Announcement: Pre Bid Meeting  for the Refurbishment Works at Ground Floor of DBMC Building

Announcement: Pre Bid Meeting for the Refurbishment Works at Ground Floor of DBMC Building

Announcement Pre- Bid Meeting The Project Implementation Unit (PIU), of the Emergency Agricultural Livelihoods and Climate Resilience Project, Ministry of Blue and Green Economy, Agriculture and National Food Security wishes to inform all contractors who expressed interest and those wishing to apply to Bid for contract for the Refurbishment Works at Ground Floor of DBMC […]

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 Haiti Receives 500,000 Vaccines Donated by the United States through COVAX

Haiti Receives 500,000 Vaccines Donated by the United States through COVAX

Port-au-Prince/Washington. D.C., July 14, 2021 (PAHO) — Today Haiti received 500,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines donated by the United States through the COVAX Facility. The country is the fourth in the region to receive these donated shipments, after Honduras, El Salvador and Bolivia, with a total of 4,008,000 doses delivered so far. “The arrival of these […]

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 COVID-19 pandemic leads to major backsliding on childhood vaccinations, new WHO, UNICEF data shows

COVID-19 pandemic leads to major backsliding on childhood vaccinations, new WHO, UNICEF data shows

GENEVA/NEW YORK, 15th July 2021 — 23 million children missed out on basic vaccines through routine immunization services in 2020 – 3.7 million more than in 2019 – according to official data published today by WHO and UNICEF. This latest set of comprehensive worldwide childhood immunization figures, the first official figures to reflect global service disruptions […]

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 NYCD World Youth Skills Day Feature Video Story

NYCD World Youth Skills Day Feature Video Story

World Youth Skills Day celebrates the resilience and creativity of youth throughout the pandemic. As the world of work changes, young people around the world must respond. On this day, the members of the National Youth Council of Dominica wish to encourage young people to learn a new skill – develop, nurture and pursue your passion […]

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 The UWI launches ‘Operation Revenue Revolution 75+’

The UWI launches ‘Operation Revenue Revolution 75+’

The UWI Regional Headquarters, Jamaica. W.I. Thursday, July 15, 2021—On Wednesday, July 14, Vice- Chancellor of The University of the West Indies (The UWI) Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, leading the University’s Executive Management Team in a strategic planning retreat, launched Operation RR75+, the second, five years of its ten-year strategic plan. Describing the new five-year […]

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 AQUACULTURE FARMING ON ISLAND MAKING SIGNIFICANT STRIDES JIMMIT HATCHERY 3RD SUCCESSFUL DISTRIBUTION POST HURRICANE MARIA

AQUACULTURE FARMING ON ISLAND MAKING SIGNIFICANT STRIDES JIMMIT HATCHERY 3RD SUCCESSFUL DISTRIBUTION POST HURRICANE MARIA

The Ministry of Blue and Green Economy, Agriculture & National Food Security’s Fisheries Division/Aquaculture Unit has now successfully completed its third distribution of seedlings/ larvae or ‘prawn seeds’ to farmers island. The Jimmit Hatchery which was devasted after Hurricane Maria has now been operationalized and technical officers locally are able to reproduce and multiply prawns for mass […]

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 Announcement: In Search of Chess players

Announcement: In Search of Chess players

This is a public announcement to rally as many chess players as possible currently on the island of Dominica. Chess is widely considered the king of board games having its earliest roots in Northern India before being spread to Persia. Now the game is global with an estimated 605 million players worldwide. Players from the […]

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