Saidia A. Shillingford, M.D.
Dominican, Dr. Saidia A. Shillingford is the Associate Chief of Primary Care at the West Palm Beach VA Medical Center where she manages the Outpatient Primary Care Clinics. She is also actively involved with the Women Veterans Program, which is growing in numbers and is slated for clinic expansion. The Women Veterans Program provides a full range of preventive care and treatment services for women veterans in a private setting at the medical center. Dr. Shillingford is also very active with the Medical Center Ethics and Preventive Health programs. Dr. Shillingford graduated from the University of Michigan for Undergraduate/Medical School and completed an Internal Medicine residency at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, MD and was chosen to serve as the VA Maryland Health Care System’s Primary Care Chief Resident. Following completion of her residency, she joined the staff of the Baltimore VA and later became the Clinical Advisor for the Baltimore VA Maryland’s Center for Performance. She joined the West Palm Beach VA Medical Center’s staff in 2008.
Caribbean struck by two earthquakes
ROSEAU, Dominica: Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 - A small volcanic earthquake was recorded in south Dominica last weekend, a day before a larger tremor shook parts of the Leeward Islands. As of press time, neither event has resulted in any damage or injuries.
The University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre, which recorded the Dominica event, said the 2.1-magnitude earthquake occurred at approximately 5:56 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) last Saturday at a depth of four kilometres. (Full article)
Activist judge, Irving Andre, earns his PhD
By RON FANFAIR
Rarely does a judge become a doctor. Irving Andre is one of the very few exceptions as he successfully defended his PhD thesis - The Significance of Race in the Sentencing of Drug Couriers - last week at York University.
It's an issue that Andre is very familiar with since he sits on the bench in Brampton the jurisdiction of which includes Lester B. Pearson International Airport where many drug arrests are made. He was sworn in as a provincial judge in December 2003. (Full article)
CBFF Archived FeaturedThe BFM UK Festival welcomes Powys Dewhurst and the hit short film ‘Delroy Kincaid’
The BFM International Film Festival, to which CBFF is a sister festival has recently announced both selections of local filmmaker Dominican born Powys Dewhurst’s ‘Delroy Kincaid: Where do white people go when the long weekend comes’ and ‘Who Are You Wearin’?” to its 2009 festival line up.
Delroy Kincaid features former Olympian and Cirque Du Soliel performer Stella Umeh in a leading role and also includes the work of award-winning black graphic novelist Ho Che Anderson, recent Sheridan grad Jason Mackay and Quebec composer Benjamin Walken Beladi (SOCAN). Stunning cinematography is provided by Rhett Morita CSC, Powys Dewhurst and Joshua Allen, with celebrated producer Andy Marshall taking one of the producer credits along with Powys Dewhurst and introduces Jwoel Benn as Delroy Kincaid.(Full article)
New Cabinet - Government of Dominica
Roosevelt Skerrit - Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, Foreign Affairs and Information Technology
Francine Baron-Royer - Attorney General
Reginald Austrie - Minister for Lands, Housing, Settlements and Water Resource Management
Matthew Walters - Minister for Agriculture and Forestry
Dr. John Colin McIntyre - Minister for Employment, Trade, Industry and Diaspora Affairs
Dr. Kenneth Darroux - Minister for the Environment, Natural Resources, Physical Planning and Fisheries
Petter Saint Jean - Minister for Education and Human Resource Development
Gloria Shillingford - Minister for Social Services, Community Development and Gender Affairs
Justina Charles - Minister for Culture, Youth and Sports
Ian Douglas - Minister for Tourism and Legal Affairs
Ambrose George - Minister for Information, Telecommunication and Constituency Empowerment
Julius Timothy - Minister for Health
Rayburn Blackmore - Minister for Public Works, Energy and Ports
Ashton Graneau - Minister for Carib Affairs
Charles Savarin - Minister for National Security, Labour and Immigration
Alvin Bernard - Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Kelvar Darroux - Parliamentary Secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister, Responsible for Information Technology
Johnson Drigo - Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Public Works
Ivor Stephenson - Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Water Resource Management
One Laptop Per Dominican Child
DAAS has embarked on a project to benefit Dominican children under the programme outlined by Mr. Nicholas Negroponte, called One Laptop Per Child (OLPG). The project will be coordinated by a three-member sub-committee of the Youth Development Committee. (See Details)
