The sub-region has a new Regional Association for Heritage Protection as six OECS member states and two French Departments of the Americas launched the Regional Heritage Association (RHA) on January 29, 2008 at the Rex Resorts Hotel in St. Lucia. The RHA is a non-profit, non governmental organization. read more...

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ROSEAU, Dominica: In an address marking the launching of the Public Dialogue on the OECS Economic Union, Chairman of the OECS Authority and Prime Minister of Dominica, Roosevelt Skerrit spoke of the transcending imperative for member States of the OECS to come together. read more...

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ROSEAU, Dominica: In his address at the launching of the year-long programme of public dialogue on the OECS Economic Union, Dominica's Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit explained the objective for the creation of an Economic Union among OECS member states as well as some of the provisions in the draft treaty. read more...

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CASTRIES, St Lucia: The OECS Secretariat has announced that on April 24 the Secretariat communicated to the Lord High Chancellor, Jack Straw, a recommendation for the appointment of Justice Hugh Anthony Rawlins, to the position of Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court. read more...

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ROSEAU, Dominica: Just as Basseterre in St. Kitts will forever be remembered as the city where the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) was born, the city of Roseau in Dominica will create its own history on Wednesday, April 23, 2008, when the next phase of the OECS integration process begins. read more...

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ROSEAU, Dominica: The government of Dominica and the European Commission Delegation to the OECS and Barbados will conduct a joint review of EU development assistance to Dominica on Thursday, in furtherance of the programme of development cooperation between the European Union and Dominica. read more...

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ROSEAU, Dominica: Night landing at the Melville Hall Airport in Dominica has moved a significant step closer to becoming a reality with the completion of Package Three and a substantial part of Package Four of the Air Access Improvement Programme by the 6th Division of the Army Corp of Engineers from Venezuela. read more...

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ROSEAU, Dominica: Josette Borel-Lincertin, 1st Vice President of the Regional Council of Guadeloupe will arrive in Dominica on Friday to sign a Transnational Agreement with the government of Dominica that will support the further development of Dominica’s geothermal resources. read more...

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ROSEAU, Dominica: Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit has reiterated his government’s commitment to the construction of an international airport in Dominica. The Prime Minister also told the large gathering of overseas-based Dominicans that the process towards building an international airport would take years. read more...

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ROSEAU, Dominica: Minister for National Security, Immigration and Labour, Rayburn Blackmoore has highlighted the strength and depth of the relationship between Dominica and the United States of America. The Minister made the disclosure at a handing over of four police vehicles by the US. read more...

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ROSEAU, Dominica: Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit opened the doors of his office at the Financial Centre last week to welcome thirty-three people from Venezuela -- the first group to visit Dominica under the Social Tourism Programme. The programme is an initiative of the government of Venezuela. read more...

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WASHINGTON, USA: On February 27, 2008, Caribbean Net News published an article titled "Dominica: The Caribbean's Next "Terror Island?"" by Dr Nikolas Kozloff, a Council on Hemispheric Affairs Senior Research Fellow.  This was based on the prospects that the island of Dominica, could be targeted by the White House. read more...

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ROSEAU, Dominica: High Court Judge Davidson Baptiste has ruled in favour of the Speaker of Dominica's House of Assembly, the Sergeant at Arms and the Attorney General in a motion brought by six Opposition parliamentarians after they had been escorted out of Parliament on January 8, 2007. read more...

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ROSEAU, Dominica: With the price of crude oil at a staggering US $109 a barrel and rising, Dominica’s Minister for Energy, Charles Savarin announced recently that “what oil and natural gas have done for petroleum exporting countries, geothermal energy can do for Dominica”. read more...

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ROSEAU, Dominica: On a visit to the Ross University School of Medicine in Portsmouth recently, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit highlighted the contribution of the school to Dominica’s development. The Dominican leader was invited to the school last month to assess for himself the recent expansion in new facilities. read more...

