Improved communication between parliaments of China, Dominica
Original script provided by Tarnia Green, GIS - Thursday, July 5th, 2012 at 10:48 AM
Some members of the visiting Chinese delegation
Communication between the parliaments of Dominica and the People’s Republic of China is expected to improve through a donation of computer equipment and stationery items by a visiting Chinese delegation.
A symbolic presentation of a laptop computer was made to Speaker of the house Alix Boyd Knights during an official visit to Dominica’s Parliament on Tuesday by the Chinese team led by Chen Changzhi, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of China’s National People’s Congress.
“The National People’s Congress of China values its relationship with the House of Assembly of Dominica and we stand ready to work with Dominica to strengthen the links and communication between us,” Chen said pointing out that Parliament to Parliament exchange is an important part of overall relations between Dominica and China.
He said the exchange will promote understanding of both peoples and the growth of friendly relations. He is hopeful that the computer equipment will serve to further strengthen communication links between both countries.
“As a token of friendship of the National People’s Congress towards the House of Assembly in Dominica I will help you with a supply of office stationery to improve the working conditions of your house of assembly,” Chen added.
Boyd Knights accepted the gifts and said they will be put to good use.
The 25-member Chinese delegation is on a three-nation “good will” tour which includes Dominica, Grenada and the United States.
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And what is Dominica learning about the Parliament of China? This is a joke. Pretty soon they will stipulate that only Chinese is spoke in parliament. And if they want to be generous why not donate 100′s of laptops to schools? We’ve never had that level of utter disrespect from the Taiwanese. Wake up Dominicans.
Chinese in hospital, chinese in port business, chinese in everything, now chinese in PARLIAMENT? Dominican elected officials are forced out of parliament by d ole speakah and we have chinese roaming even excited about laptop? Laptop so damn cheap in this day and age, you mean to tell me all the money that going out of treasury we have to be licking chinese feet for compromised laptop. WHAT IS IN THE MOU? but our people will stay and play politics. They can visit USA till the sky run red, one thing I know for a fact they can’t sit on the house floor nor monitor what US government doing so openly. Bondieu you mean those lazy enviege we have as elected officials don’t know the meaning of diplomacy, national security and guest house for visitors? What can a surpressive regime offer to our politics in parliament?
These people have Skerrit wrapped around their little finger.
25 chines deligation visited dominica and when the pm going china he travel alone. look like we not keeping our end of the mou.
This relationship continues to make me uneasy. What do they want in return? What? Dominicans not asking that?! NOTHING is FREE! NOTHING! I am worried about my children’s future.
We keep forgetting is a communist country we dealing with that has no regard for people’s freedom and civil liberties Just saying. Smh….
‘I fear the Greeks when they come bearing gifts.” Remember the story of the Greeks giving the gift of the Trojan horse?
Dominicans PLEASE WAKE UP FROM YOUR SLUMBER!!
for the sake of my children and grand children mesieurs GET MISTER OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
da is finished is so all u come/ no class.massa day not done you idiots.god help you all.
Ni hao ! i Huan ying Hon Chen Changzhi
Now, one may think I am being anti-Chinese (which I am not) or politically partisan (which I am sometimes) but come on- just last month the Chinese made a donation of hundreds of computers to Guyana and now they are donating a single laptop to the Speaker of our parliament worth $400.00 USD as a token of friendship of the National People’s Congress towards the House of Assembly in Dominica? Well at least this better than two bottles of Bois Bande rum and they will help supply office stationery to improve the working conditions of our house of assembly. Yes, Ma Knight will find a way to put that to good use to the extent that it can help to make the life of the opposition in her house uncomfortable.
All I wish to say is that since we signed the USD 117 million MOU in March 2004, China has not provided funding for any major productive, employment creating, sustainable development project. China does not want to teach us to fish or provide us with the tools to be a proud and independent people. They are content to having us worship them in praise and gratitude all the time for their gifts.
If China really wants to help us, they need to provide more concessionary loans or grant funding in developing our agricultural and manufacturing and agro-processing sectors.
If China is really interested in increasing communication between the parliaments of Dominica and the People’s Republic of China and promoting understanding of both peoples then China needs to open up the internet in China and allow its young people to surf the internet without government interference so that the young Chinese could read how disgusted people around the world are becoming of the conduct of the Chinese government worldwide.
It China really and truly values its relationship with the House of Assembly and people of Dominica, it should persuade the PM to release the contents of the secretive MOU and stand ready to work with Dominica to strengthen our democracy and economy. Well, please allow me to dream of- China helping to build our democracy and breaking the code of secrecy!
But seriously, China can do more to help promote better understanding of both peoples and the growth of friendly relations by providing funds for start up of small businesses in Dominica by donating $1 million to the NDFD-just as it provides Chinese in Dominica concessionary funding to establish business around the world to boost Chinese exports of goods, services, people and culture.
Ni hao
and so the chinese parliament is born… thanks mrs. knight, RMS and all those who contributed to recolonizing our beautiful home…. WITH GRATITUDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
my people if you throw a frog in hot water it will jump out….
but if u put it in warm water and gradually turn up the heat. It will stay there and BOIL…
who will ride through the night sounding the alarm that they have landed?????? It will all be too late.
