The Government Information Services (GIS) is standing on the reason of technical difficulties for not live streaming the 2017/2018 National Budget response of Opposition Lennox Linton on its YouTube channel.
Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, delivered his budget address on July 27th 2017 and the response was delivered by Linton on July 28, 2017.
Skerrit’s address was streamlined on GIS YouTube channel, telecasted on Marpin/Flow and Digiplay and broadcasted live on state-owned DBS Radio and other radio stations.
However, Linton’s response was not streamlined on GIS’ YouTube channel, making it impossible for those who missed it to view it again.
This has raised eyebrows among many and on Monday DNO contacted GIS to shed some light on the matter.
A staff member said it was a matter of technical difficulties.
“There was a technical difficulty on Friday, so we do not have the copy of Mr. Linton’s address,” the staff member ,who did not identify herself ,stated.
DNO attempted to get further information, however, the staff member opted to go no further in details.
For his part Linton labelled the matter as a case of “injustice and atrocity” saying that nowhere else in the Caribbean would that happen.
“I am going to say this morning, there is nowhere else in the Caribbean that such an injustice or atrocity could take place, nowhere else in the Caribbean, in no other Parliament would this happen, but it happened in our Parliament, and we sit by and we do not do anything about it because we believe this is the responsibility of the parliamentarians in Opposition to deal with it,” Linton said on Q95’s The Hot Seat on Monday.
According to him, the budget address was telecasted via Flow/Marpin and Digiplay however, GIS’ YouTube channel was the only medium that did not have his budget response streamed.
“My understanding is that there were people who saw the telecast of the proceedings on that day Thursday when I responded, on their television sets, whether it was Flow or it was Digiplay on Friday Morning. But the broadcast on the live stream, which would have made the video pictures now available to people online all over the world, the response of the leader of the Opposition was not carried on that live stream,” Linton said.
He added that he was notified of the resumption of the live streaming as he was done with his response, and that through the archives created from the live stream on the Government Service YouTube channel, all budget responses can easily be accessed except his own.
“They have access to the Prime Minister’s Statement, they have access to the budget response of Jahisiah Benoit, they have access to the budget response of Ian Douglas, they have access to the budget response of Daniel Lugay, they have access to the budget response of Denise Charles, they have access to the budget response of Kelvar Darroux, they have access to the budget response of Robbie Tonge. The only presentation on the budget so far, this Monday morning as we speak, the only presentation that is not available on the Government Information Service YouTube Channel is the official response of the Leader of the Opposition,” he remarked.
Linton chose to go no further in his response to this case for now.
I doubt the reason.
Mischievous I say!!!!
You expect me to believe that!!!!!!
De government and speaker of the house use every opportunity to try to discredit, embarass, lambaste, curse, disrespect de opposition leader in our people’s Parliament!!!!
If you expect these tactics to win more support for DLP …. Chicken will grow teeth tomorrow!!!
You guys really can’t help yourselves…… money will blindfold a fool all de time.
Come on guys!! Please “tickle” me some more so I can scream with laughter
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HOTEP!
I wish everyone had “BALLS” enough to post their comments with their photo. I’d have NP with that. One thing I’d say, though; is that, we are not going to sit idle and allow Dominica to become a Venezuela. No Sir.!
Skaerat is afraid of Lennox Linton like the devil afraid of “holy water.” DOWN WITH DE LABOR PATRACK.”
“and we sit by and we do not do anything about it because we believe this is the responsibility of the parliamentarians in Opposition to deal with it,” Linton said. Is this another indirect call for “boots on the ground”; disruption of the society a la DDay 2017. It is rather unfortunate that the Leader of the Opposition’s response to the budget was not streamlined. We can do better. If we are going to build a more partisan pluralistic society those not so subtle (obvious) actions must cease. The opposition leader must not believe that his only response is has to be “call for people to take things into their hands”. We need to do better. We must do better.
This is very ridiculous and I do not buy what they selling, but this is poor however and very shameful.
This is not something being done to Lennox , it is something being done to Dominica.
