979 – From the upcoming book ‘Theft of a Legacy’ by O.J. Seraphin
The events of 1978 and 1979 in Dominica were memorable watershed moments. It was the womb of ...
Documentary narrated by Raymond Lawrence wins big at Cannes Film Festival
A documentary narrated by former Chief Cultural Officer Raymond Lawrence has won the Best ...
Architects in Dominica invited to participate in design competition for new national library
Architects in Dominica have been given the opportunity to come up with a suitable design for ...
Essi Matilda Forster, a woman of Dominican descent who became Ghana’s first female attorney
Dominica News Online (DNO) is pleased to publish this interesting historical piece on Essi ...
Development fund launched to facilitate credit for Kalinago people
An amount of eight hundred and sixty thousand dollars has been disbursed to the Agricultural ...
Dominican author makes learning fun with latest release, twinning history with colouring
Jeffers Joseph a native of Wesley, has published his 4th book, but this time he decided to ...
COMMENTARY: Boiling Lake’s episodes of instability (1887-2022) – Part I
During the last century and a half Dominica’s Boiling Lake, which is one the major ...
How ‘compromised’ was the Hillsborough bridge?
Hillsborough Estate was once the site of one of Dominica’s several water-powered sugar mills, ...
Sidney Poitier, Hollywood trail blazer, dies at 94.
Sidney Poitier, the first black man to win a best actor Oscar, has died at 94.The Bahamian ...
COMMENTARY: Dr. Kay Polydore – Nation Builder
I first became acquainted with Dr. Kay Polydore in 1972 when I entered the Dominica Grammar ...
Karifuna group celebrates successful 43rd anniversary
President of the Karifuna Cultural Group, Prosper Paris is reporting a successful staging of ...
Barbados on its way to becoming republic next month with the election of its first president
Dame Sandra Mason has been announced as Barbados first President-elect as the country prepares ...
Colin Powell retired four star general and former US secretary of state dies from COVID complications
Colin Powell, the retired four-star general who became the country’s first Black ...
VIDEO: A Farewell to Our National Hero Prime Minister Roosevelt ‘Rosie’ Douglas
On October 1, 2000, Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt “Rosie” Douglas died ...
‘He worked to improve the lives of the poor’ – from the eulogy of Patrick John
Among the many notable achievements of the late Patrick Roland John, Dominica’s first prime ...
Let history judge Patrick John’s failures and successes – Archdeacon Valentine Hodge
Dominicans have been advised to allow history to be the judge of the successes and failures of ...
IN PICTURES: State Funeral of Dominica’s first prime minister, Patrick Roland John
More than two months after his passing, Dominica’s first prime minister, the late Patrick ...
IN PICTURES: Viewing of the body of the late Patrick Roland John
The viewing of the body of the last Premier and First Prime Minister of Dominica the late ...
State funeral for the late Mr. Patrick Roland John, former Prime Minister of Dominica on Sept 29, 2021
The State Funeral for the late Patrick Roland John, former Prime Minister of Dominica, will be ...
Arson suspected in Roseau Library fire
One mentally-ill man is assisting the police with their investigation at the Public Library in ...
Pte. Michel and the scars left by Hurricane Maria
Editor’s Note: This article, first published on DNO in 2020, relives the ...