National Security Minister, Rayburn Blackmoore, has accused the United Workers Party (UWP) of propagating fake and misleading information in hopes of shaping the political discourse in Dominica.
He was a guest on Kairi FM’s Heng Program on Thursday.
The Minister stated it would appear the Opposition Party and its operatives have made a deliberate decision to “concoct and fabricate” information about Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit and Dominica.
“Listening to some of the utterances, some of the language being put out there….certainly inspired by their own perspective of reality have made a deliberate to come up, fabricate, concoct, false fake and misleading information about the Honorable Prime Minister, the Dominica Labor Party and Dominica on a whole,” he said.
Blackmoore stated what he thinks is the true intention behind this.
“The intention there it would appear is that, that fake and misleading information would shape the political discourse in this beautiful country, to a point in which people’s minds would be influenced thereby creating an environment for anarchy, create an environment of disturbance and acrimony,” he said.
According to Blackmoore it is “sad” that the attack is coming at a time when the Government is embarking on a number of developmental projects across the island.
He highlighted one such project, which is valued at over $2-million for the restoration of the road in the Canabis area.
“At a time when this Government is busy spending over $2-million to restore a section of road at Cabanis that leads to one of the major arteries in this country, the very serious tourism site the Trafalgar area, the road leads to Laudat and other hamlets,” Blackmoore stated.
A temporary bypass has since been constructed in the Cabanis area for the benefit of Roseau Valley villages after the road collapsed in late December, 2016.
After the collapse, authorities had closed the road and told motorists from Fond Canie, Trafalgar and Laudat to take the Copthall to Wotten Waven Road as an alternative route.
And Blackmore said the contractors are working to have the road fully restored.
“Proper drainage, proper carriage way, properly surfaced, and an alignment that will be much improved so that vehicular traffic flow can be much safer and secured,” he said.
Blacky boy the days of vary, peepeep, vindictiveness, manipulation, abuse of power and disrespect for those who disagree with you and the Poopoo Cabal are over. Tuesday marks the beginning of the end of a political career for you and the goons who only seek to enrich yourselves at the ignorance of the people. Gardakhan will also have a lot of questions to answer reference road contracts and how was he able to get “all” the work he did while Public Works workers were begging for piece of bread. Lots of questions will be asked and I foresee lots of people spending a little vacation at the state hotel in Stocky once operated by Mr. Blanc and company.
Assertive and ready for Dday!
Mr blackmore it’s nice to knw you got bk ur tongue so here you go talking gibberish but up till nw u hvnt had a press conference on the crime situation in Dominica. Boss it’s time up pack up its time for you and your bunch of lazy corrupt ministers have to go.
Dry your spittle and don’t sucier skerits grain of rock salt.
While blackmore can’t indicate what exactly he considered “propaganda, fake and misleading”? the article itself fail to indicate what blackmore talking about.
But on the flip side he attempting to fool the people by all that garbage he talking bout, mere maintenance they undergoing and making it feel like is new projects from their drawing board.
You having a laugh at the people, you should be flog.
Blackmore take your propagating nonsensical bias, illiterate campaign and go shove it in the Boiling Lake. If you then contaminate the Lake we will propagate action against you to clean it up just like you are required to clean up the political mess of your corrupt Labour government. Go clean up the passport saga,
Who are you to Lecture to us. Show us your leader and we will tell you who you all are.
Good Bye
Blackmore,then why don’t you provide what you consider to be the truth with facts.We can no longer trust this administration with their spin and fake news.It is a fact that in recent weeks more than one Dominican diplomat has run afoul of the law.If it’s one,I guess we could tolerate but where the pattern repeats itself it is clear that Dominica is not dealing with the right crowd and it’s friends of the PM Labour Party operatives who are responsible for the mess.We are waiting for your facts, Blackmore
On DNO and QFM alone them workers strong. Protest non and void, Elections labor again so enjoy you guys social media in the end the laborites will rise and show who’s boss…….
Apparently you are NOT strong in your English grammar. The term is “NULL and VOID”. not “non and void”.
Rayburn you’re still in the Mahaut Road side drinking rum-shop mentality. I won’t waste time arguing on this post. When local banks start being fined for money laundering as a percentage of their market capitalization, I hope you will have answers for them.
That’s all I have time for today with you and your lies.
