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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.
Reginald Austrie is a Dominican politician from the Dominica Labour Party. He was elected to the House of Assembly of Dominica in 1995 from Cottage constituency. [1] He was re-elected in 2000, 2005, 2009, [2] 2014, 2019. In 2000, Austrie was appointed as minister responsibility for small business development.
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]
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 seats.
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
The United Workers' Party with less than 34% of the votes was the majority party in Dominica's parliament from 1995 until 2000, led by party co-founder Edison James as Prime Minister of Dominica. The party now has a new leader, Thomson Fontaine who is the current Leader of the Opposition. [ 1 ]
Vince Henderson is a Dominican politician from the Dominica Labour Party.. Vince Henderson. In the 2000 Dominican general election, he defeated Doreen Paul.From March 2010 to 2016, he was the Permanent Representative of Dominica to the United Nations and the United States.
Kenneth Melchoir Darroux is a Dominican politician and doctor. He is currently serving as the Minister of Foreign Affairs since 17 December 2019 in Dominica. [1] Prior to his appointment as Foreign Affairs Minister he was the Minister for Health and Social Services in the government of Roosevelt Skerrit.