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World Bank President pledges support towards Haiti’s rebuilding efforts at CARICOM 21st Inter-Sessio

Roseau, Dominica– March 16, 2010………. Chairman of the 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Dominica’s Prime Minister, Hon. Roosevelt Skerrit has described as “constructive” a discussion between CARICOM Heads of Government and the President of the World Bank, Hon. Robert Zoellick on a wide range of issues at the just concluded 21st Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community in Roseau, Dominica.

Hon. Lester B. Bird Broadcast for March 14th

Broadcast by Hon Lester B  Bird MP

Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the ALP

On Sunday 14th March 2010

 

“UPP Government – Six Wasted Years”

Fellow Citizens and Residents of Antigua and Barbuda

This past week marked six years since our nation has suffered under the mismanagement of the UPP regime.

Broadcast by Hon Lester Bird Sunday 7th March 2010

Broadcast by Hon Lester B  Bird MP

Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the ALP

On Sunday 7th March 2010

“UPP regime hell-bent on taxing the people and selling-off State Enterprises”

Fellow Citizens and Residents of Antigua and Barbuda

This past week we have again seen the dictatorial behaviour of the UPP regime in the highhanded manner that their henchpersons in the Senate and the House of Representatives have stifled discussion of the nation’s business.

MV QUEEN MARY II MAKES ANOTHER VISIT TO DOMINICA

Dominica is one of few countries in the region that can

accommodate this vessel

 

mv_queen_mary_ii_at_roseau_cruise_ship_dec_2009.jpgRoseau, Dominica – January 03, 2010 …….. The internationally famous MV Queen Mary II docked alongside the Roseau Cruise Ship Berth in Dominica on Wednesday, December 30, 2009, one of the few ports in the Caribbean region that can accommodate this vessel.

Victory for Dominica’s Independence Forces

Victory for Dominica’s Independence Forces

Defeat is not an Option
 
A Confidential Note on Dominica’s Status – Summer 2007

 Introduction:

This report is written for one purpose: the victory of the national development project for Dominica as led by the independence forces arrayed under the banner of the Dominica Labour Party. It is required that we reconnect to the lofty goals of the founders of the party who led a mass movement for national dignity, social and economic progress for the common man from the period 1955 and onwards.

Dominica and the EU review EDF Portfolio

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 10th European Development Fund (EDF) Country Strategy agreed in December 2008.

BROADCAST STATEMENT BY HON LESTER B BIRD MP – 4th October

My fellow Citizens and Residents of Antigua and Barbuda

Next Thursday, October 8th we have the opportunity to register our dissatisfaction with the UPP regime that now mismanages our country bringing hardship on our people that we have not known for over a generation.

Broadcast Statement by Hon Lester B Bird MP Leader of the Opposition On Sunday, 30th August 2009

My fellow Citizens and Residents of Antigua and Barbuda

I begin this week by drawing attention to the hundreds of people who picketed the UPP regime last Thursday.

This mega picket followed closely the 15,000-people march of two weeks ago.

Together they show that the people of Antigua and Barbuda are utterly fed-up with the failed policies and disastrous practices of the UPP government which, each day, is further impoverishing our people and ruining our economy.