Canefield East squatter searches for answers

Gustave is angry the houses are being demolished
Gustave is angry the houses are being demolished

One squatter, who has taken up residence on state land in the Canefield East community is searching for answers after the authorities began demolishing houses in the area.

Government had said that the squatting on the land is “illegal” and had given those guilty of squatting a deadline to leave or face the force the law.

Last week the authorities, accompanied by the police and with the help of prisoners, began demolishing houses built by squatters on the land.

But this has not gone down well with squatters who claim they have nowhere else to go.

“I am angry,” Mishna “Snake” Gustave, said in venting his anger and frustration on behalf of those whose houses were being demolished.

He demanded answers as to who actually sent those who were demolishing the houses.

“We want answers as to who sent them to demolish the houses … that cannot be right,” he said.

Claiming that he has ‘influence’, Gustave said it cannot be right to just break down a person’s home.

“You cannot just come see man house and break it down, I have influence … we are not voting for no one,” he said.

One woman wept silently as the watched the houses being taken down.

“I am a mother of eight children, look at the land, I have a heart I am upset about that,” she said.

She stated that one of the houses belongs to a “poor man” who had gone to prison and is now just trying to survive.

“And they are breaking down his house … that is wickedness, ” she said with tears streaming down her face.

See photos below of a family emptying a house before it is demolished.

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112 Comments

  1. Francisco Telemaque
    June 10, 2014

    “Sir over the years I have been reading your many contributions to many Dominican online forums and I get the impression that you are an expert on everything and when professionals take you to task it is a different FT.”

    Are you sure you are not under the sea rather than over sea. Now you are a liar, and a dirty stinking one at that! Name the professionals who took me to “task and it is a different FT.”

    What nonsense are you talking about guy?

    If you think you can debate me, or cause me to turn chicken on any subject, print your name on DNO let us know who you are, and maybe I will consider paying some attention to you, until then if your decide to remain an earth worm crawling on your belly, as worms with no spinal column does; just remain a dumb stupid fictitious idiot, and do not pick on me!

    Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque

  2. Anthony Ismael
    June 7, 2014

    Some of the comments on this thread is frightening. We all know that these squatters have no rights to crown land. However, what’s the alternative for them? Where’s the Red Cross when you need them? Poor as they might be, they are our brothers and sisters. They are human beings too.

  3. nope
    June 6, 2014

    If you can work hard to pay for your own property then say praise god. Few people just do not have the means to do so. Instead of breaking down their little shacks all the way up in the heights of canefield east on land probably nobody else will ever use, give them the opportunity to own it and pay whatever little they can. ONLY COLD HEARTED PEOPLE COULD DO WHAT IS BEING DONE TO THESE POOR FOLKS OR EVEN CONDONE IT.

  4. Bad DA
    June 6, 2014

    y all of us that there commenting government shouldn’t do pple that, open our homes to those who lost theirs. All Dominicans can do is complain complain complain and do nothing about something. which one of you will to take the lady and her 8 children, give the pple a piece of land from the many archers you own. you all would do the same if you met them squatting on your land but because is the government that do it is a prob.

  5. Overseas observer
    June 5, 2014

    Hey DA folks I have been reading your comments on this squatting issue and the majority of u guys gives me the impression that it would be okay if I came over there and set up my house on land that I did not acquired the legal way, Am I correct in getting that impression? Because the way things are going in my country I might just have to migrate and u make this seems as though this would be the perfect solution, but I always knew that wrong is wrong ,you cannot start wrong and expect to end right. Just basic knowledge from elementary.

  6. neutral
    June 5, 2014

    From what I understand by reading the previous comments and looking at the situation in D/a, we are missing the whole point. For those who believe that the squatters are wrong then they should continue to campaign so the Government remove all squatters on all government land island-wide because in calibishie there are many. Is it ok for those in calibishie to stay on land that does not belong to them and those in canefield to leave? something isn’t right.

  7. hmmmm
    June 5, 2014

    Only in Dominica can someone go on someone else’s property and call it theirs….bold and out of place. Adding insult to injury, they still want to be vex. If you all want land then buy like the other hard working people of this country. It is unfair and ridiculous for some to just ‘take up residence’ on land that does not belong to them. And the squatters in Canefield east were warned. Notices were put on air and off air. They should just deal with the consequences of their wrong decision and go buy a piece of land so this does not have to be repeated….

