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| ROSEAU, Dominica: A programme by government to reduce the cost of power is ongoing through the replacement of light bulbs in households around Dominica, through assistance by the Cuban government. read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: Well over 130 persons representing the Cabinet, the public sector, private sector, civil society organisations and non-governmental organisations were present for the official launch of Dominica’s Growth and Social Protection Strategy (GSPS) on Monday. read more.. |
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ROSEAU, Dominica:  Dominica’s Minister for Education, Human Resource Development, Sports and Youth Affairs, Vince Henderson has called on member States of the OECS to continue to invest heavily in education in response to the many challenges facing the region. read more.. |
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ROSEAU, Dominica:  Dominica’s Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit told new United States Ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, Mary Martin Ourisman, at a meeting on Wednesday, that the United States must keep "closer contact with CARICOM and the OECS". read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: A programme aimed at achieving social and economic transformation through fiscal growth and poverty reduction in Dominica was launched by the government on Monday, through the Growth and Social Protection Strategy. read more.. |
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ROSEAU, Dominica:  Dominica's Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, has been talking about the early success of the Government’s Housing Revolution, saying that, since government handed over a cheque of $4 million to the Government Housing Loans Board, $1.7 million has been disbursed. read more.. |
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ROSEAU, Dominica:  Dominica's Minister for Housing, Reginald Austrie has outlined the seven components of the Government's Housing Revolution. Austrie made the remarks at the Handing Over Ceremony where Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit presented a cheque for $3 million. read more.. |
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ROSEAU, Dominica:  Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has been talking about the economic impact being created as a result of the establishment of a new offshore medical school in Dominica - the All Saints University School of Medicine - at a meeting with overseas nationals. read more.. |
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ROSEAU, Dominica:  The landing of a new submarine fibre optic cable in Dominica on Thursday, December 21, 2006 heralds a new era in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Sector in the country. Upon completion, this new cable will run through the entire Eastern Caribbean. read more.. |
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ROSEAU, Dominica:  At a Post Assumption Reception in honour of new Chinese Ambassador, Dominica's Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, stated that his Government has "no interest, or no intention or no thoughts, no aspiration to seek to play the Two-China game." read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: In its seventh and last review of Dominica’s performance under the three-year Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF) arrangement, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund has commended the government. read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: Dominica’s Acting Prime Minister, Matthew Walter, has pledged support to the newly elected government in St Lucia, following the general elections on December 11. read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: More than 15 Caribbean whale watching organisations, in partnership with the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), met this week to formalise CARIBwhale, an association committed to conserving cetaceans and their habitat. read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: The Dominican Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Private Sector Relations through the National Development Corporation (NDC) has launched a new tourism website: www.discoverdominica.com. read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: The Roosevelt Skerrit Administration this week disbursed over four million dollars to the Government Loans Board to lend out, at 4% interest rates, to public officers earning less that $30,000 a year for home construction. read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: A committee put in place to spearhead a National Health Protection plan, mandatory for all citizens, intends to reposition health as a priority in Dominica. read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: A workshop on Freedom of Information Implementation in the Caribbean will be held in Dominica from November 27- December 1, 2006. The event will take place at the House of Assembly in Roseau. read more.. |
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ROSEAU, Dominica:  A Dominican evangelist believes that it is time for the State prison to be an economically viable institution. Peter Augustine made the suggestions public at the launch of the refurbished prison chapel this week, adding that the skills of the inmates could be utilised. read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: The HIV/AIDS Unit is launching a 'Know your Status' campaign next week to encourage and boost voluntary HIV testing with counselling in Dominica. This campaign will form part of the Unit’s World AIDS Day activities. read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: United Workers Party (UWP) leader Earl Williams believes that it is time for the rules and regulations of Parliament to be changed in Dominica, especially relating to media coverage. read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: Even while most of the world and