Category: GIS Dominica inFocus (video)

Roseau, Dominica – July 10, 2009……. As the effects of the global economic and financial crisis continue to impact negatively on small and vulnerable economies like Dominica, the Dominica Government has joined the Governments of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Saint Lucia in making a formal request to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for resources under the Rapid-Access Component of the Exogenous Shocks Facility (ESF). Dominica is seeking SDR 3.28 million (US$5 million).

Roseau, Dominica – July 22, 2009…….A Delegation from the CARICOM Development Fund (CDF) will be in Dominica for two days from Thursday, July 23^rd 2009 to Friday, July 24, 2009.

The purpose of the visit is to sensitise the various publics in the target countries on the CARICOM Development Fund prior to its full operationalisation.

Roseau, Dominica – July 10, 2009……. As the effects of the global economic and financial crisis continue to impact negatively on small and vulnerable economies like Dominica, the Dominica Government has joined the Government of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Saint Lucia in making a formal request to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for resources under the Rapid-Access Component of the Exogenous Shocks Facility (ESF). Dominica is seeking SDR 3.28 million(US$5 million).

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.