PM decries possible expulsion of Haitians from Dominican Republic

 Haitians protest while waiting to register in the so-called "regularization" program in Santo Domingo on June 17, 2015. Photo credit: Reuters

Haitians protest while waiting to register in the so-called “regularization” program in Santo Domingo on June 17, 2015. Photo credit: Reuters

Calling it “unbecoming” and a “human rights issue,” Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has raised his voice in decrying a decision taken by the Dominican Republic (DR) to deport people of Haitian roots back to Haiti.

In 2013, the Constitutional Court of the DR rendered hundreds of thousands of Dominicanos of Haitian descent stateless by ruling that people born in the country would no longer be automatically granted citizenship. The law was enacted to reach as far back as 1929.

Over 200,000 people are at risk of being deported to Haiti, a place where they have never been to or lived in. They are not considered citizens of that country, either.

A deadline was given for all to be regularized. However, only a small number of eligible residents have been able to meet the documentation requirements before it passed.

The Prime Minister said the actions of the DR must be condemned.

“I believe that we, as citizens of the world, must be cognizant of these issues and to raise our voice in condemnation. That it is unbecoming of any society to render these thousands of people stateless,” Skerrit said at a press conference on Tuesday at the Ministry of Finance conference room.

He described the matter as a ‘human rights issue.’

“We believe and we maintain that this is a human rights issue,” he stressed. “What has happened is that you have people of Haitian descent who were born in the Dominican Republic, who by a decision of the Supreme Court, denied them, stripped them of their right to citizenship in the Dominican Republic.”

He noted that the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) had received a commitment from the DR authorities that they had taken action to regularize those citizens.

“But the time frame which they gave and the onerous request which they were making of the applicants, made it virtually impossible for the vast majority of those citizens to apply for their citizenship,” he lamented.

The Prime Minister said these people do not have an address in Haiti, or family links, “because some of them have been there for so many years…”

Meantime Skerrit is flipping the coin on the DR asking “what if” the United States of America does the same thing to them and strip Dominincanos of their green cards or citizenship and send them back home.

“Or what if that happens to Dominicans anywhere in the world? So we have to speak out on those issues and there is a saying that goes we should negotiate words but we should never negotiate principles,” he stated.

He said a commitment was given by the Dominican Republic at an EU CELAC meeting in Brussels which “is totally contrary to what is happening this week.”

He called on leaders of CARICOM to take an “even stronger position on this matter” at their next meeting in Barbados.

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96 Comments

  1. June 25, 2015

    Why are so backward, uninformed and plain ignorant in so many subject matters. We debase any discussion into politics. I hope and pray that the coming generation will be more educated and informed concerning current affairs internationally. I ask myself this question are we in Dominca really as ignorant as we portray ourselves, rather proudly I may add or is it just that we are so dishonest that we know what the truth is, but we choose to ignore it. Instead we display our sheer political biasness and display the highest form of ignorance and disingenuous.

  2. UDOHREADYET
    June 25, 2015

    Haitians should in turn deport all people from Dominican republic, close their embassy in DR, close the DR embassy in Haiti, deport all DR people in Haiti, order the confiscation of all DR owned businesses and banks in Haiti. Build all their sewage facilities & garbage dumps & ghettos on the border with DR & declare all monies owed to DR null & void due to the human cost of labor lost to DR from the Haitian descendants that lost their citizenship. all in all its Haitians that put Haitians where they are.

  3. Francisco Telemaque
    June 24, 2015

    @Francisco Telemaque June 23, 2015

    Stop showing your condition of madness to the world–have you not seen enough warning to you from DNO audience? By now we all know what is wrong with you.

    Well, Elizabeth, I called you mad many times, and since it takes one to know the other, just maybe; I might be as crazy as you are. And if I am crazy I caught my madness from you the times when you took me into the twilight zone with you okay!

    Maybe I am crazy, but you are as mad as mad people comes! You see what you get for messing with me: Can’t you understand you are fired?

    • June 25, 2015

      Stuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuupid!

      • June 25, 2015

        That sentiment above is part of your habits of lying, by which I identify that disgusting attribute in you. You are so desperate for recognition–which you will never receive; you will step on anyone with your dirty feet–whether in your path or not; I say go on with that beat through your drum of “darkness and death”

      • Francisco Telemaque
        June 27, 2015

        All I have to say is you are still in the twilight zone believe I am still there with you. Francisco left that zone a long time ago, and I am out of there, left you with a huge smile on your face, you little yellow woman!

        Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahah!

        Your dreams shall never become reality again as long as you keep writing all your bad things about the Kid, in any event you can curse me and say I lie as much as you that does not touch a single muscle in me, you knows the truth, and that’s all that matters to me.

        Now call Skerrit and Petter, and beg for that job you had when you were twelve years old. How come you never deny, nor accept you told me at age twelve you were this big time school master ( you know like the principal). That is why you failed all of your teachers test oui!

        Let me see if you can defend against this.

  4. well well well
    June 24, 2015

    PM why dont you look at your backyard first…..are you aware of the many Haitians who only recently arrived on island, yet are holders of DA passports??????? Are you aware that while Mr. Nassif cries of ‘paro’ in town not appealing for tourism, there are a number of Haitians (or should I say Dominicans since they are holders of our passport), seeking refuge under the Roseau bridge?????? Have you not seen them standing aimless along the side walks just after leaving the bridge, when entering the city???? Have you spoken to them, to find out how they came to be there??????

    Well they have informed, they have just recently arrived on island, WITH THEIR DOMINICAN PASSPORTS, but having no jobs or homes have taken to living under the Roseau bridge. SO PM, here it is for you…….try attend to your backyard garden first.

