From my archive of press clippings:
Jamaica Observer
Dominican court fines nationals charged in Haitian trafficking case
CMC
Friday, April 09, 2010
ROSEAU, Dominica – A magistrate this morning slapped fines totaling EC$30,000 on two Dominican nationals charged with human trafficking while dismissing charges of attempting to leave the island illegally against 10 Haitians.
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009
JO - Dominica: A Whale of A Pride
From my archive of press clippings:
Jamaica Observer
Dominica: A Whale of A Pride
Sir Ronald Sanders
Sunday, March 29, 2009
IT'S not often that the leader of a small country is bold enough to resist the desires of larger or richer countries. But Dominica's prime minister, Roosevelt Skerritt, did just that on March 23rd.
Sir Ronald Sanders
Speaking in Dominica's capital, Roseau, at the opening of an Environmental Conference entitled "International Ocean Life Symposium", the prime minister declared that his government would no longer be supporting the whale-killing position of the Japanese government in the International Whaling Commission (IWC). He said that his government would be acting in his country's "national interest".
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"For several years now, it has been alleged that several Caribbean countries - the members of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) and Suriname - have been supporting Japan at the IWC because the Japanese Whaling Association (JWA) provided them with fish refrigeration facilities. It has also been claimed in British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) programmes that the JWA paid the IWC membership fees for some of these countries as well as the cost of their delegations' attendance.
These claims were upheld in Dominica by environmentalists who have followed closely the country's participation in IWC meetings. Among these persons is a former environment minister of a Dominica government, Atherton Martin, who resigned in 2000 in protest over the issue."
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Sir Ronald Sanders is a consultant and former Caribbean diplomat.
Responses to: ronaldsanders29@hotmail.com
Jamaica Observer
Dominica: A Whale of A Pride
Sir Ronald Sanders
Sunday, March 29, 2009
IT'S not often that the leader of a small country is bold enough to resist the desires of larger or richer countries. But Dominica's prime minister, Roosevelt Skerritt, did just that on March 23rd.
Sir Ronald Sanders
Speaking in Dominica's capital, Roseau, at the opening of an Environmental Conference entitled "International Ocean Life Symposium", the prime minister declared that his government would no longer be supporting the whale-killing position of the Japanese government in the International Whaling Commission (IWC). He said that his government would be acting in his country's "national interest".
Read the whole article here.
Snippet(s):
"For several years now, it has been alleged that several Caribbean countries - the members of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) and Suriname - have been supporting Japan at the IWC because the Japanese Whaling Association (JWA) provided them with fish refrigeration facilities. It has also been claimed in British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) programmes that the JWA paid the IWC membership fees for some of these countries as well as the cost of their delegations' attendance.
These claims were upheld in Dominica by environmentalists who have followed closely the country's participation in IWC meetings. Among these persons is a former environment minister of a Dominica government, Atherton Martin, who resigned in 2000 in protest over the issue."
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Sir Ronald Sanders is a consultant and former Caribbean diplomat.
Responses to: ronaldsanders29@hotmail.com
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