Category: GIS Dominica inFocus (video)

Roseau, Dominica – October 8, 2009……… As part of activities being held in Dominica to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, Dominicans are invited to attend a Traditional Chinese Music, Acrobat and Kungfu performance at the Arawak House of Culture on Sunday, October 11, 2009, from 7PM.

The Government of Dominica and officials of the Delegation of the European Commission to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean will undertake a Mid-Term Review of the 10^th European Development Fund (EDF) Country Strategy agreed in December 2008.

Roseau, Dominica – September 25, 2009……. A workshop on the use of export subsidies in international trade and their compliance with World Trade Organisation (WTO) requirements will take place in Dominica from September 28 – October 1, 2009.

The workshop is being organised by the Ministry of Trade, Industry, Consumer and Diaspora Affairs in collaboration with officials from the World Trade Organisation and the CARICOM Secretariat.

Roseau, Dominica – September 24, 2009……… Activities marking Dominica’s thirty-first Anniversary of Independence open this Saturday, September 26, 2009 with an official opening ceremony at the Old Mill Cultural Centre, beginning at 5.30pm.

The theme for this year’s Independence Celebrations is: “Celebrating Progress and Development”.

And in a break with established practice, the National Day of Prayer and Thanksgiving will take place very early in the programme of activities – on Saturday, September 26, 2009 and Sunday, September 27th 2009.

Roseau, Dominica – September 24, 2009……… Hundreds of persons from Fond St. Jean and the neighbouring communities of Bagatelle, Petite Savanne, and beyond converged in the small community of Fond St. Jean on Friday afternoon for the commissioning of the $2.34 million Fond St. Jean Sea Defence Wall and Roadworks project.

Roseau, Dominica – September 22, 2009…….The Waitukubuli National Trail (WNT) Project Management Unit takes its public awareness programme to another level in its continuing efforts to market the WNT in the region and beyond.

The Project Management Unit (PMU) joined by the Regional Council of Martinique will participate in two radio programmes in Guadeloupe during the weekend 26th – 27th September, 2009. One of the programmes is a popular Creole programme “Melting Pot” on Kilti FM and another programme called “Total Connection” will be aired on Gayak FM.