    • June 24, 2015

      How did they get in possession of Dominica Passport I’m working and living here in Tortola for ten years and can’t even get residence status much less to get a passport they fortunate

  5. Gabby
    June 24, 2015

    It is very good that he publicly condemned it, yes, but it is sad how empy the gesture feels when there are so many blatant abuses of power in our own island.

    Still, as the writer from the Dominican Republic, Junot Diaz, said, disasters (be they in Haiti or elsewhere) show us the truth, the inequalities, the stuggles, the corruption, the dark and the light, and all of these debacles–be they in the DR or the other Dominica–will reveal much in time. How we respond to all of these things, wherever we are in the globe, is the true test of what gestures are empty or full of meaning.

  6. Tampa
    June 24, 2015

    Mr. Skerrit, I do agree with you on the situation in the DR, but I would like you to confirm or deny what I am hearing about our passports. Mr. Skerrit is it true that Range Development has been given authority to sell 800 Dominican passports at a total value of $480 million? Please clear the air on this for the sake of transparency.

  7. alas
    June 24, 2015

    De PM is always so calculated with his open display of ‘compassion’ for Haitians like a knight in shining armor. On de other hand when an honest non-laborite (i did not say anti-laborite) seeks to do same locally to highlight genuine concerns of community and nation building de self same PM takes it as an attack against his person. At the time denying and ignoring the genuine complaint of ‘the community’ affected.
    De feeder roads in SSalisbury, needs attention
    De community has been clamouring about that for years.
    De PM refused to meet with and dialogue…..not even de elected parliamentary representative.
    What gives
    Like a quarter or a dollar with de Queen face on one side…..flip de coin and it’s blank
    No ship to set sail
    No monetary signature to show value !
    Skerrit….all ah we nah fool.
    FIGHT AT HOME BEFORE AND WHILE YOU FIGHT ABROAD!!!!!!

  8. Business Minded
    June 24, 2015

    Brother Telemaque, no matter what you may think about the PM, he is still the leader of our country. No matter what you may think about who voted for him, there still are many Dominicans who voted for him. I think you are totally out of order; you are rude and disrespectful in your approach against the PM.

    The issue at hand is the solidarity with our brothers in Haiti who are facing an apartheid like system, one for which you show no disdain because you are so focused on attacking PM Skerrit. Living in a foreign country like you, I do not support the diaspora’s influencing the outcome of Dominica’s election but that is part of our politics in which both parties have participated.

    But there comes a time when we have to show restraint and unify as a people against a common foe: and the Dominican Republic represents that to all black people. All I can do is to ask you to unite with the PM on this one, just like the Republicans did with Obama to pass the recent trade bill.

    • June 24, 2015

      “All I can do is to ask you to unite with the PM” @Business Minded June 24, 2015

      A person who is not united with his or her “inner-self” cannot unite with the outer-self.

      That man is showing to us that he is critically disunited with self within him; he has no “peace”–that is what he is searching for; desperately in need of attention and recognition; but that demon of his mind will not let it be; the worse part is that he will not acknowledge this.

      And so every time he writes or speaks, he makes things much worse for himself. That fallibility of his–all in all– is not only demonstrated through his sentiments pertaining to our PM, he reveals that weakness, frailty, and imperfection, through his writings to everyone and about everything!

      • Busness Minded
        June 24, 2015

        Very beautiful Lizavier4jesus. You conveniently left out “on this one” from the sentence you quote; this is so obvious it is embarrassing to highlight it. That, Lizavier4jesus, can be perceived as intellectual fraud, slanted with a degree of dishonesty- which usually is devoid of spiritual integrity. How different are you from the very same personality about which you are complaining? The cycle seems to never end.

      • Francisco Telemaque
        June 27, 2015

        “Lizavier4jesus, can be perceived as intellectual fraud, slanted with a degree of dishonesty- which usually is devoid of spiritual integrity.”

        I suppose you are familiar with “pick the mote out of your eye before you pick the mote out of my eye!”

        If jump on the bandwagon and agree that you Elizabeth is a fraud, as you do when someone stick something nasty in my face, you would not be happy at all!

        I will not jump on the bandwagon, but the kid is not going to defend and fight for this time.

        What goes around, comes around eh! How does it feels to be called a fraud?

    • June 25, 2015

      @Business Minded June 24, 2015

      What are you saying here–to tell you the truth; you are not making any sense. The sentence which I used to sate my point is from your post–therefore you are embarrassment–sorry!

      • Business Minded
        June 26, 2015

        Lizavier4jesus:

        There is a fundamental difference between a phrase and a sentence. Like all wise politicians, you selected a phrase which does not express the complete thought, rather than the sentence which would then express a complete thought. Do you see the sense now. I am sorry I did not explain to you in detail.

    • Francisco Telemaque
      June 25, 2015

      ” I think you are totally out of order; you are rude and disrespectful in your approach against the PM.”

      When you say I am rude and disrespectful, how do you define that? Are you suggesting because I am man enough, bold enough; and stand on my two feet to confront, or lets say critique Skerrit, and his failure to produce, I am disrespectful.

      The majority of you who are supporting Skerrit, are full of low self esteem, you have no ambition, you sit and revere Skerrit looking fro the next handout from him. If I did not know how to work, and channel my resources in a way where I do not have to depend on a politician to feed me maybe you would appreciate I am like the rest of you.

      I have no reason to support Skerrit at this time though I once did. In my book the man has failed me you and all of Dominica. I will never revere him. He is only Skerrit, and not my god!

      • The Real Facts
        June 25, 2015

        Francisco, your rating has immensely dropped. Your words and insults are unbecoming. This is how bad your comments have become. They project that something is wrong with you mentally.
        I realize it is not a competition and no one receives prizes for the best writing. Nevertheless, you will have to do something good to elevate your rating.
        Be kind to your fellow people. Yes! Speak the truth but avoid too much unwanted and uncalled for negativity and criticisms. People do get fed-up of reading them. Some may not read them at all but only scan through them. Others will bypass them and only give you thumbs down.
        You are in dire need of the blessing and grace of God to also generate and propagate love, happiness and peace.

