The Court has given a March 17th 2010 to begin sitting in the court matter the UWP vs the DLP in the 2010 general elections.

The announcement was made by the UWP at the second session of the peoples parliamnet carried live on radio from Marigot on Wednesday night

The UWP has taken the givernmnet to cousrt over the 2010 elections which gave the Dominica Labour Party 18 seats while the UWP remains with 1 seat.

Leader of the UWP Ron Green lost his seat to Peter St.Jean in the Laplaine Constituency.

Kairi news will bring you more details later

President of the Dominica National Council on Women Josephone Dublin Prince is calling on the public to suppprt the activities of the organisation.

Prince was special guest on Kairi's Heng program Monday

The Movement to Restore Democracy and the Dominica Citizen Form will host its second Peoples Parliament on Tuesday.
Coordinator of the event businessman Sam Raphael says today’s event which is carded for Marigot

He says the parliament will discuss a number of issues currently affecting the populous.

The event will commence at 6pm in Marigot.

The Delices Water Supply Project-one of the 6 priority projects to be undertaken y DOWASCO this year-will get underway today.

Public Relations Officer of DOWASCO Gwennie Dickson says the project is timely.

The organizers of a panel discussion on the History of the Women’s Movement have hailed it a major success.

The panel discussion formed part of activities to commemorate International Women’s Day on Monday.

Panelist Noreen John says there are still a number of issues concerning women that still need to be addressed.

The Organization of American states is assisting the Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica in modernizing its civil registry.

This initiative is part of an OAS project entitled Universal Civil Identity Program in the Americas (PUICA) which is funded by the Government of Canada.

The project is expected to improve the functioning of civil registries in the OECS sub-region.

Collaboration between the OAS and Government of Dominica started more than two years ago under the OECS Civil Registry and Identity Project funded by the Chilean Government.

The current modernization process is expected to have four components: digitization and preservation of records; modernization of the legal framework; computerization of the processes; and creation of an identity system.

In effect OAS assistance will ensure the digitalization of births and deaths records, improved safety and management, and facilitate electronic printing of birth certificates and create the possibility for a national identification card.

Last year the OAS facilitated the site visit of three high level civil registry officials from Dominica to observe the Haitian model.

This week, newly appointed OAS Caribbean coordinator, Mr. Paul Hughes, visited Dominica to discuss strategies to execute the project.

Mr. Hughes and the local OAS Representative Dr. Joseph Campbell met with the Registrar Mr. Reginald Winston and the Deputy Registrar Mr. Ossie Walsh as well as personnel of the ICT unit.

In addition, the OAS team met with Deputy Director of the Dominica Social Security, Mr. Augustus Ettienne to apprise him of the OAS initiative that can be beneficial to his institution.

OAS assistance will be primarily in the form of advisory services, provision of equipment and training of local personnel.

Bishop of Roseau His Lordship Gabriel Malzaire has called on commonwealth nations to change their dispositions towards things of nature.

Bishop Malzaire was addressing the special gathering at the Arawak House of Culture to commemorate Commonwealth Day today.

Meantime Speaker of the House of Assembly Alix Boyde Knights says Dominica will join other Commonwealth nations this month and embark upon a number of activities.
The activities will be held under the theme Science Technology and Society

She says the annual Youth Parliament is carded for next week Monday

Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit says government will seek to find ways to assist parents to deal with disruptive children.

He says some of Dominica’s young people are adopting deviant behaviors and govenrme3nt will seek to address that as well.

Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit says the Diaspora is fundamental in the move to push Dominica forward.

Skerrit told Discoveries this week, that the Diaspora should also be engaged in an effort to bring forth ideas and projects to enhance Dominica.

Pensioners on the island are now receiving a 4.06 percent increase in payments.

Executive Director of Social Security Janice Jean-Jacques Thomas told a Dominica Social Security programme on Kairi this week that the increase is in keeping with its policy as it observes its 34th anniversary this year.

The Social Secial Security Touching Lives is aired every Wednesday night on Kairifm from 7 O' Clock