Workers employed at the Public Works Corporation are presently staging protest action at its facility in Goodwill.
Workers told Dominica News Online on the scene that they have not been paid for several weeks.
“We are fed up,” one worker said. “We have our bills to pay. We cannot take it anymore.”
They said they are staging a “peaceful protest” so that their voices can be heard.
The police are also on the scene.
DNO is following this developing story and will publish information as it becomes available.
Only way to stop protesting is to punish ministers who don’t deliver, we need to find a away to make ministers accountable for failure, for example North Korean Defence Minister Hyon Yong-Chol
isn’t that the guy from laplaine on the phone with the orange shirt, why orange, red is too shameful now?
In all whatwhats happening and the leaders who are encouraging this type of behviours from our people remember the song that was played very often during elections “YOU RAISE ME UP”. reflect on the words of this song and think my people.
Election is over and we have five more years to g. Wait!Wait! Wait!. ” When I am down and, oh, my soul, so weary; when troubles come and my heart burdened be;Then I am still and wait here in the silence,
Until you come and sit awhile with me.”
Reflect on these words. Have patience! 2019 not so far. Patience my brothers and sisters.
Every body is saying skerritt is lying to them where was he born dominica who taught him to lye the school and his parents, we all are the same way , lets teach our kids now to be onest and have dignity. Are we capable of doing any thing for self or are we still thinking like slaves we are waiting for some one to save us , we must learn to save our selves. Blackboard more cannot save his self how can he save you you are asking something from this guys that cannot be done, you are spending90 percent your entire life waiting waiting for government to save you it will not happen my friends.
Every one is frustrated the government cannot solve your problem they don’t know how, you have to use your brains and find a way to create your own wealth. Government is not very good at doing nothing no where in the world free interprise is the only thing to free dominicans from bondage not government. You people are waiting for jesus he is not coming back. Read john chapter 16 stop begging skerritt and singingfor your supper go find the food your self , where is your self worth and dignity. My father and your father were farmers we never beg the British for food we plant it our selves no one was hungry . Why now a days every body is begging do you want the British back they give you the country run it and feed your selves stop singing for your supper.
They need to clean public works up is nasty and dirty it makes the town looks bad. The country has no money half of the men should go and work y he land and raise chicken to feed the nation they would make more money on their own. We have to create more wealth on our own stop begging skerritt and singing for your supper. Have the courage to take some risk to do something for your self. Not getting pay all the time should make you go on your own get together and open a water company in your village and ship containers all over the caribean and miami stop drinking rum every day save your money don’t send it to miami the Cubans don’t need it.
In a free society every citizen has the right to protest, did they get a permit from the police to protest. The politicians and the police are your kids. If you taught them in elementary school how to respect , obey, create, control, managed, when they go to college they would know what courses to take to managed family and country. Our problems start with a bad education the British started , they did not teach us how to think and managed nothing , if we cannot even keep Roseau clean how can we managed a country with 70.000. People . How many ministers who had a grocery store, our problem is managing things we don’t know what to do we need outside help right now. Think of it the european union tells put a maintenance plan in place before you get money to fix feeder roads. You will always be beggers until you learn what to do. You have to find a way to create your own wealth, stop sending all your money to miamI buying bad chicken grow it your self
We talk road safety and have police officers standing at the back of a pick-up van. We see how enforcement cannot start until the officers themselves start to obey the laws. It would be hypocrisy to say don’t when they themselves do.
We The Authorities have advised the Public Works Corporation that they have been mere consequential casualties of the election.
They can go to the Great Holy Roman Catholic Cathedral and ask for a refund from the $500,000.00 which we gave them so their members could vote for us.
As the Prime Minister said: “I make no apologies for giving the money to the Bishop. I carry out instructions from above and it is not me who gave the church but the Lord who gave the church the money. So those of us who want to criticize a good deed, are not criticizing me but is criticizing the Lord so be very careful what we criticize,”
If you want to get paid, go to church and pray.
There has always been evil in Dominica and elsewhere. Live Charles-Charlo my cousin in peace and let bygones be bygones. Persons like u prefer to be in darkness than in light. I don’t care what u say.
