Douglas tells Dublanc fishermen great opportunities await up north

Douglas spoke of hotels being constructed in the north

Parliamentary Representative of the Portsmouth constituency Ian Douglas is encouraging fishermen in Dublanc to take advantage of the opportunities that lie ahead as major hotels are being constructed in the north of the island.

He was addressing a meeting with the Dublanc Fishing Group earlier this week.

“Right now we have hotels being built and apart from Portsmouth, Dublanc is the closest community to those hotels,” Douglas stated. “We have Silver Beach going up right now which will be branded by a world brand Marriott, we have the Morrocan Hotel being finished in Portsmouth and just to the north of the Morrocan Hotel, hardly 5 minutes walk, you have the Kempinski…”

According to Douglas this is a great opportunity for fishermen, who as a cooperative should be able to sign contracts with those establishments to supply fish on a regular basis.

“You can sign a contract on a yearly basis and they pay you,” Douglas advised. “You have an excellent opportunity and you just have to grab the bull by the horns right now and make it work. The cake is baked for you already, all you have to do is sit down and eat.”

Douglas went on to say that fishing is a serious profession and fisherman can be prosperous, “but you have to have a professional approach to it.”

“Gone are the days when fishermen were just people who liked to go on sea, you have almost become a profession right now, you have to act as such, you have to be serious as such, you have to be serious about what you’re doing, you have to program for the future and it cannot just be about just going on sea and coming back, blowing your shell and walking around with a scale,” he noted. “You have to be organized.”

He said Dublanc has one of the best fishermen feasts in Dominica “because you work together and that is one of the great qualities, not only of your cooperative but of the Dublanc people.”

“I always admired that when I come to Dublanc, because you all have a sense of togetherness, a certain solidarity that you look out for one another, you care for one another and that is very important,” he stated.

Douglas said he believes that this is probably the basis for their success that they have achieved thus far.

 

 

 

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33 Comments

  1. oh yes!
    July 25, 2017

    what i have observe is that ALL our labour parliamentarians are “Social workers” not executives. All they is go around doing the work of the welfare department. They hold meetings about handing out schools supplies etc, Not one of the labour parliamentarian have ever tabling a motion to amend a legislation. The only legislation that was the one skerrit want to make stealing an election legal. There are so many laws that need amending but they are so got up in doing evil. They are doing the work of the social welfare and other departments.

  2. June
    July 24, 2017

    And Colihaut fishermen now what about us. I thought it was CDB what happen now. Colihaut not in the picture then.

    • Me
      July 24, 2017

      Sorry fellows, your fishing grounds have been spoilt by quarrying while Francine making noise at the UN about environmental protection and small island states..

    • Anthony P. Ismael Minister of Free Pampers
      July 24, 2017

      Catherine Daniel has all you money. You not reading these days. Just a few weeks ago she was sharing out $600,000.00 and asking people to come and get their share. :-P :-P :-P

    • Zor Sot
      July 24, 2017

      Colihaut people too sot…. you can take a pig, dress it in red and send it up as a parl rep and that pig would still win because is labour….. so take the treatment allu getting…. You guys not realizing Skerrit and them only checking for villages they are fearful of losing…. they checking for swing villages, villages that can go either way….Colihaut is red, red, red till they die….so die with absolutely zero improvement.

      • Anonymous
        July 25, 2017

        That is why Grandbay is so dilapidated and neglected also. They will vote Skerrit and his banshee regardless, so why spend too much time and money there.

  3. So, Ian because Hotels are built in Portsmouth, such as the Moroccan which will never be completed, just like all the rest, that is hope for the fishermen.

    Are you suggesting that vacationers visiting Dominica will be visiting there simply to indulge in a diet of fish! Ian I am a born Dominican, and throughout my life Dominica has always been a place where fish of all species are indeed a very scares commodity.

