Full Coverage: Dominica

11.03.2009 Almost 100 people on the Caribbean island of Dominica are centenarians, many more are in their nineties and most are women. Gabrielle Le Roux’s Living Ancestors’ display celebrates their remarkable lives and suggests reasons for their staying power.

16.11.2006 Dominica is getting its first Intensive Care Unit at the Princess Margaret Hospital compliments of the Fidel Castro Administration. It comes at the same time that Cuba has provided scholarships to 85 Vincentians to pursue their BSc in nursing.

08.01.2004 Dominica's education minister was sworn in as the Caribbean's island's prime minister Thursday, two days after former leader Pierre Charles died of an apparent heart attack. Roosevelt Skerrit, 31, a former high school teacher, is the island's youngest prime minister since independence in 1978. He was chosen by the Dominica Labor Party, the country's main political party with 10 of Parliament's 21 seats.

27.12.2002 Only two Caribbean countries remain on the roster of countries blacklisted because of their lax stance toward money-laundering, but Charles Arthur warns that efforts to combat illegal financial transactions in the region may unravel.

06.01.2000 North American conservationists have allayed fears for the survival of the world's rarest Amazon parrot by backing a bid to set up a national park on the West Indian island of Dominica.