DSC students from Castle Bruce Constituency to get transportation allowance

Drigo has promised transportation allowance for DSC students. File photo

Member of Parliament for the Castle Bruce Constituency, Johnson Drigo, has stated that in addition to Dominica State College (DSC) students from Castle Bruce to Petite Soufriere receiving assistance with college tuition, they will also receive transportation allowance every year as of March from the government.

He was speaking at a Town Hall meeting on Wednesday evening in San Sauveur.

Twenty-four students from the Castle Bruce Constituency attend the college and will be assisted, according to Drigo.

He stated that an individual has been employed to ensure that the names of every student from that area be submitted on time to the ministry so that “every child who needs assistance for tuition is assisted in this area.”

“We will be discussing with them the conditions for assistance and every student will receive a cheque at the end of the month to assist them with paying their bus fare,” he said.

He added that parents will no longer have to consider keeping their children at home because of the inability to pay the bus fare.

Now that the government is stretching out a helping hand and “taking over that aspect of their needs,” parents can send their children to school and not “have to think of one cent,” Drigo noted.

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28 Comments

  1. June
    March 17, 2017

    so dno where is my comment. is it that u all have a way of making people think their comment go through. its shows when i open the link on my phone but on other computers it is not showing. What trick is this

  2. TEA CUP
    March 16, 2017

    This is A SERIOUS N VERY SERIOUS problem. The country is being bled by incompetent men who failed to create sustainable Jobs . WHY Cant they afford is a sign of 17 years of nothing being done in the country. These kids were babies wen the part came to office , daddy n mummy were unemployed,. up to this present day , they are unemployed…..

    • indira Ghandi
      March 20, 2017

      You should be ashamed to say,THEIR PARENTS WILL NOT HAVE TO THINK OF ONE CENT.
      So what kind of responsibility does a parent have?
      Are you people serious?
      Where else in the world would you see such a comment from a minister?
      Only in Dominica.
      Everything seems to be for free in that place.
      How and when are we going to teach our people to be productive abd responsible.
      Everybody just want to sit and beg and the govt. Is the greatext enabler of that attitude.

  3. ttesa n
    March 16, 2017

    They act like they doing us a favor!!! Bunch ah losers dem B.

  4. Eat Rocks
    March 16, 2017

    So when they finish school, how will they support their own kids? This is a repetitive system that the Lazy Dominica Party is implementing and sadly the uninformed is falling for it.
    If you guys do not put kick DLP out of office , you will forever be dependent on them.

  5. Massacre
    March 16, 2017

    This is not the way to go , you cannot sustain an economy by handing people cash in hand. This is the recipe for poverty .
    Give their parents a job and let the parents pay for their kids schooling. In every country that\’s how things are happening , how is in Dominica we are so backwards noh?

  6. LifeandDeath
    March 16, 2017

    Election coming man? Johno have to hold his seat..so they not going to waste money on paying bus for students from Marigot & Wesley.. If this was a national program for the general benefit of all DSC students, why would they be hand picking which communities to benefit?
    Dominica not going anywhere..Lord how much more dependency this gov’t will create? So they do know that parents have it so hard that some have to consider keeping their children home for bus fare..What hypocrisy..

  7. Sister Toussaint
    March 16, 2017

    Hey Johno,

    What about money for our breakfast and lunch in town? Our parents are not working because there is no work in Petite Soufriere, San Sauveur, Dipper, Tranto, Castle Bruce and Good Hope. You said our parents will not pay a cent for our college.

    Should we call Cono?

    • nonamegal
      March 16, 2017

      Dominicans love the handouts!

      • Teddy
        March 16, 2017

        But is the government that kill the agriculture, tourism and small business. Our parlrep had tell our mother not to worry because Labour will set us up. Nowadays everytime he see granny he telling her different story.

    • All letang blessing compel Lenox fountain doing is kill d uwp.
      March 16, 2017

      If ur parents no working an so much land an ea in sansouver them lazy..

    • MUDD
      March 17, 2017

      Is people like you that are going to suck SALT if the BLUE ever comes in power.

    • indira Ghandi
      March 20, 2017

      This is shameful. This is ridiculous.
      you need to give them a cheque for their snack too and also a cheque to top up their phone.