      • Business Minded
        June 26, 2015

        I am not disagreeing with you about the state of affairs in the country. I am not saying the country is in the best shape. Like you, I am not living in DA…………. and I would never ever go home to vote and leave the consequences for the local Dominicans while I enjoy this life in the diaspora: Hopefully soon that will change. But you simply cannot be that disrespectful on DNO to bring your point across. You should not attack and insult people to bring your point across as you have continuously done. How can you bring Labourites to UWP if you continuously alienate and push them away?

      • Francisco Telemaque
        June 27, 2015

        “Francisco, your rating has immensely dropped. Your words and insults are unbecoming. This is how bad your comments have become. They project that something is wrong with you mentally.”

        Well, madam Facts Machine; if that is your opinion of me; I say more power to you, however, there is nothing you can say or do that will cause me to return my support to that Mountain Chicken mentality Roosevelt Skerrit.

        The man is an idiot, the man cannot function, every and any body from Barbados to St. Vincent, and Antigua has made a damn fool out of that boy.

        Adore him if you wish, King Francisco, the master; this kid adores only Jesus Christ, and his father Jehovah, puppets like who wish Skerrit will give you something are relentless supporting that clown; when you come to your senses and realize you helped him to destroy Dominica, you will hold and morn like a cow!

        Moooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

  9. king
    June 24, 2015

    great job pm! you are an example to the caribbean and wider world in the way u speaks against issues that confront us. u stand up even when it doesn’t immediately affect us. keep up the good work and soon many will be motivated to follow.

  10. grell
    June 24, 2015

    Human Rights SKerrit and you ordered tear gas on the people of SALISBURY,GET IT TOGETHER DUDE.

  11. June 24, 2015

    cont.
    Many of them are not poor.Some have great property but their table have turned upside down and they are forced to flee to Europe for rescue.It can happen anywhere in many different forms and fashion.An example,after hurricane David in Dominica.If you were too young or had not been born as yet,ask about it.
    Many of us who was of age and witnessed it are still around,on Island as well as off Island.
    God bless.

  12. June 24, 2015

    cont.
    God works in mysterious ways.Today it’s the Haitians,tomorrow it might be them.I do not know why they’re doing that too the poor Haitians.They probable see themselves a notch or two above the Haitians,and that’s by their standards.However by the standards of an advance nation they are considered just as poor.
    The way the world is going-on before our very eyes.I do not know why people would keep behaving in such inhuman ways.Look at the folks in the middle east and some parts of Africa.Running for their lives.

  13. June 24, 2015

    Mr. PM I said what you’re now saying some months ago when I first heard the story.I believe that, I first heard about it sometime last year.I’m in total agreement with what you’re saying and would like to add a little something.I believe that the very citizens of the Dominican Republic should cry it down.Since sometime ago a handful of Republicans in the U.S house of representative wanted to put forward a bill stating the identical thing as what the D.R. authority is trying to do too the Haitians.And if one is following U.S politics,the Republicans are forever beating up on the spanish, in general.They were saying the same thing,folks who have their kids born in the U.S and is undocumented,the children should not be granted citizenship,they should be rounded up, child,mother,father and everyone be deported.Well off cuss it was cried down by a good many Democrats and civil rights groups,including some churches.

  14. Racketeering in DA. No worry
    June 23, 2015

    How much more suffering and discrimination must the Haitian people go through?
    Although Haiti is the 1st. Black Nation to liberate themselves from chattel slavery, defeating the mighty Napoleon and his”invincible French Army’.

    Since that heroic feat, the people have been paying a high price. The Western countries, colonial powers, have sought to impoverish, cripple Haiti.

    Decades of dictatorship with Papa and then Baby Doc. Tonton Macoutes had the population under heavy manners. Disappearances, beatings of political opponents killings, jail,. Living was hell under those dictators.

    As if all that wasn’t enough, earthquake devastated the country.

    Haitians have been facing serious problems. as regards, what Skerritt called RACKETEERING with visas in DA A few greedy, inhumane people in Dominica, in co with greedy, immoral Haitians have been making hugh sums of money from the p[light of the suffering Haitians. Yet Skerritt refuses investigations…

  15. Francisco Telemaque
    June 23, 2015

    Roosevelt, here is a human right violation!

    You allow your China trained parasites, to use force on the people of Salisbury because they stood up to you for their human rights!

    Because they ask for the right to have proper roads leading to their farms which will allow them access with ease; you decided to punish them when they protest, the inhumane way in which you treated them is a human rights violation

    You violated their human rights, when the expired tear gas was used on the people, and when they shoot up the homes of old women and children in the village; that was unbecoming, and a violation of human rights. An international warrant should be issued for your arrest. You should be taken to the world court where you should stand trial for the attempted massacre of the people of Salisbury!

    People who have glass windows should not throw stones!

    • Bernard C. Cuffy
      June 24, 2015

      This has nothing to do with the unsettling situation that occurred in Salisbury. One is an apple, the other an orange.

      • Titiwi
        June 25, 2015

        They both are to be eaten, right Bernard?

      • Francisco Telemaque
        June 27, 2015

        Bernard; human rights are freedom from unlawful imprisonment torture, and execution, and is regarded as belonging fundamentally to all persons.

        Let me elaborate on that: If you were the victim of police brutality, discrimination, or have had other constitutionally protected rights violated, as what we saw in Salisbury, that constitutes human rights violations.