Foolish party personnel will think it hurts linton and that it is good but why are you afraid of his measly two hour contribution that took so long to prepare and he had respond in such a short time , yet you are all that scared?
I wonder what it is you are afraid that he will say.
I am looking at Venezuela with interest, because I fear the tecnics will showcase down here soon enough
Doesnt matter if people say his budget makes no sense or X or Y it is fair and right that as leader of the opposition he gets a chance at on the floor. I dont even think the opposition can access the state owned DBS radio….
L’Homme vivant always complain nous pa ni ASSAY. What is our problem?
We know the saying: “Strange things do happen and will always happen when we least expect them to happen.” No matter what we say and do, we can’t be sure of anything. I will not be suspicious. I would leave it at that.
Peace!
Don’t tell me truth, it was an act of God?
Nice try CIS
We have to save tape partner. that response wasn’t worth listening to. a response you never went over or read before presentation. you brought it siled from who ever gave it to you and just open and read. radio space is fine but not tape partner. expensive material cannot go to waste
Cant touch this, please call MR. Pappy to borrow his microphone, and his yellow Wheel Barrow, Technicalities, cant affect his equipment. It better not happen to our PM in the Am.
Dominica feeling more and more like Venezuala…
Excuse my typo please “Venezuela”
DICTATORSHIP right in our faces and under our noses fellow Dominicans.
The signs are hitting us everyday. The country is in DICTATORSHIP mode.
The same person they claim not to have finished high school, yet the Cabal is afraid like hell of the TRUTH.
That blatant suppression of FREEDOM of INFORMATION, not allowing Dominicans the opportunity to listen to alternative views is criminal. What else could it be.
The Civil Servant (s) at GIS, who did that atrocity, or who obeyed, or allowed himself/herself to be so influenced by any Press Secretary, DLP politician to commit such despicable act, should be made to face the wrath of the people.
DICTATORSHIP style rule love to do those things to silence all opposition against their rule.. Haiti was crippled by PAPA and BABY DOC, who used those very same tactics.
Dominicans want to experiment with DICTATORSHIP? Is that what you all are wishing for?
Tanto, Tanto. Where is Ng lAP SENG now with his…
Lennox should be well happy and say praise jah it was not broadcast as his response was the worse… very dismal performance……… not on topic …. out of sync……. poor tone and pitch……… many promises but no sense of where the funds will be derived particularly with the negativity towards the CBI program.
For a person and party that constantly calls for national debate, the dismal performance demonstrated in the Parliament is evident that UWP Parliamentarians lack the basic skills required to manage the country!!!!!!!!
Most of you people on this comment site, may not believe in “Divine Intervention” infact I am sure none of you are even thinking about God and what He can do or not do
God is the Superior control of “Life” and “death” through all its way; He wants people to know and take heed of this fact
All of you are crying down your own homeland because you believe what one person or two persons are saying against it; pertaining to Government and economical process and growth; those who are trying to bring her down could do nothing to keep her up if they were called to do so
Don’t you all think that there is a time when God says “I have had enough of this”! DOMINICA is our Land from Him, and we refuse to appreciate His work of the Land, by His chosen servants. All that you are doing is speaking darkness, futility, and death, to the world about your homeland, our Dominica –THIS IS NOT GOD’S PLANS FOR HER. And He can deal against it that is for sure
There comes a time when He must silence the enemy–believe or not Dominica and her God-fearing people is being supervised by God’s Will and only His Will will stand forever–there is nothing no man or woman can do about it.
And as UDOHREADYET say here: “{Seriously how how how how! is this man response to the budget relevant in any way!!!!! All he want o do is give mapwi anyway, mister doh care about budget”
As I already said, there is a time God says: “That is enough for Me” as He silence futility and death–which can have no victory against His Will. As it is written so it is done.
Elizabeth, you are the dumbest; the most ignorant person alive; you are sick to your very core, you are a disgusting hypocrite. You are stupid, if you had only took some time to read, perhaps you would have read “Amos” response to me where he said:
“You could have listened to it ‘the broadcast’ on DBS,” he also wrote “it was seen on Marpin Television,” meaning people saw Lennox live on Marpin Television responding to Roosevelt. So, once again I am exposing your ignorance and stupidity.
