Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit is out of state.
A brief release from the Office of the Prime Minister stated that he traveled to the United States on Wednesday morning “on personal business.”
He is expected back in office next week.
In his absence, Minister of Justice, Immigration and National Security Rayburn Blackmoore will act as Prime Minister.
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DNO typo, please correct.
The article header should have read: “PM SKERRITT OUT OF ‘DATE’!
Real estate in SoHo is being bought . When you can purchase such a pac kage to pay for this is r eally great. May God be good to us……
The outgoing president of America invites the PM of Dominica for dinner together with other world Leaders and to congratulate him on recent achievements on you know what. The people left at home,intimidating,insulting and even threatened each other. Sucking salt is too easy, One just has to feel sorry for you lots. poor thing
I stated my innuendos regarding a certain Mountain Chicken Carpaud (Crapo) Mentality Sly Eye Indian doctor of nothing before; DNO kicked it in to the garbage of history.
This time I am not calling anybody name eh, but I talking about me Almost Nearly Cousin: I doh telling alyoy him here assisting de FBI in dem investigation against a certain Prime Minister believed to be involved in plenty of shady crooked deals.
Then again some people have to come and ensure the food-stamp continue to flow so that their duo can feed.
Then again perhaps him forgot that property had to be paid before the end of April, otherwise, the late fee would be outrageous, so the certain person came to pay it.
On the other hand I suspect him like money so, he might be down in the subway walking wid him head looking to the pavement to see how many pennies he can find to pick up oui! No name no warrant; no law suite eh!
Hahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahha
Who cares! I hope he forgets to return.
Well, hope for the best that he will become overwhelmed with amnesia: Perhaps he will go for a ride in the Subway, and just lost his way and remain down there forever, confused and disoriented.
And if he ever hear the name Dominica, his remarks will be: can’t be I done destroy that damn place already, it in oblivion that is why I down here crazy like the rats down here oui! You never know twenty-five years in the Big-house with all the hardened criminals will make him forget, when he becomes the girlfriend of some hardened inmate.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!
The PM has a responsibility to inform the nation when he travel ON OFFICIAL BUSINESS!!!!! I don’t give a dam where he goes on PERSONAL BUSINESS. That is a smoke screen but it WILL NOT WORK!!
We will soon find out exactly what that personal business is. This man goes and signs all kinds of agreements on Dominica’s behalf and kor dit Lennox Linton, we hear not a drum beat. Now he goes on personal business and his offices releases a statement? God help Dominica.
Why so much lang sal??? take it easy Dominicans. Let there be peace. Every one needs time off.
SINCE WHEN HE ANNOUNCING HIS DEPARTURE.. de captain never there, there, dominica on remote control..
Since when did it become news for public consumption if your P.M. goers to the USA for a week to do personal business
This is a private matter. If it was a government matter his next-in-command would know about it. Apart from that nobody else needs to know.
Actually for security reasons I would advise that this information not be given out. For several years I worked in bank security for one of Canada’s major banks. I remember filing a complaint when the receptionist on the executive floor told somebody that the CEO was out of the office for a time at a certain resort in another location. Granted, this was info the receptionist herself should not have had.
Dominicans are far too critical of their P.M. It is hurting your nation.
Sincerely, Rev. Donald Hill. Evangelist.
You are really starting to get on my nerves now, Reverend or Evangelist or whatever you call yourself. You like Skerrit, don’t you? Birds of a feather… Get my drift? If not, Iet me know, I’ll spell it out for you!
AAGabriel:
Thank you for reading my comment, and thanks for replying!
However, if you do not like my comments I suggest you don’t read them. The last thing I want is for you to have a nervous breakdown.
PM Skerrit was voted into office by a majority, not only once but several times. As for myself I was ordained by my denomination which by the way has over 1,100 churches across Canada, and many more in foreign lands.
DNO has an option to post what I write or delete it. My work has been published in over 40 newspapers in Canada and the U.S.A. and rejected by many others. I respect the decisions made by the editors.
Sincerely, Rev. Donald Hill. Evangelist.
I wholeheartedly endorse your comments. It is sad and disappointing what these people have made Dominica become. In their ignorance they do not know how much they are hurting Dominica, other nationals including themselves. It is a personal mark against them which God is taking note of. They are not spreading love but hatred, unrest and are also ruining their happiness and peace of mind.