        Other examples of situations where there may be civil right issues include, hate crimes, and other violations against human rights. So to claim that what happened in Salisbury, and that in the Dominican Republic are different, you are simply maintaining a double standard as is so common in Dominica!

        Everybody else is wrong except those so called stupid politicians, and their supports in Dominica.

        If we saw police brutality in Salisbury, that constitute human rights violation.

    • Ralph Joseph
      June 24, 2015

      Dear Francisco, I was going about my daily routine to obtain bread to feed my family. On arriving in Salisbury I met the highway blocked, but that was not all. Suddenly I was under siege, an angry mob threw deadly missiles including rocks and Molotov cocktails at me and my vehicle. I barely managed to survive. I never did the people of Salisbury any harm yet they tried to kill me. If this is the justice that you Francisco is demanding for Dominicans then this goes to show that you are indeed a mad man. The constitution gives us rights, but not the rights to try to kill your peaceful neighbours. The constitution does not give rights to block highways, to throw missiles and explosive cocktail at peaceful people, to make people run in fear for their lives, to prevent people from going to work, to prevent students from attending school. If you say that the people of Salisbury were right then I can rationally conclude that you hate Dominica and Dominicans.

      • Francisco Telemaque
        June 24, 2015

        Ok; personally I could not avoid your experience, and maybe you were not aware of the protest taking place at that hour of the day; I am sure if you knew, intelligence would have told you to avoid that path. You were simply a victim, or simply, collateral damage.

        Because you were caught in the incident does not mean the people had no right to demonstrate. In a democracy people have the right to protest, and demonstrate against the government when they are not doing what is right; the same as people has the right to demonstrate against their employer, when they are violated, even striking until they get an increase in pay!

        However if the idea is people should not protest Skerrit’s government, because he is Skerrit that makes no sense, if he is doing what is right there would be no need for a protest, and for the one who said in the D-Republic its different that is correct, because it is an immigration problem, and not mere victimization of people!

    • Anonymous
      June 24, 2015

      There is a consistent flow of madness coming from this Fransisco person. The story is about Hatians born in the Dominican Republic, who should really be addressed as Dominicans and he fails to make the connection. It is the executives of the AMERICAN companies who imposed this subtle form of slavery on the victims of both the companies and the abusive Government over-there who should stand trial. He has further demonstrated a lack of understanding of how this Country, Commonwealth of Dominica, is run. Some of our laws are available at the Government website I hope he can demonstrate how smart he is by reading from them.

      • June 24, 2015

        “Demonstrate how smart he is by reading from them” @Anonymous June 24, 2015

        Did you say “demonstrate how smart he is”? There is nothing smart about this man. I have noticed it time again, that he cannot read more than the first lines of anything–no matter how short the contents Much more for an “Official Document” with tens of pages.

        This man is in an immediate need for mental healing–those who are giving him the thumbs up rating are not doing him a favor.

      • Francisco Telemaque
        June 24, 2015

        It is not this Francisco person; I have my identity: I am Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque born in on Hunt Road, in the village of Wesley, to a mother by the name of Yvonne Dods married and became Robin. My father is the late Hector Isaac Telemaque my late grandmothers are Cecil Linton, and Margarita Alfred, married and became Peters, and Etinoffe respectively.

        Who are you? An anonymous is absolutely a nobody, nothing! Insects, and rodents are identified by their spices, you have no identity, because you are a nobody you are a rat!

        Have you ever heard of Idi Amin; again say you heard it from me; he expelled more than a million Ugandan born Indians out of Uganda! Don’t call me out, play with foolie Elizabeth! A one time so called friend I fired, no more friendship! talking about how she taught school at age twelve.

        Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah: She lie!

    • UDOHREADYET
      June 25, 2015

      What does Salisbury produce? Does the supposed amount of agricultural products produced by Salisbury add to or contributes to the national GDP? What is the return on investing million of dollars on roads leading to peoples gardens so they can easily reach their dasheen because now they have a vehicle and don’t want to walk to their tiny gardens. that is a bad investment the hector popous john is using his constituents to gain popularity among people who are generally lazy. If he can show the value of investing such a large sum of money into an area then maybe then the government should consider it… but just because you ask for something doesn’t entitle you to it!

  16. silversliver
    June 23, 2015

    I think that it would be very fair, should other countries treat immigrants form the Dominican Republic with the same medicine!! Just saying!!

  17. out of south city
    June 23, 2015

    Although there are certain things that I disagree with the Prime Minister about, we, as black people on a whole, are the most hated and despised on earth because of the colour of our skin. According to Mr. Skerrit, “I believe that we, as citizens of the world, must be cognizant of these issues and to raise our voice in condemnation. That it is unbecoming of any society to render these thousands of people stateless,” Skerrit said at a press conference on Tuesday at the Ministry of Finance conference room.
    When President Obama took office, Libya was the first first country he helped to destroy. Now, these Ethiopians are fleeing to Europe and they are dying in the process. Also, the descended of slaves in America are also despised and hated by most white Americans.
    The thing is, ever since our ancestors were captured and sold, life for us as a people has never been the same. And the saddest thing is, we despise and hate each other as a result of slavery.

