The idea of a smaller cabinet, as touted by the United Workers Party (UWP), is apparently not going down well with the Dominica Labour Party (DLP)’s political leader, Roosevelt Skerrit.
The matter forms part of the UWP’s manifesto which was launched in Pottersville on Wednesday night.
Presently there are 16 ministers in the Skerrit-led government but political leader of the UWP, Lennox Linton, said that number will be reduced to 10 in a UWP administration. He also said all politically created advisor positions will be scrapped.
But Skerrit told a DLP rally in Colihaut on Thursday night that such move will not benefit the country and will do away with public servants.
“They speak about abolishing ministries as if when you do that you abolish the public officers as well,” he said. “The only person displaced by the abolition of a ministry is the minister; even the permanent secretary has to be transferred, literally at least. So I really do not understand the benefit to the country, or moreso the Treasury, of reducing the number of ministries to ten when not a single member of the Cabinet will have ever served in a serious administrative position in the government service before.”
According to Skerrit, 90 percent of elected MPs serve, in one way or the other, in his cabinet.
“Because I have always made sure that as many constituencies as possible are represented in the decision making process,” he stated.
He continued, “imagine he is running twenty-one candidates but they’re saying from now that less than one third of them would be ministers. So if he is going to have ten, including himself that will leave a maximum of seven other spots.”
let put the numbers into perspective the labor party won the last election 18-3 out of the 18 candidates 16 are ministers who are the 2 who were not favored by the prime minister plus we have person like my former french teacher ambassador A as ambassador to a Spanish speaking country, Alick Lawrence and Emanuel Nanton these people were never chosen by the electorates of Dominica yet they are living in the lap of luxury and big salaries at the expense of Dominicans and the people who pay their salaries cant get a raise Dominicans ponder on this all those who are shouting labor ka twavay es ous ka twavay
Why should Skerrit want to tell other people how to run their Government? It is not a question for jobs for the boys. Can any one say what benefits has the country derived from all these ministers and advisers; except paying a salary to do nothing. What happen the other Governments and people of the Caribbean so foolish that only smart skerrit can see the benefit of an inflated cabinet and dozens of advisers?; and the question is who paying for all that rubbish we the tax payers it’s our VAT monies people wake up and smell the coffee. Another lie again skerrit the only loosing their jobs are the GREEDY, LAZY and IGNORANT bunch of manipulators that you have surrounded yourself with. Enough is enough bro let had working Dominicans enjoy the benefits of their hard work with a reasonable salary increase.
That is another reason why I will never vote UWP. They think backwards and they have not creative when a man that is to be my next PM talking about getting rid of ministries and combining ministries and all that silly maths. Getting rid of advisers, my bro that not making sense. You have to divide your work its a better design, so if any ministry have to grow it will be more manageable. Go and look at how many advisors other Prime Ministers and Presidents have. why?
Because the more allies you make is the more ambassadors and advisers you going to need. The more big projects you going to have is the more advisors you going to need. Nobody is an expert on everything especially third world countries that not to familiar with some of the policies and cultures of their allies sorry for saying 3rd world cuz i hate that label. Lennox not making sense you cannot know how much men you will need for a job you have never ever done in ur life. Especially when most of your team members are rookies. Lennox NEED MORE ADVISORs than RS and if he think he don’t he is a bigger fool than I thought..You just come on a job you talking about letting go advisors that have been there MUCH LONGER THAN YOU..
You want 10 people to make decisions for over 70000+, half of which are new on the job and they haven’t even gotten practice as opposition(we know how that went). UWP are of no concern to me, if you guys think Lennox is a good manager you must be mad. Clever words cannot be all we need right now, he is just to aggressive he don’t have that XFACTOR tht all good PM have. Skeritt have it, couple of them had it before Skeritt, they all had their own XFACTOR that made them PM. I not seeing Lennox own, smooth words is not an XFACTOR, however; inspiring words are. He is not an inspiring man, he looks wayyyyy over his head. #Ready #TeamRS #LabourPower #PowerLabour #WeGoingAllThaWay
SMH, garcon u sot. St Lucia has a population twice the size of ours and they only have 8 ministers so why the hell u think we need 16 ministers. Our ministers draw about $10,000 monthly plus expenses. The Supremo Skeirrt running around doing all the work anyway so what we need all these guys for?
