Man described as a Caribbean serial killer gets 30-year prison sentence in Guadeloupe

A man described in court as a Caribbean serial killer has received a 30-year sentence for the torture and murder of a woman, days after he was given a life sentence for another double killing. Kathron “Cuchi” Fortune, 47, was accused of...

Comment on Dominican athletes to represent at Guadeloupe 5K Championship by Brian Paul

Home >> News Dominica News Online - Saturday, September 27th, 2025 at 3:09 PM Pioneers delegation to Guadeloupe. From left to right: Raedian Felix, Cedric Harris, Curvin LeathamFollowing their recent victory at the Dominica Athletics Association...

A great day for ULP in parliament; bad day for NDP

By Unity Labour Party Parliament on Monday, Sept. 29 On Monday, Sept. 29, the Unity Labour Party (ULP) again demonstrated in Parliament that it is a well-oiled political/governance machine of the highest quality. Yet again, too, the opposition New...

Dominican athletes to represent at Guadeloupe 5K Championship

Home >> News Dominica News Online - Saturday, September 27th, 2025 at 3:09 PM Pioneers delegation to Guadeloupe. From left to right: Raedian Felix, Cedric Harris, Curvin LeathamFollowing their recent victory at the Dominica Athletics Association...

POLISARIO Front participates in 29th International Seminar of Political Parties in Mexico

Mexico City, September 26, 2025 (SPS) – A delegation from the POLISARIO Front actively participated in the 29th International Seminar of Political Parties, held in the Mexican capital, which brought together representatives from leftist and...

Carnival Expands Meal Donation Program into Latin America

Carnival Corporation has announced that it has signed a series of historic memoranda of understanding with food banks and community partners in Mexico, Honduras and the Dominican Republic. The company is the first cruise company to sign formal...

Bursary launched for Caribbean law graduates to train on US death penalty cases

A Caribbean law firm has announced a bursary aimed at giving young lawyers from the region hands-on experience in the United States justice system. Stanbrook Prudhoe, which specialises in complex cross-border disputes, is offering the Stanbrook...

ULP’s great day in parliament, Bad day for NDP

A GREAT DAY FOR ULP IN PARLIAMENT; BAD DAY FOR NDP On Monday September, 2025, the Unity Labour Party (ULP) again demonstrated in Parliament that it is a well-oiled political/governance machine of the highest quality. Yet again, too, the opposition...

Kings beaten in Kréyol Basketball

Two-time KFC National Basketball League champions Soufrière Kings are heading home this week after competing in the Central Division of the 2025 Kréyol Basketball Championship in neighbouring Martinique. The Kings lost both of their matchups in...

The Other King Henry: On the Many Afterlives of Haiti’s Misunderstood Henry Christophe

On April 14, 1936, twenty-year-old Orson Welles directed his first major play. The production was an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth with an all-Black cast. Debuting in Harlem’s storied Lafayette Theatre on Seventh Avenue at 132nd...

Free movement among four Caribbean countries begins

KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (CMC) – Free movement among nationals of St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), Barbados, Dominica and Belize came into effect on Wednesday, two days after a law facilitating such movement was passed in the St Vincent and the...

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PM Skerrit meets Guadeloupe's security officials, discusses regional stability 

Dominica: Prime Minister Dr Roosevelt Skerrit accompanied by Minister of National Security for Dominica, Rayburn Blackmore recently met top security personnel from Guadeloupe earlier this week at the office of Prime Minister. The delegation from...

Criminalise and Punish or Legalise and Educate

By allowing adolescents legal access to sexual and reproductive information and services, investing in education, training health staff, and establishing health facilities dedicated to adolescents, Jamaica achieved a 57.2% reduction in adolescent...

‘Bending for a Bwa!’ (How some hapless Caribbean politicians psychologically assault voters!)

Chronicles of a Chronic Caribbean Chronicler By Earl Bousquet The French-based Kweyol language, grown out of Slavery’s creative mix of African and European tongues, is the most-widely-spoken in the Eastern Caribbean region. It’s similar to that...

Free movement among SVG, Barbados, Belize begins 

Free movement among nationals of St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG), Barbados and Belize came into effect on Wednesday, two days after a law facilitating such movement was passed in the Vincentian Parliament. Dominica is also part of the...

Who Is Sébastien Lecornu, France’s New Prime Minister?

Sébastien Lecornu in Valence, France, on Sept. 1, 2025. Credit - Romain Doucelin—NurPhoto/Getty Images Sébastien Lecornu has been appointed France’s fifth Prime Minister in less than two years, French President Emmanuel Macron announced on...

Macron appointed a new prime minister

The former Minister of Defense, Sébastien Lecornu, is in question. Macron's office was considering an option with Lecornu following the collapse of Prime Minister Francois Bayrou's government over plans to cut next year's budget by 43.8 billion...

Macron appoints centrist ally Sebastien Lecornu as PM - with defence minister becoming fourth PM in a year

Lecornu, 39, is the youngest defence minister in French history and architect of a major military build-up through to 2030, spurred on by Russia's war in Ukraine. It comes just 24 hours after politicians toppled Lecornu's predecessor Francois...

French President Emmanuel Macron picks new prime minister

French President Emmanuel Macron has appointed Defence Minister Sébastien Lecornu as France's new prime minister and tasked him with immediately trying to get the country's fractious political parties to agree on a budget for one of the world's...