    • out of south city
      June 23, 2015

      The class system also exists among us here in Dominica. Many who have a “formal” education despise those who are considered “educated.” Those of us who may have light skin despise those who have more melanin (dark matter) in their skin not knowin that melanin connects us to spirituality and that the African race comes in all different colours.
      We must look at the larger picture at what has been done to our race historically and realise that the other races really do not care about us, even as Michael Jackson sang, “All I want to say is they don’t really care about us.”
      They have given us religion to make us forget the past and we are so gullible that we believe in a book that was written to further lock up our mind so we would not be able to think.
      These Europeans took over continents and killed the original people in the process and also the animals that they depended on for food, clothing and shelter. (Native Americans, Aborigines in Australia, Native Americans in Canada,…

      • out of south city
        June 23, 2015

        We must wake up or else we will perish because some of us do not know our identity. Peter Tosh sang, “Don’t care where you come from, as long as you’re a black man, you are an African.” The thing is, we may run, but we can’t hide. Whether we like it or not, that cannot change. Some of us must practice loving ourselves and when we can do that we will learn to love others.
        The ten percent of the world that control the resources could not have done so without Africa. That’s why many of them have taken up residence and controlling the resources while some of the original Africans are in poverty. Instead of the Africans rising in their own land, Christianity continues to take Africa by storm further enslaving their minds. If Africans were left to themselves, there would not be Europeans on the face of this earth because civilisation began in Africa. We are a formidable force when there is unity. Read your history, my people, and understand what’s going on.

        NO APOLOGIES

  18. IMJustSaying
    June 23, 2015

    So, PM Skerrit speaks about ‘human rights issue’ regarding the Haitians being deported back to Haiti from DR? 8-O
    I am in solidarity with my brothas and sistas in Haiti and their plight, but Mr Skerrit has a cheek. I mean, what about the ‘human rights issue’ that occurred in Salisbury in May and June 2015? What about the expired tear gas? What about the farmers who cannot access their farm lands? What about the scandal of firing 20 PWC workers due to their political affiliations?
    Mr, as usual, is speaking with a forked tongue, but as usual, nobody of integrity (Matt Peltier I talking to you) will challenge his hyprocricies.

    Dominique fini bat

  19. The Real Facts
    June 23, 2015

    The government of Dominican Republic is heartless. This is an atrocity committed against those Haitians. For God’s sake, they are people; not animals. Treat them with dignity and respect.
    A government as this thinks it is the only one on earth and so are their nationals. This government is trying to decrease the population of D.R.?
    God is taking note. All governments of the world should take a stand against this evil government.
    This government will not escape. Let him think he owns D.R. for that matter. Keep watch and see what will happen if this government refuses to pay heed to other governments of the world and deport the Haitians. A punishment is in the offing. Time will tell.
    I will telephone my Federal MP’s office tomorrow and inquire if anything had been done and is presently being done by the PM and his cabinet about this.
    Canada is no exception. The government has a right to denounce D.R.’s inhumane treatment to the Haitians.

    • Francisco Telemaque
      June 24, 2015

      Facts oui: how come you did not tell Skerrit that the people of Salisbury, Wesley, and Marigot are not animals, they are people too!

      You all need to mind you business, and drop down into your class of misery which Skerrit bind your hearts, mind and soul into. You are all blinded to his vicious and wickedness, you can see into your neighbors front yard, however what is under your bed; you know that break up thing you sleeping on!

      Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!

      Look under there, clean that out first, then dabble into what is no concern of yours; pick the mote out of your own eye first then you can pick the mote out of this Francisco person eye!

  20. Ex DA Law Man
    June 23, 2015

    If they don’t change their mind on this I think the entire Caribbean community should send all Dominican citizens back to DR.They are everywhere.

    • The Real Facts
      June 24, 2015

      Yes, also in Canada. What is more, these governments provide aid to that country. I informed someone in my MP’s office that Canada should sanction the DR. How much money do they have to be able to operate their country?

  21. UserName
    June 23, 2015

    Why are these Racists DRs doing what they do….The Unification of Hispaniola by Haiti which lasted 22 years, from February 9, 1822 to February 27, 1844 hurts! Previously known as the Captaincy General of Santo Domingo, the criollo class within the country overthrew the Spanish crown in 1821 before unifying with Haiti a year later. At the time Haiti had been more economically and militarily powerful and had a population 8 to 10 times larger than the former Spanish colony, having been the richest colony in the western hemisphere before the Haitian Revolution. DR military officers agreed to merge the newly independent nation with Haiti, as they sought for political stability under the Haitian president Jean-Pierre Boyer, and were attracted to Haiti’s wealth and power at the time. As such the DR Independence War gave the Dominican Republic autonomy from Haiti on February 27, 1844 and they vowed never again to be ruled by!!!! I had to literally live it to try and understand it and…

  22. REAL!!!!
    June 23, 2015

    What is going in Dominican Republic is wrong but it going on in our own country under Mr. Skerrit.

    Human right issues right here in DA…..1. stealing from the poor, 2. forcing them to abandon their farm lands, 3. reducing them to beggars at the red clinic 3. brutalizing of farmers by police who stand up for their rights. 4. Use of expired teargas on a community. 5. Making sure who don’t support you can go hungry.

    Stop the inhumane activity against the citizens of Dominican first!!!!!

    • The Real Facts
      June 23, 2015

      You missed the point of this article. Your comment is out of place and has no bearing on this article. Your comment is exaggerated and also untrue. Why did you not stick to the issue?

      • Francisco Telemaque
        June 23, 2015

        Everybody is wrong, and missed the point except that damn uneducated idiot Skerrit, you, Elizabeth, and “laboroflove

      • %
        June 23, 2015

        Real Facts comment by Real is spot on. You seem to be totally subservient to this brutish gang of leaders or you are a wicked soul that supports brutality when it is being delivered upon Dominicans. You dont like my comments,go to hell, according to Skerrit.One day you are a Christlike creature,next day you are a supporter of corrupt activities and lies.Why dont you go to God for repentance.

      • grell
        June 24, 2015

        why is it that fools and scums like you dont want people to voice his or her opinions,Skerrit is a brutal dictator and his demise will come soon.

      • June 24, 2015

        Telemaque I won’t say that everybody misses the point, but most definitely, you always do, as you use those vague and personal evidence to prove your points.