Acting as children and even more than children, they think it is fun criticizing him.
One fool makes many fools. One person starts it and others follow suit. Those who do not agree with them, they make their enemies. Little do they realize that, one way or the other, sooner or later they will pay for their comments. What they sow they will reap in time and two-fold.
Out of state, out of mind, thank God!
Desperate times call for desperate measure! This is surely desperate times we are living in today. I have never seen Dominicans so divided like they are today. We have very little in this land compared to our neighbors but still we are fighting every time these politicians act up.
We must realize that our politicians are not the brightest in the deck of cards, most of them were never interested in politics before they were asked to run for a particular party but did it just for cash to build their houses. So these guys are learning on the job while we suffer and destroy each other.
Ducktor Skerro is no different, he is ruling this land by trail and error, educated people in Dominica need act and take responsibility to put things straight in Da. We do have many educated people who were born in Dominica , some overseas but many are still at home. Until these people don\’t stand up and be counted I am sorry but our future will be left in the hands of people like Skerro and his…
hhhhmmm suddenly decides to play by the rules. By-elections coming you see? So he playing nice boy and compliant.
Mister looking more and more like the Portsmouth people eh … those that own politics down there…
O.K. So in Point Michel on Tuesday night, the General calls his people to arms “I am hereby calling all members and supporters of this great party to arms.”
Then two days later he disappears on a private vacation. So labourites in the Soufriere constituency, that is your own business if you want to follow that order and go to battle for an absent General.
That is a “Gros boug” personal business in America? I would love to know what that personal business is.
That personal business is none of your business.
Personal Business:
Definition:
Personal business is business that relates to me and may not relate to anybody else.
It is business that I may need to be involved in but nobody else needs to be involved in.
It is business that I may wish to keep confidential because for the wrong person or people receive the information may result in them repeating it to others it does not concern, and doing more harm than good.
Some people live such hum drum lives they have no business, personal or otherwise. But for most of us there is a personal side to our lives we prefer to keep confidential. Only those who are bored out of their skulls would even want to involve themselves. I suggest they get a hobby.
Sincerely, Rev. Donald Hill. Evangelist.
You owe it to the people to let us know more.You are the chief public servant, so keep on reporting as you are supposed to.I won’t thank you for doing what you are supposed to do, but wish you step down from your high and might ego and continue following protocols.
Who cares!!!!!
Exactly
Safe trip, safe return.
There’s a lot of haters out there, they vex you taking LIAT and commercial airlines to US when other Prime Ministers & Presidents have private jets & helicopters… they vex still. jalousie self.
This is part of his ruse but every one who practices what ever form of ruse in a country where people are living in more poverty every day the table must turn for them..wait and see..
Pure exaggeration.
You Damn right, lots of haters out there. The damn country in poverty, no agriculture, no medicine in hospital, people have to be flying out and when the poor , local man sick, they raise their own money and you want to call us haters whole the political rich and mighty have his family somewhere in rich country and to a certain extend at our tax payers money? I am asking, just asking, nothing about got to hell, just asking why my country poor so and foolish people worshiping corruption and deception in Dominica.
I doh think you ready yet nuh, go and come back again. Hypocrites DLP corrupt government.
Life is what you make of it.
as a matter of fact since when you does be in Dominica nah?? I swear is over seas your office be wi since you hardly here… but then again if I was making US$400 a night to be out of state… why the hell would I ever stay around these foolish Dumb-ini_cans??
Most average professionals in the US make a lot more than $400 a day, much less the Prime Minister of a country.
A hotel in NYC cost on average $300 a night on the low end. Your jealousy is petty and is beginning to make Dominicans look pathetic at this point.
So should he spend the whole month outside of the country to make his desired salary? It is because of people like you why we will be eternally stuck in this rutt.
hahahaha…. AA … depuis Qui temps?? since when you telling people where you going?? no passports to sell or cakes to cut on this trip man?? smh
To get you jealous. Eat your heart out and keep on eating it out. It will kill you in the end.
Angelo Allen send your investigators in the United States to follow up on him!!
Oh please tell groovy bat investigate himself
None of his investigations are illigitimate.. U idiot u have no idea how much listeners Angelo Allen has…. You and your dictator must fall!!! We have too jail him and his cronnies for life!!