You will very soon eat your words
Mr. Blackmoore, Sir, how much scandal can your regime’s boss inflict upon the citizens of Dominica? How much can they take? And now you see to suppress them by a legal device? Shame on you.
Daily Mail UK February 4th 2017 (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3625651/Baroness-Scotland-bought-Commonwealth-job-utterly-corrupt-process.html)
1) Dr. Skerrit gets bogus Order knighthood from Baroness Scotland’s Order in return for the Commonwealth job sponsoring;
2) Baroness Scotland’s suspected fraudulent behaviour in Dominica’s affairs.
How much more can Dominica take?
Dr. Skerrit, please, for the good of your country, consider your position immediately.
Blackmore did Mr Skerrit tell you what he and Lennox Lawrence were doing in Greece. I searched the entire World Wide Web and saw no reference to an official visit to Greece by these two gentlemen
Blackmore and most of his cronies are taking revenge for being born poor !!!!
Ha,just alternative facts????,
blackie boy you are stating alternative facts.
The only form of defence you culprits have is to blame the u w p just to continue to fool your supporters, but even seasoned Labourites are now fully convinced that you all are fake brutal liars that cannot be trusted, you all have no developmental vision and its time for u thieves to go.
“Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” – Samuel Johnson, April 7, 1775.
I see lots of scoundrels invoking patriotism in this CBI issue.
And Mr. Blackmore now invokes Donald Trump
Blackmoore use works Labourites can understand. Use very simple words.
Rayburn Blackmoore all of allu will go to jail with Skerrit and Tony. The guy was arrested in Dominica so whats faulty about that> Did you want the the people to stay quiet about this?. We will soon be seeing more crooks be arrested with Dominica passports, it’s just a matter of time.
”It is better to be thought of as a fool than to open your mouth and clear all doubts” words of wisdom indeed my friend don’t blow your chances of being the Interim Prime Minister, except you are more than satisfied to wear you ignorance like a badge of Honor; i’m sure you can do better than that.
But how many times you have to talk about Canabis?? I myself looking to see numerous points on different developmental projects and of a diverse category, not just road work.. As someone said earlier, which is what I always say myself, road works is maintenance, and that’s the responsibility of any Government and should be their how many years of political campaign story. There is much more to be done, and can be done, and the Government is stifling our people. Dominica has soooooo much beauty and potential, it seems that they can’t put their heads together and think up creative and progressive plans. I have soo many, the people have soo many, but no support, no leadership, no progress.
Like I said in previous posts, each and everyone of you will come out in full support of your master. I find the others are very slow in coming but they will have no choice. Waiting to see the others and their statements on DNO in the next week. Each and everyone of you will be treated as accomplices and be held responsible for the destruction of DA. Shame on you guys. DA deserves better.
It is too late to come flaunting money and projects: where was all this money stacked while the country and its citizens suffered in past few years. One small group can’t expect to enjoy lavish lives on the backs of Dominicans and leave the rest of the country to suffer. Magwe Sa.
Blackmore…..I heard this phrase ” Alternative Fact” is that what your are selling in this forum address as the National Security Minister???
SMFH
The,OECS,Caricom,our immediats neighbours will surely be on the side of the people of Dominica.
First of Mr Blackmore i want to ask you where do you get your hair cut ?? please be truthful about something for once. So Blackmore you really believe that this is misleading and fake information man? I do not need a PHD to know that you all are liars. The evidence is all around you and me . People like me and many others do not only depend on UWP nor Lennox to inform us; as much as we do appreciate information from them which has never been fake /false nor misleading form those two sources. . Well I for sure read and watch the news I do my own research ; I listen attentively to various conversations etc. So Mr Blackmore I believe is you who are now misleading and giving out fake/false information. One day soon you all will sit and reflect and what you all see; you all will not like and life will not be worth living anymore .Peace.
Mr Blackmore, you speak with “alternative facts”!!!
Speak to the fact that criminals and persons of ill repute have
Dominican passports and represent Dominica as diplomats and
ambassadors.
Sir your words are full of shadows.
Mr. Minister you all are blaming the Opposition for your errors. Please stop it. It is not working.
If you realize Blackmore did not react in the same manner that the other ministers responded to that mess that Skerro has put Dominica in with passport selling
I think this it is a scheme Rayburn is using, he is realizing that Skerro is loosing support from the masses , so instead of addressing the real issues he , talking about what is being built. But Rayburn, we wont be fooled by you antics, your and is all in it. You too have to go.
