Dominica's mining sector played a minor role in its economy.

Volcanism is still quite evident on the island, the most popular examples being Dominica's Boiling Lake and " valley of desolation.

Dominica's rugged surface is marked by its volcanic past.

The Sisserou parrot is Dominica's national bird and is indigenous to its mountain forests.

Like its Eastern Caribbean neighbors, the main priority of Dominica's foreign relations is economic development.

In other, non-federal countries, the use of the term Senator marks some other difference between such members and the rest of the legislators ( such as the method of selection ); this is the case with the States of Jersey, Dominica's House of Assembly and the Saint Vincent House of Assembly.

Agriculture, with bananas as the principal crop, is still Dominica's economic mainstay.

Dominica's terrain is rugged, which has fostered distinct regional traditions.

Morne Diablotins is located in the northern interior of the island, about 15 miles north of Dominica's capital Roseau and about 6 miles southeast of Portsmouth, the island's second-largest town.

*" The Bishop's Feast ": A home-born returnee is invited by an old nun to witness the enthronement of a new Bishop in Roseau, before spending a week on Dominica's leeward coast.

Dominica's Boiling Lake is situated in the Morne Trois Pitons National Park-Dominica's World Heritage site.

Dominica's Boiling Lake is the second largest hot spring in the world.

Saint Andrew is one of Dominica's 10 administrative parishes.

Well-known people born in the parish include famous schoolteacher Wills Strathmore Stevens ( after whom a Marigot school is named ), and Dominica's current Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit ( born in Vieille Case ).

Saint David is one of Dominica's ten administrative parishes, located on the eastern side of the island.

Saint George is one of Dominica's 10 administrative parishes.

Saint John is one of Dominica's 10 administrative parishes.

Saint Joseph is one of Dominica's 10 administrative parishes.

Saint Luke is one of Dominica's 10 administrative parishes.

The parish is one of Dominica's smallest in area and population.

Saint Mark is one of Dominica's 10 administrative parishes.

Saint Paul is one of Dominica's 10 administrative parishes.

Another village in the parish, Massacre, is so-called because of the historic massacre of Dominica's indigenous people by European settlers.

Saint Patrick is one of Dominica's 10 administrative parishes.

Many of the remaining Carib people live in Dominica's Carib Territory, a district on Dominica's east coast.

Some plants and animals thought to be extinct on surrounding islands can still be found in Dominica's forests.

This last large remnant of Carib culture was destroyed, the island of Dominica's Carib Territory being much smaller in comparison at that time.

In addition, Dominica's own popular music industry has created a form called bouyon, which combines elements from several styles and has achieved a wide fanbase in Dominica, especially the group WCK ( Windward Caribbean Kulture ) and KKK ( Triple k International ).

Beijing responded to Dominica's severing relations with the Republic of China by giving them a $ 12 million aid package, which includes $ 6 million in budget support for the year 2004 and $ 1 million annually for six years.

Nevertheless, Dominica's high, rugged mountains, rainforests, freshwater lakes, hot springs, waterfalls, and diving spots make it an attractive destination.

Because of Dominica's rugged area, Caribs were able to hide from European forces.

Shorty had been in Dominica during an Exile One performance of cadence-lypso, and collaborated with Dominica's 1969 Calypso King, Lord Tokyo and two calypso lyricists, Chris Seraphine and Pat Aaron in the early 1970s, who wrote him some creole lyrics.

Shorty had been in Dominica during an Exile One performance of cadence-lypso, and collaborated with Dominica's 1969 Calypso King, Lord Tokyo and two calypso lyricists, Chris Seraphine and Pat Aaron in the early 1970s, who wrote him some creole lyrics.

Today Dominica's music scene boasts of a variety of genres including all the popular genres of the world.

In addition, Dominica's folk tradition includes folk songs called bélé, traditional storytelling called kont, masquerade, children's and work songs, and Carnival music.

Drums, generically known as lapo kabwit, are the most prominent part of Dominica's instrumental tradition.

Dominica's folk musical heritage includes work songs, storytelling, children's music and masquerade songs.

Alice, Marion, Maggie, Christina, Bea, and Kate head out to Dominica's ; Ulrica plans to follow them later in her truck and Dorothy skips the trip to spend more time in Singapore with Jake.

