Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, has given a brief hint of what the future holds for him.
Based on what he said at a town hall meeting in Paix Bouche on Wednesday night, it appears he won’t be the Prime Minister of Dominica after the next general election.
“The rest of the years I have in government, I will ensure that you get the fullest support that you require,” he stated. “As you know, I will not be there after the next election.”
Pointing to cabinet colleagues who were present at the meeting he added, “one of them will take over as Prime Minister but we have some time to work and we will work together.”
The last general election was held 2014.
The Prime Minister’s statement and others he made recently show that he is not heeding calls from the opposition United Workers Party to resign immediately because, according to the UWP, “of the severe crisis of confidence into which our country has been plunged by your actions and associations with international racketeers, money launderers and fugitives from justice who pose continuing threat to global peace and security.”
On Thursday, Public Relation Officer of the UWP, Nicholas George, told DNO the party is standing by its position that Skerrit should resign with immediate effect.
“We stand by that call,” he stated.
But the Prime Minister has made it clear that he has not intention of resigning.
At a town hall meeting in La Plaine on Friday, March, 10 he said, “Let me tell you very clearly that this person called Roosevelt Skerrit, the Prime Minister of Dominica and the leader of the Dominica Labour Party … is going nowhere, anytime soon.”
He said he will be removed only by those who voted for him on election day.
At a public meeting in St. Joseph in February 2016, Skerrit had actually said he was not planning to contest the next general election as a Prime Ministerial candidate but changed his mind because he wanted to defeat the UWP, “one more time” since members of that party have made him angry by “doing damage to Dominica.”
Speaking at a Dominica Labour Party Award ceremony in 2010, Skerrit said that if he is elected to be leader of the party by its general membership, he will stay as long as 2050.
See video of the Prime Minister in Paix Bouche.
leave my PM alone. Nicholas the best thing to do is to direct yr UWP supporters properly. Theres no way u will b Parliamentary Rep of Colihaut. Dont u see that Lady Daniel pipi on u already. The Government is working PM u have no where going we all love u
His next move is president for life. Take note dimincans
PM, ba yo bwa entoute fason ba yo bwa flow comme bwa yam paen
Ba yo bwa citererre, bwa mango pour fer sand pour yo parlay
Say parlay yo amay parlay laysay yo parlay
Nous kay monteé on PARLOUR ba yo pour talk,talk, talk
Pa ba yo bon bwa, ce bwa flow pour ba yo
Say sot yo sot grand parleur kon zorts ye.
The truth is that dimples are actually genetic defects that are caused by shortened facial muscles. Dimples are caused by a fault in the subcutaneous connective tissue that develops in course of the embryonic development. A variation in the structure of the facial muscle may also cause dimples.
Skerro is still handsome. Just check out the dimples.
Deep deceitful dimples. A failed Prime Minister. Never again should Dominicans put a person under 40years old to be Prime Minister. Its a disaster…immature…devious….childish……politically illiterate.
This man has killed and continues to kill this country. Bin Bobol…Fertiliser bobol…..passport bobol….that PM and his politically corrupt ministers are immature and should never be in office. There us room at the prisons
Is people u that dominica in the way it is there down and out talying about dimples
Dominicans it is time to wake up and smell the coffee ..Enough is Enough..We need a change ..Mr.PM if you say you Love DA show us the Love..Give us a Change ..Promise us next election there will be no chartered plane landing in DA.
Angry Bird? Aluu making me LOL with the “names.”
Erika woi woi woi
Erika woi woi woi
Why you like to get your Skerro lie lie
Stop de lying so much
Stop de lying so much
Why you like to get your Skerro lie.
Sounds good, don’t you think?
Well he is going to move to NY or NJ and leave allu in allu commess. Too bad allu, and me too, former LP supporter took the bait. He should hurry and build that international airport before he leaves the country.
do u think a man would build a house and don’t want to live in it? DOMINICANS WAIT STILL FOR INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT,, WELL WELL WELL I GIVE UP.. I REALLY WONDER WHAT NEXT, ACCORDING TO SOME PEOPLE…. PAPA MET..
How is it some of us so foolish, how can you say that pm must go immediately? That’s rubbish! Not because some moron say that he must go he will just go. There must be an election or hand it to another mp.
Rabbit Fest smart up, he can send in his resignation letter and then there will be by-elections
I hope you will by then have the same strength to carry the whole cabinet in the wheel barrow. When she opens the door which man will she forsake and which man will she take. Were the first two a mistake!