Dominica is going forward not backwards
Follow-fashion monkeys, they see those tear gassed and rubber bulleted fools in Salisbury attempt to go against the Mighty Labour Power and now they want to try their hand at so-called protest with their big red “Labour ka Twavay” bag in front. My most Honourable Prime Minister has no time to deal with copy-cat fools who pretend to support while still trying to embarrass the Good and Holy Supreme Leader and his Ministers. My great PM will ignore these fools and make them come beg at his feet for their jobs which, by the way, they are lucky to have thanks to Labour and Dr. Skerrit. Ungrateful idiots!
next you will jump from “holy” to your God……
Are you really serious or are you being sarcastic
joe4all and sally, I do believe that the one with the red flag is now a UWP and the one who had the blue flag probably turn red if he got promoted .
The problem with Dominicans when they for you ,you can do all the wrong you want and they will still support you .all of you who are mad that the people are standing up to the pm you all know in your hearts of hearts that what he is doing is wrong . How the hell can you give other people to do jobs that public works should be doing that’s crazy .all of them that there saying labour working is their family members that are away bussing their asses to provide for them so they can seat on their ass and run their mouth labour labour .time will tell the PM think he stronger than God never dat time will tell.
What you expect to be happening at Public Waste when three quarters of the workers are from Salisbury.
What does that have to do with anything . Do you know how it feels to work and not get paid .you are just wicked .
How can the PM be giving people free money every wednesday in red clinic, meanwhile public works employees havent been paid in weeks?
Peeps please rate your government. 3 levels are provided
Maniku
Pous Pool
Penez
Penez being the highest and Maniku the lowest. If you give me a thumbs up mean a vote for Maniku thumbs down means a vote for Penez and no vote means pous Pool.
Let the voting begin DNO
How will you know the number of us who lol and didn’t vote….this is funny.
Don’t worry about that Peter Wickham has an emperical system that will provide a reliable estimate.
Congratulation Doubting Thomas, The Fact, Real Porssie,Fast N Idiot, Peeping Tom you have voted for Pous Poole
The two women Cops standing in the pick up box while the men are inside. I can only assume that the cops also travel in the back of the pickup truck as well. I know it is “acceptable ” in Dominica that people travel in the back of the truck but is it legal and if these cops are hurt while traveling in the box as passengers are they covered by insurance.
Essentially the cops should set the example – the cops should not even be standing in the back of the pick up truck much less traveling in the same.
Frenz what you smoking man/woman? You seem to be in a world of ur own.
Don’t you know of No law ,no constitution cannot prevent anyone from doing anything as long as you are on the NEO-DLP side?
what insurance you talking about. If they get hurt in the process, the little malma insurance will cover a few things Medard the Min of health & all the hypocrites will go to the hospital for 6 weeks the 2 to their homes then they are forgotten.
Look at the Dr. who help elect the Neo -DLP-ites from President -P.M when he got his cranial bleed he was rushed out to Martinique. he will never be well again they have no use for him now he is packed away in the USA. Look at the other one who campaigned for the establishment who is currently in Martinique packed away again see the Neos are users.
Frenz for a while I thought you knew something about third world history & politics by choosing the name Frenz .Thought you were an admirer of the late great Franz Fanon of Martinique. Our next Door .
Frenz! Franz was a Caribbean revolutionary with vision. Just reading the news today of Public works then Monday about salibury peeps brings to mind Franz (not you Frenz)
He stated clearly the only way to defeat imperialism in our case the Neo-DLP regime is to attack on all fronts. Had the two been coordinated the police would have to be in two places. then what about 4,5,6,7,……………………………………21 places could they stretch their forces of Babylon in all 21 directions? You want an answer from me? ASK our current President .LMAO & really loud. As Chuckie sang” We doh get de message as yet” Advise to” Starlight” You ur guys we the masses eh ready yet. DA is so screwd! The cadres and revolutionaries of the 70’s & 80’s are growing older and some have forgotten what they started fighting for. Reo Speedwagon.
Cheers my countrymen.
