Local businessman Peter Karam said he has written to Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit concerning a matter between himself and Mayor of Roseau Cecil Joseph whom he alleges is harassing and frustrating the operations of Acme Garage.
Karam, who is the Managing Director of the establishment, said the mayor “has declared war” on his company and has deemed his private property as sidewalk.
“We were established since 1959. He declared our private property to be sidewalk. We have been parking on that compound since 1959,” he pointed out.
But according to Mayor Joseph Acme Garage is not being singled out because the Roseau City Council has written to several other businesses in the city asking them to stop parking their vehicles on the sidewalks.
“One of the areas clearly is that of Sylma Dupigny on Kennedy Avenue where the entire sidewalk is taken up by a privately owned vehicle of Dupigny taking up the entire area,” the mayor pointed out, giving examples of other businesses that are using the sidewalk for parking. “On Hanover Street there is a rental company right there and we made it clear our concerns. You will also see very soon, others receiving letters to do the necessary survey required.”
Joseph insists that he has nothing personal against Karam. “I don’t have anything personal against Karam. I have a very good relationship with the Karam family,” he said.
But Karam is adamant that the Mayor has declared war on him since a verbal confrontation occurred between the two in January. “This mayor has not let up on us at all,” he stated. “What is this man about? Why won’t he leave us alone?”
The verbal clash in January occurred after Karam claimed that the mayor engaged in threatening behavior towards him over a vehicle parked at the entrance to Acme Garage.
Joseph said allegations of harassment by Karam are unfortunate and efforts to dialogue with him in the presence of former top cop Cyril Carette, proved futile.
Peter you could alleviate the parking problem by removing all those derilect and rusting heap of junk which you have occupying well needed space at last count t here were six rusted chasis right next to the cold room and some more next to the caravan.If you are a genuine car dealer you would not have those vehicles which you hope to sell as brand new at a premium price taking the ravages of the elements (rain.sun)By the time these brand new vehicles are sold RUST has set in I know my friend has one from you
It looks like Karam wants to control how things are run in Dominica. I am sure I did read an article about him wanting for the Prime Minister to get rid of VAT. The thing is the businesses in Dominica had too much freedom before that’s why the country was not getting any where since VAT was introduce things has been moving on fine, now the elderly are able to receiving a few dollar month end.
What the mayor is doing the right by making them find alternative parking places.
What rock to you live under? Taxes only serve to impoverish people, not to stimulate economies.
let me see if I can remind you all, how all this started in january 2012,
here go to this site,
https://dominicanewsonline.com/news/homepage/news/general/peter-karam-mayor-of-roseau-in-verbal-confrontation/
DNO, (admin) I appreciate the fact that you allow most all of my comments, however in my latest you remove the domain of my Website:
As such be reminded that my site is not a DNO competition. It is not a porn site, it is designed to be an educational site, it has been like that for more than twenty years, it is a none profitable site.
Every single category has to do with something educational, http://www.yvonnedods.com has served an educational purpose for as long as it exists, and I am happy to say it has helped students even in Dominica, also the science that I am into has also afforded students at college and university here in the United States to write papers on certain subjects which has helped them to secure an ” A” in their final exams.
I do not depend on my site for a living, as a matter of fact, I have never earned a single dime from the site; I make a great living by other means the only reason I included my site address in that post was to draw to the attention of that stupid person that they are not dealing with a low life, just because they may own a computer as I do or are running into a computer cafe an d write trash, we are not in the same category.
That is the point I wonted to force into the face of the person who may believe we are at the same level.
Do not fear me, nor my Website, cause the intention is not to compete with you, as a matter of fact my site existed long before DNO.
Respectfully,
Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
the problem is that to every house hold has 20 person and to each one of them have a transport park out side of there home they do’nt to take a bus to town so there for, there will be a problem for sidewalk in the street of roseau.
since i no myself as a child growing up i no karam has been parking compound. there was a man they use to call solomon that was the mayo for how may year ago the streets use to be clean every morning the man use to make his rounds, you could not put any garbage out after hours the streets and drain while clean,right about now you have to wounder what is real going on in the streets of roseau. and the mayo is fighting over sidewalk.
How about all those buses that park on the sidewalk, from Fort Young to the Bayfront,you can’t even get to the library, you have to walk around them, they have been doing this for years. Don’t just single out one person.
ok here is how i see it….i have lived in the states before….and nobody has no right to any parking space on the side of the street in front of their yard….maybe its just the places i lived in….
my friends has had to park on many occasions in front of someone Else’s yard and walk to their house because the parking space in front of their yard had been used up by a neighbor or their neighbor’s friend….the most they could do about it was curse under their breath
so Pedro nobody has no god given right to any parking space in front of their home…maybe in a few areas its different
now ..regarding entrances to driveway……it is not right to block an entrance to someone home or business disallowing their vehicles to be able to drive into their yard to park or for clients to be able to drive into the garage…….
……. i can see that vehicles need to drive into your garage …… then your entrance to the garage should remain clear
but ….Pedro your entrance can’t be so wide as to take up the space of three or four vehicles….. there should be a clear area for vehicles to drive into your business area and drive out and I’m guessing from the size it should be used as an entry and exit point
from the pic it seems like the roadside is being used as a parking space for your vehicle when you enter your home…and if your loose out on the parking space at time them oops …first come first serve …park further up or down the road
Peter,I don’t think you are helping your cause with all your inciteful comments/responses.There has to be laws on the books as to how to resolve this issue..Roseau is a mess and the mayor really has a lot more issues to really resolve than this.. what has the mayor really done to improve the quality of life in Roseau??? Or what plans does he have??
Peter Karam wanna be talking about hate?? Take your vehicles off the street!!!! bordieu oh and even commenting wee a big man like you? so childish but who mr think he is nah cuz u a Karam? ouu ur surname spells karma
Mr Karam here is a bit of advise. The Mayor is right. 59 yrs ago Roseau was not as congested as it is today. So your argument on that basis is ineffective. What you must do now and forget about politics and talk man man with mayor as two solid administrators who love your town/country. Pull this garage to somewhere around donkey beach and eradicate all these mechanic squatters who run the beach goers away by thowing all their mechanical debris on the beach and give most of them employment. Build a state of the art garage. On Cock street you erect a reasonable guest house/inn to facilitate the Winsor Park and visiting dignitaries. This spot is ideal for that. Move your family to Goodwill. If you cant afford to build a guest house/inn then talk with me. In the mean time this garage should be relocated.