I don’t trust that statement. Mr. just said that to gauge the response of the audience and the labourites in general.
Labourites don’t care. All they want is free stuff. They don’t have a cause.
I don’t understand it, is prime minister a property that can be past on or inherited? Did this dude really just say he won’t be there after next election but one of them will take over, pointing to his ministers. So is he going to contest the election and if he wins, just hand the prime minister role over to whomever he wants and must probably who he can control? But what crap I hearing dere nuh???
Well, well, well, we in DA will tired pass like fools and be disrespected.
Look It
It looks like neither side understands how this thing works because the Leader of the Opposition keeps telling him to step aside now, thinking that he will automatically take over.
Actually Look It, the PM can do that you know. If his party wins, it is an elected member who appears to the President to command the support of the majority of elected members who could become the Prime Minister so he could in fact influence who becomes the next Prime Minister if the Labour Party wins the elections.
Next move. President. Lol. Believe skerrit sot.
What about the massive debt he has D/ca in, plus he should give account for the people\’s money they all has pocket.
Not easy so you must be investigated I repit you must be investigated that’s not a joke,am not smiling
PM, good evening ba you bwa pour yo parlé, yo sauté, yo bazoody consa yo kay parlé, parlé,parlé.
You ALL UWPITES can write all negative comments as YOU ALL wish but when he (Skerrit) is gone don’t think of Lennox because HE(Lennox) can never ever become PM of Dominica. Labor shall continue to be in POWER.
You self just wondering what the hell going on, just like the rest of us, so the only thing you can say is this bull crap post you just made… btw close your mouth, I know your poopoo boiling as you see your table you were sitting at the foot of waiting for scraps, being pulled away. You will go and find work now because red clinic will be closed!!!! SON OF A GUN
Skerritt, surely will not be there as DA’s PM,even before any General Elections, because the anti corruption, anti-money-laundering, anti-fraud international Law agencies, are closing in. The scandals, are damning and all over The millions amassed from the SALES of OUR PASSPORTS, both ordinary and DIPLOMATIC,`are being forced to be used to FOOL the people yet again and again and again.
The revelations by the PANAMA PAPERS, regarding banking (hiding of $$$$$$) of millions in Panamanian banks, the arrests of international fugitives who possess our DIPLOMATIC PASSPORTS, Monfared, Madueke, Francisco Corallo, among several others. All given our Diplomatic passports by, we know whom. The evidence and facts are too numerous. All bought our DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY, FOR HOW MUCH, We don’t know those things, to try to evade, hide from the Law.
Skerritt, like Mugabe of Zimbabwe, will try to hold on to “POWER” by all means possible. No ELECTORAL REFORM. NO FREE and FAIR election
He will be President for sure. Life will continue to go on as usual for him. That’s just a piece of psycology he send for the Opposition but they are smarter than you PM.z x
WHOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS thank you jesus. He make his money now they going to the US.. or Dubi.. lord
I can still hear Gollum scream, “My Preciousssssss !”
Based on the comments Seems that the UWP obsession with the prime minister is a real thing. not one of these people have an intelligent comment that is actually based on anything real or topic based. their comments are just focused on the man, that is not normal at all.
And…? You intelligent? You and your run on sentences! Go and sit dong!
aye aye DNO ! am I having a Pelican Brief situation here ? Was my theory so right that you all were scared to post it ? hmmm. Like I said previously, maybe I read too much Tom Clancy and watch too many seasons of 24 and Homeland but could this be that one of the US alphabet soup agencies may have “interviewed” our PM re the Monfared and NG Lap Seng issues and then “prevailed upon him” that a condition for keeping his name off the prosecution list would be that he gives up his seat of power ? I’m only asking.
What u mean after the next general elections? Why not now?
Finally some sense has gotten into that boy head….God riddance…I don’t know if to wish him well or not cause though he has done some good for Dominica, that bad, the entanglement, the number of allegations that always seem to revolve around him, the strings of negative that follow him override the good and history will not treat him well despite of his overwhelming popularity…
After 16
that’s just the trouble, it is the string of “allegations”. I actually heard blessings on Q95 sounding super frustrated and saying that everytime a situation comes up Skerrit escapes like “Houdini” (a magician, I think that is or was).
It doesn’t occur to the gentleman that maybe he escapes because allegations are not evidence. I thought myself that after all that scare mongering in the international press by some overanxious Dominicans who cannot wait for the next elections, assisted by some questionable characters such as Kenneth Rijock the PM would have been lost for life in some US Jail for threatening international security.
