Hurricane Lee whirled through open waters on Thursday as forecasters warned it could become the first Category 5 storm of the Atlantic season. Lee was not expected to make landfall while on a projected path that will take it near the northeast Caribbean, although forecasters said...
Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit on Wednesday expressed his country’s “profound gratitude to the People’s Republic of China” after Bejing agreed to fund the construction of six schools here totalling US$30 million. Speaking at the “symbolic” groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of the schools, Skerrit said...
Minister of State with responsibility for Youth, Sports and Culture, Ron Redhead, who was involved in a vehicular collision with a teenager on a bicycle says the young man is out of hospital recovering and thankfully did not require surgery. The incident occurred on...
Outgoing United States Ambassador to Guyana, Sarah-Ann Lynch says the Biden administration is concerned about what she says is China’s expanding financial footprint in Guyana and the wider Caribbean. “We’ve tripled the bilateral trade over the last few years so I think we are here we...
The former speaker of the Dominica parliament, Alix Boyd Knights, was found dead at her home in Trafalgar on Tuesday. Boyd-Knights, an attorney, served as speaker from 2000 to 2020. Upon her election to a third term on February 4, 2010, she became the longest-serving Speaker in...