All I can say is that Roosevelt Skerrit truly embarrassed himself on this particular issue!
“Did you contact an expert to assist you how to calculate it?” ( The Facts /S.. Machine).
Well you see, the reason I had to expert to assist in calculating, and got the result correct, is because I gave you the privilege of assisting me: I handed you bit of paper, by the time you saw the pen; all you could have said was: ah, ah, um, um, um dis yah to damn hard, me doh know how to it.
Hahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahhahahahah!
If one subject one cannot fake is mathematics, you either know how to get the answer correctly, or you do not know at all. That cannot be plagiarized, so too you cannot plagiarized chemistry, nor physics either, I mean someone may copy another persons work in class, but good will that serve, if you if you have no concept of what you copied!
All of what I mentioned here: Algebra Trigonometry, Chemistry, Physic, and Calculus, Geometry; there is another level of math, I know you probable never heard about; that is the one used to get people into and out of Space. Once you leave earth, and inter into Space, you had better know how to use that form of math effectively, or you are not coming back to earth.
Madam/S.. Machine I am not a mathematician, nevertheless, I could not under any circumstance obtain an engineering degree in the science of Electronic Engineering, and anther in Electrical Engineering, that speaks for itself. And anybody who has an Associate in the Liberal Arts, it is mandatory that they math at various levels; this Wesley, done it all, only that I do not have a major in English; as such I could not graduate as an English major like a certain in Dominica who said he graduated here in the U. S, and when we check for records: non, zip, nada, zero, can be found; ( I doh call him name eh, so doh say I say).
How about that lady?
Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
somebody please tell the Labourites especially their leader that God is a powerful God and he is not mocked.
Stop calling God”s name in your Bacannal Skeritt.You can only serve one master not two.One day sewo another day Gospel.He sees everything
Mr. Skerrit always seek to distort what Mr. Linton says. Mr. Linton says that the United Workers Party will reduce the size of Cabinet not the number of ministries. In stead of have of splitting up the ministries like sports and culture and Education they will be combine them. The reason why culture was remove from Ministry of Social Services because Mrs. Glory Shillingford can not speak the creole fluently. Do the math . Based on what i said based on what i said three ministries has been reduced to two. and some of the ministries would be combined so that the cabinet would be small . Tell Mr. Skerrit some using his badge of ignorance as a badge of Honour . Voters are getting wiser and more knowledgeable. They say they wining 21 seats and they have people doing surveys all over the place for them. Skerrit and his they so desperate and violence. If you winning be calm. Because they know they loosing ground in some major constituency they a chaise` Change is must not an option.
The maximum size of the Cabinet should be prescribed in the Constitution and authorize Parliament to change same by a two thirds majority of the House of Assembly. This provision is contained in some small states Constitutions.
Your name will attract akerrit, but please take your bath before you vote.
There should be a “jourovert” Band next year Masquerade Monday called”THE MINISTARS” consisting of the largest Cabinet in the Commonwealth with the “Belefant from Kaichai “leading the rear in her flowing papyshow robes!!
The people following skerrit are of two folds those that are close to him and is benefiting handsomely and is afraid of loosing their honey and those that get very little and is not able to assess bribery from meaningful gains, fear no more, the police are voting him out, the teachers are voting him out, the nurses are voting him out, and the majority of the public servants are voting him out, cause he waste money on campaign, celebrities, billboards, cement, steel, lumber, ply board Galvanize, rum and envelopes, while those who work for the state cannot get pay fairly.
Independent thinker I could not have said it better. Your name speaks volume to your comments.
I am a teacher and I will be voting UWP.
