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Dominica: Education sector achieves milestone with 'Top CXC Results' and major reforms for 2025
Associates Times
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Dominica: The island nation’s education sector has achieved another milestone. The Ministry of Education revealed the top-achieving students in the 2025 Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) results and announced some major reforms set to implement...
Dominica set to host next cybersecurity awareness event in regional campaign
Dominica News Online
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August 26, 2025
Dominica News Online - Tuesday, August 26th, 2025 at 2:14 PM Dominica will serve as the next venue for a regional cybersecurity awareness campaign, with activities scheduled for August 28 as part of a broader initiative spanning four Eastern...
Dominica hosts national symposium on the implementation of the Kigali amendment
Dominica News Online
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August 27, 2025
Hon. Cozier Frederick addresses stakeholdersThe National Ozone Unit (NOU) successfully hosted a National Symposium on the Implementation of the Kigali Amendment on August 13, 2025, at the St. Alphonsus Parish Hall, bringing together key...
Contour to launch Puerto Rico-Dominica flights next month
News is My Business
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August 28, 2025
A Contour Airlines ERJ-135 regional jet will operate the new San Juan–Dominica route. Puerto Rico’s air connectivity will expand this fall as Contour Airlines launches new nonstop service between Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport (code SJU)...
Contour Air set to offer routes from Dominica to St Thomas and Puerto Rico in September
Dominica News Online
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August 27, 2025
Dominica News Online - Wednesday, August 27th, 2025 at 2:22 PM American carrier, Contour Airlines is moving into the Caribbean and will begin its aviation schedule from Dominica (DOM)–San Juan (SJU) and Dominica–St Thomas (STT) effective September...
‘Outstanding’, says culture minister about DA’s CARIFESTA XV performance
Dominica News Online
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August 27, 2025
Home >> Culture Dominica News Online - Wednesday, August 27th, 2025 at 2:46 PM Team Dominica CARIFESTA XVMinister for Culture, Gretta Roberts, has described Dominica’s performance at the CARIFESTA XV ‘Country Night’ held in Barbados last night as...
ALBA Denounces U.S. Military Deployment Near Venezuela
teleSUR
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(FILE) Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. Photo: EFE. August 28, 2025 Hour: 12:32 am The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of America (ALBA), a coalition of ten Latin American and Caribbean nations warned that the deployment of U.S. warships...
Contour Airlines Is Adding Caribbean Flights, Linking Dominica With Puerto Rico and St Thomas
Caribbean Journal
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August 28, 2025
A new airline is coming to the Caribbean: Georgia-based Contour Airlines is expanding its Caribbean footprint with new nonstop service linking Dominica with Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Beginning this fall, the regional carrier will...
Contour Airlines Launches Caribbean Service With Flights from San Juan and St. Thomas to Dominica
St. Kitts Gazette
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August 27, 2025
SMYRNA, Tenn., Aug. 27, 2025 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — Contour Airlines is proud to announce the launch of new nonstop flights connecting Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport (SJU) in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Cyril E. King Airport (STT)...
Minister for Culture Gretta Roberts hailed Dominica’s presentation at CARIFESTA 15...
DBS Radio
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August 27, 2025
Minister for Culture Gretta Roberts has praised Dominica’s presentation at CARIFESTA 15 in Barbados last night as a tremendous success. A contingent of 72 members is representing Dominica at CARIFESTA 15, and they participated in Country Night...
Minister for Culture Gretta Roberts hailed Dominica’s presentation at CARIFESTA 15 in Barbados as a great success.
DBS Radio
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August 27, 2025
Home News Minister for Culture Gretta Roberts hailed Dominica’s presentation at CARIFESTA 15 in... Minister for Culture Gretta Roberts has praised Dominica’s presentation at CARIFESTA 15 in Barbados last night as a tremendous success. A contingent...
Comment on Court awards EC$75,000 in defamation case to former Dominica Red Cross Director-General by Putin
Dominica News Online
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August 27, 2025
Home >> Crime/Court/Law Dominica News Online - Wednesday, August 27th, 2025 at 10:23 AM Photo of Pinard-Byrne taken in 2015 when she was Director-General of the Dominica Red Cross SocietyThe Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court has ruled in favour of...
Direct flights to Dominica from St. Thomas, USVI, and San Juan,...
DBS Radio
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August 27, 2025
Contour Airlines has announced direct flights to Dominica from St. Thomas, USVI, and San Juan, Puerto Rico, effective September 24 this year. Minister for Tourism Denise Charles Pemberton stated that the new service will expand air travel to...
Direct flights to Dominica from St. Thomas, USVI, and San Juan, Puerto Rico, will begin in September.
DBS Radio
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August 27, 2025
Home News Direct flights to Dominica from St. Thomas, USVI, and San Juan, Puerto... Contour Airlines has announced direct flights to Dominica from St. Thomas, USVI, and San Juan, Puerto Rico, effective September 24 this year. Minister for Tourism...
Persad Bissessar defends US military support, says ‘Trinidad First’ policy will guide government
Caribbean National Weekly
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August 27, 2025
Prime Minister Kamla Persad Bissessar says her administration will pursue a “Trinidad and Tobago first policy” over the next five years, insisting she will not back down from criticism of her decision to support the U.S. deployment of military...
Trinidad and Tobago’s prime minister defends support for U.S. naval presence near Venezuela amid regional criticism
Dominica News Online
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August 26, 2025
Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has reiterated her government’s firm support for the United States Navy’s deployment near Venezuela, declaring that Trinidad and Tobago’s foreign and domestic policy will be guided by a “Trinidad and Tobago...
Saint Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister named 2025 MIPAD Lifetime Achievement honoree
Dominica News Online
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August 26, 2025
Home >> Governance Dominica News Online - Tuesday, August 26th, 2025 at 1:39 PM St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister, Dr. Terrance Drew. Photo: St Kitts Information ServiceThe prime minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, Dr. Terrance Drew, has been named...
GOVERNMENT OF SAINT KITTS AND NEVIS APPOINTS CARLTON POGSON AS FINANCIAL SECRETARY (AG)
SKN Pulse
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August 25, 2025
BASSETERRE, Saint Kitts, August 25, 2025 (SKNIS): The Government of Saint Kitts and Nevis is pleased to announce the appointment of Carlton Pogson as Acting Financial Secretary in the Ministry of Finance. Mr. Pogson is a distinguished banking and...
Pharmacy in the Caribbean poised for transformation, says outgoing Caribbean Association of Pharmacists president
Dominica News Online
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August 25, 2025
Dominica News Online - Monday, August 25th, 2025 at 5:28 PM Kalawattie Datt-Singh – President of The Caribbean Association of PharmacyThe Caribbean pharmacy sector stands on the brink of a transformative era, driven by innovation, accountability,...
Will Guyana election end LGBTQ+ criminalisation in South America?
Context
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What’s the context? Parties contesting the Sept. 1 election broadly support ending the continent's last law that makes same-sex intimacy a crime. BERLIN - Most of the political parties running in Guyana's general election next week have promised...