Opposition United Workers Party (UWP) Senator Dr. Thomson Fontaine is demanding that the members of the Electoral Commission resign.
Dr. Fontaine, who is presently out of state, spoke during a live broadcast at a UWP meeting held at Lagoon, in Roseau on Thursday night.
“We have to demand that the members of the Electoral Commission resign because they have failed the people of Dominica and they continue to fail us,” he said. “It’s time for Dominicans to rise up and take our country back, we must do it and the time is now.”
He continued, “What I have seen, what I have read, what I have heard over this past few days has given me a very heavy heart.”
Fontaine said he grieves over Dominica.
“I worry about the future that we are building for our country,” he stated. “Tonight I was very saddened because I looked at a picture in the Iranian press and the man responsible, the man they are now saying is responsible for the biggest theft in the history of Iran is sitting right next to the Prime Minister of Dominica and that is the headline news, the headline event in Teheran, even as we speak tonight.”
He said, “We are at a critical juncture and at a critical point in the history of this country and our actions now on will determine whether we save our country, or whether we allow just one individual to destroy and to utterly destroy this country.”
Dr. Fontaine said he is also prepared to take to the streets in Roseau in protest, “until we see an end to this regime.”
“We have to do this, we have to match, we have to protest, we have to do everything in our power to ensure that this regime of Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit comes to an end,” he stated. “We are ready to shut down this country…”
We need electoral reform
NO MORE EXCUSES
Stop making demands! If you all are going to force the govt out in 2017, just wait you idiot. Replace them with your henchmen I guess.
one of these things have nothing to do with the other!!! they are not doing anything for the country but criticize and blame and accuse and spread gossip! people who are taking chances and doing work are being criticized by the people who do nothing!!!!
Labourites taking this serious matter for a joke. Read this article. Your time for helping Skerrit is passed.
http://rijock.blogspot.com/2017/01/prime-minister-of-dominica-under.html?m=1
Anyone can run through that CROWD in full speed without touching any one
It is time for the non functioning electrical committee to go. Change will not come until the people are ready to bring this government down.
The thing about UWP is they just cannot be trusted.We love the information about our Government under ground economy but those carrying the message have too much skeletons walking around with..i mean we just need a fresh set of people..with a little bit of integrity.
They have to quit because at least three of them making money from the passport scheme and offshore business. So they can not be impartial as they are supposed to be. It is Roosevelt Skerrit that has to sanction their permits to operate these businesses and the two don’t mix. they have to support Skerrit if they want to stay in business. Not good.
We see UWP desperation this week; I have heard at least three UWP members calling for resignation of this government.
The writing on the wall has become very clear. They will never win another election in Dominica. The Prime Minister and his Government have a very high approval rating and continues to make Dominica proud, so here comes the UWP again; try as they might, they cannot shake Dominicans confidence in their PM and how he runs the country.
UWP keeps digging holes but they seem to stumble into them each time.
So which one will come tomorrow and ask for the government to resign or some government committee or advisor of the government?
They walked 7 times around the FC a few years ago hoping that it would come crashing down.
There was the one who said if he wasn’t a Christian what he would do to some people.
That now infamous 60 Minutes interview.
Call outsiders to dismantle our government so they can climb the stairs of the FC.
Now this!!…
Stop elevating your blood pressure…You can’t tell UWP what to do or say…What I can say though,is that I am certain now that a large percentsge of the people are feeling the squeeze,and they are prepared..What a FANTASTIC YEAR 2017 has been so far.Thank you patriot the Lennox Linton et al.
%, you make no sense, YOU ALL just can’t touch our PM. Is people like you, %, that is elevating your Blood pressure over our PM WHICH you all can’t touch.
High approval rating? So why does Skerrit import voters? Why doesn’t he clean up the electoral list that has the same number of registered voters as the population? Why does he give money to voters to vote labour? You labourite are so desperate, you really amuse me
Look at the holes the DLP (Skerritt) have created for themselves with the diplomats. The CBI hole is no one else’s to squirm in so understand the definition of desperation. The PM and Government’s high approval rating is more of a comfort to a fool and based on lies and manipulated information.
However, I will have paitence with your view as I do understand it takes time for a brainwashed person to accept the truth as it unfolds before their very eyes.