Ok..workers, at the end of the exercise..alu wil at least have a few men in the parliament. Stop beating up yourselves. The majority of dominicans not changing the government now.if you want to win only labourites can give you victory. The way alu getting on there its annoying.
THAT WHY THEY FRAID THEY FRAID
+- 78 000 people with 16 ministers , deputy ministers, advisors, advisors advisors etcetc , i suppose too many cooks can spoil the broth .
And don’t forget the President with a Palace! Such extravagance it is an embarrassment for poor country like Dominica.
A political party plans to reduce the large bureaucracy in this little island of 70,000 people by reducing the number of ministers and advisors that the tax payers have to pay for running the country and you mean to tell me that some people can oppose this because they are Labour? Seriously, we have lost all sense of reason in this island! Everyone, no matter what party they support should encourage this irrespective of which party wins! Are we Dominicans really that dumb? Have we lost our senses because of love of politicians?
By Skerritt’s logic if he wins this General Elections ALL ELECTED LABOUR PARTY MEMBERS will be MINISTARS. ELAS papa Dominique fini bat.
YOU ARE SO RIGHT.
“In the true sense of the word, “Catching Hell”, those who are truly catching Hell cannot afford a computer and pay for Internet service.”(The So Called Facts).
You know a fax machine has no sense of its own, it is simply programmed to receive written messages, and dispatched written messages; some are able to scan documents, from the machine to even a PC or a smart phone which is also a computer.
As far as I an concern this lady appears as someone who does not think, you seems not to have any ability to think in simply terms never mind cognitively; it is my view that you repeat what you hear, and very few if anything you write on DNO makes sense!
Read the quote above, and try to understand what you wrote: that is hogwash okay! There are people who were financially able to build a house in Dominica, still have their house, however, they exist with no running water, flush toilet, and to a greater extent do not have electricity, in the home. That to me is living a primitive lifestyle. For your information, many people who write on DNO, do not have a computer in their homes, they go to an Internet cafe and pay a few dollars to utilize a computer. I have a cousin who operates such a cafe.
To buy a computer in Dominica, cost thousands of dollars, so too are televisions, and any other type of home appliances, and electronics home entertainment products. I’ve had the privileged of going into certain people’s home in our country, large as it appeared from the outside, on the inside there was nothing, not even a decent living room set for the occupants to sit on. In one person house the seating accommodation was two old seats removed from a mini van which they call buss, which got smashed up in an accident. I know a man from Wesley, he is the brother, of my two late brothers by father. The years prior to Skerrit that guy worked hard, and had plenty of money, he build a very large house, he had electricity in his house, in the years, prior to Roosevelt Skerrit, since Skerrit’s took over the country, the man went from wealth to become a poverty stricken man, the last time I was in Dominica, I took two of his nieces who lives in New York, whom he ad never met, so that they could get acquainted, this is a guy who once had running water in his home.
That day when we got to his house, he had a long water hose which runs from his yard to one of the village public pipe in the street through that channel water to his house where he has a series of forty gallons oil drums which he fills with water, so that he will not be without when no water is flowing from the Stand-pipe.
Madam: The Facts, that is the reality in our country, and if that is not someone catching hell, then hell does not exists, but since you are roman cathoilc, I know you must believe there is a hell, so you need to realize the conditions that people live under in Dominica, is nothing less than living in a living hell on earth. I a not suggesting that people crucify Skerrit just for the hell of it all, but no one should like anyone to an extent to a point where anything they do is accepted, when his actions are destroying the nation, and the welfare of our citizens.
I supported that man until I saw his blunder regarding the International Airport, I heard about the offer of an oil refinery which he made no efforts to even entertain the idea. I would have to be a fool to continue lending him my support: some may say I do not like him, they like to cry hate, fact is I feel no hate towards Skerrit or anyone, not even you who accused me of plagiarizing but I believe I have the right to openly say I refuse to support him, that may have made him see error of his ways, what you are doing is nothing more than making him feel good about himself, while not producing anything significant at this point of his political career!
Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque get urself a reality check..all what u say sounding stupid..paragraphs of rubbish..
i agree 100 % with the FACT that skeritt is reacting to U W P’S statements,and that he, skeritt is not an intelligent man!
If Skerrit honestly believes, with a small economy, that enlarged cabinet and the many advisors are justified, it just confirms what Professor Meeks and Mr. Lennox Linton believe. A Prime Minister who goes over two consecutive terms in office, a disaster and that man will be friends.
This is how a reduced cabinet should have worked but too late IS the cry at the final hour!!!!
1. Agriculture & Forestry
2. Carib Affairs
3. Culture, Youth and Sports
4. Education and Human Resource Development
5. (Employment) Trade, Industry and Diaspora Affairs
6. Environment, Natural Resource, Physical Planning and Fisheries
7. Finance
8. Foreign Affairs
9. Health
10. Information, Telecommunication and (Constituency Empowerment)
11. Lands, Housing, Settlement and (Water)Resource Management
12. National Security Labour and Immigration
13. Public Works, Energy and Ports
14. Social Services, Community Development and Gender Affairs
15. Tourism and Legal Affairs
16. Attorney General
1. Agriculture, Forestry, Fisheries, Environment, Lands & Natural Resources (water) management
2. Kalinago Affairs, Culture, Gender & Diaspora Affairs
3. Education, Youth, Sports, & Human Resource Development
4. Trade, Industry, Information & Telecommunication
5. Tourism and Community Development
6. Finance and Energy
7. PM and Foreign Affairs
8. Physical Planning, Housing, Settlement, & Public Works
9. Health, Social Security &Social Services
10. Legal Affairs, National Security, Labour & Immigration and Attorney General
I am a computer programmer and that is the stupiest design I have ever seen…lol..
Sir wen you building a system you have to make room for growth. why would you put all that responsibilities to one ministry? Ministries need to grow independently and managed by competent professionals.
ex. Education, Youth, Sports, & Human Resource Development
this is ridiculous this is to much stuff..you going to make one ministry get to much work and strain.
Then nothing will get done or you have to higher alot more people which going to bring it back to separation..smh
Majority of the work is one by PS and their staff. Skerrit does a fair bit for them too. Those ministers have too much free time running their bobol like Austrie and his backhoes and other construction styff.
These are the issues which would come out of a debate between the two leaders, so we as Dominicans could make more informed decision on whose policies and ideas best we would most likely associate with. Sad we Dominicans never got that opportunity.
Guyssssss, I have a question…….has Skerrit ever said anything referencing all the talk about he telling the people not to bathe???????? Like, come out and call these questions and concerns as rubbish?????? Has he said anything at all about this????? Really want to know!!!!!!!!
If he hasnt then I am a bit oh the hmmmm side, IJS
He is quoted as saying at a DLP rally in Calibishie on 19 Nov:
“You don’t have to bathe before you go, don’t waste your time, take no shower, no bath, we are going straight to the polling station on Dec. 8”. – As reported by DNO on 20 Nov. of which there is an audio record, which has not been contradicted.
Have anyone gone on Skerrit’s facebook page….. I have never seen so so many posts in one hour span. And its all rambling….. on and on about UWP, then he goes off on a tangent about God, I think he got converted tonight and started preaching (lol lol same man that take a lil wine on on Destra last weekend)…….So I said all this to say, nothing that comes out of this man’s mouth is coming from a sane mind…..so excuse his calculations, it is not his fault.
What does Linton plan to do with the other seven ones? They can consider themselves fired. Or he does not expect them to win.
Any leader who makes such a statement by informing nationals that he will decrease the cabinet is not a smart one. Decreasing the cabinet and departments mean loss of jobs and no income to support themselves and their family.
Let me further inform you. A few months ago Ontario had a Provincial election. The opposition leader promised to decrease jobs in certain departments. Well, the end result was that he lost the election by an overwhelming number of votes. He resigned as leader.
If Dominicans are so foolish to applaud him, Linton, you are in for a rude awakening from this man.