I see nothing wrong with where Acme garage is locaed. there is enough side walk for us to pass and it is a small area. My big concern is BEST DEAL RENT A CAR that has taken up an entire STREET in the capital for their business and have also taken up almost every parking spot on the next road. This is what we need to check. Nothing is wrong with where karam is, I pass that area everyday and there are vehicles parked on the opposite side of the road and i am stil able to drive by with no difficulty.
This is ridiculous and I think it is a personal attack and we should stop that nonesence in Dominica.
KFC took a whole side of a street for their way to their drive through. Nobody saying anything.
i agree with the kfc part..so right!
ok here is how i see it….i have lived in the states before….and nobody has no right to any parking space on the side of the street in front of their yard….maybe its just the places i lived in….
my friends has had to park on many occasions in front of someone Else’s yard and walk to their house because the parking space in front of their yard had been used up by a neighbor or their neighbor’s friend….the most they could do about it was curse under their breath
so Pedro nobody has no god given right to any parking space in front of their home…maybe in a few areas its different
now ..regarding entrances to driveway……it is not right to block an entrance to someone home or business disallowing their vehicles to be able to drive into their yard to park or for clients to be able to drive into the garage…….
……. i can see that vehicles need to drive into your garage …… then your entrance to the garage should remain clear
but ….Pedro your entrance can’t be so wide as to take up the space of three or four vehicles….. there should be a clear area for vehicles to drive into your business area and drive out and I’m guessing from the size it should be used as an entry and exit point
from the pic it seems like the roadside is being used as a parking space for your vehicle when you enter your home…and if your loose out on the parking space at time them oops …first come first serve …park further up or down the road
it appears that the economy is booming in DA now. The council can now focus on fustrating business. The issue of parking in Roseau is clearly due to the amount of bus stations distributed in the city. 1 station with a circulator might be too difficult a solution I guess.
Hush Dere FETE Like or Dislike: 0 0August 1, 2012
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” You are always speaking on topics you have no authority! and what trap should they set for you a website to blagay day and night Fete? Peter still doh want you for friend, he run you from Newsdom sans honte.
As if you don’t have to die too getting so easily carried away.”
You little deep head trouble maker, I feel so sorry for you, you do not know me, and perhaps you do not know Peter Karam either, you are simply babbling, and have no idea what you getting into. Neither Peter nor you can chase, or as you say run me off from any Website.
If you really knew who you were talking about you would have known I have an Website on the Internet for longer than twenty years you see!
I do not know why you are picking a bone with me
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!!
Let me tell you this, there is nothing anyone in Dominica have that I want, I have just about every necessary thing that any man of means has, and that includes a Website, I never wrote on a site known to me as Newsdom, okay, you are talking about the wrong man.
If you go tthat is my personal Website, and I owned it for more than twenty years now.
The only person in Dominica I had a problem with on a Website is some old English White Rastaman, perhaps another rum dog who claims that I stole some picture from his site, and as far as I am concerned that picture is a national photograph, sent to me by someone, and is still on my site.
He tried to damage me,but to this day I am prepared to deal with him, and if he is still in Dominica he had better not even think of me anymore, because I am one who knows wow to fight fire with fire!
Right now it is in redevelopment, so if you click on any of the categories you will find them empty, my message board is no longer there, the shopping cart is empty, okay; you or no one in Dominica can stop my my progress or anything I set my mind to do, I am as big as anyone in Dominica, and surely I am bigger than the your local rum thief; if you know what I mean
So, man woman boy or girl, ” you aint gat nothing to tell me.”
I know I will die some day, however my legacy will be different to every and all the politicians in Dominica, when I cross path with people in person, they usually remember me for something good in me;
In your case you are nothing than a little jailbird, a crawling weasel without a name, so what can you have to tell me, you cannot insult me more than I can insult you. Trouble is you hide in secret and suck in my insult
Bye!
Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
One last thing. If you don’t have something on legal paper it doesn’t exist. Hence even if your family has been utilizing the area sine 1959 it is not an entitlement.put forth your document and lay this matter to rest.
Mr. Karam,
The solution to all of this is quite simple. If you have a site plan approved by lands and surveys division and registered with the registrar’s office take the matter before the courts to seek redress. If you do not have the aforementioned then if you need to use the side walk then apply for permission from the city council. This is standard procedure. You going to Skerrit is not going to help you. Skerrit is not above the law. He has to follow the law. One more thing as an aside. Always when giving a service treat people with dignity and kindness. For that you do unto others eventually comes back to you. I call it the law of divine order. It is not as much about the mayor as it is about you. This right here is your test (interpersonal skills) and until you have passed the test more blows will be pelted at you (I.e. One person, one circumstance after another.). Listen to the message being communicated to you in all of this sir.
WEll government need to build sidewalks in town, there are not side walks? Roseau is just a mess for pedestrians and wheel chair bound people. Government need to do something about that.
admin, why did yu delete my letter and alot most of my comments. yu no different from those individuals spewing vermin at us no doubt. they have a right to insult denigrate and I do not have a right to defend my business and family. so the public have right to block our Garage operations with impunity and total disrespect all day, impede our entry and exit, block our frontage, we then cannot operate and then that is justice. bring us to our knees Admin and you condoning those nasty degenerate comments with no thinking.
Isn’t Pedro the Spanish for Peter?
Then Pedro, get off the Roseau “trottoir” and move to Portsmouth!
Well Karam,the (I’s) EYES have it…Move your !
This is something, KFC by the Roseau market has more than a side walk, They have a whole side of a road for the business, now let me hear someone on that one. Peter I will send my agents to come DA from my DC office and represent you in DA. I will also have a personal chat with the PM he at least listens to me.
