Researchers back from Antarctic no-kill whale trip - Democratic Underground.com
snip> In 2000, the Government of Dominica was thrown into crisis when the Minister of Environment, Agriculture and Fisheries, Atherton Martin, resigned in protest over the decision by Prime Minister Roosevelt Douglas to override a Cabinet decision to ...
In multiracial America, the census puts us in a box - Washington Post
So if you're Haitian, you're not Hispanic, because French people brought Africans to that part of the island of Dominica. If you're Dominican, you are Hispanic, because Spaniards brought Africans to the other part. That's about language, I thought.
Queen’s baton relay organisers impressed with ... - Dominica News Online
Dominica on Tuesday became the 38th Commonwealth nation to partake in the Queen’s baton relay, ahead of the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Dehli, India from October 3 to 14. The Queen’s baton relay started in 1958, and has become known as one of the ...
Court hearing election petitions - Go Jamaica
The high court in Dominica is today scheduled to begin hearing six election petitions brought by the Opposition United Workers Party (UWP) contesting the legitimacy of Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit’s election victory. Mr. Skerrit’s Dominica ...
Presidential elections could be held by end of year ... - Investors Business Daily
Mar 14, 2010 (BBC Monitoring via COMTEX) -- ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC - Haiti's President Rene Preval says he is eager to hold presidential elections this year despite the massive burden of rebuilding in the aftermath of January's catastrophic earthquake ...
One of nine Venezuelan suspects testifies in trial ... - Vheadline
Dominica News Online: One of the nine Venezuelans, who have been charged with drug and custom-related offenses after allegedly being caught on a boat in Dominica's territorial waters, gave his testimony at the Roseau Magistrates' Court. The witness ...
Dominica’s high court hears election petitions - radiojamaica.com
The legitimacy of Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit's election victory in Dominica's December 18 general elections is being tested in the island's courts. The high court was on Wednesday scheduled to begin hearing six election petitions brought by the ...
Dominica celebrates 40th Anniversary of the ... - Dominica News Online
PRESS RELEASE: Dominica proudly joins 56 other MemberStates and Governments and 14 observers of the International Organisation for La Francophonie in celebrating the Organisation’s 40 th anniversary this year. The National Commission for La ...
Dominica celebrates 40th anniversary of International ... - Caribbean Net News
ROSEAU, Dominica -- Dominica is joining 56 other Member States and Governments and 14 observers of the International Organisation for La Francophonie in celebrating the Organisation’s 40th anniversary this year. The National Commission for La ...
When Freedom Fails: The Myth of Decolonization - American Thinker
In 2005, Venezuela's dictator Hugo Chávez struck a special deal called "Petrocaribe" with Antigua, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, St. Kitts/Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, and Haiti, among others, to supply those independent nations with oil at ...
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Explosives found aboard India plane: police
Explosive material was found on a passenger plane after it landed in southern India, but it was not immediately clear whether it was meant to be detonated on a flight, police said on Sunday.
Mexico drug war's toll on Americans grows
 The number of U.S. citizens killed in Mexico has more than doubled to 79 in 2009 from 35 in 2007, according to the U.S. State Department.
Afghan women confront deadly task: Childbirth
Married at 9, divorced at 10: Girl's memoir
In a harrowing memoir she has yet to read herself, Nujood Ali tells how at age 9 she was forced to marry a man three times her age, raped and beaten, then made Yemeni history by getting a divorce.
Pakistani Taliban kill 4, calling them US spies
The bullet-riddled bodies of four Pakistani tribesmen, killed by the Taliban for allegedly spying for the United States, were found Sunday in a semiautonomous tribal region near the Afghan border, witnesses and officials said.
Pope fails to calm anger over Irish abuses
 Pope Benedict XVI's unprecedented letter to Ireland apologizing for chronic child abuse within the Catholic Church fails to calm the anger of many victims.
Moderate earthquake, aftershock shake eastern Cuba
A moderate earthquake and smaller aftershock rattled houses and nerves in eastern Cuba on Saturday near the U.S. holding facility at Guantanamo Bay. No damages or injuries were reported.
Sandstorm turns Beijing sky orange
 China's capital woke up to orange-tinted skies Saturday as the strongest sandstorm so far this year hit the country’s north, making breathing the air “very bad for health.”
Thousands rally in Russia against Putin
 Thousands rally across Russia to denounce government economic policy and demand more freedom in a new challenge to the Kremlin reflecting increasing disillusionment.
Snowmobiler killed in Canada avalanche
Rescue crews end their search in British Columbia's mountainous backcountry after accounting for everyone in an area where an avalanche cascaded down a mountain, killing one snowmobiler.
Spain says video shows firefighters on holiday
A Spanish firefighting force says a video released by French officials investigating an alleged ETA shooting does not show the suspected gunmen, but rather a group of Catalan firefighters on holiday.
Volcano erupts in southern Iceland
 Authorities evacuated hundreds of people after a volcano erupted beside a glacier in southern Iceland, Iceland's civil protection agency says.
Obama appeals to Iranians in online video
In a fresh appeal to the Iranian people, President Obama says in an online video that the U.S. wants more cultural exchanges for their students and better access to the Internet to give them a more hopeful future.
Bombs still greet Marines in Afghan town
 Explosions rumble through Marjah daily — an ominous sign that Taliban insurgents have not given up despite losing control of the town to U.S. and Afghan forces about two weeks ago.
U.N. chief: Israel must stop settlements
 Visiting U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon says that Israeli settlement building anywhere on occupied land is illegal, while a Palestinian teenager is killed in clashes with Israeli troops elsewhere in the West Bank.
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