  8. cheap talk
    June 5, 2014

    How many of the people crying Government wicked have extra/spare land?
    How many of them as christian are willing to give a “squatter” a piece?
    Government land is our land and we not willing for some people to just go and grab it.
    Is our land? well Go and trespass on the land that some of those squatters grab from you and see how fast they will chap you!

  9. foreign view
    June 5, 2014

    At least the government could have a designated area of land for them to go. No government should ever treat their people like that. Its cruel and heartless and shows they are just in it for power and not to help the country’s’ development.

    • bold speaker
      June 5, 2014

      i guess if it was in the country side of dominica he would leave them there but because is Canfield where they maybe has plans of selling for thier best of people so the do want poor people there . any way is that dominicans want labour so is that they will get

  10. Keeping It Real
    June 5, 2014

    To all who are reading these comments here on DNO let us all put a few things seriously into perspective and let us come to some clear societal principles.

    1. Who and what is a squatter and let us take a closer look into that individual(s) life.

    A male squatter is a poor person by choice!!! Most male squatters never completed primary school, can hardly compromise in any discussion, may have a skill but thinks he is god’s gift to any governing administration by making plenty children with many different women and that the sate through its various agencies , ministries , and the tax payers in general must support his children through the welfare division, education trust fund, school levers education grant, and free transportation to and from school. A typical male squatter knows how to manipulate the BIBLE very well for his own benefits thus creating a guilt trip on the rest of society and ignores totally the same bible writings that clearly states : bu thy sweat of thy brow thou shall eat bread!!!

    A male squatter will spend money lavishly on rum, fry chicken , drugs, prepaid cell phone and having sex with women for a fee.

    A male squatter is the type of man that is prepared to do anything for a politician – the type that can emerge as a don man and have specific constituencies under duress.

    The presence of any male squatter in any part of Dominica that is being shielded by any politician – government or opposition is a tangible sign that seeds of corruption has been sown and shoots of that corruption plant is beginning to emerge under the pretense of helping the less fortunate.

    What follows from there onwards is drugs, promiscuity, under ground red light clubs, bling-bling, expensive vehicles parked next to poorly built houses, loud music every-day and frequent murders.

    Should Canefield East become the metropolis for squatters? Should residents who have played by the rules of society – purchase their lands , build their houses and take 30 years to repay suddenly give-up their rights to a decent living environment?

    Almost 45 percent of Dominica’s National Budget goes directly towards squatters – housing, lands, education, roads, electricity, water, garbage disposal, playing fields, health care, funeral expenses, travel overseas, welfare, housing revolution, etc and squatters hardly make a dent in terms of paying taxes.

    • Francisco Telemaque
      June 5, 2014

      “A male squatter is a poor person by choice!!! Most male squatters never completed primary school, can hardly compromise in any discussion”

      Wrong, pure baloney!

      Somebody must have paid you to talk such nonsense, you see Dominica is a place where there are people, born and raised, obtained an education, and died, never had the opportunity to work one day in their life on the island in gainful employment. Every illiterate person I remember in Dominica try to find hope on the agricultural plantation, and even at that could not produce enough to survive.

      Guy for years the only employment in Dominica could only be found in the civil Service. When one graduated high school, or in what then was Seventh Standard, in Elementary School known today as grade Seven. If you came from a family with “popular name” you might become a nurse, teacher, police officer, a fireman, or in general in other areas of the civil service.

      Other than that, during the colonial days you might be lucky to find employment on a few estates on the island doing hard labor. Do not make it appear as if Dominica has ever been a place where employment was ever easy to find, it is even worst now that “Green Gold” ( the banana industry has collapsed). Don’t make it appear as though Dominica is such a prosperous place, with lots of opportunity’s and people do not want to work.

      And as for this here: “Most male squatters never completed primary school, can hardly compromise in any discussion” that is the is biggest bit of nonsense I ever heard. That is an insult to the intelligence of the nation on a whole, you are either inebriated, or mad, delusional or something. You are not a normal person in an right frame of mind!

      Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque

      • Over Seas
        June 5, 2014

        I am reading this Telemaque’s Gentleman response and quite frankly his contribution lacks substance.

        Sir over the years I have been reading your many contributions to many Dominican online forums and I get the impression that you are an expert on everything and when professionals take you to task it is a different FT.

