Alex Bruno spent twelve days walking Dominica in July 2026 with a clipboard and a small team of poll workers from his polling company Caribbean Agency for Political Advancement (CAPA). What he learned from the numbers disturbed him. Talking to Anthony Drigo on This Week in Interview on this week’s episode of the weekly program […]
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A boy on a boat’s deck off Philipsburg, reading with the lowered jib half folded around him, dasheen and plantain waiting to be sold on the wharf so the next semester of school could be paid for.
Thirty to forty young people, most between the ages of 13 and 25, spent two weeks this summer on Pastor Adrien Bannis’s farm in Castle Bruce, learning agriculture not from a textbook but from the soil itself. The camp, which concluded this week, is part of an ongoing effort by Bannis and his family to […]
The World Trade Organization’s intervention in the 1990s stripped Caribbean bananas of preferential access to the European market. That, combined with external shocks of the same period, pushed policymakers to look for non traditional revenue.
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has forcefully defended the Caribbean’s campaign for reparations for slavery, rejecting criticism from some British politicians and insisting that the movement is rooted in justice rather than financial compensation or political symbolism. Speaking in her capacity as chair of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Prime Ministerial Subcommittee on Reparations, Mottley […]
What distinguishes her romantic fiction, in her own account, is a deliberate resistance to writing love scenes that lean on explicit content to hold a reader’s attention.
The clearest version of that strategy is root crops. “If a hurricane blow, you don’t have to go back and plant again,” Bannis said. “You just continue to take care of it.” He named sweet potato, dasheen, tania, and yams specifically.
“Growing up, my dad always loved, he loved hunting agouti,” George said. “So when I got to a certain age I myself was no longer interested… but I used to tease him all the time. I used to tell him, ‘You love hunting agouti, one day agouti will hunt you back.'”
The 2025 Write-Tukubuli Virtual Literary Festival has successfully concluded a vibrant week-long celebration of Dominican and Caribbean creativity, drawing an astounding 70+ Dominican writers from around the world.
May 27th, 2025, Roseau, DOMINICA Concerned Citizens announces to the Dominican public and the wider Caribbean community the filing of a Re-Amended Fixed Date Claim Form (DOMHCV of 2024) has been officially filed on May 8, 2025 with the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court in the High Court of Justice in the Commonwealth of Dominica. The […]