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ROSEAU, Dominica: One of the Caribbean’s leading academics and former St. Lucian Prime Minister, Professor Dr Vaughan Lewis, is of the view that Dominica or other Caribbean countries who give their support to ALBA see it as “just another avenue for obtaining economic aid which is not available in CARICOM”. read more...

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ROSEAU, Dominica: The OECS Export Development Unit (OECS-EDU) in collaboration with the Commonwealth Secretariat’s Hub and Spokes Project, the Dominica Association of Industry and Commerce (DAIC) and the Ministry of Trade, Industry, Consumer and Diaspora Affairs examined issues... read more...

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I have read Mr Kozloff's piece, as well as the letters written by many Dominican citizens and one Canadian, and wanted to make a couple of comments as an American who loves Dominica so much that my wife and I are building a vacation house here. Let me start by saying I wrote a letter to Mr Kozloff's editor. read more...

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ROSEAU, Dominica: The government of Dominica has moved another step closer to developing the country’s geothermal resources as a cheap and reliable source of energy. A media launch on Wednesday will provide information on a project intended to make geothermal energy in Dominica a commercial reality. read more...

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I didn't entirely agree with Nikolas Kozloff's COHA article warning Waitukubuli/Dominica that -- as a country co-operating with the Bolivarian Revolution -- it might become the target of the ire of the US and its allies (amongst which I'm ashamed to include my own country, Canada). read more...

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I read recently the essay on Dominica submitted by a senior researcher of the Council of Hemispheric Affairs on Caribbean Net News entitled:” Dominica Terror Island.” It took me some time to cool down the anger and the indignation felt from reading this warmonger pamphlet from a reputed scholar. read more...

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ROSEAU, Dominica: One of the Caribbean’s most eminent academics, Professor Norman Girvan, disagrees with those who claim that Dominica’s decision to sign on to the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA) undermines the country’s membership of the Caribbean Community(CARICOM). read more...

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BRADES, Montserrat: The government of Montserrrat has received the backing of Dominica's Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerritt for the proposed setting up of an OECS Climate Change Center on Montserrat. The Dominica leader has visited the site at Silver Hills in the northern safe area of Montserrat. read more...

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In response to Nikolas Kozloff story on Dominica, there is no story here. In many parts of his damning article you can place the word Canada and you have a potential McCain invasion. How much good would he do attempting to scare or warn the Canadian government of an impending McCain invasion? read more...

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Terror Island? Is Mr. Kozloff referring to the same island that has been listed as 4th happiest people in the world by the BBC in recent years? For an author who recognizes the economic hardship that a small nation has to endure, I find it careless to so casually throw around the label “Terror Island”. read more...

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ROSEAU, Dominica: Prime Minister of Dominica, Roosevelt Skerrit has pledged the government’s commitment to the completion of the restoration work at the Cabrits National Park in Portsmouth by making a financial contribution towards the establishment of The Cabrits Heritage and Ecology Centre (CHEC). read more...

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ROSEAU, Dominica: .Members of Parliament in Dominica will be given the opportunity to discuss proposals on local government reform at a meeting to be held here on Monday. Over the last year a consultancy firm from Jamaica has been working closely with the Department of Local Government. read more...

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Mr Kozloff: I have just read your article on the COHA website titled "Dominica Terror Island" with dismay. I am a Dominican by birth who, in concert with other concerned Dominicans, has worked for a lifetime promoting Dominica's development and good relations between Dominica and the US. read more...

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There are a number of statements in Nikolas Kozloff's recent commentary on Dominica that cry out for correction. Firstly is his assertion that Dominica is a land of "grinding poverty". Dominica may not have economic indicators that match those in the G8, but Dominica now has an influx of illegal immigrants. read more...

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In 1983, while aboard a New York subway, I noticed someone reading that day’s issue of the New York Post. The front page headline screamed, “YANKS INVADE TERROR ISLAND.” It was early on in the Reagan administration and the US had just militarily intervened in the Caribbean nation of Grenada. read more...

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