In this day and age you do not inform constituents that you will decrease the cabinet, namely jobs. Yet you state that 5,000 people will be employed. You are a joker and full of tricks. Who in their right mind will believe you?
what did the Dame who was in government did with her other Palreps????????? she did not have all these ministers……
You call yourself “The Facts” and I believe that the facts that you have are exactly as your your DISHONORABLE PL “Political Liar” states his facts. Not even your facts about the Canadian MP are correct. By the way, THE FACTS are that the reduction of the number of ministers does not have to eliminate the ministries. A single minister may have a number of ministerial portfolios. What it does is eliminate the additional salaries that must be paid to all these additional ministers.
Stop being fooled by the devil. Read the manifesto of the UWP. Can you read for yourself please and stop listening to devilish politicians trying to keep power?
You are such a fool! What purpose does a minister for constituency affair serve? What purpose does the Aaron guy serve? There will be reduction in all the unnecessary senior post which skerritt has created for his friends which has nothing to do with jobs. Furthermore workers from those redundant ministries who do very little anyway, will be put to work in more productive areas where they will be allowed to put their skills and talents to good use.
What you should be concerned about is a Pm who is not sure what 1/3 of 21 is and that out of 10 if one is removed there are 7 left.
I believe Mr. Lennox Linton 100%. Those of us who had been following him during his days as a journalist, know he never makes statements without justification. For example, after he disclosed their was corruption in Government, subsequently, approximately $500,000 were returned to the Government Treasury.
That’s a really dumb comment
guy you have to be a real fool .these ministry have always been there,some ministry were just broken off in different parts to accommodate some selfish dlp parliamentarians and it just show division in the dlp cabinet.no new ministries were create new names were created.what if dlp win only 11 seats are they going to take 5 members of the uwp
Stop reading one side and then comment. Wynne won the Ontario elections because she is a team player.
Lennox informed that he will merge ministries. There will be a reduction in the number of ministers but not overall reduction in public servants. There will be some relocations and even some retraining needed. But no laying off nor firing.
Read both sides so that you will not deceive.
Did you listen to Linton? I do not think so. You just took the words of Skerit your King and commenting here in your ignorance.
Only you, in commenting put your feet in your mouth. You never know that your very words will condemn you and punish you. Be careful what you state and be careful of the words that you throw.
. . . And you know the saying, “New Brooms Sweep Clean.” You know that skerrit is corrupt, tainted , & rusty and needs to be discarded. Give another man a chance. Food for thought.
Man stop comparing Canada to Dominica. You talking like that was the only reason he lost. Stop trying to brainwash Dominicans with your propaganda.
Your comprehension of the English language is terrible…please do some more reading…both freedom party and the uwp government in the 80s and 90s did it…
You are too handsome to die and you are too handsome to bathe.
My word…. What kind of Maths is this? I think I need to be drunk to make sense of this.
You need to go back to school. Because he can’t be wrong…This is the finance minister.
Maybe you are. Are you sitting or standing?
Mr Skerrit please start to make some sense. This large cabinet is very much useless and ineffective. You are the line minister in every ministry, so why this talk. You could have done Dominicans a huge favour by reducing the size of the cabinet and merge all these ministries…… You are the one who created jobs for the boys and girls of your party. You are the one who gave them jobs all over the place and even have them working in your office. Ambassador this and ambassador dat……..
Any right thinking Dominican, has to admit that Skerrit has killed Dominica, and turned Dominica into a begging and dependant society……..under the leadership of Skerrit the Capital of Dominica is no longer Roseau but Red Clinic……
You all are guilty of organizing friends, supporters and benefactors, whereby other Dominicans suffer under pressureee…..
I always get embarrassed when I think about that overhead we have. The whole of Dominica is not bigger than a small- to middling town in Europe or N. America that run bigger budgets with fewer people. I think we should not be boasting on how big our government apparatus is but try and run the country as efficiently as possible and save money. That would make more sense to me. We can not afford all this inflated burocracy and pomp, especially when most of our people are struggling to make ends meet.