      • Karl Marx
        June 5, 2014

        you are right Francisco… she is delusional!

        Plenty high school, college and university grads but no work, is either they stay here or is Antigua or Gwada, even back door?
        All I know is that squatters are poor people children that are very ambitious.

        I concur that its a creature of politicians for they themselves to breed on.

    • Anonymous
      June 7, 2014

      Well said .

  11. Francisco Telemaque
    June 5, 2014

    The reason the government is brutalizing, and kicking these people around, breaking down their shacks is because some government minister want the land to share between him, and his family, and friends!

    Funny thing is that some of the brutalized, and displaced residence are still going to run out and vote for the same government that kicked them around like a dog you know. Actions like that I detest, and hope that the nation would turnout in the streets, and protest such actions.

    Squatters of any kind are one of the same; how come in the Portsmouth area, after some government ministers ran off their mouth; talking big, they finally became cool as a cucumber, and practically gave the land away to the squatters. What is happing here is unfair, and such unfairness could trigger a riot!

    Now I did not suggest a riot, but in a case like this people need to fight for their tights; and the only way a people can fight a government is to engage in civil disobedience.

    When the now sitting so called dunce president wanted to kick Patrick John out of power, he created civil disobedience which lasted forty days and forty nights, killing and destroying human and country, the time might be appropriate for some civil disobedience, without a riot, perhaps a general strike would serve the purpose, but first it must be organize; no one need to agree wit me eh; but that is only my opinion!

    Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque

    • true
      June 5, 2014

      yes something need to be done….

    • M.J. W
      June 6, 2014

      Francisco, I always tell you that you are a thinking man and your comments are sensible. This is why I am shocked that you are stating that squarters have rights where it relates to Government lands. Francisco you know that this is untrue. Squarters have no right to Government lands not even by Adverse possession no matter the amount of years that they remain on the land. All the Governemnt had to do was to give Notice, which they did and the squarters should have made arrangements for ulternate accomodation.

      My well read friend come on…politics aside you know this to be true. (-:

  12. Tweety
    June 5, 2014

    Some of allu comments make me sick. I 10000000% agree with the government. You know if feels to get your salary and see half of it go to bank to pay mortage just so you can have whats yours and be comfortable. the rest of us struggling everyday working hard to get whats ours and others have to just believe i can get it for free!?? I don’t care what the situation it has was to go about acquiring land. I’m from canefield and i fed up with whats happening. Those of you that commenting negatively if it was your land and you found out someone was squatting on it I know some of you all would run them out without thinking twice, so don’t come and blame the government for following the law and doing whats right. Wrong is wrong. They need to get out! plain and simple.

  13. REALNISS
    June 5, 2014

    ALOT OF YUU people laughing out loud due to the fact that others are now made to suffer….God don’t like ugly….these people did not go onto private property and squat…they went onto Government land…which to my knowledge is STILL CONSIDERED TO BE OUR GOVERNMENT, OUR COUNTRY…so therefore it is by right OUR LAND just the same……the only thing i will say to those squatters is that, y’all should have been more UNITED… not divided amongst yourselves…the OLD WESTSIDE would NEVER had allowed this to happen…..they would have needed a contingency plan…MORE SOLDIERS or police etc from venezuela or wherever to had come and tear down anything…now the sad thing about it…it’s every other innocent person out there’s property that will be attacked now…ABDUL is right ! y’all should not have made it so EASY for them….the people in PORSSY still squatting though !?!?!

  14. LOOKING IN
    June 5, 2014

    It is very sad when people don’t understand the laws of the land. There is a process that everyone need to go through to build. (1) Certificate of Title, for the land (2) A building plan, (3) a contractor who can give you the proper building codes. They had none…… and some body is feeling sorry, if that the case let them rebuild in your back yard simple.

  15. Victim of squatters
    June 5, 2014

    It’s really sad that after spending money building the house, it’s being demolished. However, squatting is illegal, you cant claim/take what you dont own, it’s called stealing. That’s a nasty habit with these squatters, they take the land and when you come back for it, they want to give you more stress than necessary. Honestly, i wouldnt give then an alternative or anything like that because more will come doing the same thing and expect the same assistance. That’s what happens. Remember the last set of squatters in canefield? They squat, they remove them and put them somewhere else, or just let them by the land and others do the same thing, expecting the same treatment even with people’s personal property.

