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Roseau, Dominica – July 8, 2009……. Dominica’s Prime Minister and Minister for Finance and Social Security, Hon. Roosevelt Skerrit will chair the 65^th Meeting of the Monetary Council of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank when the Finance Ministers of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union meet in Roseau, Dominica on Friday,                 July 10, 2009.

Contracts awarded to two local firms

Roseau, Dominica – July 07, 2009……. The implementation of the Waitukubuli National Trail Project (WNTP) has reached an important phase with the signing recently of a Service Contract for verification and design of Pedestrian bridges/crossings and a Works contract for construction of a wood workshop.

Roseau, Dominica – July 1, 2009……. Minister for Community Development, Culture, Gender Affairs and Information, Hon. Loreen Bannis-Roberts highlighted the multi-faceted nature of a special programme aimed at poverty reduction being implemented by the Dominica Social Investment Fund in the community of Boetica.

Speaking at the second Annual General Meeting of the Dominica Social Investment Fund in Boetica recently, Hon. Bannis-Roberts lauded the benefits of the Boetica Rural Integrated Development Programme to the entire community of Boetica.

Roseau, Dominica – July 1, 2009……. Persons living in the vicinity of the Cabrits National Park are expected to benefit from a project entitled the Livelihoods Sub-Project under the OECS Protected Areas and Associated Livelihoods Project (OPAAL).

Launched at the Cabrits National Park recently, the community-based project is valued at over EC$300,000.

Speaking at the launching ceremony, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Hon. Matthew Walter said the goal of the Livelihoods Sub-Project is to contribute to poverty reduction in communities in and around the Cabrits National Park.

Roseau, Dominica – June 29, 2009……. In a barnstorming address at the Delegates Conference of the governing Dominica Labour Party recently, Party Leader and Prime Minister, Hon. Roosevelt Skerrit, told delegates that despite the economic challenges of the last four years and the current global economic and financial crisis, the economy has performed well under his leadership.

Roseau, Dominica – June 30, 2009……. The Government of Dominica wishes to remind the general public that nominations for Meritorious Service Honours for 2009 closes today, Tuesday, June 30, 2009. There have been notices in the newspapers for several weeks.

Roseau, Dominica – June 22, 2009……The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela is seeking to increase its already significant investment portfolio in Dominica with the establishment of a state-of-the-art coffee processing plant and a branch of the ALBA Bank here.

The announcement came from Venezuelan President, His Excellency, Hugo Chavez Frias in his address at the formal commissioning of the new Waitukubuli Fuel Storage and Distribution Plant in Dominica recently.

Roseau, Dominica – June 19, 2009…….The Labour Party Government of        Prime Minister, Hon. Roosevelt Skerrit will on Monday, June 22^nd 2009  launch the ‘Yes We Care’ Programme– an initiative aimed at assisting families in the provision of personal home care to needy housebound elderly people in Dominica.