Every country has certain bureaucracy and pomp. It is to be expected.
Psalm 37-I saw the “evil spreading his wings like a big bay tree and in a little whole, he was no more”.
Psalm:35-“The eyes of T he Lord are upon the righteous
and his ears are open to their cry”.
CHANGE IS A MUST!
Psalm 34:
“The eyes of The Lord are upon the righteous and his
ears are attentive to their cry”
“The face of The Lord is against them that do evil”.
CHANGE IS A MUST!
Why is it you get to define what evil is, with your religious narratives and political beliefs. You know men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
Dominica has one of the biggest government per capita in the world. Also advisors to the Prime Minister like no other in the region. Nepotism and cronyism is the hallmark of this administration, so why is Roosevelt Skerrit talking blues? (SMH). He got to be nuts.
Skerrit deliberately lying and misleading the public again !!
The PM knows full well that a Minister gets paid more than a non-minister in parliament. Therefore less ministers getting paid high salaries means more money for the treasury, which obviously benefits the country. Simple math…Minister of Finance.
PM really believes Dominicans are foolish. Wow.
I wish Skerrit would stop trying to fool the population….less ministers does not equate to a smaller cabinet.. The elected members of any government will always constitute the cabinet, so they can be parliamentary secretaries they don’t need to be ministers
Skerrit is not trying to fool people. He does not know better. He is not a very bright ban.
Boy how good he is at telling lies but to only the foolish people
….but Skerrit you had never served in any leading capacity before you entered politics. You act as if you’re so brilliant and well informed, you may want to take a review class on fractions and percentages before you trip on your tongue in front UWP folks. This is no slip up you are not competent in basic maths no wonder you have Dominica in such financial constraints.
The Prime minister behave like he’s under pressure.
Go on his facebook page and you will see pressure……feeling sorry for him.
If you feel he is, consider who are the people who gives him pressure and futilely.
You even brush aside the development plans for Dominica what again wouldn’t you skerro brush aside? Woop Woop, beggar days are over
Food for thought ,,,
THE LABOUR PARTY SAID THAT THEY WON 18 SEATS LAST ELECTION .,tHE UWP WON 3, JUST 3, OK, the UWP THIS TINE WITH ONLY 3 SEATS ,IS PROMISING BETTER GOVERNANCE, THAT’S ALL ,, tHE LABOUR PARTY WE EXPECT TO BE WELL RELAXED WITH 18, I MEAN ,18 SEATS ,IS , OUT THERE LOOKING TO BRING DOWN PLANE LOADS OF PEOPLE ILLEGALLY , THEY ARE ALL OVER DOMINICA DISHING OUT BUILDING MATERIALS ,
GIVING OUT TOILETS
GIVING DRY ,MONEY ,AND RUM
SPENDING MILLIONS ON INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS AND STILL
LOOKING TO PERFORM ILLIGAL ACTS AT THE POLLS,AND MUCH MORE,
The big question is
WAS THE RESULT OF LAST ELECTION <AN HONEST ONE? IF YES,
DO THE ACTIONS OF THE DLP INDICATE SO< OR
ARE THEY INDICATING THAT THE UWP IS A FORCE TO RECKON WITH?
DID THE DLP WIN THE LAST ELECTION< AS THEY SAID?
Please, the gall of the UWP of wanting to make the loyal Public Servants like Charlie Jong, Anthony Astaphan, Emmanuel Nanton and Alick Lawrence redundant and put these poor hard working men on the unemployment line.
Hahahahahahahahaha
No need for thumbs down peeps…he is just being sarcastic
no one told skerrit to bloat up the cabinet and the govt. like that some of these partisan political appointees are living like leeches on the backs of dominicans
“loyal public servants” try taking dem dollars out of their deep pockets and see how “loyal” dem fellas be.
DNO !!! You are too biased towards UWP in your selection of the comments that you choose to print.