For a time there, was hoping that Blackmoore was going to make a difference but, I ca see you were given the order to speak on passport folly
Blackmore you are the one misleading the people of Dominica. You and the DLP do not have the majority support.
We are peacefully asking Skeriit and his cabinet to leave now.
I used to have so much respect for men like Blackmore and Dr. McIntyre. At this point how can you defend this government? Theses guys really think they are smarter than everyone.
First of all, this is 2017. Any information can be found on the internet. So please don’t insult us with this “fake news” defense. Facts is facts. And when everyone Skerrit has been associated with is either in jail, running from the law or dead(!), then something is fishy.
Second of all, don’t be boasting about fixing cabanis road when it was because of poor construction that we are in this position in the first place. All you just lucky no one was hurt.
Resign, Mr. Skerrit. It’s the right thing to do.
Fake and misleading yet still you guys trembling. For what?
Smell somthing fishy. Everything comes to light in time and all of us will witness it
I left Dominica four years ago when I came back to visit
Dominica is worst off to be honest I do not know how
The people are making ends meet passports are selling
Yes but the country is not benifiting from the sales of
These passports
Mr Blackmore, if you know what’s good for you and your colleagues, please go wipe the egg on your all face.
You all better, shut up, pack up and pay up.
Dominicans lets make Dominca great again. Enough is enough…
Now we have the Government in the corner, it’s just a matter of applying more pressure..
Black more put together with this cabinet aren’t enough to keep us quiet. Labour Party days are dead n gone.
We want our passport enquiry right now…
Enough is enough.
You all can kill the body but can’t destroy the soul. Great is the uwp, Great is the uwp and we shall prevail….
I suspect labour didn’t see that coming
FALLACY OF AUTHORITY is what i refer to your statement my good sir.
(fallacy of authority>>> is a common type of argument which can be fallacious)
I reality a fallacy is a lie!
Simply defined as false or mistaken idea it is erroneous as a character as Rayburn argument where he uses false or invalid inferences. Anything falsified is a lie!
Rayburn, these are not the days when someone received a letter in the mail, they had to keep it until they found someone in the village or Roseau who can read to read it and tell them what are the contents in the letter. If is one good thing I can say; is that illiteracy is all but eliminated in the country.
Just about every can read and write, knows how to think, knows what is fake and misleading information. They know when people like you are lying spreading, false propaganda as you are doing at this particular moment.
Your kind are no longer influential anymore, the excitements are over; people are poor and hungry: the eyes of the village peoples are opened. Reason, when people know you to be a nobody came out of nowhere joined the police force, on police salary, by the time you left and went into politics you are valued millions of dollars, explain to the people how you derive at your great wealth; the baloney you are talking is irrelevant!
You guys think that you can spread your malicious lies, tarnish the name of Dominica, cause anarchy, get your supporters to cause mayhem, then blame the government for it, in order to cause more mayhem and civil strife, so that you can overthrow the government. Well let me tell you all, we the clear thinking real patriots will not allow you all to overthrow our government. You hear me. We voted for this government, we are in the majority, and will never allow our government to fall based on you lies and mischief.
This Blackmore guy is funny and deluded.
We got ‘Pirates in the Caribbean’ going on with our diplomatic passports.
What is fake about that?
The donation for a childrens hospital by our Olympic skiers clearly had some misleading involved. We still dont have a childrens hospital, nor a new hospital – just a revamp and upgrade of the old facilities. That is misleading.
I think this dude left his brain behind at the barbershop
he is trying their old scheme … to have the masses deluded and fooled. IT is only a pity that the open minded ones are in the minority..
Hello and good morning my people. First I must say that I left Dominica in 1968 and I never voted therefore I don’t have any political Affliation. There are to many people speaking on behalf of the Prime Minister and they are making contradicting statements about the Citizen by Investment Program(CBI). There are people who born in Dominica and they are participating in the CBI program when any honest person should see that’s wrong because they are from Dominica. They are accusing our citizens of engaging in crimes against the state and inciting riots,now Mr Blackmoore has made a number of statements and he is the Minister of Security. This make me feel like this administration is prepping our citizens for a coming curfew. Mr Blackmoore can you tell us how many Passports that were issued under the CBI program and the funds generated . Also will you endorse having a financial forensic audit of the CBI program conducted by an outside company.
bravo
Blackmoore please shut up.
the work the government is doing is not development work. It is maintenance work. Development would be a new road where there never was one before. Not fixing one that fell a couple of years after you built it. why is it only now, after you were the minister of public works for how many years that you now state that guttering and drainage is being looked at? You failed to mention sidewalk for people who walk the roads as well as proper lighting.