even the US itself is getting negative on the war in Iraq, at least one prominent citizen of the island of Dominica is still very much in favour of current policy of the American and British administrations. read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: Dominica's Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has called on the international donor community to honour the pledges it has made to Haiti. The Dominican Leader issued the call at a press conference held recently in the aftermath of a Prime Ministerial Mission to Haiti. read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: It has been less than six months since Dominica pulled off one of the best steelband events for 2006. Last Spring Dominica served as the host for the 2006 OECS Junior Steelband competition. read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: The services at the Princess Margaret Hospital are “expanding slowly but surely”, with the official opening last week of an Intensive Care Unit at Dominica’s principal medical institution. read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: Dominica’s Minister for Public Works and Public Utilities, Ambrose George, has described the new Electricity Supply Act of 2006 as “the beginning of a new era for the electricity sector in Dominica”. read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: A number of public and private sector projects are expected to get underway in Dominica in 2007. That commitment was given by Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit in his 2006 Independence Day Address. read more.. |
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ROSEAU, Dominica:  Senior officials from the Governments of Dominica and Venezuela converged in Jimmit on the occasion of the unveiling of the ‘First Stone’, which signalled the start of construction of the PetroCaribe Fuel Storage and Distribution Plant in Dominica. read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: A ceremony heralding the start of construction of the PetroCaribe Fuel and Distribution Plant in Jimmit, Dominica will take place on Wednesday with the unveiling of the ‘First Stone’. read more.. |
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EDISON, USA:  In a departure from his day job teaching students at one of the leading international providers of medical education, Dr Peter Bellot of the Ross University School of Medicine, has released a book of photographs entitled “A Secret Place: Reflections of Dominica.” read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: The tourism sector in Dominica has been further enhanced with the official opening on Tuesday of the EC$5 million dollar Morne Diablotin/Syndicate Visitor Centre and Access Road. read more.. |
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ROSEAU, Dominica:  Outgoing United States Ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean, Mary Kramer, has congratulated the Government and people of Dominica for “putting their financial house in order”. The US Ambassador made the comments as she concluded her final visit to Dominica. read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: Dominica has recorded growth in the production, construction and tourism sectors in the second quarter of 2006, according to a report by the Central Statistical Office Quarterly Economic Indicator for the second quarter of 2006 (April-June). read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: The Ross University School of Medicine Library in Dominica will begin exhibiting paintings of local artists beginning the week of October 16. Each artist exhibiting will show his paintings for a period of approximately six weeks. read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: The International Monetary Fund expects the Dominican economy to grow by 4 pe cent in 2006. This revelation was made at the end of an IMF Staff Mission to Dominica. read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: Dominica, as a practical destination for nature enthusiasts, has been re-branded by the Ministry of Tourism, with a bold new logo and tagline, ‘Defy the Everyday, The Nature Island of Dominica.’ read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: Senior trade officials and private sector representatives from the WTO member states of the OECS will gather in Dominica from October 4 – 5, 2006 for a very important brainstorming meeting. read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has signalled his Government’s seriousness to create a vibrant international business sector in Dominica with the appointment of a former Finance Minister, Julius Timothy, as a Minister for Economic Development and Planning. read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: Dominica’s Prime Minister has revealed that there will be an addition to the government, with former deputy leader of the opposition party taking on the role as Minister for Economic Development and Planning. read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: The Dominican Cabinet has been presented with a proposal by Duke Enterprises Corp, a British Virgin Islands company, to convert waste from sanitary landfills into electricity. read more.. |
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| LONDON, England: There is no doubt why Gore Verbinski would have chosen Dominica as the backdrop for the movie Pirates of the Caribbean 2, starring Johnny Depp, Keira Knightly, Orlando Bloom and Bill Nighy. read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: Dominica’s Attorney General, Ian Douglas, has described the opening of the US$ 7 million Diagnostic Centre in Portsmouth as “ being a great day for us not only in the Portsmouth Health District but for all of us in Dominica.” read more.. |
