By Michael D. on October 15, 2008
St. Maarteen Police caught 22 undocumented persons on Saturday 12 Oct in the first Immigration control in recent months, the police reported Monday. Police set up control areas in Philipsburg and Maho for three hours and arrested persons mainly from Dominica, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru for residing here illegally. “The Immigration Department [...]
Posted in News | Tagged dominica, immigration, News |
By Michael D. on October 15, 2008
Dominica’s cricket boss said he is focussed on getting more of the country’s players into the West Indies team, and has called on regional selectors to take a closer look at players from the Nature Isle. Emmanuel Nanthan said that Dominica had done well to service the West Indies youth team with several players in [...]
Posted in Sport | Tagged cricket, dominica, dominicans, west, west indies
By Michael D. on February 7, 2008
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved on February 4, 2008, SDR 2.05 million (about US$3.3 million) in emergency assistance for Dominica. This amount is available immediately to help the government deal with the effects of Hurricane Dean, which struck Dominica in August 2007. The damage caused by Hurricane Dean is estimated [...]
Posted in News | Tagged disaster relief, dominica, dominicans, emergency loan, hurricane dean, international monetary fund imf, natural disasters |
By Michael D. on February 7, 2008
Chief Cultural Officer Raymond Lawrence believes more publicity and promotion for Dominica’s carnival is required to have the event registered on the world calendar. Revelers take to the streets on Monday and Tuesday for the two days of jump up in Dominica’s 2008 carnival, the Real Mas. Mr. Lawrence says Dominica has been unable to [...]
Posted in Entertainment | Tagged calypso, calypso king, carnival, Dennison, dominica, Entertainment, festivals, mas, Minister, money, promotion |
By Michael D. on February 7, 2008
ROSEAU, Dominica (AP) – Dominica and Barbados walked out of Windsor Park Wednesday night realizing they both could have won instead of settling for in a 1-1 World Cup qualifying draw in their first-round CONCACAF series. Now, they will have to wait until March 26 in Barbados before they can settle their two-leg series. Jeffrey [...]
Posted in Sport | Tagged barbados, carib, Caribbean, CONCACAF, cricket, dominica, roseau dominica, windsor park |
By Michael D. on February 7, 2008
An earthquake measuring 4.6 in magnitude occurred off Martinique on Wednesday afternoon, disaster officials have confirmed. According to the University of the West Seismic Unit at the St Augustine Campus in Trinidad and Tobago the earthquake was felt in St. Lucia as well as Scotts Head in Dominica and Antigua. There have not been any [...]
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By Michael D. on January 28, 2008
Coolidge, Antigua A five-wicket haul from captain Liam Sebastien carried Dominica to a record-breaking 66-run victory over British Virgin Islands (BVI) in the second match of the 2008 Stanford 20/20 tournament at the Stanford Cricket Ground on Sunday. Off-spinner Sebastien, one of the most experienced players in the Dominica team with 16 First Class matches, [...]
Posted in Sport | Tagged british virgin islands, cricket, dominica, Liam Sebastien, mas, roy marshall, Shane Shillingford |
By Michael D. on January 20, 2008
The Dominica Calypso Association 2008 Calypso semi finals were held at the Harlem plaza Newtown Savannah last night. 9 calypsonians earned the right to challenge the reining Calypso King The Hunter. The Finalists are as follows: SYE SANDY DADDY CHESS SCRUNTER DICE OBSERVER KARESSHA TARINA WEBB The National Calypso Finals will be held at the [...]
Posted in Entertainment | Tagged calypso, calypso king, calypsonians, CARESSA, carnival, carnival city, CHESS, DADDY, DICE, dominica, finals, mas, OBSERVER, real, sandy webb, SCRUNTER, semi, semi-finals, semifinals, SYE, tarina, WEBB |
By Michael D. on January 19, 2008
Veteran Shaun Pollock marked his final Twenty20 international by guiding South Africa to an absorbing win against West Indies in Johannesburg. Batting first, the tourists made 131-7 with Jerome Taylor and Darren Sammy putting on 30 for the sixth wicket. Their bowlers then reduced South Africa to 77-6 and victory looked likely. But an exhibition [...]
Posted in Sport | Tagged captain chris, chanderpaul, chris gayle, cricket, dominica, dwayne bravo, dwayne smith, foot injury, mark boucher, Sport, sports, west, west indies, wicket keeper, windies |