        You may have caused me to fall into that stupidity of yours, with that Israelites and Egypt response to my comment above. I just wish that I had never come into interaction with you; today I would not know you, so that would not matter.

      • REAL!!!!
        June 24, 2015

        Because my brain in free to think and not in chains of oppression like yourself.

        Skerrit has force you to be a mono-thinker therefore you unable to connect the two …..These are both human right issues.

      • The Real Facts
        June 24, 2015

        Telemaque, you have a severe personality problem. It appears to be a crisis. You are one bitter, crude, rude and disrespectful person. When will you learn godly virtues? I hope you were not drinking liquor or some other concoction which marred your sanity and cause you to make such irresponsible comments.
        You are always bringing others down. You are the one who deserve to be debased. You should be ashamed of yourself but without a conscience you would not know that.
        DNO should prohibit your comments, at least, this one.

    • for de people
      June 24, 2015

      read and understand before you post …smh

      • The Real Facts
        June 24, 2015

        I view such comments as an old broken, cracked record which they keep playing over and over again and are boring. They do not realize that such comments serve no useful purpose whatsoever. They are in vain just as they waste their time typing them.

    • Tierry
      June 24, 2015

      People just like to bring in points that have no bearing on a situation. Even if your points are valid, they carry no weight in response to this article.

  23. DC
    June 23, 2015

    The Caribbean should stand as a united force against this cruel act called ethnic cleansing. I am so outraged, that humans are being treated like animals while most of us are busy fighting another brother. Hispaniola is one country, consisting of the DR and Haiti, why do our brothers and sisters have to endure so much just to attain their physiological needs? We must all boycott the DR, until our brothers and sisters are treated equally. Haiti, I feel your pain! We are with you in your struggles, your cry is not in vain! Hold strong Haiti!

    • The Real Facts
      June 23, 2015

      Have you considered that some of them may be our relatives and we do not know about it?
      Recall how many D/cans went to Dominican Republic and Haiti years ago. A few returned; others passed on but they have relatives and younger ones who reside there and call those two countries their home because they were born there.

      • The Prophet
        June 25, 2015

        If you believe in the bible and creation all humans are our relatives because we all come from Adam and Eve. Even if you believe in evolution we are all related because all mankind comes from Africa. That is the whole point of this argument that we should not consider ourselves different because of race.

      • Francisco Telemaque
        June 25, 2015

        Yea, right!

        Because I am not groveling, and at the feet of Skerrit, singing for my supper like you and Elizabeth, and all you little weasels, you find all the bad things wrong with me, It is not I that is filled with fault, you Facts are the mother of all faults!

        Everything bad you have to say about the kid, you are simply extracting the faults on you and trying to bind them on me.

        And you have the easily manipulated Elizabeth taking her to hell with you looking for Skerrit, the man run away from you two, to hide in because he knows soon both of you will tell him how you want to come home, and want him to give you a job. He might ordained you second bishop in his church that one he put five hundred thousand dollars into. The twelve year old Elizabeth get a job in her village to teach again!

        Elizabeth think I doh know she was fired cause she could not pass any of her teachers test, that is when she escape to Canada oui!

        Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!

    • kubulol
      June 24, 2015

      It’s the same island as you say.
      Now, ask yourself why one half is rich (DR ) and the other half is poor ( Haiti ) !
      And then you’ll understand why DR gets fed up with Haitians

      • The Real Facts
        June 24, 2015

        Read about the history of Haiti and their plight under the dictatorship governments who are now dead and probably dead as a door nail.
        You could probably Google the information.

  24. June 23, 2015

    This is the what the world has come into–a species of what is called human beings –even if they remain in the fashion of God’s Image, their conscience has gone dead and so their mind is, carnal, being ignorant of His Likeness–the attribute of Life, itself

    Again I am saying that, that Likeness or Attribute is of God, in Love and Holiness. God wanted those attributes for mankind not they lower animals, but it seems so much, like the lower animals are doing better than us, human beings–pertaining to sympathy and compassion, of the mind and heart.

    Those men and women of Government and any other kind of Authority do not know or may not be considering the fact “that man is a pilgrim of this Earth and his citizenship is in heaven (Paradise)”.

    But either way, he has failed to understand, that many will have no choice but the take citizenship in Hell–that is another place in Eternity as well–it belong to those who refused to live by the Laws of God.

    • June 23, 2015

      It is hard to comprehend, what kind of conscience can produce that wickedness in the mind of man; while most countries are offering citizenship to outsiders –as long they qualify–that government is sending its citizens to a land that do not belong to them–who can justify that action?

      Jesus spoke of being in a strange country and feeling at home–pertaining to how man should treat his brother, so how can a man take his brother from his homeland and send him into a land that is not his own –what if the government of that land does accept them?

    • Francisco Telemaque
      June 23, 2015

      When you bring God into it, I will hit you, and hit you very hard!

      What is happening in the Dominican Republic is an immigration issue, caused by the Haitians dictators for more than a hundred years. We see the same thing happening to Dominica where there are more of you living in other people’s country than in Dominica.

      God advise “do not go into another country to seek wealth.” Now I know you are a god, but that in the quote is not verbatim to the scripture, nevertheless, when the children of Israel went down into Egypt what happened? They were enslaved for more than four hundred years!

      The Haitians are the people who showed the Americans how to fight Britain to attain their independence, yet they are unable to fight to developed Haiti, hence they are enslaved in a sense wherever the go, even in poor backward Dominica!

      As for Dominica, overthrow Skerrit, and let progress begin under stewardship!

      • June 24, 2015

        @Francisco Telemaque June 23, 2015

        Stop showing your condition of madness to the world–have you not seen enough warning to you from DNO audience? By now we all know what is wrong with you.