  16. Out of State
    June 5, 2014

    I’m a bit late, however i think that the government is right for evicting the squatters. It is state own land and it not right to voleh or try to claim something that doesn’t belong to you. Crime is crime. A mother of 8,9,10 children can’t go to Whitchurch and voleh sugar just because she have none home and have children to feed. Wrong is wrong do matter how significant the wrong is. Also, i think the government should not have demolished the people houses, get a truck and just relocate them. They might have worked hard to build their little homes.. alas man. If the government had to send them Pont Casse, I don’t care but they would still have a roof over their heads.

  17. hmmmm
    June 5, 2014

    I read alot of the comments. And people keeping saying why did these people go there. I admit they were wrong. I have a friend who went squatting there and he swears that it was a certain minister who sent him there with the promise that he would later get that land cheap. Once that word got out the rest was history.

    So while these people may be wrong but equally to blame is the one who gave the unoffical go ahead and started this mess.

  18. HIDREN
    June 5, 2014

    one word #HEARTBREAKING :( :( :( :( tEaRs…….

  19. Delvin Castro
    June 5, 2014

    This is the kind of Government I have been supporting and defending all those years.This is it how can you take some one who has spent their life saving on a house and you the government want to break it down without giving them an alternative location.Dominicans enough is enough

  20. maindesk
    June 5, 2014

    Oh all of you christians answer this. Would Jesus have said go and demolished the homes of people regardless of their wrong or right. Provision should have been made for them before the action was taken or they should have been stopped when the houses were being built, After you allow them to build then you go in and destroy their lives

  21. hmmmmmmmmmmm
    June 5, 2014

    My take on this is
    1. Did Skerrit ask them to go and stay on government land?? i don’t think so…. There are housing schemes around the island that people are given authorization to leave there so i would think that before you go and stay somewhere you would ensure that it is the right thing to do
    2. LAdy with 8 children….. ammmmm this isnt 1998 where 20.00 could give u a whole cart of groceries.. economic is tight that barely feeding u for 5 hurs much less for three…
    3. I belive what can be done is the persons occupying that lnd should evacuate as asked and take it up with Mr reginald Austrie who is minister for lands and see what can be done to have this issue resolved

  22. SiangUK
    June 5, 2014

    Where were these people living, before they appeared out of thin air onto Government land. :?: 8-O

    So because they appeared out of thin air, it is Government fault. :-x

  23. William Mc Lawrence
    June 4, 2014

    While I understand that squatting is illegal, in my opinion squatting on State Lands is a necessary evil, especially by the landless you want to provide shelter for their families. Why destroy poor people’s home when the Government could simply regularize them. These people simply want a place to stay why destroy the foundation they are trying to create for themselves and their families thus making them poorer than they were before… remember, GOD is not a sleeping… he who forces his brother man into suffering will himself meet the same fate or worse in the future… My opinion is rather than destroy the people’s home they should simply regularize them or relocate them but to make them homeless by destroying their homes is similar to arson…shame on those who would do this to their brotherman… :wink:

  24. bomboclat
    June 4, 2014

    All you Dominicans just dangerous! When that issue started you guys were making noise oh where the government, no law constitution, something must be done. Now something is done all of a sudden tables turning. God have to deal with all you Dominicans because all you two-tongued, dangerous and bad mind.

  25. hiker
    June 4, 2014

    Vote Skerritt! He cares!
    Law is law for the poor man but for Isidore we can always twist it and even send SSU to guard the court and barricade de bayfront.

    labour ka travais!!!!!!!!!!!!

  26. Positive vibes
    June 4, 2014

    My boy say he not voting for nobody…..but that’s if he even registered to vote. Boy what a calamity

  27. Anonymous
    June 4, 2014

    5

  28. one in a million
    June 4, 2014

    Why would they take the chance and build on a land that don’t belong to them? Hmmmmm……..Let’s see they thought Skerro, Reggie and the rest were “warm-hearted” people that would not find a problem with them staying there. Guess they were proven wrong. The red shoes gave them a kick instead.

    • LOOKING IN
      June 5, 2014

      My point exactly……… they would not do it on private land part towetee Dominicans have. They were inform to stop building because of confusion among neighbors for boundaries. The land belong to the Government let them develop the place then you will buy a lot. How I wish some of these people would move to another country for a year especially the USA, they would get a rude awaking.

