Normalcy has returned to Government Headquarters after members of staff were evacuated, while roads leading to the building were cordoned off, on Tuesday morning, following the discovery of a suspicious device.
The device turned out to be sand and stones which were wired up in cardboard and was deemed harmless based on initial investigations.
Head of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Davidson Valerie, stated that at about 8:15 , the CID received a report of a suspicious package that was found in the area of the north-eastern gate of the ministerial building.
Police then responded, and the suspicious device was found and identified, he said.
“Police officers and the Fire Department Officers who were trained in this department were summoned to the scene and the device was removed and brought to a safe location, where it was opened up and it was searched,” Valerie divulged.
He revealed that “it was found out that the content of the device is sand, some stones, which was wired up in cardboard.”
Subsequently, the device and its contents were removed, and the area was searched by the Police.
The items, he noted, are being closely scrutinized, and are being investigated to determine further information related to the content.
He commented that from initial investigations, the device is seemingly harmless.
Valerie urged the public to refrain from panicking, as the police believe the area to be safe.
The police are in the process of ensuring that the evacuated persons can return to their respective offices.
Investigations are ongoing.
They do look comical but a little research and commonsense would point out that they’re responding to a chemical bomb threat,but based on the description of the content it seems otherwise so I don’t get the point of the attire.seeing that the firemen are dressed the way they were why is it the civilians see it fit to play “gardé sa veh”
These guys looking for an excuse to call off the Bi election because they know they going to lose.
What a seemingly clever way to distract the population by creating that bogus scenario.
Just check the items found, sand, some stones, tied up in a cardboard. The package was deemed harmless, upon investigation.
The desired effect, to have people in panic, to create a media frenzy about some disgruntled people setting trouble or inciting violence and unrest, crumbled.
The issues, real burning issues remain. Those of TOP CLASS corrupt practices, money-laundering, passport sales gone berserk, links, friends with people of questionable repute, here and abroad.
Secret, secret deals continue to unravel in the media in the regional and international arena. Dominicans were told about many such crooked deals Years ago, up to today. The patriots must be commended for exposing those evil-doers.
Dominica is suffering, while a few making millions and secretly hiding all that away in foreign bank. Since Erika, passport sellers alone making millions.
Next time…
Yup that real smart… strap oxygen to your back while you investigate a possible bomb. those suits are to protect against smoke inhalation, its useless for what they are attempting to use it for. you bettor off just wearing your funeral clothes to save people the trouble.
Since it was outside, They could have simply used a fire hose which would provide safe cover and open up the device forcefully. But no, show off want to bring oxygen to a fire
Bahahhh that is bomb expert lol hhaahha boi if that was a real bomb me them dead.. So will you going to risk all you life for a lol stupid 2000 dollars a month …. While Panama papers full up with money …. Ahahahahah
What a ridiculous comment!
One Isis terrorist could probably bring Dominica to it’s knees, security isn’t a issue in that place
you’re an idiot. Firemen are the bravest people in Civil service anywhere around the world. Lets see you run into a burning building to save other people without regard for your own life. Stupidity is a disease.
LMAOOOOOOO I cannot stop laughing. LOL take this article down before it spreads further lmaooooooooo
Ducktape boyz?
What a disgrace, nasty gutter, rundown building, bad road, mold take over the paint, bad sidewalk broken windows even the palm tree fighting to survive. Them poeple all over the place traing for what they know , they out there selling dominica and dominica passport to terrorist, they doing their mock exercise, and they out there saying bomb and suspicious package, what a coincidence, in 2014 Melville hall airport, now Government building, some fools will believe that game but not fools will believe, hope skerrit knos who put the suspicious package there to distract some Dominican of all his corruption, including the Panama Papers, he supporting a child molester etc, ho told us in 2014 he know who put the airport fire, so I am waiting to hear from him as to what he knows, pure political distraction, to get off Ian Pinard back and his other half Denis Charles, this is Tony and Skerrit game, the same Tony and Skerrit who accused Linton of leaking documents when they were the ones
look at your backyard!
You lazy and corrupt civil servants. Get back to work. That was just a simulation exercise.
Now……… about those Panama Papers………..
That duct tape!! hahahaha
You should be laughing at yourself.
Duct tape is used everywhere but emergency personnel. It seals leaks in oxygen suits. That’s why it’s used all over the world, unless you wearing a space suit or working in a nuclear lab, duct tape is the best sealant.
get a proper suit . Its obvious that the suit is a make shift and besides this is not a bomb suit . Never knew we had chemical warfare in dominica.
For a moment I thought they had discovered one of the bobol bins but did not recognize it because they are so rare. All joking aside, well done fellows with your quick response. In matters like these you do not take any chances but react immediately. Thank you.