With the one of kind Roseau River running through with millions of tons of water one would think that the stench and filthy looking streets would be of equal priority…
You choose the best name LOL bcuz you sound like a real joker. The stench and filthy looking streets in Roseau are created by nasty people like you. This is the most active i have ever seen Roseau town council but thanks to nast salops like you our street are filthy and have stench. Instead of blaming other look in the mirror and realize the part u play in the problem. Typical Duminican
Mr Mayor can you please take care of the stench in roseau…it is horrible! we got these firemen sitting everyday playing dominio all day they can use the fire trucks to water down the place at night. Roseau stinks…the town already not all that…no side walk…no parking.. plus stinking? Roseau needs a good clean up
so we should get paid as cleaners or firemen or maybe both
No, you should work for your money.
the firemen used or still hose down the streets.roseau really need a make over.that Mayor need to change
so the mayor not seeing roseau?? Dirty n smelling? just have a title mayor and not doing nothing…ah wa wee with them kind of people there
No sidewalk has ever existed from the southern gardens gate at the top of bath road all the way down bath road past the convent high school gate all the way down to convent prep at the junction of bath road on valley road. Their has never existed any sidewalk between the catholic Bishop’s wall and the St Martin’s school wall ever from time immemorial. Their has never existed any sidewalk from the corner of turkey lane all along the St mary’s Academy my school all the way to the Fort young the whole length of Turkey lane from the 30s. But the Roseau city council found it fitting to single out the Acme garage Karam ltd a garage operation and residence in existence from 1959.
Peter are we ever going to get a sensible comment from you? What does all the streets you are naming with no sidewalks have to do with Cork Street that has a sidewalk but occupied by you About time you get some sense in your last few years so you won’t be remembered as a ignorant.
good relationship with the Karam family; oh please!. The Mayor is not fooling anyone. It seems he is more concerned about settling the score with Karam than taking care of the stench in Roseau. Furthermore, have you all noticed,he is also doing the work of the Transport Board.
What score the man settling? Stop making excuses for Peters, he displays for anyone that trys parking in the upper Cork Street area and also his lies and stories he creats. The story Peter gave about the mayor being parked in an area that blocked his business entrance and interrupted his business was a big lie. The mayor was parked higher up by the stairs to go up to the living accomadations upstair not his business entrance. You’ll must not encourage Peter
Observer wait till someone disrespects your front door to your home block you for three hours and see how you will smile. you so full of hate yu so blind yu canot think well. the man trespased on private property and put a blokcade on part of our business and residendential section. then he behaved like a Gutter rat when I blocked in return, so he felt how it was being blocked at a person’s front door.
thats not what he mean .he is just trying to say he dont have any beef with them
Thank you Emma. My God the haterz they hate us so much they are so blind that none can see. we have so much dog eat dog in our society Emma. Just look down scroll down see the nasty dirty comments. no wonder they still enslaved in their mental slavery.
HMMM. do you see calton phillip having those kinds of problem? the man knew his business required space for parking so he took it out of town.mr karam u could learn something from him.buttomline is…..your business is not appropriately located.end of story.
Starfish Is there any sidewalk along carlton Phillip business? yu are so so nice. is there any sidewalk infront save a lot supermarket? is there any sidewalk along the whole length of the Auto trade Nissan dealership. double wicked standards is your modus operandi eh. keep on the hate and keep being blind
Ok DNO, I see you encourage racism as well. You and peter karam are no different. DNO is a popular news website so you take advantage of that by filtering news that works in your favor. It’s a shame that as “slaves” you all continue to allow the masa to have a microphone in airing out his hatred and vitriole towards Dominicans. YOu all are a shame!
and you robin do not have any microphone for you to air your hate also. Admin did not give me any surprise, since 1959 My father suffered the wrath of our people we born with smile with laugh with eat with and behind your back they stab you hate you insult you denigrate you. this has been since 1959. no different today. Today is emancipation day and all i was doing was aking the haterz to emancipate thereselves from mental slavery and to stiop acting like slaves bowing to Massa . wake upand smell the coffee. Robin. you of all people. no surprise. is cool. nothing surprises me anymore.
I’ve held steadfast to this quote my dad taught me…”When a person shows you who they are believe them…”Maya Angelou
Peter Pedro Karam you take delight in referring to Dominicans as SLAVES. It is not only on this blog, but several times in other forums. Truly sad that you are so tormented in spirit and unhappy that you resort to such a painful phrase just to make a point. It’s difficult for me as a black woman, aware of my ancestral history and proud to be black to see past your ignorance, even though I do pity you.
What does slavery, white man etc have to do with the illegality/legality of your occupying the sidewalk? You know what you are doing, because you did call DR a ..”dirty black slave..” to his face. This is not a slip up but carry on! I find comfort in knowing that you and your ilk are no longer the face of fear for the little black boys and girls growing up in todays Dominica and hence your reason for whinning so much!
continue your hate continue to spew your vermin. yu must insult an denigrate an i have no right o defend. you haterz. you are the racist one.
Somebody muzzle Pedro for me please. Give him a mufflah to blow his hot air through. Geez Peter, get a grip. You calling people slaves insulting people and when someone else has the audacity to call you out on it you attempt to turn it around and call them a racist?
Well Peter for years you and you friends have been making off jokes and careless remarks about Dominicans, sadly so many Dominicans laugh at those insults instead of standing up to you all. I’m happy that Tri-State Beauty and the many other bloggers here have called you out on your biggotory. You think you can say what you want and nobody should align it in context? Brother we are enlightened and don’t be fooled if you see a few idiots running around “nigga this, nigga dat” we are not all embaracing this so fall way back.
OMG! If I have to read the words denigrate, haterz and slave one more time I will lose my mind. Are there any other words in the dictionary/thesaurus that you can use to replace these three? Oh Yeah, you used ‘vermin’ but I think you wanted to say spew your VENOM instead. Venom – poison and Vermin – small animals or insects.
Well said Tri-State Beauty. You have echoed my sentiments. Who does this man think he is? You hear it people? This man and his ilk have been referring to you as slaves. As was mentioned before this is not a slip up.
that makes no sense what the mayor is doing. You cant expect people to just stop parking clearly where lawyer says they can park, and 2 where are you providing parking in roseau. plus whats that nonsense allu do by the bridge with that bus stop?!! bunch of …(lemme not say)
happy the mayor has turned the whole of roseau as a bus terminal just as though roseau is Grand central terminal in new york. the whole congestion is one thousand buses in roseau competing with private vehicles. we need a north bound terminal and a south bound bus terminal outside roseau. you cannot have the pointe michel bus stop infront a major pharmacy. the senior citizens our parents and granparents cannot even go to a major pharmacy in roseau. the congestion in roseau is the buses not the acme garage . we cannot allow the unthinking and or malicious certain individuals with no respect to bring our business to a standstill and block our Garage and Home for eight hours non stop. that can never happen in ne york or miami or st thomas. never. this is abour respect. i blocked the mayor in january when he parked with total impunity and disrespect trespassing on our private property, so i blocked him back. ever ince he declared war on us. just one person here tell me who woud allow the public to park infront your frot door bl0ock your home entrance, block your Garge operations from entry and exit and show me who would smile an say thank you. they want to go stadium kreole fest and block our entrance a fire zone block our home entrance block our garage operations for emergency use. and dat nice not true. again today is emancipation day. emancipate yourselves from mental slavery of hate for 53 years.