So true, built a road from the airport to St. Joseph through the mountain, now that’s development. The days of using pick axe to build roads are over. Get wit it Blackbmoore
well you mr. man bring out the real information.
what is he talking about though? what exactly is misleading and fake? what is false? what they need to do is stop playing like it is not our business and be open and transparent. no smoke without fire
The minister of security is bringing Alternative facts to the people , we have the Trump mentality floating around in Dominica I just hope the people see thru it, and he should speak out long before now it’s to late I would never trust him.
“You hypocrite! First take the beam out your own eyes and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye. “These are the wonderful words of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew.
Please just stop and come clean, soon you’ll say they concocted the arrests of the wanted diplomats/ex-diplomats. It’s makes no sense to say that because they are fixing a road their alleged wrong doings should be ignored.
I would draw mr. Blackmoore’s attention to the fact that the former Prime minister of Norway. Kjell Bornevik, was detained upon arrival at Washington Dulles airport and questioned for nearly two hours on tuesday of this week because of his visit to Iran three years ago. This notwithstanding that he traveled on a diplomatic passport from his country.
Norway is one of the wealthiest, most transparent and least corrupt countries in the world. On the 2016 corruption perception list by Transparency International it was ranked no 6
(against Dominica in 39th. place). There are no charges out standing against mr. Bornevik, but clearly his name was highlighted as a person of interest. One wonders what would happen to our own P.M. if he were to set foot on American soil next time.
You will find the relevant report in the Washington Post today.
PS. The 2017 corruption perception list will be published by Tranparency International on 25 January. What spot will be allocated to Dominica…
I read the article in today’s Washington Post. Norway is one 38 privileged visa-waiver countries, whose citizens can apply on line for an entry visa for the U.S.A. without the need to visit an embassy or consulate for an interview. Yet, even holders of diplomatic passports of these countries have only limited exceptions with regard to visits to the U.S.A.
I would imagine that a holder of diplomatic passport from Dominica, Prime Minister and President included, would be subject to far more stringent scrutiny, especially in light of recent developments
How can it be about one man; how come its not about the welfare of Dominica and its citizen. Just ask him to relenquish power until all of this matter is cleared up. I’m disppointed that the people of the different constituencies are not asking their parlreps to be representatives to them and not the the ‘Supreme’ Skerrit. For once ministers of government put the interest of Dominica first; please I implore you.
That is the thing. Most of these people did not vote for the parl rep. they did but in their hearts it was really Skero they put their x for. Many of them every wednesday they bypass their parl reps and go straight to the PM for assistance and welfare money and handouts. He is their jesus christ. EVERY CONSTITUENCY NEEDS TO PRESSURE THEIR PARL REP to provide answers to these national issues. Make these jokers work instead of covering up for the nonsense that is happening. Otherwise NO VOTES FOR YOU NEXT TIME! they beg us for votes, then in return we have to beg them for answers?
Isn’t it a fact that an Iranian guy who was or is a diplomat carrying Dominica diplomatic passport and a Dominican passport was arrested in the DR sent back to Iran for violating UN sanctions?
Isn’t is a fact that a few diplomats of questionable character was arrested and in their possession they were carrying diplomatic passports?
These are the facts that this minister must concern himself with.
During the reign of James as PM, some Chinese who came to Canada were found with Dominican passports which, obviously they presented to immigration. The problem was they could not speak English. This is why Dominicans now must have a valid Visa prior to entering Canada. Are you not still angry about that?
Did any D/cans call for James’ resignation?
This was worst. These people could have entered Canada and remained here and travel to other parts of the world. Who knows what was their reputation?.
You UWP supporters are too bias. Be careful God does not punish each one of you for your attitude is also downright wickedness.
If the information is fake and misleading I challenge the P.M. to make a visit to the U.S.A. at this time.
He have no reason to go there now so why should he go you stupid fool
So what was his reason for going to Greece?
You still supporting Skerrit? $50M a month from passport sales, what is he giving you for this support? I guess a dollar, you poor schmuck