  8. Anthony Ismael
    March 16, 2017

    If you had any common sense whatsoever, you would begin to advocate and then build an educational facility in Castle Bruce, so that students of the North could attend classes via teleconference thereby avoiding the travel to Roseau except for labs and other essentials. This would also help to develop the Northern part of the island. Why must everything be in Roseau only? Plus, with the all the money we made from exporting over 1 million pounds of fish last year, I am sure we could invest some of it for the future of our children.
    Residents of Castle Bruce were set back 20 years at least, with you at the helm. If my granny was alive, I would ask her to give Drigo a “Bath with some bush late at night” to remove the backward Labor thinking ways from his brain. :-P :-P :-P

    • Teddy
      March 16, 2017

      Hell yes. My Grand Pa would surely give him a bath and beating with Maho Pima and Pima Zozio!

  9. The skeptic studeng
    March 16, 2017

    Election around the corner.

    • March 16, 2017

      Some of my people welcome that news if it’s true because a lot of money will be going around and they will never move out of their condition sometimes I believe they like it
      Dominicans if the CBI account s are closed ask yourselves where is PM getting all that cash from .
      PM and his administration must go so the Island can move forward.

  10. Hope
    March 16, 2017

    That’s how you all like it for people to remain poor and become poorer, why not employ the people so that they become independent and help themselves. Just now you all will pay to flush their ……… in the toilet. Way papa a wolf in sheep clothing.
    Why you do not vitalize Agriculture and find market for farmers.

    • Yinka
      March 16, 2017

      Ask Fontaine. He shipping lots of produce…to Martinque…so where you be …..

  11. televangelists are false prophets
    March 16, 2017

    But the PM already said that would happen island wide. why are you trying to act like you got transportation for DSC students in your constituency, when it was already stated by the PM. Also, why not contact the Registrar office at the state college for the information of students who live in your constituency AND HAVE REGISTERED FOR CLASSES?

    • televangelists are false prophets
      March 16, 2017

      The problem is that the parents cannot afford it. Which is a problem in itself. Why cant they afford to send their child to school? are they not employed? if they are, maybe they are not paid enough. minimum wage is still less than EC$6.00/hr. the state is giving the man his daily fish instead of teaching him how to catch his own. Thank you Mr. Drigo. Good way to ensure votes next election. Castle Bruce constituency used to be a vibrant area for trade and business. The people of that area need to start standing up for themselves and empower themselves instead of depending of people like drigo to use them.

  12. %
    March 16, 2017

    You did not tell them that you and the DLP GANG feels guilty for killing:::
    Agriculture
    Tourism
    The IPO Commission
    The Electoral Commission
    The Police as an institution
    Killing the good name of Dominica.
    Did you tell them Monfared was hiding at Morne Daniel?
    Did you tell them about Madueke,Lapseng,Corallo.
    I AM GETTING READY FOR THE RAYLLY at 4.30pm.

  13. zandoli
    March 16, 2017

    Stop making people dependent on government. Stop the freebies. You guys are changing the way people live and view life. STOP!!

  14. John-Don't Know
    March 16, 2017

    So why must an individual be employed to collect the names of the students? Can’t you or the Ministry just put out a public announcement to have the students submit their name to MoE or have them submit their names at the State College?

    • televangelists are false prophets
      March 16, 2017

      Or simply ask the registrar’s office for the names of students from that constituency. when they register i am sure they give their personal info. Instead you want to hire another kroney to walk around and write down people’s information like this is the 1980’s. Pure waste and nonsense. Plus earlier in the article he said that there are 24 people, ” Twenty-four students from the Castle Bruce Constituency attend the college and will be assisted, according to Drigo.” It seems like they already have the info, but insist on giving someone a job to do nonsense.

    • June
      March 16, 2017

      how to please allu. so now u want to take the my sister job from her. she is employed not employment allu say the country need. leave my sister in her job eh.

    • June
      March 17, 2017

      but but my sister get a job we so you wan to take it then leave my girl in her job eh. allu say no work when someone get work you ask y. how to please allu

      • televangelists are false prophets
        March 20, 2017

        Maybe your sister might have been more effective doing something more permanent, apart from walking around writing down names on a pad. WE need efficient sustainable jobs. Jobs that make sense. Not 8 man to fill one hole kind of jobs, or your sister to walk around writing down names to bring back to a parl rep who doesnt know whether he coming or going. Not NEP jobs which puts a strain on the government’s finances. Sustainable efficient jobs which actually boost the economy, add value the the skills and knowledge of locals, transfer of technology, introduce new vibrant sectors, Jobs that are not a waste just so that your sister will vote labor next election. After she write down those names and submit it to Drigo, when he could just call the min of education and ask them to get the info from the college within a day or less. No he want the state to spend so your sister can walk around with a pad feeling important.

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