While it is in order to put some order in the City especially where parking is concerned because the City is really too congested now. People must be given alternatives, and these must be established first and then you write to them directing them to the alternatives. We all pay taxes to be on the road and these monies must be utilised to give us some comfort.
no sidewalk exist on the following in town,
SAT TV
Police headquarters
Fire service headquarters
Save what supermarket
and 90% of Goodwill, pottersville, newtown, and Roseau.
Pedro, just move your tail from my sidewalk is all. The whole garage you have on the sidewalk in Cork Street has got to go! We the people of Cork Street have seen you do and say too many things to people because of that sidewalk. You have NO support on this street. All of us will be cheering when they finally move your stuff from OUR sidewalk! It is NOT your personal property! Get off!
Put a sock in it Peter. You have too much roro for a grown man. Why you want the “slaves” to side with you. Dominicans taking your rantings for joke but you mean exactly what you say. Go build a parking garage. This is a public sidewalk since 1959 you all got a free ride.
So what?! There is a sidewalk right next to your property and it does not belong to you. It belongs to the public.
The Acme Garage Karam ltd poses absolutely no obstructionn never has ever to the free flow of traffic. not one complaint has ever existed never ever that any pedestrian has ever been denied walkway on the property of the Acme Garage Karam ltd. Opposite the Worshop has a 200 foot long by twenty foot wide open sidewalk also for use by the public/pedestrians.
how would you like if they block your entrance to your home or business and yu cannot enter nor exit your home or your business. Jesus gave allyu a brain but ya;ll making a mokery of the brains jesus gave allyu. see ya;ll still enslaved in mental slavery of massah
bla bla bla bla.
Telling the people to move when we in fact know that they have nowhere to move to makes no sense. Why isnt a meeting to discuss the matter with stakeholders called? Roseau just doesnt have space! but at the same time you dont create space by flexiing ur muscle of authority. We must learn to unite and do things in a civilised way for the benefit of all. everything is a roro, somebody flexing a muscle, somebody exercising a right, no one trying to work for common good. stupes
Stupes stop talking nonsense and about what u don’t know about. Peter have land down Canefield so this BS about having no where to move is crap. So shut up
@Francisco Telemaque please be aware that wherever you are in the world as long as you have a business in the city centre if you want special privileges you must apply to the local council for a permit to have a reserved parking sign at the entrance of your business premises. You don’t own the 10 to 15 feet of ground of the entrance and you cannot ask for it to be a part of your site plan either except for informing that its the access to the premises.
D.N.O can u state the laws or get a traffic police to make a comment on this matter.please
No You actually need the Land and Surveys Authority to come and answer that. Those who hold the land title for Roseau would be best to answer this.
Stop fighting Dominicans and sought amicable solutions to your problems. Mr. Mayor and Karam are “prominent men in society” so to speak this DNO publishing should be the last resort to your problems. Mr. Karam should seek an audience with the City council to rectify this issue, get to the root of it and conclude what is the solution to the problem. If this cant be resolved then call upon the local Government DDO/DDA or Commissioner if needs be or the relevant stakeholders but not the Prime Minister. I believe this is a positive move on the part of the City Council but thorough dialogue with the various parties is an obligation. Identify the problem is good but working with the people to create solution is a vital asset in problem resolution. I personally do not know how Mr. Joseph approached Mr. Karam but even that could have triggered some negative behaviour on the part of the businessman. Please gentle men this is definitely not a way forward for nation building. So revisit this situation and take a different approach to work things out positively.
Mr. Mayor why don’t you make the sidewalk for people to walk on, by raising the sidewalks, so that the cars are unable to ride them?
How tall are they really going to make sidewalks that vehicles wouldn’t be able to drive up on? boooo boooo
ie, Health Center. Do you see cars parking by the Health Center on Great George St. The sidewalk is accessible to pedestrians and wheelchairs, not vehicles. O’ve s…
What about wheelchair access dummy?
mr mayor i agree with you so i dont care who else dont but that is a good idea
I think it is time that the City take a stand, not only against Karam but also citizens who parked where ever they wish to. They live there so they park there. They need to travel Imperial Road as well and give the same notice.
Dominica is too free; people doing what they want, when they want. Ok, grant it that Karam has been parking there since 1959, isn’t that long enough to have built an parking lot elsewhere. Change is often very difficult to process, the time is NOW. Noe it is time to get some tow trucks in position, and some hefty fines
gave you a thumbs up because i agree totally.plus just because he has been doing it since 1959 dosent make it right.just think of how much money the city would have made if they were charging him from 1959.
If Peter is correct, which I believe he is correct; I cannot understand how someone can declare a mans’ private property a public sidewalk!
Dominica seems to be a place where politicians take on their own, and bully people, they make decisions that can hurt even the politicians themselves in the process, and the reason they are doing that is because they know that the flimsy judicial system we have in the country will not lift a finger to dispense justice against them the bulling and rouge politicians.
As I told you Peter, the issue is a civil matter, as such you have to fight fire with fire. The Prime Minister is the head of the country, however he is not the law of the country!
You have every right to take this matter into a court of law, and see if for once in a lifetime justice prevails.
Other than that perhaps your best alternative is to unseat this man who likes to talk about ” I am the Mayor of Roseau. ”
On the other hand perhaps if you set up some rum beer, and wine outside of your business place, that might be enough to gain you some peace.
Because some rum drinker might steal it all and when that rum drinker consumes all that alcohol he will get drunk, perhaps then and only then that drunk will behave himself, and leave you alone.
Remmember I Francisco Telemaque is a rum thief oui!
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!
Pedro, it is written in Proverbs: ” the young may, the old must. ”
You are a bit younger, soon the old must go, while you remain a bit longer, they say every good thing must come to an end, and every wicked politician must move on to another place, like six feet down below.