If God must silent the enemy as you have insinuated Lennox Linton is the enemy; you are also insinuating that God silent him by preventing DNO from carrying his comments live on their site, but allow him to be seen and heard on Marpin, and via audio broadcast on DBS Radio!
You you see how stupid and confounded you are, Perhaps God sometimes confuses the mind of the hypocrite to all others to see the lie and hypocrisy in them!
You know you always make a fool of yourself, the same as you wrote on the blog, that you have to tell the people I am crazy!
Who cares Elizabeth if I am crazy? If I am crazy it is not a crime I would simply be a sick man, living with mental illness, the problem is that you think you are very smart, however; not smart enough to understand the scientific comments I write.
You will never be able to cope with me, because your standard of education is beneath mine. When you were a school teacher in Dominica one did not even have to attend secondary school to become a teacher you see!
I am college and university educated, I can talk to in a language you will not begin to comprehend, so just cool out, you and I might be in the same school class right now: but,our knowledge are at a far different level!
Is it that Mr President knew that during and after this budget Dominicans are going to be bombarded with LIES in profusion,hence his coining of the term “FAKE NEWS”?
This technical difficulty thing is FAKE NEWS.
SKERRIT MUST GO
SKERRIT MUST GO
SKERRIT MUST GO NOW
A strong opposition is what keeps any GOV”T on their P”&Q”, what is being shown here is the weakness of the UWP. At the beginning of the year i asked the UWP to embark on a national political education campaign, taking their massage or lack of ,to every village in Dominica. With a strong base, your supporters be in a position to demand, POWER GIVES UP NOTHING WITHOUT A FIGHT, the leader of the UWP should be aware of that, at the end of the day, it is only the true political education given to the people, will solved the UWP’ debacle going forward.Bob D.
Get Skerrit outta here, Get Tony astaphans the heck outta here, GET DLP and all there supporters outta here, matter a fact GET GIS and KAIRI THE HECK OUTTA HERE, non patriots looking for themselves
hahahahahahahahhaahahhahahaahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahhahaha….lolololololo…..woy woy woy look laylay… and the speaker after speech or the crap he spoke was played.
seriously how how how how! is this man response to the budget relevant in any way!!!!! All he want o do is give mapwi anyway, mister doh care about budget!
Mister is typical of some ignorant Dominican’s sometimes you just have to put them in their place then ignore them because they not about anything good, only themselves and what they can get from you!
Yes it is of extreme relevance,since in it is the remedy to prevent lazy you from climbing the Red Clinic Steps to beg,the remedy to get you employed,the remedy to stop giving out our CBI revenue for votes,the remedy to grow the economy,the remedy to make you independent.Skerrit and his team of clowns do not have the answers.
SKERRIT MUST GO
SKERRIT MUST GO
SKERRIT MUST GO NOW!
Sounds very much like you are describing yourself. I doubt if you have read much yet,
Redd Foxx would say “You big dummy”
This injustice that you uphold will come to you and you will want someone to be just to you. So go ahead and uphold evil and wickedness – remember you are leaving a legacy for you children.
To: UDOREADYET
Hello and good evening my people. Well its pretty clear that you don’t understand what’s the role of an opposition leader in a Democratic society. Can you please show me where in the Prime Minister speech he said the Economy expanded or the private sector generate jobs. He didn’t even say how many jobs were established under the CBI programs or how many employees the Government hired. Also do you believe that Dominica have a more advance Tourism Industry than St Lucia,St Thomas or Barbados . Remember that the Prime Minister and his party won’t be in power for ever then we will hear what you have to say about opposition parties.