I’m living abroad but I’m from Portsmouth and never have any news site post such comments about the PM like this not here in Virgin Islands DNO shame on u guys and when i make comments you’ll don’t post them you guys are bias no respect for the PM but only on DNO you don’t have to post this one
Which Virgin Island? I hope you not blogging about B.V.I or U.S.V.I. because their bloggers are worse than on here, say something else not that. Have you been on Rock City web sites? Have you been to Torla websites? Have you been to the big island,twin city website? I bet you Governor Mapp and Dr Orlando have been,because they have answered to things that were posted. There are paid trolls sitting around those sites,asked the Trinis.
People are angry and fed up. Who in the kitchen feels the heat, so free up my people
Live abroad: maybe if you had remained here like the rest of us, you would understand. Who feels it knows it.
I wonder why is so much hate ! This was the same sentiment of hate
that was “spewed” at the late former/deceased Hon .Pierre Charles
and when he died they were singing a different tune .I am Dominican
and I am proud to be one. Dominicans were thoughtful forgiving
and loving people and all this hate towards one man is just incredible
God blessing on Dominica We need to realize that God is Love
We don’t hate Roosevelt Skerrit but certainly have lost all respect for him. He has put the office of P.M. in Dominica into disrepute. Come and live back home and you can feel it. Walk through Roseau and you can smell it.
There is a lot more to be done but to be honest a lot has been done
but it takes All of us to make it better,Dominica belongs to all of us
By the way I live there
Why don\’t all the haters swim out of DA
If you would live in DA and would generally inform yourself what is going on in your country you would not have made such a stupid comment on DNO. Only a PM that works for his country is due respect. Just the title PM does not automatically call for respect. Respect is something that has to be earned and Skerrit is far away from that.
They don’t see themselves and how they look to other people, I think they believe that people cannot see their stupidity and somehow they getting something from their own ignorance.
Ironically it just lets smart people see that DA people at this time are really backward minded and ignorant.
I used to speak well about Dominica but I cannot in my right conscience tell anybody to visit that country anymore the people are just too hateful, envious and ignorant. No way papa.
I welcome your comments Mr or Mrs “Live abroad”. Come down nuh and see poverty. Give up on VI where you live and come. Stay tuned to DNO because you doh see comments yet talking about our corrupt leaders and government. Have you read the news lately of Venezuela. It is the same thing they were crying out for, decency and Chavez travel like mad abusing their money, now they feeling it and people like you were calling them traitors, now they are on the streets, crying for bread and milk. Why don’t you go join them. All they want is a decent government and services to take care of their children and families. Venezuela rich in oil bur poor in services because president etc. robbed the country. We call it in Bobol in Dominica.
So please hold your peace, we in the fire and feeling the heat. You are welcome to join us. For your information we have no respect for Skerrit and his corrupt DLP government.
I hope you got the message.
I’m home every year I do have my house and my business place there and my apartments in Picard so yes let’s talk
So do Iraq, Lydia and the rest of the African nation that\’s rich in oil, do you understand world politics?
God is not amused with them. One day they will pay for it.
we go for money for the by-elect what happen what I started to share from last week Wednesday to this week finish
Who cares, the only thing I wanna hear about Skerrit, is his resignation
Wait Still! who Jay Bless no man curse. Hole you dig for people you never see is you fall in it.
If Skerrit is bless, then I’m angel with wings
And they will fall so deep that they will not be able to get out. They will bury them right there. This will be their funeral.
Tete Chien you gave the idiot the right answer…lol
He cannot do the job he must allow someone else to do it..
Dream on!
Thank you kindly for the information- we have been asking for responsibility and better communication and this is a step in the right direction. Looking forward to more improvement
Come see us in the tri State,NewYork, NewJersey, and Connecticut we have lots of $$$$$$ to give you to take back Home. We go see!
For a country he constantly bashes, he sure does visit there a lot!!!
And since wen he telling people where he going and all those details?
One thing the brother love above any thing else and it is not the Bolivar but the Greenback.
I she coming back….really…, is he coming back? He should buy a passport at reduced rate and keep flying
Goodbye sir…….Go on…and on…you are a liability to Dominica.
Is he coming back……?
Skerrit, just can’t win. He tells them, they vex. He doesn’t, they still vex…weh, weh, weh…..
I was thinking the same @?? . I guess there are folks you just can’t please
Sister, has Roosevelt ever pleased anyone but himself???