  29. truth
    June 4, 2014

    this is campeign stratigy,
    watch that,,,
    Skeritt is good at breaking your two good foot ,and come back and give you a bitchee to walk with ,and tell you to vote for him because he help you

    Isnt that what he did to the farmers?,The bus drivers ,The vendors<THE fishermen,THe police ,The civil servants?etc
    WATCH<
    JUST WATCH

  30. June 4, 2014

    :lol: labor ka twavie that what they say its really working////////////// :cry:

  31. June 4, 2014

    :lol: labor ka twavie that what they say its really working///////////////

  32. Wosh
    June 4, 2014

    Baby machine that there man

  33. Anonymous
    June 4, 2014

    You have influence where? You are not registered to vote and cannot get registered to vote in Canefield. Try and register and you will find out what day it is on election day. All of us watching out for all of all you names.

    All you thought it was a good time. D woman that say she have 8 children is from Marigot and DNO our research shows is only 2 kids she has with her up there in Canefield .

    • overseas 1
      June 4, 2014

      so because she has ONLY has two children ” up there with her” she doesn’t need a roof over her head, they could have just let the people pay for the pieces of land at least

      • June 4, 2014

        she could go back to marigot ask eddison or get the land like every other follow the process. stop having more babies than you can afford

    • Anonymous
      June 5, 2014

      so u implyin marigot only got UWP rites? not cos she is frm marigot means she she or any1else should be treated like dat

    • VIP
      June 5, 2014

      So you going to….take away his right to vote on election day? is that what you saying?

  34. karla
    June 4, 2014

    strickly wickedness;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; sherrit u hiding please stop spending money on on election and help my dominican brothers and sisters this is strictly onfair ;juss the other day all u grant dem illegal hations a chance and let dem stay because the plead and say dey sorry for overstaying which made no sense to me , i feel so sad for dem squatters im begging u help dem skerrit those are the ones who need real help :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

  35. AdultED
    June 4, 2014

    This story has no place on DNO and it is very sad the kind of negative press that some media outlet engage in. This is a simple matter of people who were removed for illegally squatting on government land after they refuse to do so when it was made clear to them that they are in violation of the law of the country and must vacant the premises forthwith! What answers is needed? Enforce the law and people have the audacity to complain! Everyone should just build on government land and claim they have no where to go or no money! What happens next? DNO this is irresponsible reporting as it only encourages people to violate the laws of the country for what ever reasons they see fit!

    • Jayson
      June 4, 2014

      Don’t you think that the inconsistency in government policy is news worthy?

    • Anonymous
      June 4, 2014

      Where did Government get land, thats why i like how a guy puts it we are all government, there is just heads of government. The land belongs Dominicans if the heads of government needs the land for developement for the same people they moving from the land then they should have an alternative place for these people.

    • opionated
      June 4, 2014

      @Adulted… are you serious??????? this is news and it does belong here!!!!
      you appear to be quite dense!!!

    • wicked ppl
      June 4, 2014

      you think it’s irrelevant because it brings shame on labour party thats why, anyone with a heart would see pass that, the country tight, these ppl cant afford like you, your government not providing other means so be thankful for what you have and stop down press a man!!!

  36. dafriend
    June 4, 2014

    You are searching for answers? Well try this one, had you not built on land that does not belong to you, you would not have to watch the building being demolished now. Right or wrong? Many Dominicans appear to have a problem of understanding as to what belongs to them and what belongs to someone else. This Squatting has to stop. It is not right!

  37. Isles
    June 4, 2014

    It may not look right what is being done to these people and i can sympathize with the families losing there homes, but it is illegal and the government has every right to take action. there is a right and legal way to acquire land from the government.

    • Anonymous
      June 4, 2014

      tell them that again

  38. Diedra
    June 4, 2014

    ahh ..afford the people a little human decency. Yes what they did was wrong but why put photos of them online for all to see, sneer, and laugh at. tsk tsk tsk

  39. justice
    June 4, 2014

    I feel sorry for the people but the same way Mr. Gustave find it is not right to just see someone house and break it down is the same way it is not right to just come and claim property that is not yours. So I do not know why some people act surprised as this happened.I cannot work hard to pay for what I want while some taking it for free.

  40. looking
    June 4, 2014

    The problem there is favoritism and nepotism. You can give one “set”. If you give one you give all. If there were a hundred people were squatting that would be another matter. It just shows that the intention is not to help people but to muster support and ultimately votes. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.