Wickedness never last forever.
Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
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You are always speaking on topics you have no authority! and what trap should they set for you a website to blagay day and night Fete? Peter still doh want you for friend, he run you from Newsdom sans honte.
As if you don’t have to die too getting so easily carried away.
I like you FET, but today you stupid
ALL THOSE MONEY THEY HAVE, THEY STILL CANT SLEEP AT NIGHTS , and they wanna harass the ganga
If Mr. Karam has been parking in that location since 1959, clearly he has established a precedent that is superior to the position the Mayor is occupying. If there is no law, then it is allowed. We are not under Napoleonic code, where if it is not specifically allowed, it is forbidden. The actions of not allowing parking on the sidewalk, especially for the business of a Car Repair Garage has to be weighed with obstructing the free flow of traffic. Remember, a government not kept under the control of the people will become out of control and oppress the people.
absolute nonsense! I’m not sure if you’re trying to be sarcastic or what even though karam there for 50 years the mayors office IS superior to karam and his toxic garage! Peter should appreciate the fact that he was allowed to get away with parking on the side walk in the first place! Infact the mayor have every right to call a vote and get karam to move his garage somewhere else since it emits toxic gases and poisonous chemicals in the public.
” If there is no law, then it is allowed.” That argument is so dumb.
A sidewalk is for pedestrians not for traffic. Mr Karam should move his cars from the sidewalk so that the “slaves” can walk freely. Is the same slaves that help him build his business.
I’m not talking about the Mayors office and even if I was, the Mayors office and government as a whole is a fiction. They are not real, but merely ideas on a piece of paper, not there to help you, but to control you. Karam has been parking in that location for 50 plus years and a presumption that goes unchallenged, is law. Therefore, Karam has established his right, as has everyone else, apparently to park on the sidewalk in an effort to alleviate obstruction to the free flow of traffic because the designers of the city and engineers never took these things into account. Those streets in Roseau were designed to accommodate horses and donkey carts. Therefore, the government created this liability and before they go around ordering people to do this and do that, they must present a remedy. He who creates a liability must present a remedy. And, if the government gives you an order, they must accept your bill. So don’t come with your this is “absolute nonsense” shill speech. Not even the Prime Minister can simply write you a letter ordering you to do what he wants. Eh nuh work so! So nuh feel the Mayor can simply tell you what to do when and how he feel like. If you don’t believe in the freedoms and rights of the people you despise, then you don’t believe in them at all and you expose yourselves as hypocrites.
Judge Sir/madam, oue Garage has never ever obstructed any free flow of traffic ever. pedestrian have never ever been denied usage and walkway on our property. not one copmplaint has existed from 1959 hwere any pedestrian can say they have been denied a walkway on our property away from the main road. some some unthinking malicious mebers of the public with no respect want to park infront our residential and commercial garage operations an bring us to our knees and close us down. wait unti anyone would try to block their front door from entry into and out of their home or business, an see dem cry blood and foul.
Only a slave can write such nonsense. YOU ARE THE SLAVE!
There is no easy solution to that problem. I understand that he can’t park on the sidewalk, but where else can he park? Roseau does no have sufficient parking for the increased amount of vehicle. The government should look into building a low-cost parking complex or make it mandatory for new buildings have the the first floor as parking lot for their customers. Just a suggestion
So governement has to build parking for private businesss….Garcon ou pas febre…alas
Come up with another solution like moving the garage out of Roseau to Cnaefield Industrial site…lol
I agree with you whole heartedly. It’s about time Mr Karam find some place else to park. They started the business when there was only a few cars around. Now the times have changed. He needs to build a garage some place else, and stop infringing on the people of Dominica. It’s time to move.
I see no reason for the vehicles to be parked on the side walk when there is enough space under his establishment for parking. I believe he is deliberately pushing his vehicles up front onto the side walk so no one else can park there.
Don’t believe me just take a walk on cork street.
so give yu room to block me, so that i cannot enter or exit the property. yu are a sorrowful being with a brain. yu do not deserve a brain at all. thks Cork street. yu have more right to park infront my property, not true. your vehicle alone have license an insurance brainless element yu depict.
Cork St: «he is deliberately pushing his vehicles up front onto the side walk so no one else can park there.» You are very correct!
The idea is to occupy the sidewalk so that his business remains undisturbed: his vehicles can enter and exit at will and persons driving by will easily see his vehicles on display. No problem with wanting unimpeded access to one’s business. Simply pay for it. Or, move elsewhere. You cannot wish to get rich by climbing upon my back…denying me my right to safely walk on the street that MY tax money is paying for. Ree-dee-ku-losss!
Get real, Karam!
How about you build it, maybe solicit a few investors and create employment while helping the traffic problem and making money. Everything is government, do you know must parking centers that you see abroad are privately owned businesses?
I agree Roseau needs a building specifically built for car parking such as the multi-floor building which facilitate parking.
Are you people for real? While i do agree Roseau has a parking problem, this is a separate issue. Peter is conducting business and have his vehicle displayed on the sidewalks. So stop the excuses and stop confusing it with parking problems. No one can park in upper Cork Street because he has the place occupied as his showroom. Peter has been doing that for too long and getting away with it. People cannot even slow down in that area without him verbally attacking them. Peter has terrorized people in Cork Street for to long. It’s about time something is done about that and let him know Cork Street is not his.
I do not think that this is about who is more seasoned laborite or not. I mean Roseau is very congested with parked vehicles on side walks, Almost every business place in Roseau takes up sidewalk space, so i think the mayor should not just pay attention to Karam alone or do this like little boys , i think that he should write to all the business places and have a general meeting to discus this on a professional level. He can’t just pass one day and say this business place has to remove its vehicles there , if the people has been establish and operating there for so many years, he has to give them time if not an alternative place to continue operating their business. We all know that Roseau was not design and built to accommodate the future , but the future is here and we have to re-design it but without destroying people’s lively hood, we have to take good consideration when doing that . We all talk about New York etc ,But Dominica is not New York and if we have to compare , there are a lot of things that has to change.I sympathize with Mr Karam , because the Mayor has been making a lot of bad decisions that has not been in the best interest of Roseau and it’s people. See the amount of Keep clear signs that are on the Bay front and next to the new Roseau Market , somebody tell me why ? At the end of the day i hope this issue gets resolved , because each and every operating business in Roseau are important to us, and no one should be treated differently.
