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Wisynco Cuts 100 Jobs Ahead Of Styrofoam Ban
The Wisynco Group has made the positions of more than 100 workers redundant in the last few weeks and has opted out of the food packaging business as the Government remains firm in its decision to place a ban on all Styrofoam products come…
Brazil investigates Christmas Eve attack over Netflix show
Brazil’s police on Thursday were investigating a video on social media that shows a gasoline bomb attack targeting the makers of a Christmas program on Netflix that some critics have described as blasphemous.
ECS Embassies Congratulates Dominican Foreign Service Officers on Graduation from the Moroccan…
Rabat, Kingdom of Morocco — The Embassies of Eastern Caribbean States to the Kingdom of Morocco wishes to congratulate Ms. Remilia White and Ms. Kamila Bell, Foreign Service Officers from the Commonwealth of Dominica, on the successful…
Dominican Prime Minister names a 13-member Cabinet
Skerrit had previously assigned himself six different portfolios in the new Dominica Labour Party (DLP) Cabinet when he took the oath of office, oath of allegiance and oath of secrecy at a short ceremony at the Office of the President…
OECS Agriculture Experts visit Kingdom of Morocco on Technical Cooperation Mission
In an effort to strengthen capacities in the critical areas of agronomy, soil fertility mapping, diagnostic laboratory testing, irrigation, and export market development; a delegation of agriculture experts from the OECS visited the Kingdom…
PM Congratulates Saint Lucian On Making Forbes List
Prime Minister Allen Chastanet has congratulated Johanan Dujon on making the 30 under 30 2020 Forbes List in Manufacturing & Industry.
Regional governments reach ‘consensus’ on LIAT deal
A new agreement has apparently been struck as the government of Barbados has apparently come off its initial stance of requesting US $40 million from the Government of Antigua and Barbuda (GOAB) to acquire most of its 49 percent…
Graduates still awaiting associate degrees a year after completing programme
A year after graduating from the Occupational Associate Degree programme at Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) in Kingston, scores of graduates are yet to receive the document which confirms that they have earned the qualification.
Court freezes bank accounts of Chinese nationals
A High Court judge has granted an order prohibiting two Chinese nationals from disposing of close to $10 million which had been paid by a State company for the construction of a government school.
Re-elected Dominica PM calls for regional interests to be defended
Caribbean people and institutions have to stand in defence of the region against external attacks from those who don’t have its best interests at heart, says Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit.
All six RSS member countries in Dominica – RSS official
An official at the Regional Security Services (RSS) Headquarters in Barbados, Colonel Ford has informed Dominica News Online (DNO) that all six RSS member countries have, at the request of the Dominican authorities, dispatched law…
Trinidad AG: Law coming to stop prisoners’ use of internet in jail
Prisoners in local jails are communicating on the Internet using 4G and LTE technology, prompting the Government to amend the Interception of Communication law soon to deal with this.
Fifteen countries ban travel for Venezuela’s Maduro and allies
Fifteen countries have banned 29 Venezuelans - including the country's President Nicolas Maduro and his close allies - from travelling within their borders as part of diplomatic efforts to push him to step down.
A meeting that took place…
Dominica protesters block airport roads in election fight
Protesters trying to cancel national elections have blocked roads leading to the main airport on the eastern Caribbean island of Dominica.
Concerned Group Writes Saint Lucia PM On High Travel Taxes
This communication is born out of a regional movement of Caribbean citizens who have come together in opposition to the current cost of intra-regional travel and governments’ role in escalating airfares.