The only writing on the wall is that Labour will not win another election.
Fave you done a survey to ascertain the confidence level in this regime? I AM ALMOST CERTAIN, NO! Truth be told, come next election, something drastic is going to happen. Labour will lose and Skerrit will rum. MARK MY WORDS.
WE need massive deomonstrations , UWP every month needs a rally in different locations, organise busses, build momentum the message is getting out. Continue to put DOMINICA first and GOD will do the rest, LABOURITES are trembling.
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
The scared 
M ary Jane were you born and bred in Dominica? You seem to be Visitor. God bless you. .
So that was the massive crowd UWP had there, pa pa boy look jokes. You all will see PMSupport when he call his troops to Lagoon.
One thing you forgot is that without overseas votes Labour Party cannot win any election in Dominica.The DLP gang members know it,but you don’t…That’s why UWP must demand electoral reform.
All P.M. has is rent-a-crowd. Free rum, a red cap and t-shirt will submerse his conscious.
I am a laborite but I am not blind. Skerrit told us to go to Hell, but as we speak he and the entire world knows he is in deep hell! The Baroness sent Lennox them to go sosay cell, and less than a year later is she we see that eating cell. As embarrassing as it may be to me, it is a fact that Thomson, Linton and team Dominica seam to be on the right path with their calls, where’s Skerrit and our boys are on the wrong side. So this time I jumping ship and support Thomson.
Dear jumping SHIP BOY,
you have my full support lets go for it to much nonsense in D/ca now man!!
U lie …You ain’t no labourite
Thank you, my fellow Dominincan for being prepared to see the truth for what it is and not be blinded by partizan politics.
After all, the development and reputation of Dominica is in all our best interests not a system where a few become wealthy at the expense of the majority who are suffering.
The DLP administration is an embarrassment to the people it is supposed to serve and is destroying the reputation of the island it is meant to enhance and serve.
I feel so proud that my people are finally waking up and ready for action to put his criminal organization of a government out of office.
Thank you again, fellow Dominicans, but understand that our fight has just begun and there will be some rough times ahead.
Be prepared to stand firm and persevere
I am a laborite but I with Thompson on this one because like the Church, and the Police department the electoral commission should be free from politics. But Alas, the Church, the Police and electoral commission are well painted and therefore can’t be of help to Dominica at this time
The Church, Police and electoral commissions are all repressive institutions used by the corrupt government to control the population and solidify its position.
I fully support Mr. Fountain in his call to demand immediate resignation of the entire electoral commission. Those people are the ones who have been rigging the electoral list so that overseas based Dominicans can come home to illegally vote.
Once they get out of the way we will clean the list and allow only those who are qualified to vote cast a vote.
From what I have seen it was the influx of those illegals who caused DLP to win again. Not more of that nonsense .
we the loving People of Dominican that are living outside can be part of the forward movement to rescue our country for example. anyone can contact a opposition pal rep with a financial contribution say 300 ec dollars to hire a bus to shuttle peace demonstrators to Roseau on the next call to assemble .I will be contacting Dr Thomson fontaine with my contribution. this is the liberation of my home land
uk Dominican January 27, 2017
And you call yourself a “loving people of Dominica” suggesting that paying a few angry and foolish men to bring darkness to Dominica and disturb the peace of her people’s mind, while you stay in your warm comers in the UK?
It must be that you do not have anyone living in Dominica; but I do and for that reason I am rebuking your stupid suggestion–God forbid that the devils of darkness and blindness should ever try to stretch their hands against PM Skerrit and his Government, and not encounter a LANDSLIDE defeat! As I have spoken it so shall it be done!
Rest assured that there are other Dominicans outside the country who are prepared to support the removal of this corrupt regime.
Talk and more talk, I love Mr. Linton but he behaves like a political saint, if their is such a saint. The man should be a priest. The radical behavior of a politician is not in the man. I recommend he speaks to Savarin. Remember we want our hospital now or else, that was a long time ago, nothing has happened. We had the Salisbury situation, nothing has changed, where is the follow up. We also had the night vigil at the river mouth at Marigot, to protest the conditions of the Marigot Hospital, we are still waiting for some kind of action. If Skeritt was listening to the UWP meeting last night, all he would say is, ha, ha, ha, them jokers ain’t going to do nothing, I the one man government, run things. Great meeting last night, Mr. Linton was at his best, not even President Obama could do a better job, far less Skerrit, but when the dust has settled, we are back to talk on Matt In The Morning.