Lets see which NOSE comes out the BROWNEST P OR C because somebodies is going to get “BROWN NOSED” HA HA HA
Sounds like yours is black already…ouch
who to know more than you , eh yours stuck so high up i wonder if you breathing
Tell Karam Massah days over. They should charge him retroactive for so long he hugging the sidewalk like is his place.
The mayor is right. FREE UP THE SIDEWALK. Let us pedestrians walk safely.
What this has to do with the PM. I guess he trying to see who is the better Laborite. NONSENSE.
So for 53 years Karam taking over the sidewalk and he not seeing is time to get a conscience and free up for the poor malaway?
He can park under his veranda. Or lease a piece of land. Ay AY. A Joke that man?
He has shares in Roseau man?
oh please! what hell walk safely?????? There are sidewalks in roseau free from vehicles and YOU PEDESTRIANS STILLLLLLL WALK ON THE DAMN ROAD !
wat side walk
I want to know how massa days over wen dey still have direct line to d pm to make request and complaint. Is still d massa day in dca jus check who is d big dogs behind d scene reaping the rewards of the perceived victory of the ‘masses’. U don’t have to look far for d dollar minister and d rabid s.c and their family business interests whose profits are soaring while the poor continue to struggle.
i woul like to know who own the land
The Indians. Didn’t you know that?
grow up peter karam …you are a grown man stop acting like you’re in primary school. the side walk is NOT yours. You just think you can say and do what you want!!! get another place if you want packing infront your place and get your vehicles off the side walk…if it was somebody else that was happening too you would not give too craps but because its you, you want to show that you can go higher than the mayor and send letter to skerrit… The prime minister has nothing to do with that ….
I love it, when them Labor boys begin to behave like carnibals.A few weeks ago is was Dr. Darroux,now it is Peter. I am in full support with you, Peter.Since my days in Mix School, papa Karam used that area to park cars being worked on,therefore,what is that man problem.The city is very dirty,that should be the Mayor’s concern.
No wonder you sounding crazy mix school you go! uggghhh you make no dan sense!
papa karam? No wonder Peter calling allu slaves!
Karam should come to New York to see how he can use the side walk as his private parking space. Before he knows it, his vehicle would be towed away. In 1959 there were not as many people and vehicles in Roseau, he should know better.
yu such a slave girl. emancipate yr brain unless yu do not have one
Peter “Pedro” Karam, the woman is right. stop acting like a little child and behave yourself. Times have changed and we are progressing. Probably it’s time to relocate.
Pedro I was a little sympathetic and thinks the mayor should give you all some time to make other plans until you wrote that racist and bigoted comment. Right now I am in solidarity with the mayor, get off the sidewalk.
Peter you know you love you some slave girls and infact didn’t you marry one? I hate to get personal with you but the “slave” reference should be offensive to you as well and your entire family. Stop call people slaves. You’re in the center of city they’re trying to develop get your act together and set the right example for other businesses places like yours that depend on those slaves for money. There are ways to negotiate something that profits both you and the city.
Karam am sure you travel sidewalks are from pedestrian,my aunt was just in dominica and that was one of her concerns.the 50s are gone. get off the sidewalk.
Mr. Karam, I am sorry but we must support the Mayor on this one.
Your reason(s) for writing to the PM seems unclear. If you believe that a law has been broken, take it to the courts, unless you are writing in your capacity as a Labourite against the actions of another Labourite, which is not the concern of the public.
The Mayor appears to be doing his job- a good one. He is trying to uplift the city of Roseau beyond the next level. Rather than fighting him, I would encourage you to work with him.
Personally, I think it is time that everyone is held to account. We must instill and reinforce an ethos of ethical and legal compliance combined with efficient practices if our society is to advance. Dominicans at all levels of society must be motivated to act in ways that are beyond their direct control in engaging in desired conduct.
its a labour thing,every one thinks the P.M has the answers have a problem with fishing (check the P.M),have a problem with water (check the P.M),want to order Garbage bins(check the P.M),what are the other ministry here for then if the P.M have all the SAY
Those petite bourgoise in DA that think the whole of DA is theirs…abide by the rules like everyone else…!!! So what if you doing it since 1959…we are in the 21st Century…things change…follow suit
to all the slaves who have never been emancipated from mental slavery, questions,
1) is there any sidewalk from the southern gardens gate on the top of bath road all the way down bath road infront the convent high school, pass the convent prep all the way to the juction at valley road?
2) is there any sidewalk between the catholic Bishop malzere’s wall and the St martin’s school wall up constitution hill?
3) is there any sidewalk from 1900 on the whole length of turkey lane all along the St mary’s academy all the way to the Fort young junction>
Oh you haterz, oh you slaves , why were you never emancipated. keep on being slaves with your minds so always full of hate. The white man really taught you well how to hate and be so ignorant.
What does all this have to do with the price of bread. Your business is illegally occupying public property. Does this mean that because Jack and Jill do it too your illegal and foolish behaviour is justifiable and correct?
As i suggested to you before…get with the programme. It is ironic that you would speak of slavery in the same vein that you seek to impose your seemingly god-given right to dominate the masses!
It is time that you clean up your act, pedro.
And you yourself remain a slave too. Be impartial and objective and observe that there is no sidewalk the entire length of bathroad from its junction at the Newtown Savannah, past the Convent High and Prep, the Sat Building and the Windsor Park. The only ‘patches’ of sidewalk are next to Hara Agencies, the block, Campbells, and Government headquaters. At the Police station sidewalk is provided for within its compound. As for the area between St Martin’s School and the Bishop’s house, The lack of sidewalk continues all the way past the Trinity Batiste chruch to Independent Street’s intersection with Bathroad.
And there are many other parts of the sity where this is the case, including Cornwall Street, High Street, and even in the ‘newer’ Goodwill.
You STOP be a slave and look at the entire picture inpartially.
Yes, well said, with you on this
Pedro,
The journey of a million miles begin with taking the first step. Emancipacition began with the effort of one person and ganered support that saw it to frution. In the same breath, creating a city with open and safe sidewalks begins by unblocking cluttered sidewalk space one by one.