I agree with the man, leave Dominicans who think that “run mouth” equates to “run government” and go look after your family. Has anyone noted what is happening to Trump who had all the answers? Even his own party is turning on him!
Being in opposition is a far cry from being in government!
Did his doctor see something?
Who does Skerrit believe he can fool with that bit of nonsensical rhetoric?
Note” The rest of the years I have in government,” (Roosevelt Skerrit).
This liar is concentrating on “the rest of years in government. ” How many more years is he contemplating?
That nonsense ; that lie, is simply another bit of cheap psychological tactics he is using to solicit sympathy to see if the gullible idiots like my 83 years old sister will run out and say MR. PM don’t go we love you; you are the best thing to happen to Dominica. You see it is all a gimmick, though follow-fashion. In the early Sixty’s E. O. Leblanc made a similar comment, stating “I may not be around for long” He kept his words; by the time election came around he did not run, he walked away from politics!
The writing that Nebuchadnezzar saw on the wall is now in Skerrit’s dream, and his vision; he knows it’s all over, he is simply putting on a show.
FET, you just called your 83 year old sister an idiot. Live and let live. I like you, but, RESPECT for the elderly.
When I heard Skeritt made that official statement that he intends to step down as Prime Minister after the next general elections, honestly,I was not surprised. I was not surprised because if the allegations of the man’s wealth is true, why would he want to put himself and family under more pressure then what he has received over the last sixteen years. Why would he want to disclosed his assets to the IPO. Why would he want to be travelling all over the world to get assistance for people who have not shown any appreciation for what he has done over many years as Prime Minister. Why would he want to be subjected to names such as an alleged corrupted leader, an alleged leader of a criminal enterprise, an alleged wealthiest leader in the Caribbean, an alleged leader who loves only supporters of his DLP, an alleged leader who had received money through the sales of diplomatic passports to crooks and vacabonds and was accused of allegedly stealing elections over many years.
Then all the regretting will begin,,,but you will and SHALL answer to the people….You cant marsh up a country and just leave like nothing happened.
Is it the IMF report that made you day parlay?
Praise God, finally some sense has come into the boy’s head…good riddance….don’t even know if too wish you well or not…you did good for Dominica, but your bad overshadowed it….sad…you were so promising when you got in…but tagging with the wrong A has led to your downfall.
What downfall you talking about? The man has been in office for a thousand years, he’s promising to walk away from politics/office, still you talk about downfall?
Thanks for the update Me. PM. There is one more question I have for you Mr. Pm : Sir, do you know or, were you ever introduced to Reza Zarrab, a very close friend of your good friend Alireza Monfared? I doubt you ever met him or did any business with him but since he’s a good friend of your friend I ask because my name is, I want to know
Oh, I forgot to tell you that Reza Zarrab is jàiled in New York, for his role in the Iran Oil sanctions .
The sad part is that his failed acolytes have been singing for as long as i can recall ”if not Roosevelt Skerrit who?” but the Punjab PhD insists that one of them will replace him; hummmmmmm! i wont be surprised if he has plans to hand over the reigns of power to one of his sons; that’s the way dictators do it; watch out 2050.
Yes my friends Mr Skerrit Pm, have them Kangaroos on the hop again, hopeing that he quits before the next general election campaign ,but i am sorry to say Mr Skerrit will be our leader to build Dominica international airport, I for one cannot wait to see the name Skerrit international airport it will be very soon just you so-called Workers Kangaroo club party wait and see. Most of your selfs Kangaroo supporters am sure will be after Mr Skerrit Labour party for a slice of the pie, like one of your uneducated union party leader put it a slice of the pie as if to say the Labour party is running a pie shop Business….
Jackass, what difference will it make whether Roosevelt build the International Airport, or someone else build it. You are so stupid and excited over nothing, Roosevelt Skerrit was part of the clowns who shut down the Airport Edison James and the UWP was building more than twenty years ago!
He was part of the circus clowns who chased the contractors, and engineers from Trinidad & Tobago who was in Dominica building the airport. One of the reasons the shut is down is they said “we doh want it Antigua and Barbados have one already.”
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!
And Mr. fool, even when the Chines government told Roosevelt the only way Dominica will begin to make some progress is when we build an International Airport, the man is so ignorant he refused to take the Chines advise, and took Ralph Gonzales advise, and gave Dominica the swamp we see at Melville Hall when it rains.