    • one in a million
      June 4, 2014

      So true…. Dominica is who know who that getting help

  41. oh
    June 4, 2014

    The Government has land all about, give them a place before u break down….at least it can be still done..

    • %
      June 4, 2014

      I FULLY AGREE!

  42. What a Disaster
    June 4, 2014

    These people could have been placed in a shelter until a spot is made availablet o them under specified conditions.
    Gov’t should also have put in some people to have weekly educational clases and bible studies with them. Skerrit could hire his vocal allies like doubting thomas, fast n idiotic, nominations committee, bomboclat, original oberver, grandbay girl, simply the truth and clones to do just that.

  43. sensefromnonsense
    June 4, 2014

    I fully understand the concept of squatting is illegal but dat dam government is so frigging heartless and all of u supporting the govt on dat move are idiots as well all of u dummies.i mean I don’t wanna be rude to anybody but it’s heart breaking come on who does dat.dats our people skerrit u just gonna leave the kids in the cold huh.after u lose the election and is no longer prime minister I’ll have some magic words for u don’t worry.u in ure mansion so to hell with those people, before I go crazy with my comments I’ll stop.

  44. Faceup
    June 4, 2014

    Who feels it knows it my brother, feel you bro… now you have to sleep on the street or on somebodys floor…does Skerro have Social Workers or the Red Cross in place to give you the help you need? i guess not, so you are on the street with no help… SKERRIT SAYS TAKE YOUR EIGHT CHILDREN WITH YOU AND SLEEP ON THE STREETS JUST LEAVE GOVERNMENT LAND ALONE… EBEE look it.. LABOUR MUST GO..

    • start
      June 5, 2014

      A indication of an uncaring government. It may be wrong to squat but there are ways to do things and at least recommend homeless shelters the squatters can go to until they can figure out what to do next. God needs to come for these governments not just Dominica but everywhere. And the people need to WAKE UP! And Fast!

  45. A Mother
    June 4, 2014

    In the first place who gave them permisssion to be there. These people are to damn bold. Why did’t they go to tarish pit and gutter to quat, why canefield east. Those people who feel sorry for them give them a piece of your property.

    • wicked ppl
      June 4, 2014

      if you were smart, you would think if you are in that situation means you dont have no where else to go but try and make something of yourself and to have a roof over your head, ligel or not, he didnt kill anyone, the land is not in use, skerro and dem could at least provide him with options not just put these family on the streets, i dont care who you are but thats heartless

  46. grell
    June 4, 2014

    These people are human beings not stray dogs ,yet Skerro haning out a check of half a million dollars to the catholic church,am smh,Dominica has a price to pay,too much land and you demolish these poor people home.

    • hmmmmmmmmmmm
      June 5, 2014

      Had the people acquire the lands legally and taken the right step do u think that they would be in that situation???????????
      i don’t think soooo

  47. canfeild lady
    June 4, 2014

    mishna , i personally i am happy you are on the road for all the bad things you did in life… if is one house that should be totally destroyed is yours… go and repent for all your crimes dca and st lucia … god dont sleep .. take it like a man and what influence you have oh please , get off the government land boss .

  48. CH5
    June 4, 2014

    “We want answers as to who sent them to demolish the houses … that cannot be right,” – What is not right sir, is you building a house a on land which you did not pay for. While I understand the unfortunate situation you are now in, the point is the law is the law. And squatting is illegal – plain and simple.

  49. SWEETO
    June 4, 2014

    what are you all forcing about eh skerrit know how to make all you people look like fools. The man breaking down the houses in pretence because election is on the way and he needs some extra votes. He is certainly going to get them somewhere to stay wait and you all will see. election tatics tactics is on the way. a bait was set for the UWP and they go for it, getting rid of the easy door. One of their main member wee again. all you must get the facts right and then act. everything was based on hear say. Now what is happening Skerrit laughing them and he fixing his party. zor telma sort. let me see where is the other bait going to be set.

  50. str8 up
    June 4, 2014

    where allu was before allu go there??????? so all of a sudden allu dont have anywhere to go???… everyday i see ppl struggling to save up some money to EARN some land and allu just want to come and take and still be vex about it? and im suppose to feel sorry?, allu didnt pay for land neither materials… get out is get out.. simple… the only mistake the government made was approving the distribution of materials and not confirming where these individuals were gonna build.. simple..

