Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has underscored the importance of the agriculture sector, describing it as “critical” to this region.
Mottley made the comments after visiting the headquarters of the Caribbean Agricultural Health and Food Safety Agency (CAHFSA) in Suriname. She had earlier toured the Central Market with Suriname’s president, Desi Bouterse, as part of a three-day visit to that CARICOM member state.
The prime minister said: “If we start to see agriculture, not in the context or through the plantation model, but as a sector that is critical in a world that is very uncertain and very dangerous, both by climate change considerations as well as geopolitical considerations, then we would appreciate the absolute need to value the two most precious things – water and food. If you value water and food, then we have to protect them.”
She noted that New Zealand has worked assiduously to protect the health of its agriculture and to ensure that its food products were safe.

It's a long-agonized-over machine recount total delivered two minutes too late.
But there's nothing ironic about it -- this is, after all, Florida's Broward County, which has been plagued with issues in its vote-counting efforts for years.
Given that history, it was unsurprising -- but still galling to volunteers -- when the director of elections here revealed that the county had submitted its machine recount data two minutes after the state-mandated 3 p.m. Thursday deadline.
The secretary of state's office did not accept the new numbers and so, after days of painstaking work, Broward's count Thursday remained the same as it was on Saturday, when it submitted its initial unofficial election results.
"Basically, I just worked my ass off for nothing," said Joe D'Alessandro, the director of elections for Broward County.
He attributed the error to his unfamiliarity with the secretary of state website.

A Dominican National was arrested in Saint Lucia for urinating in public.
According to an article appearing in St Lucia Times dated November 14, 2018, a foreign national identified by City Police as Francis George of Dominica, was arrested and charged for urinating in public in Castries.
 
A City Police official indicated that 58-year-old George was arrested near the Soufriere bus stand on Carl Crescent Street, Castries on Tuesday.
 
The article said further that George was taken to the City Police headquarters where he was charged, and granted bail, and was due to attend court.

​President of the WOW “women of workers” arm, Mrs Debbie Astrid Anthony Shillingford says women should be proud of their trade, their craft, and whatever else they are good at.
 
Speaking on the topic of female independence and national pride, Mrs Shillingford says everyone has the capability of earning money, and one of the intentions of WOW is to bring out the pride and confidence in the women of Dominica.
 
She says this mentality of self-pride, gave her great morals as a woman.
Mrs Shillingford was speaking on the Weekly radio program “workers voice” on Q95fm.

​President of the UWP’s “women of workers”, WOW, Mrs Debbie Astrid Anthony Shillingford
 
Meantime, Letrisha Cadette Trimble is encouraged the women of the Diaspora to speak out and let their voices be heard.
 
She says it’s a new age, and a new time where women work side by side with the men helping to build a vision.

Latrisha Cadette Trimble

​Alex Bruno, holder of bachelor’s degree in political science and host of politics and power, was speaking as a guest on “the Hot seat” hosted by Matthias Peltier Jr.
 
He says it’s wise that people get a new perception and understand of what politics really is, and that it’s intermingled with everything we do in our lives.
 
He believes information should be shared, whenever one acquires it.

​Political scientist Alex Bruno

​Economist & DFP Leader, Kent Vital, is encouraging citizens, stakeholders and national policy makers in Dominica, to stop depending so heavily on Citizenship By Investment revenues, to finance the country’s affairs.

​Vital calls on leaders to invest the country’s finance in initiatives that produce financial returns and are self sustaining. He went on to explain the structure behind Dominica’s recurring and non-tax revenue, in comparison to the country’s actual core revenue, based on documents released in Dominica’s 2018 / 2019 National Financial budget.

​DFP Leader also sought to remind citizens of the fragility of the CBI program, especially as the OECD has had issues with the way in which the government of Dominica operates the country’s CBI program.

Economist and DFP Leader, Kent Vital

​President of the Dominica Cycling Association (DCA), Ronald Charles, says the level 1 Cycling training courses which began yesterday, will be a great benefit to the coaches of the DCA.
 
Speaking at a press conference held at the Office of the DOC on Thursday, Charles welcomed the executive and the Cycling coach, and representative of the UCI, Nick Yansworth.

Dominica Cycling Association (DCA) President Ronald Charles

​Thomas Letang, General Secretary of the Dominica Public Service Union (DPSU), in a recent program of ‘Through the Eyes of the DPSU’ shared some of his views on the need for more worker friendly and none discriminatory work environment.
He says that we need to ask ourselves about the direction that we are heading as it pertains to these things.

Thomas Letang, General Secretary of the Dominica Public Service Union
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Meantime, President of the DPSU shared his input and his agreeance to the secretary's statement.

​President of the Dominica Public Service Union (DPSU), Steve Joseph