.Thought you were an admirer of the late great Franz Fanon of Martinique. Our next Door neighbor.
while you all protesting, antigua moving forward
http://antiguaobserver.com/ablp-to-permit-use-of-small-quantities-of-herb/
Public works workers know Skerrit out of state so they protesting? If they have not been paid for so long, who they expect to hear them or pay them? Skerrit is PM and Minister for finance and the man is out of state, and all you protesting? Why didn’t you all join the bawi farmers when they protested? All you just talking but all of you including your leader is afraid of Skerrit. If Savarin was leader I bet the protest would not be so weak.
Pay them,and send them home,since there is nothing for them to do,and that department seem to be making no money .
The people of Salisbury where our independence was first declared in the Salisbury Declaration are again leading the way with strong protest declaration and not the wishy washy protests we have seen before. So those who want to fight for their rights should make their own Rights Declaration. This government will only act if the people make them act. The students and their parents should demand the tablets promised them. The single mothers at Grandbay should demand the houses promised them. Too many promises and no action. To quell protests the PM calls people to a meeting and makes more promises and then nothing is done. Eleven years promising a new hospital and still no hospital instead of gaining one we lost one at Marigot. New Morroco Hotel, billion dollar lottery, billion dollar marina at Castle Bruce and on and on. 6 floor Financial centre now is just government offices. The Prime Minister was right when he said people get the government they permit.
so Salisbury is Like to Philadelphia
where is the staffer who had the huge red flags on his van at public works, where is he now??
The one that had the big blue flag on his van look he there?
They, and all others should have joined the Salsbury protest. Who is going to be the next Charles Savarin, now president? Common Charlo, maybe you need to resign from your very high paying job and come and lead a national protest like you did in 1979, because quite clearly the nation needs another one like you since your reason for shutting down the nation in 1979 as no where as close to the evils that are affecting us today.
Brilliant old chap really really well thought out & put together. You forgot the Bishop Bogart is Boys nous / the current bishop of St.Lucia lol not roseau hahahahahahaah according to crazy
Interesting you should write this, because this is what you all want in Dominica – these type of behaviour to prove a point, but God is watching and he always put a hand. So before you there trying to take bread from people mouth by causing choas and disorder, remember its our children who are going to rule sometime int he furture. Do not dig hole for people – those you least expect are the ones that fall in the pit. Control all you anger GOd is watching.
The problem is, most of the work which is suppose to and use to be done by PWD is now being contracted out to the DLP supporters. Roads and Drainage a re being constructed by non engineers. The project at the Roseau river should have been through PWD in that way the money would stay in house to pay the workers. Just my thought
There is no group that is happy with the government and clearly it is not the government of the people, for the people and b the people. Public works cooperation is unhappy, farmers all over Dominica are unhappy, Bus drivers as well motorists are unhappy, segment of the police force unhappy, teachers unhappy, medical people unhappy, sports people unhappy, Union leaders are unhappy; No one seems to be happy with this government; yet they are not strong enough to have a massive nation protest like the one Charles Savarin organized in 1979, to bowl out the DLP. By the way the same DLP rewarded the same Savarin later by making him President of Dominica, under a DLP government. That alone should serve as a motivation for protest leaders because tomorrow they might very well be rewarded
You probably need to be reminded that the island just had a general election and a government was duly elected to run the country! It is only the blue mealybugs that keep chewing at the dead cud cappy!!
Charles led them but was not the force behind it it was the union memebers farmers civil servants youth-unemployed etc with C.O Jones today we have so many politically quere men & women who don’t know who they are in more ways than one. No balls period. Starlight was classified a Enunch by a doctor nearly a decade & a half ago now he is opposition leader so that explains in no uncertain term the aforementioned point.
Them look hungry. Jen Bawi need to show them how demonstration should be done.
If i were the PM i would pass and wave at them.
They just held a symposium on “Traffic Safety” and to my great surprise, two uniformed police officers are standing in the bed of a pick up truck. Human beings should not be riding in the bed of pick up trucks. This symposium was nothing more than hot air and a rash reaction to the call of the masses to address this issue.
All these projects are coming on stream allegedly, but Public Works employees have not been paid. Our priorities are certainly not in order.
can you not see the truck is parked.How can you drive with the door open all you does is critize.
