The President of Dominica, His Excellency Charles Savarin, is confident that residents at the Operation Youth Quake can sustain themselves if they learn some traditional skills of farming on sloping land.
His Excellency Savarin was speaking at a presentation ceremony at the State House Conference Centre last week.
In excess of $22,900 was presented to the Director of the Operation Youth Quake, Lennox Abraham, for the construction of two terraces on the 1.2 acres of sloping land behind the building to create more usable land space for planting and to enhance the ambiance of the premises.
Programmes of the Operation Youth Quake are geared at equipping the residents with basic skills such as: reading, writing, farming, cooking and social skills.
“Another cheque of $5,434.55 and will go towards the development of the farm itself to revamp the production of fruits, vegetables, provision, chicken and other small stock thus providing fresh vegetables for the use of the residents and for sale where possible as well as training in proper small scale farming for the residents,” he said.
The Operation Youth Quake is one such organization which receives ground provision, fruits, meat and fish from the yearly Christmas donations of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and the Ministry of Social Services.
I have heard that song before , So Mr. President! sing me another song.
Charles, what does it feel like to play father Christmas with other people’s money? You haven’t changed a bit, have you.
Mr. President ! We are already doing all we can to grow all that we can. Tell us how you are going to use your good office to help us sell our produce to overseas markets. Your talk is cheap, but you have not supported our action after so many years in office.
Great His Excellency President, ” we must go back to the soil for survival thats the way out.” . Then they will be able to feed themselves and others eg Hospital.
Preach it Sir for all to hear, this is the vision for Dominica.
Yes, go tell Skerrit that and tell him stop running about like a blind cat prostituting our passports and resources. Savarin, You should be addressing Parliament or are you scared to openly telling Skerrit as it is.
What a joke our President and Prime Minister is.