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Friday September 05, 2008
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Health Minister to take on Chairmanship for regional
health body
By Kimberly Benjamin-
Friday September 05th, 2008
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Come October 1, Minister for Health John Fabien will
take over the chairmanship for the regional co-ordinating
mechanism of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV &
Aids (PANCAP). Mr. Fabien addressed the opening of the
11th meeting of the Regional co-ordinating
mechanism Thursday. He highlighted the need for economic
and other resources to promote the institution’s order
of business. Current Chairman of the Regional
Co-coordinating Mechanism Pablo Maren’s address was
presented by Professor Peter Figero of PANCAP.
Meanwhile, Caricom Youth Ambassador John Darville of the
Bahamas asks for PANCAP’s support to develop
innovative ways to targeting the youth.

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Dominica’s overall performance in the CXC Examinations
Declines
By Kimberly
Benjamin -
Friday September 05th, 2008
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Compared to last year Dominica’s overall percentage pass
in the CXC Examinations this year has gone down by 2.6
percent to 72.1 percent. Chief education officer Steve
Hyacinth at a Press Conference Thursday said although
the results for the island top that of the Caribbean
overall, the Ministry is not too pleased. According to
him Biology moved from 72.3% to 79.4%, Physics increased
from 61.6% to 79.1%, Chemistry increased from 55.9% to
74.8%, Information Technology increased from 46% to
77.1%, Mathematics moved slightly from 49.9% to 50%.
French dropped from 86.6% to 65.7%, Spanish dropped from
86.2% to 62.9%, Technical Drawing dropped from 80.9% to
52.4%, Social Studies dropped from 94% to 79.8% and
English A dropped from 70.6% to 59%.
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Candidates for Portsmouth Wards Elected
Media Release-
Friday September 05th, 2008
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The Portsmouth Town Council reports that at the end of
Nomination Day for the Portsmouth Town Council General
Elections, held Thursday, only eight Candidates, two
(2) in each ward, submitted nomination papers for the
elections due on September 24th. Since two Candidates
are required to be elected in each ward, the Candidates
submitting their nomination papers before nominations
ended have each been duly elected to their respective
wards. The Candidates duly elected are Mrs. Valina Hill
and Mr. Edmund Thomas for Glanvillia, Mr. William
McLawrence and Mr. Murphy Wallace for Portsmouth West,
Mr. Errol Hill and Mr. Elijah Peter for Portsmouth East
and Mr. Ashton Rivierre and Mr. Jerome Xavier for Lagon.
The Councilors duly elected will convene soon to select
suitable persons, to serve as Nominated Members of the
Portsmouth Town Council, for submission to the Minister
for Community Development for consideration. The
Inauguration of the new Portsmouth Town Council will be
held early in October 2008.
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Reunion Lecture Series in Full Operation, says
Ambassador
By
Lakisha La Bassiere-
Friday September 05th, 2008
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At a Media Conference Thursday, Ambassador Charles
Maynard, made it known that the reunion lecture series
are in full operation. It is scheduled to begin on
Tuesday September 9th, 7.00 pm at the Fort
Young Hotel. These lectures aim at advising and
informing the public on the issues that affect our daily
lives both as a people and as a country. Among lecturers
scheduled to participate are Gerald Grell, Reverend
Watty and Dr. Jules. Ambassador Maynard also urged
Dominicans to come out and get informed and educated.
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Rabbit Festival Comes to an end
By Lakisha La Bassiere-
Friday September 05th, 2008
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Thursday closed the curtains on this year’s Rabbit
Festival. Prior to the event were a series of activities
which were meant to include the youth and educate them
on rabbits. These activities included a week long radio
quiz which tested that 4H Clubites knowledge on rabbits.
Among the 4 winners were Gordon Royer and Odele
Deschamps. Each winner received a pair of rabbits.
Another activity included an essay competition where
students were asked to write on the topic ‘The rabbits
have been looked upon as a meat producing animal’.
Discuss the role of the rabbit industry in reducing the
food import deal.’ The winners were Edmund McIntyre and
Sheldon Jno. Baptiste of the Community High
School. They both won gift certificate compliments JAYS
bookstore. Preparations for Pointe Michel reunion are
scheduled to take place from October 11th
to October 26th are in full force.