        Once again you can have no authority over me pertaining to God and His Word, I am still human with human emotions, but I am anointed by the Power of Holy Spirit–and so I rebuke that stupidity of yours above–in the name of Jesus Christ..

        Now use what we Dominicans call a “maash pillonn” (that is the food pounder in a motta’) and hit that balled head of yours with it, until it spills our that blood of the demons which has possessed you–I could not care less if it kills you–that way you would leave me alone.

      • June 24, 2015

        God advise “do not go into another country to seek wealth–@ Francisco Telemaque

        (1) You are the last person to be using that thing here to prove your point –I will not waste my time to elaborate, in that you are not living in Dominica–the land of your birth.

        (2) You have contradicted yourself; for you are saying that God’s people went against His command –once again you are speaking about things which you may have read or heard but did not understand.

        (3) Only the Father, Jacob and His 11 sons went down to Egypt to survive a time of famine–Egypt was speared because of Joseph’s interpretation of the Kings dream; he was there because the King had made him Emperor–he had the authority to save his family by bringing them into Egypt.

        (4) Hence the Israelites were born in Egypt-but all of this was part of God’s plan; allowing them to multiply and grow there, leaving them in the bondage of slavery, for 400 years, before He would come to their deliverance.

      • June 24, 2015

        In the Bible a Nation is not named after its Land–Israelites ,mean that the first father was “Israel” the name that God gave to Jacob after he wrestled with a man of God, all night, and prevailed.–the ites continued that way and was called a Nation

        Since Ishmael was the son of Abraham, through the Egyptian maid-servant of his wife Sarah–having sent back to Egypt with his mother, when he was still a boy–Ishmael grow up in Egypt but his descendants were known as Ishmaelite’s–they were the ones to whom Joseph’s brothers had sold him, that was how he ended up in Egypt in the first place

        As the son of Abraham, the children of Jacob might have mingled with Ishmaels children–for production and family purpose–I wrote this just in case someone is asking.

      • The Real Facts
        June 24, 2015

        You are not the only person who could hit people hard. Your first sentence appears to be as an extremely angry and godless person. Anyway, we should not be even responding to you, insulting person.
        I can inform you, you are in no position to quote from Holy Scripture and speak about God. It is for those who are godly and respectful. God knows this too!

  25. June 23, 2015

    I am no fan of Mr. Skerrit. I would be the first to oppose anything that he proposes but this time I am echoing the same words. What the government of the Dominican Republic is doing is inhumane and should be condemned not only by CARICOM countries but by the world. I have had my own personal encounter with these racist people of the Dominican Republic. The story is too long to be repeated in this comment but I was appalled when, during a confrontation with a young man from Santo Domingo in New Jersey, a few years ago, pointed to his skin to indicate that he was white and I was black and beneath him. The man was only a shade lighter than I was but to him he was white. The people from the Dominican Republic are very color conscious and the do have a superiority complex. Like the young man told me in New Jersey many years ago, they believe that Haitians of darker complexion are beneath them and therefore they do not belong in their country. The OECS should deport people from DR.

    • moin mem
      June 24, 2015

      I too join you and agree with the PM. There should be a ban on DR too

    • out of south city
      June 24, 2015

      Truedat, did you know hat we, as an African race, are despised by every other race? Nothing surprises me because the damage has been done by the oppressors of African people who have also created perpetual division among us through slavery. The other races may have differences among them but they band together. We have to know what happened to us through history to understand why we behave like that toward each other. I will continue to say it loud that religion has further separated us as a people. When there was no religion and invasion in Africa, it was a great continent.
      During slavery, our forefathers were bought and sold and separation of families took place. Collectively, we are one people called Africans, living throughout the world. We may not want to identify with the Motherland but our race cannot change whether we say, “I am brown, light-skin, dark-skin, black, Mulatto, etc,. We are Africans by descent. The damaged is so inculcated in our minds that we have no sense.

  26. IluvmyPm
    June 23, 2015

    Aye las all u fellas had a Haitian racket with the labour commissioner
    with no arrest machastay

  27. Dear Liza4satan
    June 23, 2015

    D/cans don’t care no more everything is now $ & cents. They will only pay lip service. Skerrit is trying his stunts no even considered psycology skerro.
    The end is near my boy the sad part we might fus & fight only to end up like 79 again the opposition is the only thing left as all former DLM/Black power advocated have either died, gone gay, gotten too old
    to fight, gone commercial being purchased like merchandise want to be on skerro’s pay list even if Chavez dead & China’s economy is plateauing out…Brother betrying brother. all man4 them selves and god 4 us all. Problem is god is dead mamo, pierro, Rosie & am not feeling well either.

    • The Real Facts
      June 23, 2015

      Mortal and spiritual Ignorance is a hell of a thing with someone as you.
      Are you a Christian and a practicing one at that? Surely you should know better by not using Satan’s name. You are glorifying him and keeping him alive in D/ca, in your heart, home and your endeavors. Who wants to mess around with this thing? Are you mad/crazy or what? :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
      You are offending God by using this name. There is a dear price (costly price) to pay for offending God and using his enemy’s name and that of our souls.
      My advice to you is to cease using this name. Simply not use it. Use another suitable name. There are many you could choose from and use.

      • June 24, 2015

        @The Real Facts June 23, 2015

        That person has nothing to do with being a Christian; just like her counterpart, Telemaque, her conscience is dead, and her mind is defiled, producing only darkness, futility, and death–God wants nothing to do with those huamn attributes.

        she is dead to God and Life; she is–a person who is hated everywhere she is on the media. She is thirsty for attention, just like Telemaque–but is too much of a coward to come forward–wherever she uses her real name it is because she has no choice–she most surely cannot use that name on DNO

        There are so many people who are caged in “darkness” but trying to show their fonnie light; thanks to God that there are people like you and me who is able to detect their make believe and lies and to expose them. That is why they don’t like us, but what does it matter?