But wait…skerrit alone running everything now ….is always I I I I I…….. no we….. Is like we doh have ministers, some of them I had actually forget until election vibes start getting hot.
I must have been sleeping in class. 10 out of 21 is now a little less than a third????? Desperation time.
more than desperation.
Rosie you tired your face sweaty,you frustrated take a break cuz u will need it after the election cuz we locking you up when you lose.
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity”……
Of course, nothing that is good for the country is good for him. He has to look after that lot because they could reveal some secrets that would cause his downfall. Time for you to go Skerrit, you are surplus to requirement.
Skerro you done! clean your office, you are fired…
PM we never said we were downsizing the ministries, we said we were downsizing the number of ministers.How come you are Finance minister and you do not know 10 is not 1/3 of 21. I understand why you never accepted the debate with Lennox. You had your turn bringing our people and Country down it’s our turn now to vote you out .
My PM was never interested in anything good for Dominica. I will feel sorry I can imagine him without a job on 9th Dec.
I am surprised that a Prime Minister who believes the Nation’s people love him so much that he already predict a complete sweep at the poles would turn to the devil, sell his soul to the devil to make him win an election.
Could it be he is not depending on the people to decide what is the right thing to do, nevertheless, he now engages into the demonic act of Haitians Voodoo, Necromancy, or as we say locally Obeah, and the words of his soothsayers?
We all remember about a week or so ago Skerrit demand that the people of Dominica should wake up on the morning of December, 8th and do nothing, do not even take a bath, before they go out to vote. I personally do not believe in obeah, although I know there are evil demons out there: there is a spiritual world, from which demons descend and occupy the body of humans. Most likely the people the demons dominate their minds are people who fail to take care body in a sanitary way.
One have to be careful with the words of Skerrit, when he tells you not to bath, that is not something to take lightly. Demons, and sprit dislike water, I will not get too deep into that, except to say water means cleansing of the body. If one goes to the poles without bathing, maybe he believes in his sorcerer’s advise that the power of the evil demon will overwhelm the people and they will all vote for him.
Now if one depends on a Haitian to work obeah for them, why not ask the Haitian how come they could not work that same obeah in Haiti to make life better for the majority of people living in poverty, to a point where people has eaten dirt in recent years to survive?
We understand that there are also Africans, imported into Dominica for the same purpose, If I had power in me as I pretend to be a god, I would work my miracles and win, I would not have to depend on obeah man and sorcerer’s.
Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
What’s wrong with you fostering imaginary evil, there is a saying conquer thy own evils before you judge others.
Mr. Telemacque,
He has to resort to ‘obea’
because God’s spirit no longer dwell with and within him.
Remember Saul?
When God revoked His blessings because of his
evil deeds, he turned to the witch.
He not only lost the battle, he killed himself.
Samuel 1:28
Food for thought.
Yes, I read you very clearly, I believe Saul fell on his very own sword: It is a fact that whatsoever any human sew; be it good or evil we suffer the consequences.
If we commit good deeds, our compensation will be good, and we do not receive that on the other side, or punishment for the evil do on earth we must face before we die!
Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
how did 10 become 1/3 of 21 this is the calculation of the finance minister that is all we need to know in order to know how he handles the country purse , and how he arrives at his budgetary figures
The only picture you can see on dlp Manifesto is Skerritt
On the uwp Manifesto you can see all of their candidates so what does that say to you?
Dominicans take heed a King is in the making, the palace is in the waiting,
Krazy station will be replace by Vibes and Krazy is vex because they ask him go to st. Lucia where his running at a lost and next time we will talk about Krazy Jelly I work with him before I left Dominica and the US$1.000.000.00 is of the 1990s is in trouble .
I (doh) interfering into peoples business eh, cause I might be wrong, ; nevertheless, try 1/3 = 0.333 X 21 = 6.930, or approximately (7) seven.
Here is a short way to calculate it: (1/3)(21) = 7 that means the cabinet should comprise fourteen (14) ministers, in any event that is still too many.