1979 IN THE MAKING AGAIN,THE REGIME IS FALLING,ALL THE CORRUPTION,RAPING OF OUR YOUNG BOYS AND GIRLS.Dominica is on the brink of total destruction @ the hands of Roosevelt Skerrit.
So you wish but God is in control not all you.
Bell Beff you need some brains.The sin of the people give them the government they deserve
That’s how you want your party to get into power you will eat shit before you see that happen.Just try that you and your gang and you will spend the rest of your life in Stockfarm.Think positive for your Country not violience.
Original Mahaut Man, if you were from Mahaut at all then you would know a thing or two about having to work hard for your money. Last I checked, Mahaut people are proud too, but it seems as of late, the dependency syndrome has been hitting the country far and wide. If you had any self respect, you would do yourself a favour and put some numbers in your mind. How much is electricity, water, internet, cable, gas, food, clothes, shoes, tires, parts for your vehicle to operate efficiently, then determine whether their income is sufficient to sustain them and their children. After that, you may come forward and say that they should not speak for their right to work and earn a living and take care of their own. It bothers some that others would DARE see that Roosevelt Skerrit for the joke that he is slowly becoming. Job creation has always been consistent in the private sector, tell the government to step up and deliver on the jobs as promised. The damn puppet stop mimicking Linton???
This department (now corporation) is a complete disaster and its failure is a reflection of the whole country’s failure. This is supposed to be the organization that leads the nation in terms of maintenance and repair. Yet it’s own site, at goodwill, is decrepit, dirty, with equipment in various forms of decay, disrepair and disorganization.
How embarrassing!! What an abject shame and a reflection of failed leadership and governance!!
I can understand this is a peaceful protest and they need their wages. no violence I’m with you all the way. bring your point across no one is defacing their environment.
One thing in see in Dominica the government spending money but the island is not making to pay for they need to do property taxes for would the island more if people at it just saying people thanks .
GOOD LORD, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TRYING TO SAY?
LOL. . . oh my gosh! My 2cents, I’m with you. Not even Einstein would be able to figure out what it is Brooklyn Island is trying to say. Brooklyn island, please revise so we may get your point. Thanks.
you went to America and could not even educate yourself, please is a good thing I stayed in dominica… u would make me ashame to be dominican
Calling doctor Benji mad man on the loose and talkig pawol enitile
not sure if he suffering from Skerrititist of Tonymalitist. Ask Daniel Carbon to send Inspector Mills to pick him up
Bondiuer sa ce un heroin addict or a crack head who got hold of somebody’s smart phone man
Can you imagine those kind of thing there wii that got plane ticket to come and vote their fools into government
Any Psychiatrist in the house – mey dey mey dey mad man on the loose
How can the PM have money to pay Berres Hammond, Destra & Carimi to perform at his election campaign, but not have money to pay his own employees?
What is going on in this Country nor. That is forced kidnapping now. What are we teaching our children.
The trap we set for people remember is we who fall in it.
Well since you are your child’s first teacher, teach him/ her what you want inculcated in them….like how to be passive observers. That way, they’ll just agree that whatever happens , happens!
So who is going to take care of the Government intervention on Salisbury road if public works employees on strike. Worst, the PM leave State and tell the Bawi people when he come back they will chit chat …..lol
They should block the road again and leave it till the PM comes back .As the cops take it off put it back again when they leave
The police have their work cut out for them
Sorry guys. The protest is a day too late. The money has already been promised to the Salisbury farmers.
You now have to wait till the BAM funds become available
I just don’t understand it…
I thought every year salaries are supposed to be budgeted for in any Corporation/Government entity?
How can a Corporation be functioning and not catering for recurrent expenses such as salaries/wages and utilities??
That is some kind of phukked up Accounting papa.
yes that is right. Its time people start to protest for their civil rights!!
My god . Working at PWC is same as being un-employed . How does the powers that be expect these employees to sustain the needs of their family ? For crying out loud , this has been so for sometime in PWC . Government needs to look into the fate of the Corporation and quit having these employees wasting their monies to get to work , and moreso their energies for nothing in the end .
