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President Charles Savarin was ineligible for re-election, the Constitution of Dominica prohibiting him from a third term. [4] Prime Minister of Dominica Roosevelt Skerrit of the Dominica Labour Party proposed Sylvanie Burton as a candidate, making her the likely first woman president and first of the indigenous Kalinago community. [5] [6]
This is a list of newspapers in Dominica. The Chronicle; Dominica News Online [1] This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008) See also
Shillingford was raised in Salisbury, Dominica. She is the daughter of Sylvia Vidal and Hillary Shillingford who live in Salisbury. [1] Her father is a "veteran" farmer. [2] She attended the University of the West Indies where she graduated with a First Class Honours Degree in law and she was accepted to the Bar in Dominica in October 2013. [1]
Snap general elections were held in Dominica on 6 December 2022. [1] Boycotted by the opposition United Workers' Party (UWP) and Dominica Freedom Party (DFP), the ruling Dominica Labour Party led by Roosevelt Skerrit, who had been prime minister since 2004, retained its supermajority in the House of Assembly by winning 19 of the 21 elected ...
Sylvanie Burton is a politician from Dominica who has served as the president of Dominica since 2023, after being elected in the 2023 Dominican presidential election. She is the first woman and first Indigenous ( Kalinago ) president of Dominica.
A former accountant, [6] Charles first stood for parliament in 2016, retaining the constituency for the Dominica Labour Party with 70% of the vote. [7] She is Member of Parliament for Soufriere Constituency. [8] She was re-elected in 2019. [9] [10] In November 2023, she married and took the name of Denise Charles-Pemberton. [11]
Jerome Burkard (born 14 November 2002) is a Dominica association footballer who currently plays for as a goalkeeper for Dublanc and the Dominica national team.
The Chronicle is the national newspaper of the Caribbean island nation of Dominica. It was begun by Bishop Philip Schelfhaut in 1909 as the Dominica Chronicle, a bi-weekly publication. [1] For many years afterward, it was known as The New Chronicle until it dropped the "New" from its title in 1996.