Dominica
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Dominica mopping up after passage of Tropical Storm Chantal
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Electricity was slowing being restored to several parts of Dominica on Wednesday as authorities began the task of counting the cost of the damage caused by Tropical Storm Chantal 24 hours earlier. Public Works and Infrastructural Development Minister Rayburn Blackmore, speaking on the state-owned DBS radio Wednesday, said the authorities will be assessing the damage “and…
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Dominica’s national debt in excess of EC$700 million
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Dominica’s national debt is in excess of EC$700 million (One Ec dollar = US$0.37 cents), the island’s director of audit, Clarence Christian has said. Speaking on the state-owned DBS radio, Christian said the total central government debt was EC$702.8 million with external debt accounting for EC$520.9 million. He said the value of unpaid cheques, which people…
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Caribbean becoming hotbed for film production
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — Halfway through Godfather II, a tense scene unfolds in which Michael Corleone watches from the back seat of a taxi as a rebel blows himself up on a street in pre-revolutionary Cuba. By the time the scene was shot in the early 70s, Fidel Castro had already taken over the island; filming in Havana was…
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PM denies lack of consultation ahead of budget
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has dismissed suggestions that his administration has not engaged in public consultations ahead of the presentation of the 2013-14 national budget. General Secretary of the Dominica Public service Union (DPSU), Thomas Letang, spoke of the lack of consultation with the union but Skerrit, speaking on the state-owned DBS radio, said that consultations…
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Dominican, Haiti governments square off on poultry ban
Santo Domingo.- The Dominican government Monday night called Haiti’s proposal to continue banning Dominican poultry products and allow only meats, “totally unacceptable,” after a four hour meeting of officials from both countries failed to solve the one-week standoff. After the meeting, Foreign minister Carlos Morales said president Danilo Medina was told “in a very clear, very transparent and quite frankly,…
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Dominican merchants shutter border market to protest Haiti’s ban
Dajabón, Dominican Republic.- Dajabón merchants kept Haitians from crossing into the Dominican side on Sunday, the day before the market held Mondays and Fridays, as part of the called shutdown on Monday organized by the Merchants Association, to protest the ban on eggs and poultry enacted by Haiti’s government. Also turned back were trucks from other towns full of merchandise…
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IACHR condemns the death of Haitian national by Dominican Republic authorities
WASHINGTON, CMC – The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) is condemning the death of Jean Robert Lors, a 31-year-old Haitian national, who reportedly died last month after being beaten by agents of the General Directorate of Migration and of the police in the Dominican Republic. IACHR said Lors was among people picked up during a massive repatriation roundup carried…
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Dominica speaks of the benefits of OECS Economic Union
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Dominica Wednesday said that the Economic Union of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) provides an opportunity for the sub-region to improve its trading relations with the international community. “The establishment of an Economic Union, which is the single market, also the single financial space and economic space, will assist the development of the OECS…
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PM dismisses objection to Grenadian attorney for position as magistrate
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has described as “pure mischief” the decision of a radio talk show host to write the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC) objecting to the appointment of former Grenada government minister as a magistrate in Dominica. Attorney Arley Gill was scheduled to have taken up his appointment earlier this month, even as Attorney…
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Reports of avian flu outbreak denied
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, CMC -Officials in the Dominican Republic have denied reports of an outbreak of avian flu adding that the World Health Organisation declared the country free of bird flu three years ago. In a statement on Friday, the Dominican Ambassador to Haiti, Ruben Silie said Haiti erroneously reported that the neighbouring country had an outbreak of avian…
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