GOOD for all you. Take all that all you get now. Labour ka twavay!!!
Skerrit is the best Prime Minister for building fancy roads and buildings but the worst prime Minister for creating jobs.
tell me one fancy road he built and if you are right I will give you 500 dollars
I hope the Prime Minister is very concerned about the unrest in the country, like strikes and demonstrations. I hope he will use all the leadership qualities he usually boast about. He blundered in the manner he handled the Salisbury matter and worst his high handed utterances during the press conference when questions were asked about the protest at Salisbury. Presently, PWD workers have joined the action. The Prime Minister should bring closure to those unrest in a very amicable way as soon as possible. If the situation in Dominica continues, the Australian Cricket Team will not come to Dominica. The Australians must be aware of the situation involving the Goodwill Improvement Committee and Government to which they themselves are involved.
Well!Well! have you noticed the people in the fore front of these demonstrations. This is exactly what you all are trying to be done to avoid the Australlians from coming.
Please investigate the whole issue before writing about the improvement at Goodwill. If it is done pandora box will open how it came about.
Helen, you either open Pandora’s box or shut up. Typical DLP supporters, always hiding from the truth.
I hear the money for the field done spent already! Somebody will have to account for it anyway!
them fellas not ready yet for an EFFECTIVE protest
The snowball effect. This prevailing sense of frustration among the Dominivan populace is not being handled at all well by the government. Our ministers cannot understand the frustration of our people…cockiness, arrogance, apathy, the order of their day . It is astounding to me how our politicians sleep at nights….but then their bellies are filled, one can tell by their ever increasing girths, their rides never run out of fuel, all areas of their lives are in tip top condition. Meanwhile poor people continue to struggle. And though this socialist path we are on is clearly unsustainable, we want to persist with it…I see though things may change,.budget will look at job creation…..that’s a good thing . Something has got to give……
Have these workers been doing any productive work? My guess is there is not much to do for a lot of them, yet they report to work anyway. In a case like this, instead of prolonging the misery for everyone, why doesn’t the government pay them, and let them go on to do other things?
I don’t understand this thing about not getting paid when the pay is due. I would have quit a long time ago.
hey lizard who do you see working, those nantans, chis,chines. people with little jobs that turn contractors with multimillion dollar equipment overnight… so we must ask are ourself, are those minister creating jobs for themselves or for public works?. I am certain we have so much holes in goodwill, that alone can keep public works on a payroll.
I think you are missing the point completely. PWD is not being run as most normal businesses, at least not at this point. Most businesses adjust their staffing levels to the amount of work they have. Sometimes management may choose to keep employees on staff through a temporary drought. There is nothing wrong in doing that. That helps with moral and you get to keep some of your experienced staff.
But when you have a structural problem of not enough work to even allow the company to meet payroll, you have to reduce the staff to meet your demand. That does not seem to be happening at PWD. They keep these poor souls on the payroll, some with nothing to do and nobody gets paid. How sustainable is that?
No successful business operates that way. And that is why I do not advocate for governments to be involved in the business of running a business.
STFU you idiot. Have they been productive? You Maniku? Did you ask for the results of Loren Bannis stint; what about Charlie junk; Did you ask to validate jobs for ambrose, Athenia, the Salisbury DOWASCO guy and Alo. These people at Public works have been working for years even before this corrupt administration and now you are suggesting that they be treated like rats. Did you ever witness the red clinic lines. At least these people at Public work had the dignity to stick with it even when they would endure 8 unpaid fortnights.
You Laborites are heartless, cruel and ignorant and this is exactly why these scum bags throw fodder so that foolish Laborites like you rush to eat their junk and drink their kool aid while they sipping henesy
just to know we have a hand to mouth finance minister, he said he doh get de bahm money yet, seems like he forget he spent 33 million an election… now de country broke, they put a tax on fuel secretly so they could pay civil servants and now people starting to suffer financially he disrespecting Dominicans and BIG MOUTH BLACKMOORE in a nonsensical press conference.. Dominique fini bat
Let your voice be heard.
lol, they protesting but de labaar power bag at the front to show skerro where their support is… tell skerro allu want all feeder road projects…