Dominica News | 2008 July

12th Annual World Creole Music Festival Jump Start with Media Launch

By DWNews Editor ⋅ July 30, 2008 ⋅ One comment

Dominica’s twelfth World Creole Music Festival officially jump start this morning with a media launch at the Fort Young Hotel together with headline Sponsor Telecommunications giant Digicel. This years Festival is schedule for October 31st to November 2nd at Peoples Windsor Park Stadium is the highlight event to mark Dominica’s 30th anniversary of independence.

Earl Williams Resigns as Opposition Leader

By DWNews Editor ⋅ July 30, 2008 ⋅ 5 comments

After a week of hearsay and waiting, opposition Earl Williams in a ten-minute press conference Wednesday told Dominicans that he accepts full responsibility for mistakes that were made in relation to certain activities pertaining to his legal practice, and that he has submitted his resignation to the United Workers Party as its leader.

NORWIN A/S Installs The First Utility-Scale Wind Turbine In The Eastern Caribbean

By DWNews Editor ⋅ July 30, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

(live-PR.com) - Rosalie Nature Resort, Rosalie Dominica, July 30, 2008 — Norwin A/S with the support of Sustainable Planning and Development successfully installed a Class 1 NORWIN 225 kW wind turbine on a 40 meter mono pole tower in Dominica. The wind turbine is installed at Rosalie Nature Resort Facility where it will offset the […]

Ross University to Open Branch Campus in The Bahamas

By DWNews Editor ⋅ July 28, 2008 ⋅ One comment

MarketWatch.com Jul 28, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE)
Ross University, a division of DeVry Inc. announced that it will open a branch campus in Freeport, Grand Bahama, in January 2009 to accommodate the growing demand from new students who wish to attend Ross University, which has a medical school campus in Dominica and a veterinary school campus in […]

World Creole Music Festival Plans Media Launch

By DWNews Editor ⋅ July 28, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

By Kimberly Benjamin | Q95FM | July 25th, 2008.
The DFC/Discover Dominica Authority in collaboration with Headline Telecommunications sponsor “Digicel”, the Bigger Better Network says that the 12th Annual World Creole Music Festival will hold its Media Launch on July 30th 2008 at the Fort Young Hotel running from 10am to 12noon. The usual 3 […]

Local Athletics Coach Emmanuel Loblack is Peeved Over Romain’s selection

By DWNews Editor ⋅ July 27, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Sun-Weekend.com - Saturday July 26 2008
ROSEAU, Dominica (CMC) – Local athletics coach Emmanuel Loblack is peeved over the selection of United States-based Jerome Romain as the coach of Dominica’s team for the Beijing Olympics next month.
Earlier this month, a release from the Dominica Amateur Athletics Association (DAAA) stated that Romain had been appointed as the […]

Possible AIDS Vaccine in Five Years

By DWNews Editor ⋅ July 27, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Jamaica Gleaner 27.JUL.08 - Written by:Keisha Shakespeare-Blackmore
DR Paul Sudhir, professor of pathology at The University of Texas Medical School in Houston, and his colleagues, think they might have found a potential preventative human immunovirus (HIV) vaccine, they disclose to The Sunday Gleaner in an exclusive interview.
Sudhir says this team is making headway in its research […]

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