Thunderous applause echoed through the halls of Parliament yesterday, when government senators resoundingly condemned the Statutory Corporations General Provisions Bill of 2016 and voted with the Opposition, to send it back to the Lower House. Senator Wigley George, the first member on the government side to...
Horror stories of violence, despair and abuse readily come to mind when some people think of life inside a children’s home but for student nurse Delate Howell, living at Wortley Home for Girls has been a blessing in disguise. The 21-year-old university student, who is currently...
University of the West Indies Professor Julie Meeks has lamented the lack of the implementation of existing child protection laws in Dominica, and the Caribbean region, and advised that policy makers be “shamed into getting things done.” During her presentation at the Ninth Annual Bernard Sorhaindo...
Three men and a woman are to be arraigned in court tomorrow on charges related to the almost 700 pounds of cannabis seized in a counter-drug operation last week. Two brothers, Kimron John, 31, and Mark John, 27, (who were born in St Vincent but are...
The government is in the process of procuring a mobile mammogram unit to address what Health Minister Molwyn Joseph has described as “an extremely high rate of breast cancer” amongst local women and the late stages at which the disease is being diagnosed. “To me, this...