by Alick Lazare It has been observed that in many of our schools and colleges there is critical dearth of information and knowledge about writers of Dominica and their writings.  The earliest writings about Dominica that I have been able to find were by Raymond Breton, a French missionary who came to Dominica about 1641, and spent nearly twenty-five years documenting the language and customs of the Kalinago. He was

by Swinburne Lestrade I am not sure how many people noticed that it had been felled by Hurricane Maria; or were aware of its existence pre-Maria — but the bust is back. The restored bust of Cecil Rawle (1891-1938) is back in its place at the centre of the Goodwill Roundabout. Dominica-born of Trinidadian parents, lawyer Cecil Edgar Allan Rawle made his name as a “committed and energetic champion of

by: Swinburne Lestrade (This article was originally published in the Link magazine, (Independence Issue, November 2011). ​“Wolfgang and a Texas soldier of fortune named Mike Perdue had once organized a military coup on the island of Dominica, a country probably best known today as the setting for Johnny Depp’s Pirates of the Caribbean films. On November 3rd, 1978, Dominica became the western hemisphere’s 30th nation. At the Independence Day ceremony