@UDOHREADYYET, apparently you lack basic knowledge and education about constitutional positions in your country.You might not like the individual but you have to respect the office they occupy.The leader of the opposition is enshrined in the Constitution of Dominica,and therefore has to be respected.Got it?,well get it
Your comment is right back at you you a that ignorant Dominican that look thru red glasses no wonder the new tune is spreading when my own people are saying how disgusting things are on the Island . And how distracting the actions of those in power and there supporters are, we just cannot keep going on that way while there a those who need help to take care of their family they don’t want hand out because they can help themselves just give them a chance is the cry .
My God does any one care.
You really doh ready yet, to raise and elevate yourself to some level of decency and not sick despicable politics you mind set you to think. YO have been hanging about for too long to this corrupt labour government that you are not even independent to think of and for yourself that Dominica comes first and put parliament in a place deserving respect from you and your corrupt labour people including this inept PM of yours.
It is wrong and a disgrace that Hon Linton`s Budget address could not be live on GIS, our tax payers money.
Technical difficulty my **s! Do these people really believe that Dominica s are that gulllible? If any one believes that then I have a pink male donkey egg for sale to the lowest bidder. But god is good all the time and all this will one day come to light and there will be hell to pay by the guilty ones
Berrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr jealousy o once again bull from that opposition man.
Technical difficulties my pardna..
:-D. I was looking forward to seeing you licking your lips and talking like you are the smartest man in the room, even if you have no idea what you are talking about but it was not meant to be. Next budget!
Mr. Linton’s address has proven that he is smarter than the fake Doctor of Punjabi. Please listen to both men and if you have any common sense then you will hear truth.
Your evil will consume you
This is FAKE NEWS!!!!You all came under FIRE,and was forced to say something.
SKERRIT MUST GO
SKERRIT MUST GO
SKERRIT MUST GO NOW!
No matter how long it might take Skerrit must leave; nothing lasts forever.
Ahem, come on, that’s the best excuse GIS can come up with? How much time did that technical issue need for it to be resolved? Funny how THE ISSUE came up some minutes before Linton was scheduled to speak. I tell you, the path we’re headed, we can see the results playing out now in Venezuela.
The only technical difficulties existing, is the one created in order to prevent the nation, and we who are in the diaspora from listening to what Lennox have to say!
Eugenia Charles was the only person I know capable of creating four landslide to prevent people from traveling form the four corners of Dominica to prevent people from attend the former police Inspector; the late Wordsworth Telemaque funeral. I am not supprised; that Mountain Chicken Mentality Dr. Punjab would find a way to create some difficulties to prevent the voice of the opposition from being heard!.
We are in modern times; the type of sophisticated monitoring instruments used in monitoring Radio & Television circuits these days, which pinpoints the exact place of failure, if their is a reliable engineer in the station; problems should be solved in minuets!
You could have listened to it live on DBS as many others did including me. Technical issues occur everyday in our hightech world. The leader of the oppossition presentation was seen on Marpin and Digicel they must have copies.
Yeah except most people prefer to watch and youtube is very convenient. Also it leaves a fairly permanent record that can be viewed at any time anywhere. The same can’t be said of dbs or marpin. Now this is why the press should be freely allowed in so other agents can do their own live stream
You all really expect GIS to admit? Come on! Somebody somewhere recoded.
I’m a labourite and I highly doubt I would vote for Lennox next election, but I’m not blinded like many of you labourite AND uwp people when The political party you support does something wrong.
As a former labourite myself nor and opposition supporter. I have seen too many things that labourites turn a blind eye too. There are many who refuse to see while there are others who are just uninformed they don’t know better. We have to better as a nation if we are to move forward. We ought to know and accept what is wrong. We can’t say i am a DLP or UWP supporter till death. The current party is abusing its authority, abusing the spending of CBI and tax payers money to their self interest. It has been wrong so wrong for so long they sadly we don’t know what is right any more. One may argue that evidence needs to be presented but who is going to guard the police? The rat guards the cheese….
To: Kadmae.
Hello and good afternoon my people. Thanks for speaking the truth because not to many people in our country can call it like it is. In this modern times they expect us to believe this nonsense like we should be blinded by Political affiliation.
You must be certain that they did wrong. How can you prove it? You are speculating. Do not judge or condemn what you do not know.