    Fry’s and sprats are seasonal, I have never seen sprats, and fry’s in my world travel where such small fish are sold in any market. There are other seasonal fish such as dolphins, and flying fish, if all the years of our country existence there was never enough fish in our country, for local consumption, how come there is hope that tourist will come to Dominica to help boost the fishermen salary by buying and eating plenty Dominica fish.

    Can’t you see and understand you are talking nonsense?

    What happen now; we are still importing Canadian Salt Cod Fish, and…

    • Continue:

      What happen now; we are still importing Canadian Salt Cod Fish, and pig mouth from other places?

      Do, really know anything about the tourist Industry and what is required in a hotel kitchen!

      Ian in the modern world very few Hotels cater to their guest. Guest usually eat out in restaurants, and places of entertainment. Stop lying, giving people false hope, you are nothing more than a propagandists! If there are so much fish caught right now how come Dominicans have a hard time finding fish, yet Drigo said there are so much fish on the island that he shipped millions of pounds to America, Canada, England, and all over the Caribbean, hence the price of fish should be reduced.

      Why are you people so stupid?

      How much bribe one would have to off people like you and Drigo to cause you to stop lying:

      You are a liar!

    • Anthony P. Ismael Minister of Free Pampers
      July 24, 2017

      Francisco, you forgot we exported over 1 million pounds of fish overseas last year. According to Drigo, there’s plenty fish in Dominica, both for local consumption and export. :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P

      • Yes, we did export ten million pounds of fish to the village of Castle Bruce, all caught in a pit-hole in Drigo backyard nuh:

        Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!

  4. Long Lost Dominica
    July 23, 2017

    yet still your fellow minister said fish price should be reduced, am confused…

  5. Anthony P. Ismael Free Pampers Minister
    July 23, 2017

    Ian is being a politician as usual. I’ve heard nothing about our fish stocks and efforts to preserve them. Where are the professionals in the Ministry of Agriculture? We should be hearing from them. Oh, I forgot. They’re too busy driving their air-conditioned four wheel drive vehicles about town. We need boats with holding tanks capable of keeping the fish alive until it’s delivered to these hotels. We do not have the infrastructure in place to respond to changes in the market place. Listening to Ian’s statement, there’s no plan in place as usual. It’s just a bunch of empty political talk.

  6. Skerrit I Voting
    July 21, 2017

    Good opportunities for you fishermen grab it take a hold of it. Good advise to the fishermen. Our Government is working, say what you want we are working, not like the workers party that eh doing a thing but talk all day all night. All their monies is for legal fees ah ha haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

  7. Millie
    July 21, 2017

    Good advice. The hotels will need a lot of fish. However, hotels do not serve fish with skin and bones. They will need fillet. So please train people to fillet fish and add value. Presentation is everything. Employment for the fish cleaners. Just as we now wash dasheen and not sell it with dirt overseas. Constructive criticism.

  8. sitter
    July 21, 2017

    But ian what is ur purpose???

  9. July 21, 2017

    Ya, in the pole :-D :-D :-D

  10. Daryl Joseph
    July 21, 2017

    It would be nice if they started cleaning up Portsmouth now just in case those hotels finally get completed. Start now do something about the town instead of embracing the guest.

  11. omo
    July 21, 2017

    Which cake that’s baked. Please Mr. Minister tell us what kind of cake . Because from where I am sitting you and your people alone that eating that cake.

  12. July 21, 2017

    “Every day is fishing day, every day is not catching day”you need vessels that are able to stay days or weeks at sea for it to be productive, so the fishing vessels must be equipped with freezers and all that goes with it, political statements with the sound of hope are being made, but in reality, do we have the resources to make it viable? if not, the hotels will be importing from the same chain that supplies their international hotels. Fisherfolks in Dominica are not able presently to supply the island with fresh fish, far less the hotels, be careful of the words used Mr Minister.

    • UK Dominican
      July 21, 2017

      Bob, they will be importing from our Ambassador in Miami, H.E. Jonathan Brown, who so happens to be in the processed fish business.

  13. weh
    July 21, 2017

    So will we be relying on LIAT to fill these hotels?