Representative of the Pointe Michel Reunion Committee,
Mrs. Ophelia Olivacce Marie gave a follow up on
the activities scheduled to take place during that
period
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Waitukubuli Dance Theatre Company celebrates 37th
anniversary By Lakisha La Bassiere-
Friday September 05th, 2008
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The Waitukubuli dance Theatre Company, is staging their
annual dance production scheduled for September 13th
and 14th at the Arawak House of Culture. This
year the dance theatre company will be celebrating 37
years and in keeping with reunion they are celebrating
under the theme ‘spirit of togetherness’. This creative
dance festival will showcase talent in creative dancing
exhibited by the members of this company. Director of
the Waitukubuli dance theatre company, Raymond Lawrence,
gave a brief overview of the dances on display
choreographed by him, Mikhail Ferrol, Natalie Pollard
and Juanita Jules.
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Chairman of Newly formed IPO Commission states
necessities for filing complaints & how matters are
dealt with thereafter
By Kimberly Benjamin-
Thursday September 04th, 2008
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The implementation of the Integrity in Public Office Act
makes it feasible to analyze different public figures
who could be guilty of corruption in office.
Implementation of the act which was passed in year 2003
has finally begun with the swearing in on Tuesday at the
State House with members of the Integrity in Public
Office (IPO) Commission. The integrity in public office
commission comprises of former cabinet secretary Julian
Johnson as Chairman, Arch Bishop Kelvin Felix, Former
Financial Secretary Alick Lazare, Former Judge Sir Brian
Alleyne, Business woman Patricia Ingles, Accountant
Gerald Smith and former Dominican High Commissioner to
Britain George Williams. Chairman of the IPO Commission
Julian Johnson says the enforcement of the act partly
relies on the progressive participation of the public.
He says the role of the public in this regard is to
bring written complaints and provide good evidence.
Meantime, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit says he is
pleased that the Integrity in Public Office Commission
has been put into effect.
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Regional News |
Trinidad
police inspector charged for killing pastor
caribbeannetnews.com -
Friday September 05th, 2008
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Neil Warner Paul, Secretary of the Police Welfare
Association, who served as a police officer in Trinidad
for 28 years and also as a homicide detective, has been
charged with the murder of a pastor. According to the
Trinidad Express, the murder charge was laid on Tuesday
night after Homicide Bureau investigators held
discussions with the Deputy Director of Public
Prosecutions. The charge was filed after Pastor Brian
Pierre's body was examined by pathologist Dr Eastlyn Mc
Donald Burns at the Forensic Science Centre in St James
on Tuesday. The tests confirmed that Pierre had been
shot seven times and died as a result of multiple
gunshot wounds about his body. It is alleged that Pierre
was shot following an argument with another man. It is
also alleged that Pierre's attacker had attempted to
drag a policewoman out of Pierre's car before the fatal
shooting.
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'Catastrophe' seen in Haiti as Atlantic storms rev up
caribbeannetnews.com -
Friday September 05th, 2008
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President Rene Preval on Wednesday warned of an
"extraordinary catastrophe" in Haiti in the aftermath of
Tropical Storm Hanna, comparing it to a storm that
killed more than 3,000 people in the flood-prone
Caribbean country four years ago. Hanna swirled over the
Bahamas and was expected to regain hurricane strength
when it takes aim at the US East Coast later this week,
while tropical storms Ike and Josephine were both moving
westward across the Atlantic. The US National Hurricane
Center said Ike could strengthen into a "major" Category
3 hurricane with winds of 111 to 130 mph as it reaches
the southern Bahamas and nears Cuba early next week.
Major hurricanes are those that are ranked from Category
3 to Category 5 on the five-step Saffir-Simpson
intensity scale. Ike was already near hurricane strength
on Wednesday with maximum sustained winds of 70 mph as
it swept across the open Atlantic 740 miles
east-northeast of the Leeward Islands.
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Burke slams
PNP
jamaicaobserver.com -
Friday September 05th, 2008 |
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Just
over two weeks before the People's National Party (PNP)
votes in internal elections for a new leader,
influential and long-serving member Paul Burke has stung
the Opposition party with a damning criticism of its
delegate selection process which he labeled as fraught
with corruption and which, he said, the party hierarchy
has chosen to ignore. Burke, who has had a long history
of advocating strict adherence to the party's
constitution, principles and objectives, stunned his
audience on Tuesday evening at a lecture during which he
presented letters he had written to PNP leaders between
July 22 and August 11 this year complaining of massive
fraud in the party's group system. The lecture, titled
'Protecting and Advancing Norman Manley's Legacy in the
PNP's 70th year' was held on the 39th anniversary of the
death of Manley, a founder of the party and one of
Jamaica's national heroes.
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