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ROSEAU, Dominica:  The Republic of Turkey has advised citizens of Dominica, St Kitts & Nevis, St Lucia and St Vincent & the Grenadines that travel to Turkey has been made a lot easier. Effective August 1, 2006, passport holders of these Caribbean island nations are eligible to receive multiple-entry visas. read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: Following a request by the Government of Dominica to the Chinese Government, ten police officers left Dominica last week to pursue training in China. read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: Prime Minister of Dominica, Roosevelt Skerrit, and Minister for Public Works and Public Utilities, Ambrose George, were among the many invited guests for the official opening ceremony for the long-awaited Wotton Waven/Trafalgar/Copthall Water Supply Project. read more.. |
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| CASTRIES, St Lucia: The embassy of Mexico for the OECS countries, based in St Lucia, has announced that seventeen Eastern Caribbean students have received full scholarships granted by the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey. read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: The number of persons in Dominica living in poverty has fallen, according to a World Bank report, which says that the percentage of the Dominican population living in poverty is now 33%. read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has outlined his vision for the health sector in Dominica. The Prime Minister was at the time addressing a Town Hall Meeting in the village of Paix Bouche on Sunday evening. read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has said that Dominica has the most ambitious training programme for nurses in the Caribbean. Skerrit made that disclosure on Sunday, when he compared the shortage of nurses that existed a few years ago to action now being taken. read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: Community service labour is an option being presented to rehabilitate lawbreakers in Dominica instead of serving a jail sentence at the State prison. read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: Twenty Dominicans, twelve women and eight men, will leave Dominica next week to pursue first degrees in various academic disciplines in China, starting September 2006. read more.. |
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ROSEAU, Dominica:  The tourism sector in Dominica has received a major boost with the installation of a hyperbaric chamber at the Princess Margaret Hospital, funded by the European Union under the Eco-Tourism Development Programme at a cost of $750,000. read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: The next major phase of reform in the system of local government in Dominica is set to commence in September 2006. read more.. |
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ROSEAU, Dominica:  Dominican youth have been urged to take advantage of the many opportunities available to them. That call came from Prime Minister and Minister for Finance and Planning, Roosevelt Skerrit, as he made available the sum of EC$1 million to the Dominica Youth Business Trust. read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: Dominicans marched the streets of the capital city this week, to protest against the high electricity rates they are forced to pay for power consumption. read more.. |
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ROSEAU, Dominica:  Grammy winning Haitian artist Wyclef Jean will be among a number of major acts performing at the tenth edition of the World Creole Music Festival in Dominica carded for October 27-29, 2006. Reggae artist Shaggy is also scheduled to perform at the three-night event. read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund has praised the efforts of the Government of Dominica in achieving macroeconomic stabilisation. read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: The Canefield airport in Dominica will once again become a dynamic entry and exit point, with the introduction of daily flights via Carib Aviation’s Dominica Air Taxi services. read more.. |
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ROSEAU, Dominica:  Cuban Ambassador to Dominica, Oswaldo Cobacho Martinez, has praised the benefits to the Caribbean region of cooperation between Cuba and Latin America and the Caribbean countries. The Ambassador’s comments were made at the opening of the refurbished Nursing School. read more.. |
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| ROSEAU, Dominica: Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit is very supportive of a European Union (EU) programme, geared at enhancing community tourism in Dominica. read more.. |
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ROSEAU, Dominica:  Dominica’s Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, has acknowledged the contribution of Cuban President, Dr Fidel Castro to humanity. The Dominican leader made the remarks last week at the opening ceremony for the newly refurbished Nursing School and Hostel. read more.. |
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ROSEAU, Dominica:  The nursing shortage in Dominica could be eliminated by 2009, according to the President of the Dominica State College, Dr Annette Bardouille, as she addressed the official opening of the refurbished Nurses Hostel and Nursing School last week. read more.. |
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ROSEAU, Dominica :  The dramatic turnaround in Dominica’s fiscal situation has come in for high praise from a leading Caribbean economist. Chief Economist at Caribbean Money Market Brokers Research Centre, Jwala Rambarran, commented on Dominica’s macroeconomic performance at a post budget seminar. read more.. |
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ROSEAU, Dominica:  The bilateral relationship between Dominica and Cuba has deepened with the opening of the newly refurbished Nursing School and Nurses hostel on Wednesday. The Cuban Government has so far contributed materials in the amount of over $500,000. read more.. |
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ROSEAU, Dominica:  Dominicans are continuing to benefit from the Eye Care Programme, an initiative of the Governments of Cuba and Venezuela. Since the | |
