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Roseau, Dominica – March 19, 2008……. With the price of crude oil at a staggering US $109 a barrel and rising, Dominica’s Minister for Energy, Hon. Charles Savarin believes that “what oil and natural gas have done for Petroleum exporting countries, geothermal energy can do for Dominica”.

Hon. Charles Savarin made that announcement recently at the Media Launch of a project entitled,” Preparation of a Geothermal-based Cross-Border Electrical Interconnection in the Caribbean”.

The Minister stated further that “potentially the development of the geothermal resources of Dominica could become the single most important economic activity on the island for decades to come”.

Roseau, Dominica – March 20, 2008……. High Court Judge Davidson Baptiste has ruled in favour of the Speaker of the House of Assembly, the Sergeant at Arms and the Attorney General in a motion brought by six Opposition parliamentarians after they had been escorted out of Parliament on January 8, 2007 following a period of disorder in the House arising out of her decision to alter two of their questions on the Order Paper.

In a twenty-eight (28) page judgement Justice Davidson Baptiste stated among other things:

Roseau, Dominica – March 19, 2008………. On a visit to the Ross University School of Medicine in Portsmouth recently, Prime Minister, Hon. Roosevelt Skerrit highlighted the contribution of the School to Dominica’s development.  

The Dominican Leader was invited to the School last month to assess for himself the recent expansion in new facilities at the university campus.

During the visit the Prime Minister officially opened the Campus Activities Centre and a new Post Office at the Ross University campus and held discussions with senior officials at the School.

Highlighting the contribution of Ross University to Dominica’s development, the Prime Minister said: