Several Dominicans have been expressing outrage over the sale of imitation guns on Christmas Eve by several Chinese stores.
Police made it clear that the sale of these fake guns is illegal and a zero tolerance policy would be taken this year. In fact the country’s top cop said that his men would be on patrol to ensure that guns are not sold or purchased.
But exactly how these guns entered the hands of children and some adults is still being questions by authorities and angry parents whose children had purchased them.
“I went into a Chinese store down the road and they took me into a store room where I saw the guns. When I came and ask for a gun the man told me come inside. I followed him all the way at the back of the store and there they were. Guns of all shapes and sizes. I picked one with a deadly laser. That laser powerful. I paid him $70 and he said, ‘when police ask you where you get gun no call Chinese name’. He wrapped in black plastics and I headed home,” one man explained to Dominica News Online.
Another parent said she had filed a police report about a disturbing incident relating to the sale of one of these guns to her underage son.
“My son came home with a gun that almost looked real. When I asked him where he got it he told me is in a Chinese store. I smashed it. He said that I ruined his Christmas but he will have to forgive me because I heard it was illegal to sell them and also import them. What I am trying to understand is how them Chinese even importing them guns when its illegal. Something isn’t right” she pointed out.
The angry mother of two said she had filed a report on the matter and is hoping that police would address it.
DNO will seek comments from the Police Chief Cyril Carette on the matter.
cant u c that the chinese can do whatever they wants in dominica. the place of my birth they have more rights to. soon from now they will be the law. police officers /immigration and costom officers.how many chinese do what they wants and gets away with it, me and u born in dominica cant do as we please, I REALLY WONDER WHO THE LAW PROTECTS we or the chinese.
Only if they are allowed to.
There is a demand for the toy Gun,that is why the Chineese have them selling!!!!!!!
Parents teach your children!
Don’t buy them Guns!
Children take no intrest in Guns!Thus,don’t buy them!!!!!!!
THEREFORE THE CHINEESE WILL NOT IMPORT THEM BECAUSE “NO DEMAND,NO SUPPLY!”
STUPID PEOPLE!!!!!THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH POLICE!
It is so sad we still have so many arrogant and ignorant people in Dominica. The Chinese brought the guns in because there is a demand? Really?
You seem to forget that there is a law against what the Chinese are doing. Based on your logic it is also OK to import cocaine and other drugs because there is a demand for those drugs. If you want to reason take the politics out and stand up for what is right and good for our society. Kids can get killed just for carrying a toy gun.
It is the very same partisan politics that we play thus the reason why Boyee was gun down; it is the same politics we play why gun and drug criminals are out on the streets ready to commit other crimes.
I can’t go to china as a business person and brak the law, why are they not punished for doing so her?
Enslaved again. Yes, my people, a new kind of SLAVERY is envelopping our Nature Isle. Foreign relations with any country does not mean foreign domination. The all encompassing clauses in the Agreement signed should be about mutual respect for each others sovereignty, non-interference in domestic politics, mutual aid and Trade.
No right-thinking Govt. claiming to enter relations with a foreign country on behalf of the people, would hide the Memorandum of Understanding from its citizens. Years upon Years of begging and pleading has failed. Therefore, many have concluded that there must be some suspicious things in that MOU, that the people must not know of.
Where is the Freedom of Information? What has happened to our RIGHTS to seek, access, receive, and imparet information according to our Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
How could a Govt. claim to have done something “good” on our behalf, but refuse to make the MOU available to the public could be informed of t5he kind of relationship with China? Because, on the ground, in reality, Dominicans are being swamped by Chinese business. Chinese construction firms are being awarded contracts now for construction projects that our own local skilled people could do.
We have heard of the Public works area and the interest to purchase for construction of a hotel by Chinese business people. What is wreong with my people? You say nothing?
Are some Dominicans too MENTALLY ENSLAVED to see the path that those in authority have taken the country? Dominican are THIRD CLASS citizens in their own land, Land of Kalinago, the land of Congoree, Balla, Jaco, Pharcelle. What a shame to just stand there and see your country SOLD to the highest bidder.
I AM FULLY AGAINST THE SALE OF THE PLASTIC GUNS,POLICE SHOULD RAID EVERY STORE SUSPECTED ,TAKE THE GUNS AND CHARGE THE OWNERS,,,,THEY SHOULD NOT HAVE ENTERED THE COUNTRY IN THE FIRST PLACE…….HEY FOLKS STOP THAT DISCRIMINATION RE FOREIGNERS,DOMINICA NEED MORE PEOPLE SO LETRB THE HAITIANS,SANTO DOMINIAN,CHINESE COME ,NEXT CENSUS WILL BE UP UP UP,,,,haitians rent places for barber,tailor,etc,santodominicans rent FOR BARS,HAIRDRESSERS ,CHINESE RENT FROM dominicans who greedy for money and put off local businessmen ,,yet they blaming chinese businesses,,,
Toy guns have been sold in DA stores for many many years without much fanfare. This must be a sinister ploy ‘most probably’ fueled by political fear-mongering.
If this is racist STOP IT, Dominica has space for lots more people, we should have nothing to fear from other ethnic groups. However all should be considerate and not sell something harmful, not just the Chinese.
What foolish political ignorance is this? All over the world fake guns are being banned because they are used in criminal activity, so how has this become political scare mongering or racist.
dominica is a lawless country now.police dem partial and hypocritical fake and soft.da reality is they only know how to target ganja everything else is mayb.they say no driving with cell phones in use,they self doing it,they say toy guns illegal,yet we nothearing of no arrest of persons who sell them and even,how do these toys enter dca?just walk around and give ppl ticket dats theier purpose now.dcans need to remember we sitting on lava,volcano.wen u see ppl sleepin and slumbering u shake them up so they can wake up…i nah say no more…just mek sure Jah on ur side and u on his all de time ppl bcuz soon enuff the morning light gona come and its wake up time…seen!
These are sold everywhere not just in Chinese stores. No one was complaining 10 years ago when everyone bought them then.
Stop fear mongering
There wasn’t a Firearms Act 10 years ago which made it illegal to import or otherwise trade in realistic imitation firearms.
the chinese have to much power and links with the government police cant touch them
Sorry… But I missed the part where the dominican public and their children were FORCED to buy anything from a chinese store
One guy said every time he buys from them, the item breaks before he even gets home yet the IDIOT continues to buy from them!
Oh and for the love of all that is good you guys have no idea how RACIST you are making Dominica and Dominicans seem by your words on this site…truly appalling!
True. I am really ashamed and embarrassed at things I hear Dominicans say
yeah you can write fancy words on dno wait until some punk ram a gun in ur face fake or real n rape or assult u or a family member then see who is racist then
You will be surprised to know what else these chinese folks are selling undercover. They have infiltrated every black neighborhood in the District of Columbia and Maryland to pedal their poisoned goods and will sell you pooop on a plate if you will agree to buy it. If they are able to do this right in the heart of America’s capital don’t you think Dominica is small potatoes for them? In addition they will not buy a single gwen fig from a Dominican farmer to help the economy. Instead they will sit in the back of their roach infested stores and consume salty oodles of noodles from china. Dominicans wise up and stop patronising those folks. They have never done anything but wrecked havoc on the economies of non-suspecting countries big or small and all they leave behind are roaches, rats, and alleys filled with trash while they stuff their money in coffee cans.
You sound American…
And Dem Stupid Bandits too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
i taught i heard that story about the sale of toy gun in our stores .how did the authorities let that pass under their nose
Wait a minute. Didn’t we see this movie before – last year at this time?
Yet here we are again, wringing our hands about the same issue about Chinese, their wanton (some say, lawless) importation of fake guns, and the police declaration to exercise the law and bring this “exclusive” practice by the Chinese to a stop. Yeah man, foolish I foolish.
How many times, Mr. Carette and company, does a flabbergasted public have to listen to you and your agency’s empty promise to act in protection of an increasingly outraged citizenry?
The Chinese want to create a Junior Red Army
in Dominica so they have to order toy guns for the kids as requested by the Memorandum of Understanding that we know nothing about.
The people of Dominica continue to slumber and sleep. The Chinese are laughing their way to the bank, our people are fighting among themselves whilst the Chinese are united in acquiring lands from us to further their cause. Our youth have turned the guns at each other. What a pitiful state we are in.
1. Can you imagine what can happen if someone draw a toy gun and you draw a real one?
2. can you imagine if the chinese decide to join the the drug trade in dominica and the chinese triad is here?
3.can you imagine what will happen when the chinese population increases and passes ours.
3. can you imagine what will happen when the chinese open up there massage parlour with escort services and prostitution rings.
4. can you imagine what will happen when all the best land is own by the chinese.
5. can you imagine what will happen when the chinese is fedup with our prime minister and he cannot meet his obligations to them.
Can you imagine thalt we are already being poisoned by eating their meals?
Can you imagine that our children are already being poisoned by the use of cheap, lead-based toys that is being purchased to be used by our children in Dominica?
Can you imagine that the Memorandum of Understanding may have a clause to legally provide every chinese worker with a Dominican Passport?
Can you imagine that we are being told that a loan is being used to build the state palace, when this may not be true? This may Where is the evidence by the Government to support that? Why more Dominican are not being employed? This may be part of lthe Memorandum of Understanding to give more chinese more passsports to strip us off our heritage in Dominca.
Lagon in Roseau is almost a Chinatown, with chinese controlling our economy in Dominica. Chinese are destroying Dominican small business owners, because the chinese are supported by the Chinese government to infiltrate and proliferate, vulnerable countries.
A timebomb is waiting to explode, but Dominicans will stand up and defend their sovereignty and country.
CONCERNED DOMINICAN
EVERY SINGLE TIME I BUY A THING IN A CHINEY STORE..BeFORE I REACH HOME! it breaking sttps…
Racist rant. Hope you got the same wherever you lived.
WHAT DO YOU MEAN RACIST RANT?
WHAT IF, BY THE SAME RATIO, 100,000 NIGERIANS INVADE BEIJING OVER A 6 MONTH PERIOD? I WANDER WHAT WOULD THE CHINESE FEEL?
GET THOSE CHINESE OUT OF MY COUNTRY
WHEN IT COMES TO THE CHINESE, I AM HARD CORE RACIST!!!!!!
Except you know nothing about the Triads, they are specifically Hong Kong based, and haven’t considered themselves Chinese since the communist Revolution there. Or you could read something.
Can you imagine when some Dominican leader comes to power and pulls a IDI AMIN and decides certain people must leave?
I posted before to the dominican population to be aware of the chines influk, with those fake guns that put alot of people , and the police in danger, prety soon the police wont be able to differentiate which is which, a real gun or a fake, this is a dandereous path we are going down [it is a slippery slope ]this need to stop. the police need to raid those store that sell those fax guns, and the people need to cooperate with the police and inform them where those store are who sell those fake guns.
This is the kind of gabbage management we have in the police force, wonder had it been a Dominican business place selling these guns what would happen, i guess because it is the chionesse doing it the excuse will be that there is a language problem in other words they the chinesse dont understand english, Dominica seems to be like a gabbage dump its from one crisis to another.
Just a simple suggestion….maybe one or two plain clothes police should go into the Chinese store(s) requesting to buy a gun and when taken into the back to make a selection, make an arrest for the sale of a banned item! Or are the Chinese really above the law? If so, this is indeed a very state of affairs!!
Sorry I meant a very SAD and DANGEROUS state of affairs.
These policemen in Dominica are scared!
They are not brave enough to do so, because every single institution is politicized, if a police ever thing of doing so, he will be demoted or dismissed.
It is a sad case of affairs in Dominica!
But but but, de man dat buy de gun for 70 bucks should be jailed. Unless of course he planned to use it and his receipt as evidence before the court.
isaid this along time ago,
e par ni jestic pour les chinaw
ce maleway ki ca suffe.
chines are above Dominica’s law.
we have been bought and sold.
It is well known fact that the Chinese are allowed special privileges with their containers at the port. Many of us will remember the episode that involve the phrase “ Give the F&&&&&&ng people their container”. My beloved Dominicans that is just toy guns, can you imagine what else is smuggled into Dominica. Wait and see. I don’t want to be the one to let the cat out of the bag and if I do some people’s job could be at stake.
The next level is at hand –
Some things happening
And it is so darn frightening
Corrupt poli ti cians
Cops refuse to solve crime
Everywhere’z corruption and slime
Woy yoy yoy something happening
It is so depressing
This is where I take umbrage with your assertion that if you speak the truth and expose what needs to be, “some people’s job is at stake.” Your hypocrisy is overwhelming.
May I offer you some Prozac to relieve you of your overwhelming stress that I’ve put you through. You are obviously too ignorant or bias so much so give the impression that victimization is not part of the DLP mantra. Our experiences have already thought us that the Truth shall rise – every day we see truth rising in areas where party apologist attempted to bury the truth. That said I need not betray the confidence of a friend only to satisfy the curiosity of a lunatic DLP supporter.
I hope you stock up on the Prozac because soon nuisances like you will cower in low and disgraceful place.
This should make for a very scary Carnival. How many drunk people will mistake the fake for the real thing. I wonder what the death toll will be. Will stay away from Carnival this year, I suggests tourists stay away as well. Dominica going way down hill. You say treat the chinese well when they causing problems like that send them home when they do illegal things.
Absolutely, stay safe, stay away from carnival.
@ Scary
Are you staying away to avoid being killed with a fake gun? How will the fake gun increase the death toll? Why should tourists stay away from carnival because of fake guns when they come from countries that manufacture both the fake and the real guns? It is laughable that you are trying to scare US tourists with your fake gun phobia when these people have their second amendment constitutional right to bear (REAL) arms!!!!
you are so full of it. and I wont explain why, any intelligent person can see the pin hole you see the world through
@ 1979
Do I expect anything better from someone like you who wishes that Ross University pulls out of Dominica? Why should tourists stay away from carnival? I bet you can’t explain since your twisted view is aimed at bringing down Skerrit, Carette and DLP even if it means bringing down the conutry. At least, I see the world but you seem to have a blurry view of the world.
I wait patiently to see what will happen in this instance… blatant disregard for a country’s law! Shame on those chinese, shame!
they came in anyway hidden in containers,cleared at the ports of entry,they should investigate this and make the take a jail,they just taking all what china making and bring it down here and then we turn around and buy them,these gun look so real.the one would buy them should take the police to the stores.
The shop assistant I spoke to said ‘Customs allowed it though’. Even if, the law states it’s illegal to sell. another case of their being one law for the Chinese and one for de rest of us?
is not them fake guns that making allu children go for real guns so stop fronting
Parliment should pass into law that is is illegal to sell or purchase any fake guns or fake toys guns.
Failing to abide by the nation law the culprits should be fined or imprisioned.
We talk to much and do not act. How the hell the police the police will not tolerate where their is no law in place to arrest if violated.
Cudos to the people who have spoken to DNO about this issue. What I would also suggest, if this has not already been done, is to make a statement to the police and present them with the said gun so that they can have a propable cause to raid on the particular store.
The Chinese need to know that they will get busted if they are breaking the law and they cannot operate here with the Silk Market and Chinatown backroom mentality.
last year i can remember this same thing came up and it was said that it was illegal…yet i saw police oficers in camouflage guarding the same chinese stores that were selling these “illegal “toys which were in plain view so tell me is this not double standard?
if is my business that was carrying those guns, see how fast police would arrest me. but is chinese they ain’t doing nothing..they just running their mouth.. nobody knows what is on the M.O.U so de chinese know they have rights so they continue to sell.
The Chinese are already in control of Dominica. The police is scared of them,because if the police try anything the Chinese will report to the supremo.
I’m sure if it was a lil weed the cops were tipped on. Being in a local’s house or store, the whole force would storm the house or store @ 5am
LORD HELP ME MY CRY IS FROM SXM. I AM FROM SXM AND WE SEE THAT TOO OFTEN KIDS KILL THEIR SISTER R BROTHER ACCIDENTALLY. PLEASE DOMINICA PEOPLE TRY TO STOP THIS. ITS DANGEROUS IN ALL SENSE.
A KID MIGHT HAVE A FAKE GUN AND GET HIS HANDS ON REAL GUN AND KILL SOMEONE ACCIDENTALLY LIKE HAPPEN THIS YEAR TWICE IN SXM. ONCE A WICKED PERSON GET A FAKE GUN HE CAN ALSO ROB AND HOLD UP¨¨PLACES. PERSON WONT KNOW ITS FAKE ALL THEY KNOW IS GUN AT THEIR HEAD.
LORD HAVE MERCY. I AM NOT PUTTING MY MOUTH IN DOMINICA BUSINESS, BUT I GO THERE OFTEN AND LOVE THERE. ITS STILL A SAFE PLACE TO VISIT. ALL OVER HAVE THEIR OWN PROB
customs .are they doing their job?these toys did not reach here by magic
LOL….the fake gunz just a cover for the real ones to come in….Well Mixed in the shipment of toys…..no customs officer is going to check every ‘plastic’ gun in the shipment>> police needs to worry bout the real ones…that can cause damage….. not the toys…. if thats the job of a police officer then may God Help this Country…..
police won’t take de gun from chines but when u buy it they taking it .they suppose to take it and let u show were u buy it and make u get a refund and sizes de chines
IS DOMINICANS FAULT!
WE HAVE SOLD OUR HERITAGE AND COUNTRY TO THE CHINESE FOR CHEAP CRAP.
WE ARE A STUPID PEOPLE
WE ARE LOOSING OUR COUNTRY WHILE WE WORSHIP ONE MAN.
SHAME SHAME SHAME
What is really going on in my little Dominica.
I live here and work around Chinese people and I can confess that these people think of black people in the negatives as many other races does. All they want is your money by all cost.
They are not there to improve the country but themselves. Why is the government giving them some much power and lead way. Is it a monetary reason which is the root of all evil.
THIS IS THE PROOF THAT THE CHINESE HAVE TAKEN OVER OUR COUNTRY.
I THOUGHT THESE GUNS WERE SUPPOSE TO BE ILLEGAL?