You would think a place like Government Headquarters would at least have a few security cameras installed. Money for all kinds of frivolous sewo but not for the important things. What a place!!! What a country!!!
To hell with all you and investigation!
What about the investigation into how the video of the minor female went viral on Facebook? ?????
The video was in police protection!
What is de result of that investigation!
I will protect my children first.
What about de other investigations?
Karma will eat all you soul!
what on earth does that have to do with this article.
it went viral before that’s why the police was called in. That online long before the police knew about it so you go investigate.
Duck tape and garden boots?Is this pest control?Is it a serious bomb disposal ? hahhahahahha Boy my Dominica is ready for real theatre.Plastic suit and oxygen mask ,welcome to Dominica gate.
It is amazing how shallow Dominicans think. The law took all the necessary steps to find out about this object and all Dominicans can do is seat aside call their law enforcement jokes. Now that is sad. What if this object happen to be deadly? Some explosive device or some chemical device and several people were dead and the law did nothing to prevent such? I assume Dominicans would still blame the law for doing nothing. right? Great job guys for going the extra mile to protect your citizens.
I couldn’t have said it better, engineer. We’ll talk and laugh until something happens and it stops being funny.
We must laugh,there is no need to cry ,because if the gov’t cannot give it’s citizen adequate clothing ,this shows us how much they don’t care…if they put on oxygen mask this indicates that they know very well it is a poisonous gas .What if this was a bomb ,do you think that these garden boots ,oxygen masks and plastic working jumpsuit would protect them? I looks like the blind are leading the blind .
Duct tape ka fe dife!
This littke jack and jill and hide and seek will not distract us from the evils plauging us and our lovely dominica. We will not be distracted from the nasty comments made by members of the DLP against our Women.. we want answers about these millions that skerit has in panama and we want to know when we will have proper medical facilities for cancer patients and also a well equiped childrens hospital. There is no way we voting another DLP person in the south no way hosey.
@ Shaka Zulu: Good observation. They keep on surprising us with equipment, supplies, and arsenal we never knew they could afford on that little budget. Take for example, the riot police and their gear in that Salisbury incident. They came ready save for the expired tear gas cannisters. However, this scare seems nothing more than a distraction tactic, even though an appropriate EOD suit was not worn. Now that we know we have a “Bomb Disposal Unit”, we’ll all sleep better at night – yea right.
To the man who plant the bomb, the government building has done nothing to you , the workers have done Nothing to you. The ones who violate our rights. Take us for fool and responseible for the state that the country is in are the minister’s target them so they can’t sleep In the night, target them so they can grow a concience. Set a couple examples to straighten things In The country keep the. On edge so they will do their jobs in the right way
Seems like someone is so bitter that they can´t even buy themselves a dictionary
Hahahahahahaha boy look kix, them fellas in Level A suit wi, these guys are just pure jokers and all I can do is feel sorry for my country. If you see Dominica had 10 fellas like me, just 10 something would have happened long time, because when you are going up against a corrupt ,deceitful, malicious ,voleh, and oppressive regime you have to let go of all fear, fear of death, jail, victimization, excommunication and all the rest. How can one man ONE MAN! have an entire country 70000+ people like some old cloth that he can just use wring and hang to dry again for when he ready to use them again. Weh weh weh i just cannot understand that, in this day and age!? Awa wi
lol…duck tape on fellas boots and ting. Look a country we.
This is actually standard practice.
You have no idea what you talking about. Standard practice would mean having the proper equipment and knowledge which is lacking all together here .
Horse manure, I forgive you for your ignorance. Your namesake doesn’t permit that I do anything else.
You even proud to show your ignorance on DNO we alas
This makes no sense. This was just mockery. Who in Dominica would be looking at anything as a suspicious package? Sand and stone? This was all part of the drill which Hunter displayed last week.
Dominicans stop being stop. Everything in that damn country is politics. Smh smh smh you all need to grow up and acts like adults.
Wonder what you all are doing to help the country.
Why don’t you go ahead and give some examples of what you have done for the country
Sad… see the duct tape on the boots
Actually duct tape is widely used in hazmat suits and equipment.
I didn’t know D/ca had a bomb squad
Where did they say there was one?
Dumbminicans too poor to afford a bomb, this is nonsense.
You are aware that a bomb can be made from household materials right? Didn’t the Boston Marathon runners use rigged pressure cookers? But I guess you’re too dumb yourself to know.