You are a regular blogger,who wants well for your country,because presently it is in serious trouble..It is in the hands of greedy,wicked and satanic beings..Let’s wait and see what is the other move and when..But don’t give up!
Another political gimmick. When will politicians stop playing mind games with civilians? Thats what saddens me is politicians who claim to be concerned only in an effort to gain peoples trust to get them to the top and upon being elected forget that we exist. We do not forget the damage that was caused by the UWP regime after they got into office. Dame Eugenia left the country treasury in good financial shape. What did Eddison James do with the county’s finances? We all know the answer to that. So when the same regime who brought the country to its feet led by Lennox do you want us to trust you guys? OH HELL NO.
“We are ready to shut down this country–News Article
Fontaine who is the “we” that you are referring to? Yourself and Lennox Linton?
Are you thinking of what the majority of people in Dominicans will suffer, while you try to satisfy your disgusting shellfish ego? You stupid men acting and speaking like 5 year old boys, just speaking out words without understanding what you are saying–do you think you are some kind of “big fellow” to spit out those foolish words. .
Whom do you think is going to join with a few angry, jealous, and mad men, to shut down the country, knowing they will be the victims of their own action? And they call you Doctor? Doctor of what may I ask? But don’t tell me; I already know.
It’s not Dr Fontaine and patriot the honourable Lennox Linton only.Include me too..Guess you are too dumb and blind,so you can’t see that Dominica is already SHUT DOWN.Other than the selling of passports,Dominica does not have an economy.Hurricane DLP,a gang of GREEDY men and women have wrecked havoc with the country..So stop spraying DNO with your diarrhoea.Take it to the landfill.Are you from Iran?Do you live at Morne Daniel?
You are such a fool
All Dominicans should be outraged by what is happening and for the good of Dominica, join Fontaine and demand that every member of the electoral commidsion resign forthwith! It’s time we put all politics aside and act in the best interest of Dominica. We even need to go a step further and demand that the entire government resign. Enough is enough
Power hungry lazy brats, singing for supper and promoting violence. Protest what? get some productive work to do in the country and wait for next election.
Politics has gone too far and the leaders are haters, causing the people to become angry and vile.
Pray for the country instead!!!!!!!!!!!
Pray? My friend this has gone out the window a long time ago.. How do you expect power hungry politicians to seek God for the country when so called christians like Randy are joining them to defame the country? The uwp needs to stop defaming the country and start representing the people.
How is Randy defaming Dominica..Is he selling passports to crooks and criminals?Is he and his small group of friends stealing the money?Is he feeding you on crumbs?Is he running away from CBS 60 minutes?Is he NGLapseng very good friend?You must be clearer than that!!By the way that was a wonderfully great meeting,and I eagerly await the follow up..Let not your corrupt mind be troubled..The DLP evil gang will slowly fall!
Batte corps zots is power all you want go a head and take PM place if you all fou FOR POWER.
None of you know what is best for Dominica UWP will take the country back to where it started from with ztnothing. Some Dominican do not want progress and want to stay in the old ages. The PM IS trying his best to get Dominica to move forward, if for any reason he is dealing with corrupted people from Iran, Tehran and anywhere else to invest in Dominica and not doing the proper check with the appropriate authority then he is wrong, he must not just hear dollar sign and ignore anything else.
Dominica belong to all Dominicans labour supporters or not you all must take count of what is happening this passport thing has given Dominica a bad name around the world. It must be stop.
I support your statement . I will never vote UWP. Linton not ready? Pm is trying but should really re visit that CBI thing . i support an enquiry
Mary Jane, I will only support the last 2 lines in your comment because you a correct when you say Dominica belongs to all Dominicans and the passport business have given Dominica a bad name around the world that’s a true statement.
Mary Jane , (not ur real name) it is people like you who because of the unknown rather remain in ignorance than try to make things better in your country.
What if everyone was thinking like you before we all gain independence , then we would still be under the former rulers.
DLP has to go so we the Dominican people can have another choice in determining how our country is governed! Right about now I am fed of the same thing over and over again.