  14. Shaka Zulu
    July 21, 2017

    Shut your mouth go away
    Mama look a booboo dey
    Shut your mouth go away
    Mama look a booboo dey
    That is your pal rep
    Oh no
    My pal Rep nah foolish so ???????

    Sorry that’s the first thing that came to my head as I saw this news piece :lol:

    • Skerrit I Voting
      July 21, 2017

      Dis tractors will always be a part of the game my party is focus my PM is focus. Are you Shaka Zulu????? while you all talk we are working.

      • %
        July 21, 2017

        Yeah focus on making you match up the Red Clinic steps.Are you not ashamed?
        SKERRIT MUST GO
        SKERRIT MUST GO
        SKERRIT MUST GO NOW!

      • Me
        July 21, 2017

        Tractors no less! I’m impressed. Ian will be drinking diesel now.

  15. %
    July 21, 2017

    Ian who are the owners of the Kempinski hotel?Was there an EIA for that hotel?Who gave your cabal the right to dictatorially take so many acres of our National park for that hotel? We must and SHALL find the answer one good day Ian.
    How many years have your lazy, inept, incompetent and corrupted regime been speaking polluted hot air about the Morrocan hotel?Is it really a Morrican hotel?Really Ian?So why is the government of Morroco so shameless,after about 1000years,they cannot complete a little 2by 4 hotel..How much are the MOSQUITOES paying per room at the Morrocan hotel?LEADERSHIP BY TRICKERY AND DECEPTION…
    SKERRIT MUST GO
    SKERRIT MUST GO
    SKERRIT MUST GO NOW!

    • Anon
      July 21, 2017

      So how is the country going to be developed, isn’t it thru helping ourselves in different ways? Ask the BVI gov’t why they are now building a couple of hotels as we speak. Well if you and your boys would not build hotels, are u asking us to follow u blindly when u have no plan for development?

      • %
        July 21, 2017

        Anon building hotels on the beach and toilets for Anon,and building maferials for Anon ,and giving Anon CBI money for his vote will only lead us to the situation that Venezuela is in today.Instead of wasting our passport money,those DLP clowns need to focus on growing the economy,so that your laziness will end Anon.You will say bye bye to the Red Clinic.I have no confidence that,those DLP cabal can do that.
        SKERRIT MUST GO
        SKERRIT MUST GO
        SKERRIT MUST GO NOW!

    • sugar boy
      July 22, 2017

      Ha HA HA big joke! where is your brain? its not your da** business who for those hotel mind your business you watching others own. what for you ignorant morons to see all you not seeing it. AT YOUR HOME!
      All you want pm to go for dominica to come like Haiti!
      skerrit must go
      skerrit must go
      skerrit must go in 2037

  16. jihan
    July 21, 2017

    Which hotel,for the past 5 years been hearing the same old song,you guys are a complete failure.

    • Anonymous
      July 24, 2017

      The Layou River Hotel??

  17. Citizen
    July 21, 2017

    OH My OH My!!! When will you all stop lying and fooling the people? Even better yet when will the people stop allowing themselves to be fooled like that? For 17 years Dominicans have been taken for a ride and they still on the ride going nowhere!!! How long Dominicans?? Sacrificing your growth and development for who? And these same people have developed themselves. It pains

    • Jon Jones
      July 25, 2017

      At some point, the red mist that blinds many Dominicans will clear enough for them to shamefully realise that the only growth and development during the Skerritt era was for him and his inner circle and appointed cronies.
      By then they will realise why there was much so secrecy now, as future debts and liabilities start to reveal themselves. By that time most of them will already be millionaires, owning (albeit by fraud and deceit) whatever is of value on the island, alongside the dubious type of foreign investors yet to manifest themselves, but most probable and likely based on the criminal types our diplomatic passports seem to attract.
      The writing is already on the wall but few notice it from the line for the red clinic. Those DLP supporters will need some rose tinted glasses to make life bearable because the clinic will run dry at some point.

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