I AM SEEING THESE GUNS EVERYWHERE ON THE WEST COAST.
And pointless somebody tell me the Chinese are our friends. Friends what, eh? Friends don’t abuse you (their customers); friends don’t make a mockery of your rules and regulations; friends don’t treat you with disdain. I not saying them people cannot have their business in DA. I just don’t get how they are above the law. I just don’t get how they can do what they want. I just don’t get why every single person in authority pretending that these things aren’t happening.
Boy lemme come out on DNO before I burst a blood vessel this morning.
If it is illegal to import and sell these guns, how or how are the Chinese bringing them in!! Are there different laws for me and for the Chinese? If the perlice even HEAR that these toys guns were sold by a local huckerster you would see how fast they would react! I don’t understand with all the complaints against Chinese businesses, they continue to function “Business as usual”. I am outraged!! This nonsense needs to stop.
IT IS SO EASY TO SOLVE THESE PROBLEMS UP TO 99%,BECAUSE WE MUST REMEMBER THAT SOME THINGS COME IN ILLIGALLY ALSO BUT TO A LOWER RATE.I REALLY CANT IMAGIN THERE IS A LEADER IN DOMINICA…. 1.SEND THE POLICE TO BUY GUNS FROM THE CHINESE , THEY CAN BE DRESSED LIKE ANY CIVILIAN ,THE PROOF IS IN THEIR HANDS,2. SEND A CHILD ,A VERY YOUNG MAN THEN THE POLICE CAN WAIT OUT SIDE WHERE HE OR SHE STOPS THE CHILD AND AGAIN THE PROOF IS THERE ,BUT MOST IMPORTANT HOW DID THEY GET IT INTO THE COUNTRY?PORTS ,AIRPORTS ,ILLIGAL ENTREES WHICH PEOPLE USUALLY CALL BACK DOOR?WHERE ARE THE WORKERS WHO SHOULD NORMALLY PROTECT THERE COUNTRY AND WHO EVER LIVES THERE.MAKE A LAW THAT WHO EVER IS CAUGHT SELLING ILLIGAL GUNS IF THEY ARE IMMIGRANTS THEY WILL BE DEPORTED WITH THEIR FAMILY AND THEIR MONEY AND BELONGINGS WILL BE SEIZED;IF THE SELLERS ARE DOMINICANS THEY WILL HAVE A HEAVY SUM OF MONEY TO PAY AND AT LEAST 30-50 YEARS IMPRISONMENT IM SURE OUR DOMINICA WILL BE A BETTER AND SAFER PLACE TO LIVE IN.
i think parents are supposed to be with their children when they are purchasing these things.parents also should make their children aware about the law against the imitation guns.
My people Chinese people, is not only importing a fake gum, but really gun, and soon will be moving big gun shipment….
Careful my people!! the police hand in chin my government!!!
These Chinese merchants are just out to make money off our citizens. They do not care about the well-being of our children and country.
We must make gun ownership legal in Dominica to deal with the rise in crime.
If u hv a licensed fire-arm that’s legal..
What should be done is simplifying the process of obtaining fire arm/amunition license..
What he said. And what Criminal would bother getting a firearms license?
not more crime na idiot
‘‘The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise they will win and the decent people will lose.’’
James Earl Jones, Actor
Mahatma Ghandi, “Gandhi
The same way the fake one them come is the same way the real them come in too
police no do chinese nothin..chinese in charge and large..
why are the chinese still importing these imitation guuns when a law was imposed against the sale of these toy guns? i believe stiffer penalties should be introduced to the law that was made against these imitation guns. these toys contributes negatively to our children lifes because at an early age, they are already learning to use guns & it is sad to see that some parens are still purchasing them for their children.
IN CASE YOU DIDN’T KNOW!
THERE IS NO LAW IN THIS COUNTRY AGAINST THE CHINESE, BUT DON’T WORRY! IT WILL NOT LAST LONG
IT WILL SOON BE OVER FOR THOSE WHO WILL KILL THE COUNTRY FOR THEIR OWN PERSONAL GAIN.
stiffer penalties are a waste of time. the problem is not penalties but prosecution. If you are allowing the item thru your port and on your shelfs then passing laws without action is just plain hypocrisy. Window dressing the issue so as to appease a simplistic populace.
Since at least last year this has been a big issue. Police seem to be selective and only know how to do surveillance on marijuana. Concerned citizens should wise up and just report that the Chinese stores in question have marijuana. Police would find the guns then. Seriously!
They wouldn’t believe… Its the Chinese they are untouchable..
Don’t say that too loud lest the chinese get ideas to start planting marijuana. That time they will actually get the cops to guard it for them.