Dominica News

Many key sectors of the Canadian economy have job openings, but no people to fill them.

ROSEAU, Dominica -- As part of its response to the black sigakota disease currently threatening the region's banana and plantain crops, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations will be providing intensive training in management of the disease at a workshop to be held in Dominica from 17-22 June.

A total of 512 job applicants were "hired on-the-spot" by various local and overseas employers during the Kalayaan or Independence Day job fair held in nearby Koronadal City on Wednesday.

ROSEAU, Dominica Dozens of parishioners have gathered outside a Roman Catholic church in Dominica to support a parish priest who has been accused of molesting a girl nearly two decades ago.

American Chamber of Commerce T&T's president Hugh Howard, right, and AmCham's executive director Desiree Gobin-Seecharan, chat with Edwin Carrington, T&T's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Caricom, following the discussion on trade and development in the Caricom region, at Capital Plaza, Port-of-Spain, yesterday.

Regional telecoms watchdog the Eastern Caribbean Telecommunications Authority , which currently comprises five nations - the Commonwealth of Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - has published an update on the process for the release of 700MHz spectrum in Although the overarching policy regarding ... (more)

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad - China on Sunday announced a US$3 billion concessionary facility for eight Caribbean Community countries as President Xi Jingping ended a three-day state visit to Trinidad and Tobago.

Caribbean Community countries that support the People's Republic of China's One China policy, including Trinidad and Tobago, are to benefit from US$3 billion in concessional loans from that country.

Visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping called here Sunday for more vigor and cooperation to boost ties between China and Caribbean nations.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados : Two Caribbean Community countries Dominica and Trinidad and Tobago have been added to a list of countries blacklisted by France.

The Dominica government says it has no intention of changing the present buggery laws even as the advocacy group, Minority Rights Dominica said it was seeking talks with the authorities on the matter of equal rights.