Arts & Entertainment, Dominica Art
While walking through the warm stone streets of Roseau, you may take a turn onto a side lane – like the one which runs parallel to Dame Eugenia Charles Blvd, behind Nassief’s department store. On a pale cream wall, scratched and peeling with age, a...
Arts & Entertainment, Books, Culture & Heritage
You may have heard of a significant event which happened years ago, or be familiar with how life was lived in the days of our great-grandparents from stories passed down to us. But do you really understand it? Are you able to truly imagine and delve into how life...
Culture & Heritage, Nature & Animals
There is a story I remember being told as a child. It takes place a few hundred years ago when European colonists first began to establish themselves on the Caribbean islands. It is summer, sometime around August or September. The skies are clear and the sea appears...
Guest Posts Series, Tourism, What To Do
There is something truly magical about Dominica, it’s not one of those countries where you can’t stay for 2 weeks and feel like you’ve really experienced all that it has to offer. Having come from a hectic life back in England (always busy, fretting about...
Guest Posts Series, What To Do
Becoming a certified diver is one of my biggest achievements, and to have been able to do it here in Dominica made the experience so much better. Having become a certified diver within the last 5 months, the idea of going diving without the watchful eye of my Dad ( a...
Getting Here, In the News, Tourism, Travel
Travel to Dominica just got a little easier… Dominicans and visitors alike can welcome the new airline Hummingbird Air! This 15 passenger airplane will fly into Canefield Airport (DCF) which is only a few minutes drive from the capital Roseau. Flights...
Eco-Tourism, Healthy Living, In the News, Tourism, Travel, Unusual Places, Weddings & Honeymoons, What To Do
In a few months, December 13 2014 or 12-13-14 will be the last pure number-sequential date of the 21st century. If you plan to celebrate something special, where better than in Dominica where our unspoiled landscape offers something different. Warm days allow for...
Books, Culture & Heritage
Over 500 years ago, when the European explorers first made the long and arduous journey across the Atlantic, they brought with them a surge of changes that would shape the course of Caribbean history. This part of the story is familiar: The Caribbean islands were...
Arts & Entertainment, Caribbean Music, Events, Jazz 'n Creole, Tourism, What To Do
From birth to its evolving sound, Jazz is a stew of diversity – the musical language of a melting pot, much as Creole is to Dominica. It is therefore so fitting that every year a celebration of Jazz and Creole takes place in our small Caribbean Island. As...
Nature & Animals, Unusual Places, What To Do
“For the adjective meaning of or relating to botany or the cultivation of plants, botanic and botanical are both acceptable, and there is no difference between them, but botanical is more common in 21st-century English.” – source: grammarist.com There’s...