Skerrit has made Dominica a contradiction for sure– Can you stay longer on your travels? Dominica is much better with you being away. Well not much better with Rayburn as Acting PM. I hope he does not declare martial law in Skerrit’s absence. If you know Rayburn that could be a possibility- that is where we are today—- my heart bleeds for Dominica.
Or better yet do him like eric gairy ….overthrow him with a coup…..but again they r skerros acolytes and dey fraid him….
When he does not notify the people that he is leaving most of you from the opposition are up in arms. Now that he has notified the public of his absence the very same group of people are upset. That is the reason why Skeritt does not give a rat’s a.. about you people.
and you proud yea………………….your pm dont give a rats about the people that have him there? sort
You know who I am referring to to: the proplr who are trying their best to see him fail; not the ones who elected him. Jackrabbit.
He needs to respect the office he holds,and the fact that he is Prime Minister of those who voted for him as well as those who are against him.Please educate yourself and stop this ignorance
boy I like my PM eh. Come …give his instructions….compel my parl rep to resigned, which of course he did in tears…poor thing ……then off I go BOOM! By my return ……. the dust will be settled.
Well if is on personal business, I hope is not taxpayers money that pay for the trip, and all the sewo in Manhattan eh…use your own funds bon! Treasury I hope you all reading…don’t let us find out is tax payers paying for your vacation…
You all act like the Prime minister doesn’t have money of his own.. stupes
I am sure he has but the question we are asking where all his money came from.
OUR PM is on VACATION!!! PM, please visit the Metropolitan Museum, Central Park and Prospect Park, and all the things people do when on vacation. Enjoy your time off. Spend quality time with your family. Eat, drink and shop..
GOD BLESS
NO WEAPONS FORM AGAINST YOU SHALL PROSPER.
I wonder if you your self can go on a vacation
you there praising a ….. from a poor country.
gone to see the wife and kids?
I hope he takes some time off while in the United States in order to visit his alleged corrupted friends, Lg Lap Seng, Julia Vivi Wang and Francis Lorenzo who have been charged with money laundering and bribery .
May the good Lord continue to bless, guide and protect you Hon. Prime Minister.
Honourable? My foot!
But since when he does say he going na? Did he finally learn some basic manners? Did the kindergarten apprentice prime minister finally learn how to say daddy I’m stepping out and also say what time I’ll be coming back home? On personal business right? Is this all about champagne sipping, cake cutting, ……? I don’t think that the state should pay for his personal trips considering how reckless he is with money. But then again everything gets paid for with our tax money while others are doing la vida loca
such an unhappy person, hope you fine peace with yourself
Same jackass under a different name. I know exactly who you are
@Floridian Diaspora. Did he say that it was going to be paid for by the state? Is not your money that paying for it. It seems that you really grudging the man. Stop being jealous. You probably wish you were one of the diaspora if at all you are in the diaspora who sipping champagne and cutting cake with him.
Anytime someone opposes the PM they are jealous. Boy some of you dom-in-a-cans extremely stupid
Boy go find work to do. Stop wasting your time commenting on all issue, you sounding so foolish now.
I have a job. Where’s yours concerned exile???
@Floridian Diaspora…..each time I read your comments, they remind me of a neighbor I had back in Dominica. No matter what my family did or said she had something negative to say or do. Up till now, if she hears something about me, she will make some negative comments and yet I pay her no attention, never did and never will because I’m too big for petty and childish talks. Just hoping you are not her nor related to her because I know most of her offsprings live in Florida. Go find work to do and get a grip on life. Leave the man alone.
Nice fairytale story. I couldn’t care less about you or your neighbor. What about you finding work for you to do and leave me alone??? Try that one. Is hurt my comments and them hurting all you inside that making all you pay so much attention to me. Because I posting some comments on DNO that means I jobless or I working by burger king or I stocking shelves in a supermarket or I depending on food stamps. Always checking like somebody struggling in America. All you forget it have those that working very little hours in a week and making good money and have enough free time to work a second job if they wanted to? Some of you have so much of a strong grip on life and yet still all you sliding on it like water on a dasheen leaf. Woman get a new wig to put on your head if that’s what have you confused!!!
You need to learn basic good manners. It is respect.
That is not our business.
Put it roight Pusss………….”it is none of our damn business!!!!!!!
since when?
is it our dam business , ?
why now?
we do care a dam
Anything new?
is that supposed to be news?