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July 23, 2014

Fomer Dominica Cricketer dies

ROSEAU, Dominica, (CMC) – Dominica’s former national cricketer Gifford Walsh has died following a vehicular accident here on Saturday evening. Walsh was driving a vehicle in a southerly direction when it collided with another vehicle…

Tennis Camp Underway

(Sports Page)— As part of the ongoing summer camp, coordinated by the Department of Youth and Sports, the Tennis segment of the camp got underway at the prestigious Four Seasons Resort on Monday 21st July. The Tennis clinic which will run…

Queen’s horse Estimate fails drugs test

(CNN) -- Britain's Queen Elizabeth II cheered Estimate on to success at the Gold Cup in 2013 but now her her five-year old filly is in the dock. Buckingham Palace confirmed to CNN Tuesday Estimate had tested positive for banned substance…

MH17 shootdown may have been a ‘mistake’

WASHINGTON, (AFP) - Malaysian flight MH17 may have been shot down by "mistake" by ill-trained pro-Russian separatists, US intelligence officials said Tuesday, while dismissing Moscow's accounts of the incident as propaganda. Evidence…

No new or increased taxes, says Dominica PM

ROSEAU, Dominica -- Ahead of delivering the national budget for the 2014/2015 financial year on Wednesday, Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit said that government will not introduce new taxes or increase on taxes. Skerrit told DBS…

McNeil says work on Hyatt Ziva hotel going well

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Minister of Tourism, Dr Wykeham McNeill says he is anxiously awaiting completion of renovation work on the Hyatt Ziva Hotel, in Rose Hall, Montego Bay, which is the former Ritz Carlton Rose Hall. That resort, which…