It’s not a matter of what party you support it’s what is right or wrong and if one cannot admit to that I wonder how on Gods earth do they discipline their own children and what standard they show them, when something is wrong just say it without any reservation .
I believe in FAIRNESS! I cannot in good conscience condone the hyper-partisanship of the ruling regime especially when important national issues affecting people’s lives are being ventilated. Come on man! Depriving Dominicans in the country and the diaspora from viewing and listening to the leader of the Opposition response to the budget presentation of the PM is vexing and unhelpful. The citizens should hear all points of views then decide which presentation is likely to generate economic and social relief for the country. Once more, Skerrit and his henchmen are relentlessly determined to manipulate every aspect of the people’s lives. They rule with an iron-clad which must be broken if Dominicans are to improve their lot. People wise up!
IBO you don’t live on island, the opposition speech was heard via many different media including live on local television…. read again and you will realize the complain is about the YouTube live coverage…. as usual Lennox is just a big cry baby!!!!!!!!!!
Technical difficulties?
How convenient…
Not good enough
This is censorship that only communist countries should be capable of achieving. GIS is another bolt in the corruption cogwheel
Do you know the meaning of suppression? I listened to the entire presentation on DBS. Every Dominican who was interested listened or saw via local TV the presentation of the leader of the opposition.
And the same applies to the P.M.’s presentation so why then did GIS have to repeat that on and on and on and on?
Yup and it’s here in Dominica. Crawl back in your crab hole laborite
Imagine, it was broadcasted on DBS which is government owned. Tell those who blamed the Labourites that they are wrong. They are too quick to judge.
Only in DA. Where is the official apology for the ‘technical difficulties’ which conveniently choose when to occur.
Why is anyone surprised “BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY”
All this does is draw more attention to the opposition and add more weight to their concerns.
Quack quack if is pm it would be fine
Technical difficulties my foot. As soon as Linton sat down and Jahsiah stood up the broadcast was back to normal. just remember what goes around comes back around,
Well said. How do we say it? “Karma is a bitch”. She usually reacts to a a past action or in action. Flashback to 1995-2000. Was the GIS and DBS Radio free in that now infamous “reign of blue power”. Did the opposition have free access to the studios of GIS to produce videos of their political rallies? Did the opposition have free, unhindered access and equal time for airing radio programs on DBS Radio? Not that what happened with the leader’s response was right and proper. It is scandalous at best. But when we point one or two fingers at others be sure that there are 9 or 8 of our own fingers pointing back at us. The UWP is no altar boy or saint in how they governed Dominica, even with a one seat majority. They enjoyed power and who was not with them “drank vinegar mixed with salt”. That is the reality. So when we comment on real or perceived wrong doings of governance today, put it in context. But we need to build a more disciplined society that is free of partisan…
Very, very convenient GIS and I don’t believe a word of it. Only Lennox Linton’s broadcast got affected like this? Come on man, pull the other one. You make yourself look and sound ridiculous and reinforce the impression that you don’t want people to compare Skerrit’s performance with the masterclass of Lennox Linton. You are too pathetic an obvious GIS. You only make people want to see it more and wonder what it is you are hiding, not clever at all boys and girls.
Its plain simple English people. The government simply does not want to be cornered and made to feel like slum when the world hears of the alacrity and foresightedness of the “”uneducated leader”” that the opposition is privileged to have compared to the so called leader of our country who earned an idiotic doctorate in ONE WEEK END and believes that all nationals are idiots who like penguins bury their heads in the sand and accept the crap of this regime! Some will, but we the patriots will not!
Advise to the opposition: get a copy from Flow/Marpin and post it on social media.
WOW! Penguins do that too?!! What about the Ostriches? Boy, Dominicans are blind – That’s why they are not able to see Skearat for who he really is. A FAKE
Does anyone here believe a word of that nonsense?
What is the nature of that “technical difficulty”? These guys are so petty, it is not funny. Then Skerrit will turn around and say there should be less political partisanship.
Let me tell you, I’m not a lizard and I do care!
Thanks but thats not important. Who cares…