The group arrives at Dominica's plantation, where the gates remind them of the camps.

According to Vahram Nercissiantz, President Serzh Sargsyan's chief economic adviser, " Businessmen holding state positions have turned into oligarchs who have avoided paying sufficient taxes by abusing their state positions, distorted markets with unequal conditions, breached the rules of competition, impeded or prevented small and medium-sized business ’ entry into manufacturing and thereby sharply deepened social polarization in the republic.

Ajaccio has a small manufacturing economy of cigars, macaroni, and similar products, and carries on shipbuilding, sardine-fishing and coral-fishing.

Base stealing is an important characteristic of a particular style of baseball, sometimes called " small ball " or " manufacturing runs ".

There has been considerable controversy in the United States and elsewhere about the lack of regulations in the manufacture of such jewelry — these range from human rights issues surrounding the treatment of labor, to the use of manufacturing processes in which small, but potentially harmful, amounts of toxic metals are added during production.

In recent years the Island's residents have been attempting to diversify the area economy by investing in tourism developments, call centres, and small businesses, as well as manufacturing ventures in such fields as auto parts, pharmaceuticals, and window glazings.

The Inquirer noted that the continued low return on investment and small margins of HP's personal computer manufacturing business, now named the Personal Systems Group, " continues to be what it was in the individual companies, not much more than a job creation scheme for its employees ".

In addition, DARPA began to pursue new concepts for small, lightweight satellites ( LIGHTSAT ) and directed new programs regarding defense manufacturing, submarine technology, and armor / anti-armor.

The small manufacturing sector primarily processes agricultural products.

By the late 19th century manufacturing focused on standard grades of black powder from Fg used in large bore rifles and shotguns, through FFg ( medium and smallbore arms such as muskets and fusils ), FFFg ( smallbore rifles and pistols ), and FFFFg ( extreme small bore, short pistols and most commonly for priming flintlocks ).

The city is known as a center of manufacturing for recreational vehicles and accessories, the home of Goshen College, a small Mennonite liberal arts college, and home to the Elkhart County 4-H Fair, the second largest county fair in the United States.

In 2006 the European Food Safety Authority ( EFSA ) stated that the SSC opinion was confirmed, that the BSE risk of bone-derived gelatin was very small, and removed support for the 2003 request of excluding the skull and vertebrae of bovine origin older than 12 months from the material used in gelatin manufacturing.

Hundreds of small manufacturing firms, the traditional backbone of Honduran enterprise, began to go out of business beginning in the early 1990s, as import costs rose and competition through increasing wages for skilled labor from the mostly Asian-owned assembly industries strengthened.

The country's manufacturing sector was small, contributing only 15 percent to the total GDP in 1992.

The export textile manufacturing industry all but wiped out small, Honduran manufacturers, and food processors, whose goods were historically aimed at the domestic market, were also adversely affected.

Heckler & Koch GmbH ( HK ) () is a German defense manufacturing company that produces various small arms.

In addition, Morocco has rich fishing waters, a tourist industry, and a small manufacturing sector.

These include molding and plating, wet etching ( KOH, TMAH ) and dry etching ( RIE and DRIE ), electro discharge machining ( EDM ), and other technologies capable of manufacturing small devices.

Families often had small nail manufacturing setups in their homes ; during bad weather and at night, the entire family might work at making nails for their own use and for barter.

Namibian manufacturing is inhibited by a small domestic market, dependence on imported goods, limited supply of local capital, widely dispersed population, small skilled labour force and high relative wage rates, and subsidised competition from South Africa.

It has only small manufacturing and high-tech sectors, being strongly focused on tourism and primary industries such as agriculture.

There are a handful of small manufacturing concerns in the area, located mostly along the Michigan Avenue corridor.

The sale of the Tayto company made the owner and the small family group, who had changed the face of potato chip manufacturing, very wealthy.

Due to its small size and relative lack of geological resources, its 2000s economy relies primarily on the sale of banana crops, and the income generated from tourism, with additional input from small-scale manufacturing.

Many of the other industrial activities are limited to small scale manufacturing, particularly agro-processing and import substitution.