    • The Real Facts
      June 24, 2015

      You are digging a deep hole for yourself. :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

      • Francisco Telemaque
        June 25, 2015

        Yes, you finally install your five little devil head in your post to eat me!

        But watch out, they will turn on you, and that woman Elizabeth who had so much things to say about what I either read, or heard and did not understand in reference to the Children of Israel. I know she believes that she is a prophet, and has a better translation, and interpretation of the Word of God than any other person alive.

        I do not know how she manage to deduce all she wrote based on a single sentence I wrote without elaborating, but only in reference to a situation. No wonder she thinks she is a god!

        Both you Facts, and Elizabeth are crazy anyway, if I get to Toronto later this summer, I am going to find the asylum in which you two resides. And Elizabeth don’t start looking out for me, and don’t call anybody and ask them if they know where I am. Cause I not sure, I got burnt in the Sun yesterday, going across country my entire body might get burnt!

        And don’t even bother to comment…

      • June 25, 2015

        I just wish that you would stop using my name in your works of fantasy, fiction, futility, and darkness, to make a pappishow of yourself here on DNO–you should be ashamed of this, with so much mockery from the audience.

        But unfortunately you cannot save yourself, with a conscience which is dead in you, and a carnal mind condition which tells you, you know something about Life and God. but too a lie–the thing of death. God is about Life.

  28. Dear Liza4satan
    June 23, 2015

    PM possible expulsion of Haitians from Dominica if this was the case it would be interesting. However Pimps of the Neo DLP would stop supporting the DFP gang od ?????( don’t know how many are in the gang we know the president & the P.M are part of the gang)
    Anyway, if I were Da’s P>M I would crackdown on the prostitutes who are here illegally.Certainly I would have the support of all the wives who recently discovered their new status. which their husbands cannot explain. You and I know many. The number of seperations amongst so call big people lol! is alarming. See how many homes we knew belonged to Mr& Mrs X who now have separated and rented their hotel size houses to Skerrit et Al new friends.Skerrit is now playing new revolutionary standing only apparent not real for something. We know where he sits is not where he stands. Trying hard to divert domestic politics of Salisbury plus the economy. by apprearing to be a regionalist. This is 2015 Skerrit.Tese things worked in the…

    • Dear Liza4satan
      June 23, 2015

      60’s & 70’s

    • The Real Facts
      June 25, 2015

      So Telemaque, this is you? You are the one who used that name? You finally admitted it. Your conscience had to spill it. Why are you doing this? Why use DNO to spew your garbage? Can you not have an intelligent discussion without disrespect and insults? You are one wicked person. :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

  29. fantastic4
    June 23, 2015

    Media reports “He said a commitment that was given by the Dominican Republic at a EU CELAC meeting in Brussels which “is totally contrary to what is happening this week.” how our words and deeds come back to hunt us. PM , Sir, the commitment that was given by you to the Salisbury people is totally contrary to happenings at Salisbury for the past month. hahahaha.

  30. Ma Moses
    June 23, 2015

    Are we any better mr. Skerrit? We let them in but they must pay in cash first and then we smuggle them out again at night to the French islands, human trafficking, against cash payment again, often in dangerous conditions, leaving them to their fate. We must look at ourselves first before accusing others.

  31. Nevevson st jean
    June 23, 2015

    Mark Peltier of Q95 should hamd the award he recieved last week to Kamala jno baptiste .. He allowed Roosevelt Skerritt to make him look stupid by asking dumb questions

    • Tjebe fort
      June 23, 2015

      I agree, I don’t think Kamala is better than Matt but Matt came late and was not prepared. That is what I find with Matt these days, he is getting lazy and not doing his homework.

  32. serious
    June 23, 2015

    send dem here …. ah chooo zorr

  33. Cza
    June 23, 2015

    That’s so wrong what they are doing to them people. What goes around comes around. PM stand your ground and speak but don’t try to play hero at this time. lets fix our problems we got DA first and then give a helping hand.

    • positive
      June 23, 2015

      hi would like to give this comment a big thumbs up, that sounds like someone who care about Dominica,acknowleging the pm but stil shhowering concern abt lacal issues..great job…

    • positive
      June 23, 2015

      hi would like to give this comment a big thumbs up, that sounds like someone who care about Dominica and is neutral

    • The Real Facts
      June 23, 2015

      Giving compliment which is deserved. Now, this is a sensible comment pertaining to the issue of this article.
      However, we are the world and the children of the world. The PM has a right just as you to denounce what the government of the Dominican Republic is doing to the Haitians. We must stand up and speak out, especially every government of the world.

  34. Tjebe fort
    June 23, 2015

    Brother, don’t put your nose into other country’s affairs. Concentrate instead on solving your own problems at home first. The Haitian people are suffering but so are your own people in Dominica. Help them first.

    • The Real Facts
      June 23, 2015

      Your advice is a bad one which should never be heeded, adopted and practiced. It is an ungodly one; not Christian-like. It is like seeing your neighbor’s house on fire and you state, who cares? Let it burn as you watch it burn with satisfaction. There are more examples I could state. Never give bad advice for one day you will reap just what you sow and two-fold be it in a different manner.

    • Tierry
      June 24, 2015

      We all have problems in all walks of life no matter how ‘good’ we have it. That is a selfish perspective to only look at your own issues and ignore your neighbour. That is what is wrong with the world today. We should strive for self improvement while aiding those around us in need. Can you even try to comprehend what these people are going through? I guess not since you are so focused on what is going on in your world. When you are going through a trial, if everyone around you turns their back on you because they have their own issues, maybe then you will realize how important to lift thy neighbour.

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