    • wounded lion
      June 4, 2014

      Hope one day u never reach in a desperate situation.
      yes there are rules, laws regulation whatever you want to call it but come on laws rules can be bent a little to help a situation

    • overseas 1
      June 4, 2014

      I glad you know they didn’t pay for the materials, before it was given to them, those giving should have looked into where the materials will go, and I think that those who took the materials were told it was ok to place the materials there :-?

  51. New jersey
    June 4, 2014

    Oh my God I feel so sorry for these people especially those with children i am not condoning the fact that people should just squartt on Government Land especially if permission was or is not granted to them BUT couldn’t Government find other alternatives to help them out this is so sad

    • rosebud
      June 4, 2014

      When adults decide to have children, they MUST PLAN for them. They should know these children need clothing, food, shelter and most of all love. These people needed to ensure that like the rest of us, “guaiye” to buy, lease, rent or take a loan to build a place we could afford to live. Some people only finish paying the loan they take from a bank or credit union long after they retire. Some work, or pay their taxes and have to pay for both the land and the house. These people live a free life, do not pay any taxes squat freely on government land and go scott free? They know it was illegal to squat, they were warned and given time to leave. They should LEAVE. Those of us who pay our taxes even before we get salaries get NOTHING FEE. These squatters must obey the law and stop being a nuisance to the country. They should have made better decisions in the first place. Just going and building a house on land that is NOT YOURS is not the right thing. You want something, you pay for it, ask for it, loan it, not take it.

  52. nonesense
    June 4, 2014

    But what rubbish I reading there nuh? Why is the term squatting in quotation marks? Squatting IS illegal plain and simple. The man cannot be vex, he buy land? He own land? He pay for land? Is not yours and you still making noise when the owner come for it? No sah! That one is too much for me.

    So you telling me if I pay my long money, mortgage my soul and buy a piece of land and one day come and meet a man on my property I going to feel bad and tell him ‘no scene my padna, check your scene ‘? Hell no! They even give you notice wii! Aye aye!

    You know what I would tell him? ‘YOU cannot just come and see man land and take it…You have influence, but I have the title deed!’

  53. abdul
    June 4, 2014

    They say badness out of style boss i’d demolish someone if it was i. There is a saying “no servant of Allah should ever fail to fight back if his homeland is attacked” They would have to take me down before they take the house down. And i would not go without a blood bath.

    • Oh
      June 4, 2014

      Very unwelcome comment about bloodbath

    • str8 up
      June 4, 2014

      @abdul …u are obviously a very ignorant and stupid person to be talkin about bloodbath…
      u wear ur dunce hat very well abdul

    • tomato burst poof
      June 4, 2014

      i don’t know why DNO post that crap

    • rosebud
      June 4, 2014

      You should NOT mention Allah in your nonsense. The same Allah however you call Him said “give unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to Allah the things that are Allah’s” What belongs to the state belongs to the STATE, not to any individual citizen. This is why when individuals want or need things that are NOT theirs, they borrow it, from the owner or pay for it. If they do not have money to pay they save and pay when they have enough or negotiate for a loan. So please make some sense.

    • June 4, 2014

      Are you in the MIDDLE EAST?

  54. love
    June 4, 2014

    it good for them, they had warn them

    • possie
      June 4, 2014

      U are not in the people place god is looking a the words u write go pray ask God to forgive u and to always put your self in people’s place

  55. interpol
    June 4, 2014

    Is this the new housing revolution…. i soory for poor people
    ah mag way sa po ki gov vel manh ka fait yoh sa …

    • man
      June 4, 2014

      shut it
      go the legal way
      the method is illigal and the court gave the go ahead so shut it
      nuisance

    • rosebud
      June 4, 2014

      You know very well that the new housing revolution is well planned, organized and managed. You must be listening to the news and travelling around your country or parts of it and can see for yourself what is taking place. People who are genuinely need help ask for that sort of help. Why couldn’t these squatters do the same? Do they have more right to Dominica than the rest of us? They have broken the law, they must suffer the consequences.

    • %
      June 4, 2014

      @interpol I LIKE THAT COMMENT. Don’t worry, the Labour Party House is also being broken down, and no Housing revolution will save it.

  56. June 4, 2014

    Awe this is heartbreaking!