Stop for a moment and put yourself in the mayor’s shoes. if you were persuing the mission of freeing up sidewalk for residents and visitor alike wouldn’t you request that cars not block the sidewalks?
It may jolly well be true that the mayor is on your case because of past incident but in all honesty don’t you think that your business is denying the public safe access to the sidewalk infront your business place?
It would be better for you to spend your time figuring out a relocation plan for continuance of your business since the masses are in support of freeing up the sidewalk
So because people do not side with you they are slaves? Good grief. Instead of expending all that energy searching for comments to reply with non-sense, go think of how to comply with the mayor’s request!
You have finally displayed your idiocy with the greatest flair’ !
Pedro, why don’t you leave the country filled with slaves and go and set up business and claim sidewalks in your own country?
Yes I…Pedro(Peter). Not surprised coming from you. Don’t even know why those so called slaves patronize your business.
I support the Mayor of Roseau on keeping the side walks clear. Not only businesses, but other persons who park on sidewalks.
I find it very sad the Mr Karam would object to that. I find even more sad that Mr Karam would write to the Prime Minister on such a matter. He should follow protocol. Go to his lawyer and face the courts if he feels he has the right to obstruct the pavement.
Seems like mayor is putting the cart before the horse.
These are business places which our country already poorly lack. Has the mayor located a place or thought of a facility for parking these vehicles? If not should they be suspended in the sky? All of this bickering with no organised long term plan is just killing this country.
IT should not be the responsibility of the mayor to find place for parking the cars in question. the onus lies on the owner of those vehicles.
boy those big pple know how to lie to make themselves look nice and other pple look bad.even calling it private property
so my take is that you’ve been here since 1959 and you never found it necessary to build a parking lot elsewhere or expand broaden your horizons?
i see it as the karams just have a notion that because they are ‘karams’ they should be able to do as they please.
He won’t expand because he don’t want to many slaves working for him. He don’t want the slaves to have opportunities to advance in a growing company. So what they will do is keep the company at the same level whilst taking on more and more clients and still continue to get paid more. When the slave come and ask him for a raise he will turn around and say “look see I haven’t expanded”. If you watch all those so called prominent buisness places in DA you will see the same trick.
thats it as its them its ok but thay are the same one who tould the pass PM and olso this PM to stop young dominicans that are buying use vehicles so there high cost vehicles can sele this are the same people that is say how dominica should be not he has are problem just wait and you will see how the PM take care of that i dont think the PM should be part of that. cecil can take care of that keep the PM out he has his work to do
Her name is spelt Cilma Dupigny but i do believe that the parking of vehicles on the streets of Roseau is an issue.
i agree wih cecil clear the dam side walks
not too long i almost broke my leg in roseau
Geez Man! That Govt like to oppress people. All they do is tax and make our lives harder.
Wonder if you know what this topic is about!?
If he had no right to park there in 1959 he certainly has no right to park there now. That is the result of not putting things right immediately. The Mayor really needs to check all and sundry where this is concerned; especially on Hanover Street – or as I like to call it – Best Deal Street.
And Mr. Joseph while you are at it some of the drains in Roseau need cleaning urgently. The stench is giving me a headache now.
So writing to him is no big deal. The question is “will he even bother with this?”
yeah the issue on Hanover Street is ridiculous.
Donkey doh have right in horse race.
When A and B speaking, C yourself out.
Those 2 labourites there in their roro, Met Yo staying out of that, lmao
You still stupid, I see? This is now Dominica News mesage board. Grow up el stupido.
U go Karam! After all these years you should have squatter’s rights.
It was sarcasm ppl! One of the bourgeois claming squatter’s rights…get it?
Peter has a point. If he has been allowed to do this for years he cannot just be moved. He must be given time to make proper arrangements. In the meantime Planning Division still allows new buildings without garages in Roseau and environs and so the people park on the sidewalk close to their properties. Sidewalks are used for parking all over and the traffic police do nothing but pass with a book. And why not complain to the PM he controls everything including who was appointed Mayor of Roseau.
53 years is not enough time?
Ok so because Karam has been doing this for eons, Peter finds it ok to continue with business as usual? Writing to the PM for what? deal with the City Council Mr Karam and the Planning board. The sidewalk is NOT ACME garage property, it is the property of the CITY OF ROSEAU and the Citizens of the Commonwealth of Dominica. For years people have to be bobbing and weaving in traffic because Karam has taken over the PUBLIC sidewalk. Grow up.
I agree, grow up! then again those affected can act. Next on the agenda must be the open gutters in Roseau. Progress and development
Has Cecil written to Nassief? Nassief has taken a whole section of the market area for his personal business when he could have built his parking area on the ground floor. cecil you just trying to get at the man due to what happen in January. Karam the sidewalk is not yours.
Here goes Peter and his theatrics again!!!
I’m sorry to say this one is not going to get the sympathy of public.
doesn’t all business places have their own private parking at the front of their business. what is the fighting over.
Jay its a garage on the sidewalk…you have to walk on the street
Do you live in Dominica? Because you would clearly know that the amount of space Karam takes is on MY sidewalk and yours. Clearly, you have not been home since 1959!
even if the property they park on belongs to them it is your sidewalk right ?
thank you so much sir
ok pedro you’re commenting too frequently, you seem to be affiliated to Karam. go get more slave insult material and let unbiased people comment. lol loser.
Isn’t there some way you all can work this out, my god life to to short
Finally i can see some fpresight in the improvement of easy access to some businesses around Roseau when some of the side walks will be taken back. Keep up the pressure Mr. Mayor, I am sure this has been on the books long time but no one wanted to address it, until now.
Question is:do Karam own the land they use for parking their vehicles? If taking action the mayor must be consistent and enforce a no-parking ban on all vehicles that obstruct sidewalks, such as the bay front. If illegal the police should issue tickets for this.
Don’t see what the P.M. has got to do with this.
Sadly Based on the Squatters act they actually do…
This logic of «squatters right» is ill-placed. Can i park my vehicle indefinitely on public road until my «squatter rights» kick in and i get to «own» the spot?
Squatters act don’t apply to public(i.e. Govt. land).