Could not help notice that the guys are in level A PPE. Tyvek suit with SCBA. Correct when responding to unknown material that may be potentially hazardous through ingestion, inhalation, or skin absorption. However, they both would be dead if it was an explosive material and the guy who lifted his leg has a hole in the crutch so the entire suit is practically useless. I hope you guys set up a hot zone and clean zone for decontamination. I realise it was nothing but hope you can use my observations for training for next time.
Even Shaka is a better bomb expert than the papyshow team they have there
Shaka is no bomb expert and would not pretend to be but shaka knows enough about emergency response to see lapse and if it were the real deal a few people could be dead. Hopefully someone reads and pay attention and review there procedures.
Another distraction, I want to know why the Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica got offshore accounts in Panama, WHY????
That bomb scare story come out just to distract people from that Panama papers story but we did not forget…….
Guys you have a Level A suite on, and no exclusion zone? We need some more training in handling suspicious substance/equipment…
The guy is in Level A suite – got a hole down there. But if that was a bomb, we are definitely not prepared to handle this. And were they checking it out beside or beneath a main bridge into the city, and also a major waterway? Interesting.
De Guy just going to pee by the river. a-a-non!
Dominica is a joke,no law land.
While Venezuela have riot looting and protests for hungry starving people Dominica government worry about a strange package ……..no one declared it a bomb threat because it was never a bomb to begin withwhere is the evidence of suspecion ,was there request for Ransome …….please that is definition of country bookie and that’s how the government want to have us
See them like little school children nuhh… I can just Imagine what level of conversation some of those government workers those have
Hmmmmm strange you sure that is not just a distraction to coverup some thing with the Panama papers scandal I would put nothing past this government
Let not your heart to troubled! This is a decoy; the magnificent one never sleeps.
Rapid response eh!
Personally it so difficult for me to believe anything from this government I just will not swallow that pill to blokay my conscience.
I still waiting for a report on how someone was able to be in the possession of video evidence from police investigators going viral on Facebook!!!!!!
Video of a female minor in very uncompromising situations! WHERE WAS THE VOICE OF THE CHURCH?
Fool me once!
Minister for security and the police force doesn’t command my respect!
SO THAT IS DE ONLY THING THAT WILL MAKE SOME PEOPLE CONSIDER THEIR MORTALITY!
NONE OF US ARE INVINCIBLE!
HONESTLY THAT DOESN’T SHAKE ME ONE BIT!!!!!
huh??? What are you saying????
What u are talking about, where does it comes into the picture? let me tell u something maybe u didn’t know. That school girl deliberately photographed herself when she was having those affairs with her victim, that was a proper set up by u know who
Before the 2014, elections a building at the airport was on fire and PM Skerrit did not waste time to tell the nation that he knew who did it, though 2 years later we have not seen an investigation or no one brought before the court.
On Christmas morning of 2010, the house of GON Emmanuel was set on fire when both the elderly Mr and Mrs were in their house sleeping and the then national security and Tony were on Kairie calling names of the people that did that. To date, no serious investigation or arrest has been made. I am not referring to the pappy show that was done before the courts.
The PM classified information was leaked and Tony and co were once again on kairi accusing Linton as the culprit. This time his house was thrown upside down as they investigated, only to find out it pointed to Tony, and case died.
My point is, now that a suspicious package was found where government offices are and that happened so close to them, how come they don’t no who did what?
Can imagine this police officer is not trained in this types of happening . On a cell phone talking when this call can trigger whatever if it’s this. Shame.
Ahlas John Jay…I think you watching too much tv man!! Sooo de police cannot be calling nobody on their cell phone…so what u want them to use nuh??
You should watch less movies my friend.
Please , A copy of the Panama papers is not a suspicious item !
what is the item??????
Panama papers
somebody wanted an extra holiday, man.
I don’t take this to mean anything apart from a distraction tactics to prevent us from talking about the real issues that are plaguing Dominica under Skerrit. If anything they and their boys set this distraction
They getting desparate
So let me get this straight. The guy has oxygen mask and tanks on his back but no hazmat suite.
As we await the full report on this news item, I must express a concern that is plaguing my mind. During the last General Election there was, conveniently I must say for the blessed Dominica Labour Party, an alleged fire in the equipment building of the Country’s main Airport. Now, as a by-election is on the horizon, all of a sudden there is a “suspicious item” found under the Nation’s Government Ministry Building? Is this simply a coincidence or something strategical and far more sinister? Are we to shift our focus from the Panama Papers, Child Abuse and illegal tendering scandals to the possibility of internal terrorist within our midst? I tell you, politics can surely be a dirty game!
I could happen any where ,be on your guard.
How they meN UNDERNEATH the building nuh? The building has a cellar/basement? Not on the ground floor nuh?
I hope they looked for others
Omg…..I wonder I
You wondering loud we papa..