Commentary

Between Pride and Patience: The Prime Minister’s 2-Hour Budget Debate Reflection

So I had a whole week and a half to really reflect on the Prime Minister’s two-hour contribution during the budget debate, and I have a lot to share. The time away from the immediacy of the chamber al

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How Skerrit’s 2025 Budget Is Quietly Changing Dominica

I’ve sat through a lot of budget debates, some filled with high talk, others barely worth tuning into. But this year’s address hit differently. Not because the Prime Minister raised his voice, or made

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Making Bomb: How Prostitution Is Stealing Dominica’s Women and Youth

Let’s not pretend. We all know what making bomb means in Dominica. It’s when women, girls, and boys (yeah, young men, teenagers), sell their bodies for things. Sometimes it’s a ride home. S

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From Weed to Cocaine: The Crisis Dominica Refuses to Confront

Walk through parts of Pottersville at night. Or pass through Newtown after school hours. Anyone paying attention can see it: drugs are no longer lurking in the shadows. They’re out in the open,

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The Riot Act and the Question of Who Gets to Speak in Dominica

At the recent Dominica Bar Association forum, a panel of seasoned legal professionals met to examine the Riot Act, an archaic piece of legislation still looming over public expression in a country tha

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Customer Service in Crisis: Dominica’s Silent Reputation Killer

We love to boast that Dominica is the Nature Island, but let’s not fool ourselves, no lush waterfall or volcanic spring can mask the foul stench of bad customer service that greets too many visitors a

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Promises on Paper, Potholes in Practice: 2025 Budget Under Scrutiny

The Minister for Finance, Hon. Irving McIntyre, stood in Parliament and read the numbers with confidence. Some clapped. Some nodded. Some dozed. But out here in the real Dominica, where the price of a

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When Justice Becomes a Talk Show: Grogg, Dalrymple, and the DBS Radio Debacle

What happened on the show “The Ministry of National Security and Legal Affairs & You” live on air between Jason Grogg and the Director of Public Prosecutions, Sherma Dalrymple, is not

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Garbage in the Capital: The Nature Island’s Silent Shame

Dominica has long sold itself to the world as the Nature Island of the Caribbean, a pristine escape where waterfalls tumble through untouched rainforests, where cruise passengers marvel at the green m

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