In the event Skerrit name ever appear on any building or even his grave acid rain…
But why Paix Bouche? That makes no sense to me because Paix Bouche people are just as their name the name of the village is pronounced and 90% of them will vote Skerrit or anything dressed in Red. These people, just like Penville people are not politically wise and don’t vote on issue. They are typical laborites and therefore I don’t see why Skerrit had to go cry to them. If he really wants to cry to people on the north maybe he should consider going to his home village of Vielle-case and or Thibaud, where the people are far more politically educated and vote on issue. Paix Bouche, Portsmouth, Grandbay, Cottage people are the reason why Dominica is so backwards.
Hey, stop it! You are not going to win the next election. Additionally, Rayburn Blackmore is not a good fit for your replacement. Oh, while I am on that note, just so you know, when that big blue truck hit you, there will not be any hope for your ” Poverty Party”.
Roseau Valley, St. Joseph, Mahaut, Grand fond, Carib Territory, and Castlebruce will be all blue. Mark my words!
Very well said PM Skerritt, after all these years of tremendous wealth, health n political reign you are now dethroning yourself.
That’s just tricks n propaganda because your back is against the wall. Domincans don’t vote for party, they vote for personality, as in your case. The voted you n you had a nice time at their expense. Now you perhaps want them to cry out n fall at your feet saying, “Don’t go away daddy Skerritt.” But in reality your days a gone, after 3 terms you can’t think again. Labour is gone to, cause in this big bingo bag, not one of them has the quality n qualifications to be called PM. Good bye Skerritt. You now getting wise…
One thing i know after you go next general election i.e the people vote you out,you wont be able to answer questions with GO TO HELL! GO TO HELL! GO TO HELL! Dominica has many bad people but it also has a lot prayer warriors…The prayer of the righteous availeth much…THANK YOU PRAYER WORRIORS. AFTER ALL YOU MUST PLAY BRAVE,squeaky clean,white as snow,spotless!GOOD RIDDANCE IN ADVANCE!
SKERRIT MUST GO! SKERRIT MUST GO! SKERRIT MUST GO!
Maybe the Dear Leader doesn’t want to be the person holding the fan when it makes contact with the sheet (spelling). However people should have serious doubts about the sincerity of anything this man says given that he shares a political strategist with the former prime minister of St kitts. That former PM allegedly made similar comments about leaving before the last elections in St Kitts in an effort to obtain sympathy votes; however the people were not fooled. The strategist must think that we are really foolish. We are waiting with fingers and toes crossed and keeping hope alive.
Mr. Skerrit, You need to clear your mess before you hand over! Oh, and don’t think the people won’t be watching your post election lifestyle. There are still alot of questions relating to the state of the treasury that need to be answered.
Is this a move to keep the opposition off guard? These mixed signals about he not been PM after the next election, he said something similar in 2016 and then changed his mind, this could be a strategy. The vast majority of Dominicans don’t want Skeritt to resign as PM before the next election, however a DLP without Skeritt at the next election would be a tough sell. That is why the UWP is working so hard to get him out, so why help them out.
Its the people that will put you out,and tell you good riddance.The IMF has blasted your ineptness and recklesness..Finally Dominica will have a chance to compete with others in the region..Leadership by trickery is corruption.Finally our institutions will function again,our tourism will get a chance to thrive,agriculture will be resuscitated,manufacturing,young people will be put to work.!If you go NOW i wont miss you..You are no Eugenia,or Eddison,or Roosie or Pierro..These were leaders. .Shame on you!
Pm I no why I say that u next in line
That is not a hint, according to him after the next election he will not be PM.
Honestly, if i made millions in a job, i would call that judge. PM WINS BIG TIME. !
Thank God and the rest of the cronies take them with you.
Hahahah. My pm and make all u head burst we gasa. And what u didn’t here is “ONE OF THEM SEATING HERE WILL BE THE NEXT PRIME MINISTER” so this should tell u that the Labour Party is going no where. So even if he run or not labour swiping the polls. Even is mammy run for pm she beating Thompson. Cus as we know Lennox can never run another election in Dominica. Edison want to come back like Compton he said but not in Dominica nah. In marigot where we making no effort to get. Bcus if there is one place we don’t want in our govt is marigot. Keep it.
If you are not the PM, will you be still selling passports? Because thats what you do.
Passport money putting food on your mother table because all of you hiding to go up red clinic and beg shameless rat
He will become an agent, hahahah!
