History, heritage and lifestyle of the Commonwealth of Dominica

Delia Weekes and Diane Corriette talk Kweyol week 1

admin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:35:02 +0000

In this very first impromptu week Delia rang just to say hello and we began a quick kweyol lesson. With my usualy love of wanting to record everything we stopped and started again.

In this very quick 10 minute lesson Delia takes me through how to reply when someone asks “what’s happening?”

How to say I am in my house in London and that I am going to work.

You can join the kweyol group on Dominican Diaspora at

An Explanation of The Lords Prayer

DarrenSylvester — Tue, 19 May 2009 22:04:28 +0000

Darren Sylvester takes a closer look at the prayer Jesus taught his disciples and asks when we recite the ‘Our Father’ daily, twice daily or at Mass, do we really comprehend what we are saying? Click the button to listen to the audio

Audio Extract From the Nature Island Book Fair & Literary Festival 2008

DominicanWriters — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:32:20 +0000

The Nature Island Book Fair & Literary Festival was held in Dominica from August 8 – 10, 2008 at the UWI Open campus with special guest
St. Lucia’s Nobel laureate, poet & playwright, Derek Walcott.

Below is an audio extract that includes an opening address from the Chairman of the Reunion committee Hubert Charles

The Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Dominica Mr Roosevelt Skerrit

and the first reading of the event is provided by Dr Lennox Honey Church who reviews the work of Jean Rhys.

The audio starts off by expressing the need for the festival

“………..reunion celebrations which is of major significance to Dominicans and our friends that we thought that an event of this type that speaks to the cultural and psyche of the Caribbean people what makes us who we are would give us a grounding in the celebration of reunion and coming together”

The speaker then introduced/welcomed the Chairman of the Reunion committee Hubert Charles.

Mr Charles said

“…………We focus attention on culture. Simply put ladies and gentleman our experience in this field suggests that in the fields of language dance drama and certainly in terms of compostion and coral music we have nothing to be ashamed of in terms of the contribution over the last 30 years. Indeed our products have been world class”

The next part of this audio is an address from the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Dominica Mr Roosevelt Skerrit

“……. This evening event is also a landmark activity of the reunion committee drawing on the literary resources of Dominica and also from our friends from the region because in fact they are part of us”

“…… I am hoping that not only those of us who are here but the whole of the country can take time off to come to the book fair and literary fesitval and make their own contribution”

“….. and though the reunion activities started on a slow pace but as time goes by it has been becoming even more exciting and there have been more persons participating in events that which are planned by the reunion committee. And one cannot doubt the fact that as a result of the reunion activities we have seen an elevation and improvement in the village festivals and feasts across Dominica and we will see the drawn up participation of a wide cross section of dominicans in this festival. and these are things under cultural heritage and traidtions of dominica we must not let go away we must ensure that we harness it in the moment so we can pass it on to the generations to come….”

The final audio is a reading from Dr Lennox Honey Church who “kicked off” the event giving an honorary review on the work of Jean Rhys that has been taken from the book

“Caribbean dispatches beyond the tourist dream”

“….. she (Jane Rhys) is widely regarded as one of the best women novelist of the 20th century and her books have been reprinted in many languages

Her stories of luckless women taking advantage of by unreliable men have been made into films, television dramas and radio plays.”

Audio Source : With thanks to Albert and Tempie

http://domwriters.ning.com/profile/ALBERTANDTEMPIE

An introduction to David Michael

DavidMichael — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:14:16 +0000

Founding Member of Uniquely Dominican David Michael talks about his life as a former Police Officer, the many charities he supports and his work as a motivational speaker and his business Cause Consultancy.

http://www.dmichael.co.uk/Cause_Consultancy

Here’s some information about David Michael…

I was born in Dominica and had my primary school education there. I grew up in Bellevue Chopin. My mother is from Hagley in Grand Bay http://www.grandbayrian.com/ and my father is from New Town.

I moved to England with my family in the mid 1960’s and settled in Luton, Bedfordshire. I came to work in London in the early 1970’s and have been living here ever since.

After secondary school, I joined the Metropolitan Police Cadet Corps and then the Metropolitan Police Service as a Constable. I served for 30 years in the Police Service and was promoted to Detective Chief Inspector. During that time I have maintained contact with successive Commissioners and Police Officers of the Dominica Police Force.

I am in touch with the Dominica Associations in London and on occasions have been very active with the Dominica United Kingdom Association (DUKA) and Dominica Overseas Nationals Association (DONA). I am also on the mailing list for the Dominica High Commission in London and support events and functions hosted there.