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Dominica PM Outlines Provisions in Draft Treaty on OECS Economic Union

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.Continue Reading >>

‘We need to band together to survive and prosper,’ says Dominica PM

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.Continue Reading >>

Dominica PM launches public dialogue on OECS economic union

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.Continue Reading >>

Latest News in Brief from Dominica Weekly News Desk

Dominica Musician wants help with Dominica votes 21.APR.08
A Dominican residing in the United States is looking to land a major music contract and has called on his countrymen to assist him. His name is Jefferson Scotland of Wall House Dominica who now resides in the US and goes by the stage name “Klass Money”.
Singing […]

Latest News in Brief from Dominica Weekly News Desk

No more bus fares to and from school
Sixty students of the village of Penville have been told that they no longer have to pay bus fares to and from school. Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit made that disclosure when he presented a new school bus to students of that community.
He said the bus would bring an […]

Timothy against implementing Integrity in Public Office Act

Dominicanewsonline 14.APR.08
Former Deputy leader of the opposition United Workers Party says he is opposed to implementation of the Integrity in Public Office Act of 2003. There has been repeated calls for the implementation of the law passed in the house of assembly and assented to the president since June 2003.
A petition, which is currently in […]

Dominica’s largest trade union calls for solidarity among working class

Dominicanewsonline 14.APR.08
Dominica’s largest trade union body has called for greater solidarity and unity among the working class of the country.General Secretary of the Public Service Union Thomas Letang made the call a head of the union’s 4th biennial delegate’s conference here on Thursday.
He said the call was timely in light of the many issues comforting […]