False. Frogs have a certain temperature threshold, when that is reached they will find a way out. If the frog didn’t jump out it was because it couldn’t. This is a fallacious argument that was proven false on many occasions.
boy that is some scary $£IT
with all this the government is proving absolutely no employment for Dominicans particularly the youth. and it is obvious that this is why so many have no choice but to resort to selling drugs and robbery.
A laptop!?! Stationery items?! Gifts for our Parliament? What is becoming of Dominica? This is humilating for us.
That computer should be diagnosed for any potential spyware.
Should be diagnosed…lol
We have reached the bottom of stupidity
Most likely if it has spyware or any malware, We wouldn’t have any professional coder in dominica to find it. They will just monitor the country stock market and the retards will think is all fun and games.
There is no doubt that the Chinese have made serious contributions to the development (especially infrastructure) of Dominica; and for that Dominicans should be forever grateful.
However I am very suspicious of that latest contribution there. Who is to say that these computers are not bugged and the Chinese will be spying on everything that is input them? Some of the state’s top secret legislative transactions that will be input into these computers. It is in the Chinese’ interest to know what is going on legislatively in Dominica since many of their citizens live and work here.
Mark my words, these are some set-up computers. Replace the hard drives and don’t use them anywhere aroung the legislative interest of the country.
These super power guys play this game all the time.
I second that. In the interest of National security. Don’t use this for sensitive information and then connect to the internet.
Parliament business is public so what is your fear??
If these computers were given to us by the USA would you have that same fear??
Have no fear my friend the chinese mean well and we accept their gifts of friendship!!!!
You would accept it from the devil himself,traitor.
The Chinese know everything what Dominicans are thinking because we just ready to jump on our power boxes and dirty both countries name on the internet. If they become suspicious is because Dominicans are not diplomatic in their thinking.
We are too negative, go and plant our ground and export food. y’all are too lazy.
its a shame that a Speake of a House will accept a Laptop computer as a gift from a country like China , This is so embarassing a laptop and stationery not even that we can afford for our House of Assembly. This is a Dman shame
You are so right! China really thinks we are beggars and, as the saying goes, begggars are not choosers.
I just a laptop and back to school supplies for my siblings. If i know the HOuse of Assembly needed a laptop, i could have gotten them one too.. ALAS…
yeah you so correct
China, Why not give the laptops to your underpaid workers making 2.50$ a day? ohh ya, that will not benefit you in anyway.
So you saying they should not give us the laptop??
Well it is okay we accept them already, the underpaid workers will have to fend for themselves…….
Boy i wouldn’t even log in on facebook with that laptop. Much less use it for business, Most you can do on that is let your children use it to play GAME.
this is a party to party relationship and nothing to do with Parliament. Skerrit is demonstrating that the labour party has subscribed to the policies and practices of a one party state as evidenced by his statement at the Labour Party Convention in St Joseph where he said that all statutory board appointees, and all other party members owed the labour party as it was because of the party that they are who they are and have reached where they have and they must recognise that is where they get their milk and their cheese. So loyalty to the party is paramount and unless you show that loyalty you should not expect to be rewarded… the lesson is that if you do not belong to the party you should not expect to be appointed to any boards or reap other rewards.
**CALL ME SKEPTICAL OR PARANOID***
Though we appreciate the help of the Chinese…..
I just think they are getting a little TOO INVOLVED in our everyday life!! Something is a little fishy!!
Don’t be surprise in the next 20 years or so we will be colonized economically by the Chinese. We are becoming TOO DEPENDENT on them!!
We are not helping our selves enough.Instead we are having the Chinese do & give us everything.
I’m I the only one who is wondering about this?
no u r not d only one in 20 yrs we will b like Tibet
Maybe you are too political
these Chinese are not to be trusted…AND THEY SHOULD BE SENT BACK AS SOON AS SKERRIT IS KICKED OUT!!!
NO. I too share your sentiments and concern.
No you’re not the only one. I think the sentiment of Dominicans is one of appreciation to the Chinese but also one of concern that we are kept in the dark about so many things. I travel a lot and see the involvement of the Chinese gov’t in other countries; this disturbs me.
@Trueman my eight year old daughter asked me the same thing on her way to school. She said the palace, stadium & school nice but what can we say is ours?
Good to see other Dominicans opening their eyes i hope alot more will do the same.
Maybe the communication link is for them to take orders from the chinese Govt.
@Morihei Ueshiba
You should have informed your daughter that when you buy her a dress or a laptop she must take good care of it because although it is free to her it costed you money..
And not because you gave it to her that it is not hers it is hers so she must take GOOD care of it!!
Stop involving all you children in Politics, that was a dumb question based purely on what she keep hearing you say!!!!!
Morihei Ueshiba, you did not say how you responded to your daughter, who clearly, needed some guidance from her adult parent. I hope that you seized the opportunity to educate her, as Correction suggested to you.