  57. justice
    June 4, 2014

    You all had no authority to build there in the first place. Learn to respect the laws of the land

    • what a joke boy
      June 4, 2014

      Is skerrit obeying the laws of the land eh? he is the one who instigated that when he said to the people of that country “NO CONSTITUTION, NO LAW” all you forgetting that? all you brains is stewed in RED OIL? lOOK AT WHO IS GETTING ALL THE MONEY. ZOR K SAV

      • antedote for fools
        June 4, 2014

        BS

      • ah ha
        June 4, 2014

        seriously dude? That is your best response? Would like to hear UWP’s approach to this situation. Who should I appease? The genuine land owners (probably still paying off loans) whose property value is decreasing due to squatting or the squatters (who paid CASH money!) who built their homes on property not belonging to them?

        What really would be an amicable solution?

  58. no more
    June 4, 2014

    That the government u guys vote in do better domincans

  59. observer
    June 4, 2014

    Looking at this makes me sad. Where did these poor people get the material to build the houses? Did someone in authority gave them the permission then now afraid to speak because the PM is against it? I think something could be worked out. Work out something lent the people rent the land, until the time for other use comes up. I know that seems like kicking the ball down the road, but at least that would give them some time to catch themselves. To these people that is a great great loss – just trying to put myself in their place.

    • Anti-squatters
      June 4, 2014

      What makes you think these people are POOR??? These people are taxi drivers, people who drive Rav4 and CRVs. You must look at their necks and fingers to see all the god they wearing… This certainly does not sum up to being POOR!!!! Do your investigations before you comment!!

  60. Anonymous
    June 4, 2014

    While I empathize with the squatters, it is not right to say that you have no where to go and simply decide to take over government or any persons land. There are rules and procedures. Squatters should apply like everyone else to squat on state land. Compounding it further, when asked to vacate, they refuse.
    Come on, this is not right!
    That said, it would be nice if the government could identify somewhere that they could sell/rent to own or what ever to the displaced individuals.
    Hope there can be a positive outcome to all this.

    • vagabond
      June 4, 2014

      Imagine living in a reputable community and a vagabond jus come dere and set up shop. More vagabonds to come and patronize. By d time u chek ureself vagabond put u out. Way papa. Jus imagine. No discrimination, jus analogy.
      Besides, its not fair to the people who are now indebted to a bank for the rest of their lives. Put ureself in their shoes.

  61. cohenval
    June 4, 2014

    The Labour government should have given them a toilet and then break down the house. But leave the toilet.

  62. Question
    June 4, 2014

    They wrong to be squatting on land that does not belong to them. Get all the squatters out. No preference for who should go, all should go.

    • June 5, 2014

      “They wrong to be squatting on land that don’t belong to them” If the land was theirs, they would not be called,SQUATTERS. :twisted:

  63. cartoon charactor
    June 4, 2014

    This is heart breaking to see.

    • rosebud
      June 4, 2014

      Is it not heartbreaking to know that many hardworking Dominicans young and not so young have to take loans at different lending institutions AT HIGH INTEREST RATES to purchase land AND build houses for themselves and family? Is it not heartbreaking to know that some of these very people have to live under constant pressure to survive while others can walk up a hillside CHOOSE A PIECE OF DOMINICA and build a house? Think about this.

      • dafriend
        June 4, 2014

        Spot on, rosebud. The old thing in Dominica: me, me, me…

  64. warrington
    June 4, 2014

    I LIKE IT i really like it. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

    • rescue 911
      June 4, 2014

      You’re laughing at your self.where’s your heart

    • SMH
      June 4, 2014

      This is beyond ridiculous….Tell me, why is it so urgent that they need the land right away. That persons home are being demolished.

  65. pinky
    June 4, 2014

    there is a right way of doing things. if you need land to built persue it the right way. do just take as if is your nenen, uncle or pawe that live land for you all.

    • June 4, 2014

      Agreed. I hope the same applies to the people farming other people’s land like it belong to them.

  66. forkit
    June 4, 2014

    lets sing a hurricane in English, is de same hand that put them there will take them out..

    government create a culture of dependency and lawlessness , now they have to call, soldiers and prisoners to deal WITH POOR PEOPLE THAT WANT A PLACE TO REST….

    WHO DOH HEAR WILL FEEL. TAKE DEM OUT!!!

  67. June 4, 2014

    Smh. I guess they rather see people on than streets. Instead of finding a different solution.

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