Well, well, well. Mr Karam, now you are seeking PM assistance like you are this great innocent. Recently you had an incident with an individual re; parking just in front the Acme garage, the person stopped there to drop off someone for just a few seconds. And you had so much to say, even threatened the man, a foreigner mind you, who could have been a potential customer; telling him that if he had stayed there any longer you would have blocked him off from the front so he wouldn’t be able to get out, on a Saturday evening after your business hours had already been closed. taking government sidewalk property and have it as your business property. But don’t worry, truth always comes to light. I support the mayor 100%; massa days don’
DNO needs to take a pic of the area during Creole Fest. Karam brings all the vehicles even closer to the road so that nobody can park in that area. And what does the police do about it? NOTHING. He’s being doing that for years.
…your day will come.
so Anonymous tell me, your vehicles have the right to park infront my home and my Garage and I do not have the right to park infront my home and my garage? A garage is afire zone and when you park with Impunity wiothout any resopect infront my Door blocking me, You block me from exit and entry. try to blok anybody front door in the Bronx new york an see how fast you lose your vehicle. but here you live in the Jungle no rules, you want to block my home from exit and entry infront my business place, you have the right to block me, park infront of me and I do not have the right to park infront my home and business. wait till somebody blocks your front door and you cannot come out from your home. use your brainz fro heavens sake and em,ancipate your brains from mental slavery on emancipation day jesus Anonymous. Tell me what day will come, for not allowing you to block my front door for Eight hours, you upset. yu need psychiatrict treatment. yu need anger management.
The entire city of roseau needs rearanging. If karam wants parking space tell him to build a roof and a ramp to get up on it thud creating parking. This should be the next step-all new building should include some form of parking away from the sidewalk.
ok slave keep being a slave overseas
Pedro, I love how educated you sound. Is that your answer to every comment calling people slaves?
The land is NOT Karam land. It is the property of the city of Roseau. They started using it, and claiming it at a time when laws were lax and there were fewer vehicles. Times have changed. karam blocking the whole sidewalk and the taking all the parking spots on either side of the road for years. He and the possie dentist even had big clash over that for parking spot. Because you doing something for years, doesn’t make it right. He sending letter to the PM because everything in Dominica is political. Both he and the Mayor are labourites, but these days the Mayor is swiftly falling out of favour with the party top brass and even the PM so he knows exactly why he write the PM. This is not about sidewalk alone, this has DBS written all over it too. Peter always playing victim and Cecil alas your ranks cutting, you trying your best but don’t expect too much support from your party,since they have blamed you for all the leaks thus far.
so where he expect all u to park now…he have another venue?????????????
thank you
Peter well well well you have enough time on your hands, uhmmm LABOURRRRRRRRRR POWERRRRRRRRRRRRR!
Come on Peter, you all have been utillizing the Roseau side walk for so long.When Roseau or Dominica had 10 vehicles, you all could do this, but not in this era of times when there’s a vehicle to every 3 persons in DA. Roseau is becomining overcrowded, the people need their side walks.
Look at all those other car dealers,merchants, they have all expanded,and moved to the outskirts of Roseau to continue their buisness transactions, its not too late to acquire a plot of land, be it Canefield, Fond Cole, Lower Castle Comfort or Wall House to establish a parking lot so that you could bring in all your motor vehicles where they could be advertised for sale and use your present location{Cork Street}to do your office /shipping transaction and residence.
Its high time that you stop fighting with the Mayor. I cant find any reason for you writing the PM on that matter
The voice of reason.
Karam, just because you’ve been operating leniently on that sidewalk since 1959 doesn’t give you the right to this PUBLIC space! It is annoying that each time I am in Dominica, I have to cross the street w/ my kid to avoid your workers spraying me or using up PUBLIC property so you can run your business. I am happy Cecil Joseph is on your back, because times are changing sweetie pie, and the things you got away with years ago, you will now have to face the critics. Final word to Karam–LIFE does not work to your advantage all the time, and it shouldn’t, especially when it is a BIG INCONVENIENCE to the general population!!
Mr. Karam we are not in 1959 , now is time for the next level so get reddy , before it was telligram then fax now is email or sms so help Mr.Joseph to change Roseau for the next level, by the way Mr.Joseph see how you can fix the pyping thing nex to nasif on the way to the court house last time i past there i met a wite man who could not stop snizing there so i ask him what is the matta with him then he said to me theres a a good amount of ammonia here.
look jokes…u jus wake me up…thank you Mr. Gouty
No Name 2, you are well come
Mr Gouty keep it coming. pure kix loving it.
So because he has been there for 100yrs
That doesn’t make the sidewalk his
Mr Mayor please do what you must do. this is a nuisance and i have always asked why is this happening. no where to go through for years when you get to this garage. and you pass and see the same vehicles for days in the same spot. MOVE THEM OUT KARAM AND KEEP THE SIDEWALK CLEAR. NUISANCE.
Visitor, yu have been really enslaved overseas. oh yu slave.
Visitor: «MOVE THEM OUT KARAM AND KEEP THE SIDEWALK CLEAR. NUISANCE.»
Well said!! Actually this is what i hope the PM will tell him, in stronger and more colourful language.
I remember coming from school back then and having to walk on the street cause the vehicles were on our public sidewalk. It is time for the perpetrators to cease and decease. You hear Mr. Karam. It’s time to stop! Darned.
Karam: «“We were established since 1959. He declared our private property to be sidewalk. We have been parking on that compound since 1959,” he pointed out.» And, herein lies the problem…..you have been ALLOWED to get away with this foolishness since 1959. We are now in 2012. get with the programme!
This issue of crowding, overcrowding, and monopolising public space in Roseau is not unique to Acme Garage. However, this company has persistently and arrogantly done so. I can clearly remember a public fracas probably 2 years ago between that same Mr. Karam and a dentist for the same reason….Acme claiming public space as its own. This is illegal, dangerous, and must stop.
By the way, why would you write to the prime minister on a matter like this? Sheeeeeesh!!!!
well all of them like me is LABARIGHTS… The Dentist from Portsmouth, the automechanic man from cock street, the mayOR from La Courdre/bath estate… so we is mem bet mem pwel…WHO VEX BUST
They really need to get off the darned public sidewalk. This is a nuisance everywhere.
Boy now is not the time to fight… now is LABA PAWA TIME
Who is more Laba than Karam and Cecil. Karam is a seasoned laba like Toni. The only difference is that Karam likes to speak tuth to power and toni likes to twist the truth.
in 2015 u will c !!!!! LABA PAWA !!!!