To do otherwise would be to play your part in perpetuating ignorance and a lack of education and culture in our population.
@ boy my people really have NO PRIDE eh boy…..smh
a chinese will bring their child to dominica and show how they build bridge and state palace. and all kinds…. but…..boy i cannot even go on with that…
ok correction, sell the place… we will find somewhere else to live.
OK you are SKEPTICAL AND PARANOID!!!!!
It will be sooner than you think.
How a Communist Parliament with no opposition going to communicate better with a Democratic government with a Parliamentary Opposition?
Can you see the picture?
Yeah that is some funny stuff …I would like to know that too
Oh Dominicans wake up – THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A FREE LUNCH! What price will we pay for all of this “freeness”. Did the speaker of the house have the laptop checked by her IT people – are we being monitored? We need more transparency with our dealings with China. Keep in mind the Chinese are not builders – they pillage. How else will they feed their population of 2 billion people? WAKE UP DOMINICANS!!!
Fed Up — I wish I could give you the thumbs up 1000 times, you are 100% correct with EVERTYTHING you said. I would like to add there is no such thing as “good will” in the global market, they want something and they will get it if your government keeps acting like a young and uneducated child by accepting these so called “gifts”. WAKE UP Dominica before you are owned.
Implying that the U.S. is not already monitoring any and all government communication from the caribbean.
well..well..well..here it is !!we are in a full fleged communist marriage with china.boss Dominica is a souvrein state and matters of dominica’s house of assembly should be for and in the interest of dominicans alone.who is china that we should communicate with on that level!Dominicans should protest against that move,cause.we are just paving the way for communist china to take over whats left of dominica and its civil liberties..
Thank you very much! I am sure that we will make maximum use of the gift, as we have with many other gifts from the Chinese people.
I hasten to add though, that it is about time that we take our link with the Chinese to another level. We must continue the infrastructural growth of the island and we must continue to train Dominicans. However, China as a powerful “developing country” can help us grow in another “soft” (as opposed to hardware) area. Why don’t we create a joint China – Dominican Development Institute in Dominica where we study and promulgate alternative development strategies for Dominican and the rest of the developing world, at least those in this hemisphere? This institute would have immense benefits for the island…
1. A ready source of employment for the intelligentsia,
2. Another source of training and education for our students (both Dominicans and wider Caribbean)
3. A locally-based source of data on development issues,
4. A locally-based world-class research center for work in domains such as rural development, alternative models to the neo-liberal project, etc,
5. the evolution of the Dominica brand as a destination for academics and scholars,
6. An increased inflow of foreign exchange through visiting scholars and/or conference participants, etc.
The “hard” gifts are important, but we can also pursue the “soft” ones simultaneously, as we have been doing with the university training. We must, we should, embrace our relationship with the Chinese in a more strategic and less immediate/short-temp perspective.
I see some very good points here so why are these UWP fanatics against some very plausible suggestion ?
Is DNO now becoming a playground for Q95 and its UWP nonsense
So I suppose- what is said on DBS and Kairifm is all truth and not nonesense. Peeping Tom, Prof Wikileaks and others are not fanatics of another kind. Let all views contend my friend. I for one respect the views of everyone including those who do not agree with me. DNO is a very good medium where all views shall contend.
To be sure, Twitter, these “UWP fanatics” are against anything that is good for Dominica, especially if it happens under the watch of the DLP, at least, publicly. So, you never pay attention to them.
That is why I respect you Peeping Tom. I agree with you. We need to raise this relationship to a more productive next level. I give 100 thumbs up to your excellent contribution.
All your points are valid.But I think the last part of your contribution is worth reiterating.
“The “hard” gifts are important, but we can also pursue the “soft” ones simultaneously, as we have been doing with the university training. We must, we should, embrace our relationship with the Chinese in a more strategic and less immediate/short-temp perspective.”
Well said Peeping. Keep inspiring us
Well, thank you, my fellow blogger, ROSEAU VALLEY.
Now, as for the Kairi and DBS comment, no media institutions has a monopoly on truth and lies an facts. This is why i will not even touch this topic with regards to them. However, it must be said that only ONE radio station in Dominica allows callers to essentially denigrate and pilfer unsubstantiated claims with immunity, especially when these claims are made against the DLP administration or party. Come on, we are not going to split hairs on this, are we? This is a well-established fact. A simple survey of the news teams and talk shows on the three main radio stations on island will suffice.
NEO-LIBERAL PROJECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BOY!!!!!!!!!! so that was really IT all along…
I say that eh boss, Dominican’s better watchout!!
the lid of the pressure cooker just went on… soon it will be back to the shadows for people like me…..
Man something is really wrong with dominica if such a well layed out, positive and productive comment can get so many thumbs down. jah
While we have participatory democracy in Dominica its interesting to read thet China is willing to work with the House of assembly in Dominica. My question is what is the level of interest is it to derail our democracy? or to assist the speaker to muzzle the official opposition?
It’s time to sound the alarm. I hope you have notified the Grenadians and Americans.
The Grenadians and Americans are not as dumb, that represents your trend of thought
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