He wouldn’t be able to sell anything where he’s going it wouldn’t be possible, But I’m saying to the Freedom Party and UWP Party they must not allow themselves to be caught off guard with what the PM is saying , he’s setting a trap for them so watch it and don’t fall for it either.
PM must go to allow the place to breath and move forward .. Dominicans don’t look backward keep moving forward.
I wonder?
you need to go now. You have destroyed th country,you have robbed the country.
i hope you will be able to enjoy all that you have robbed the country of.
you may noy be able to.
DNO, you forgot in your historical recap of Roosevelt’s past utterances that he once said during an election campaign that he intends to be in power in Dominica till 2050.
One has to be very careful with the utterances of Roosevelt and take it with a grain of salt.
Anyways Roosevelt, the call is for you to go and for you to go NOW!!!!!!!!!!
You are damn right Skerit, come next election you won’t be PM. But you won’t be the one deciding what you are going to do or where you are going. We have already decided your future.
Pardon him…He must show that he is brave and dustless..YOU WOULD HAVE DONE THE SAME…Ha!Ha!Ha!..Remember if our elections were decided by locals only,the trickster WOULD HAVE GOOD LONG TIME!!!
In what way? Do tell….?
Is your family estate its time to go only god stands forever
He can say what he wants but he has to go immediately! Let’s make Dca great again #chief liarMustgo!
Assertive like the rod of Moses!?
LOL at “Let’s make Dominica great again.” Was Dominica ever great? people cannot even land on that semi highway allu have calling airport. Which great? Only God can make Dominica great!
I can’t trust anything this man with an honorary doctorate says.The whole thing is laughable though I wish he will hurry up and leave.Dominica is on it’s back under his prime ministership for close to 18 years.He will be remembered as a failure
But you can trust what the man with only a (BCDL) Birth Certificate Drivers Licence zor to sot sorti la tebeh
JJ you are something else. 2004 – 2017 is “almost 18 years”. That is UWP at its very best. Transforming a once very brilliant man into what is really a very faint resemblance of his stellar academic prowess. that s what happens when you disregard your academic successes and follow a high school drop out.
So since Col Chr and NabesandI are one in the same…. Put Linton and Skerrit to debate and you will be left wondering who has the Honorary Doctorate or as you put it BCDL…. education doesn’t equate commonsense or logical mental capacity …. and from your responses it is clear you lack both.
Oh btw, do you know of the many multi millionaires and billionaires who were able to amass much wealth not from acquire a degree or a high school education but from the business sense, common sense and ability to string logical thoughts hence avoiding major business risk?
boy what have you done for Boeatica or castle Bruce and Dominica ? (PA HAK!!)
Come and contest the next Election to get a vole a!
hehehehehehe…… The Doctor trying a bail out you all. Ship ahoy… ship ahoy… some one is crying ship ahoy….Mayday mayday Captain is attempting to escape.. ship in peril. ship in peril..
Yes, i once heard him say (at Donnie McClurkin concert) that he might consider becoming a minister of the gospel after Politics..No one can take anything Skerrit says seriously..
He just recently vowed to build an international airport..how soon will that be built, if he’s leaving office? He once said he would be in there till 2050. He once said he had money from the Chinese since 2014 to build Airport..I mean who can take Skerrit seriously really?..
The guy is a political comedian..he takes Dominica for his stage and it’s Citizens as his patrons..nothing more..
@LifeandDeath –
…………I like this phrase of yours – “The guy is a political comedian”
That’s a very fitting description of Roosevelt.
To name just a few. He also said that Dominica would get an international class sports stadium. He also said that Dominica would get “after sunset” night flights. He also said that the PMH would rebuilt and be upgraded. What was or still is your reaction then and now? Remember?
What he says must be taken very seriously. I’m not saying that it should be treated as truth and fact, but do take it seriously.
Leave tonight. IMF report card show after 16 years you are nothing but a failure. Do the country a favor and leave. That is the best you can do. We have bright and capable folks and you are nowhere close to the top of the list.
I concur with you.He should have left last night.We would have started to see already a new Dominica..Skerrit is an obstacle to Dominicas development..The most shameless leader in the Caribbean…He is even making as though when he is booted out,he has no questions to be asked of him we,!!!!MAN TAKE YOUR BAG AND GO!
you are more a failure than the PM .
Don’t let the door hit you on your behind.
All of all you can BARK but our PM not going nowhere and tell Nicholas George he can bark all he want