Police officers are mourning the death of 41-year-old Police Constable Garth Francis, who died in his native Dominica on Sunday. Commissioner of Police Michel Desilva states: “It is with great sadness that I report the untimely passing of our colleague…
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – President of the Dominica Olympic Committee, John Charles died Sunday, after collapsing suddenly. Charles, who owned several businesses in Roseau including the Charles Drug Store, was rushed to the Princess Margaret Hospital where he was pronounced…
FT. LAUDERDALE – Jamaica’s Prime Minister, the Most. Hon. Portia Simpson Miller, has expressed deep sadness at the passing of Ambassador the Hon. Dudley Joseph Thompson, OJ, QC Ambassador Thompson died Friday morning (Jan.20) one day after his 95th birthday.…
St. George’s, January 13, 2012 – Two current Prime Ministers and a former Grenada government leader were among hundreds who paid final respects Thursday to Marcella David, mother of Grenada’s Minister of Tourism, Civil Aviation and Culture. Minister David, in…
Dominica’s cadencelypso superstar, the legendary Jeff Joseph aka Jeff Joe of St. Joseph has died after undergoing surgery in Le Maynard hospital in Martinique. Jeff Joe who performed at the recent 15th Annual World Creole Music Festival is said to…
On November 3rd, my dad, Dominica’s “adopted” son left this world, perhaps most appropriately on the birthdate of the Nation he had come to love and serve. He asked not to be eulogized, but I think there have been some beautiful things…
The last saluteBy Judge Irving AndreOctober 17, 2011 9:00 a.m.Roseau, Dominica (TDN) — Mr. Wendell McKenzie Christian, who was born on March 5, 1921, stood tall throughout his life. He stood tall while growing up in the 1920s in the…
Gabriel Christian It is with regret we advise family, friends and well wishers that at 1704 hours Eastern Standard Time on October 7, 2011, Wendell McKenzie Christian took his last salute and succumbed to illness that he had fought with…
Washington, DC, August 1, 2011. Dominica’s Police Chief at our island’s independence from Britain in 1978, Oliver N. Phillip, OBE has died. A graduate of the prestigious Hendon Police College, Phillip was also the top graduate of his class at…
It is with an exceedingly profound sense of regret and utter sorrow that the Ministry of Agriculture in Grenada has learnt of the recent passing of Mr Ricky Allport, a senior agricultural officer in the Ministry of Agriculture, Dominica. We…
Robert Ross, a gung-ho entrepreneur who juggled global deals in things like fertilizer, pantyhose, steel and antisnoring medicine, then made his big mark by starting for-profit medical, veterinary and nursing schools in the Caribbean, died on Saturday at his home…
Hamilton’s Caribbean community lost two women of strength and dedication this year. Beatrice McLean and Evelyn Musgrave, who both passed away in November, contributed immeasurably to the city they adopted as their own. McLean was born in Jamaica, where she…