There are less people in the Obama administration running America with how many millions of people: So, I do not know why it takes twenty-one ministers to run Dominica. If there are forty thousand registered voters living on the island that would be 40,0000/21 = approximately = 1,905 people to be served by each minister, that is ridiculous!
According to the total amount of votes cast in the election the counted approximately 33, 000 people, if we dived 33,000/21 the ratio even gets smaller, and in this case, there is one minister for every 1,571 people residing on the island.
My calculation may not be correct, nevertheless, if my calculations are not completely correct, I am sure they are nearly correct,
Man is English major er, we doh know if he know how to count, Francisco maybe doh have any major, so perhaps dat is why me dumb oui!
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!
Francisco Telemaque
Did you contact an expert to assist you how to calculate it?
Maths is to sophisticated for the PM.
Let’s go ‘old school ‘ the cannot divide 3 into 21?
That is arithmetic-lol
Lord help us!
He brushes aside everything that makes sense and will benefit the country. All the ideas to better Dominica seem to reside with the Labour Party. How can that be so? Young man listen and learn. The ministers are not being paid? If yes, how then will a move to reduce the Cabinet not impact the Treasury positively?
Mr FOO…where’s dr benji when u need him
Ask yourself. How can it be so that everything the PM states you criticize, as if he is incapable of making one sensible statement? You are prejudice and your comments do not make any sense. It also smirks of hatred.
Mr Fact, you need to get a life. What are you, a self appointed apologist of the Labour Party? You come on here with your foolishness almost to suggest you can’t think for yourself.
Anonymous, do you not know that everyone has his/her views and the right to as you do? This is something for you to learn.
You support UWP. I have the right to support DLP if I so wish. You have a severe problem. People as you are the ones who are arrogant and domineering.
I will support and stand for whom I so wish. I have no wish to follow people as you who are also vindictive.
Peace perfect peace!
Boss Mamo ran the country with 9 minister for 15 years and we did well. UWP did the same for 4.5 years and we did even better. You run the country with 16 incompetent human beings called ministers and we are catching hell. Your cabinet is lazy and has no vision and as a result the country and it citizens suffer. Better 10 men that know what they doing than 16 who do not know their a%%%% from their elbow.
Catching Hell? You do not know what that is. You are allowing your imagination to run wild.
I would like to see what you eat and where you live; also to know if you are employed and for how long. Some of you exaggerate and too much.
In the true sense of the word, “Catching Hell”, those who are truly catching Hell cannot afford a computer and pay for Internet service.
Get a life Mr Fact. You sound like an apologist for the Labour Party.
Well would u consider the thousands of labourites in st joe who confessed to not being able to buy a tablet costing 50 usd as catching hell??? In days gone by the were buying shoes for $500 now $130 is too much for them to afford…
ummmmm I don’t understand what’s the problem with uwp wanting 10 ministers? what’s the issue here? man all you doh tired fool LABOURITES with foolish talk?
Have u listened to Skerrit? everything that comes from his mouth is lies
Skerrit please before you and after you Dominica will continue. You have 16 along with all kinds of technical persons and yet through your insecurities and love for false praise, you micro manage every ministry, and disrespect the very civil servants engaged in doing their jobs. You alone running Dominica with a shadow group getting paid.
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“So if he is going to have ten, including himself that will leave a maximum of seven other spots.”
Thought i was the only one who noticed it. I guess he sees something coming.
I noticed it too. Skerrit apparently now realizes that a UWP landslide election victory could well be on its way within a week.
Less than one third Mr. PM? Do the maths again. I think what the future PM is saying is that he will take ten persons and do the job of 16. Let me tell you why it is possible Mr. PM, in reality you literally ran every ministry yourself. The ministers were in place but you made every decision, you attended every conference, you were in every photo op. It will be a considerably savings to the treasury. Some of the Ps..s were appointed in the last year in order to secure tenure, and they are not even in place as yet for two years. Let me tell you why, that person is from your constituency, that person bypass other more senior and qualify persons. Our future PM will be fair, we are putting the person most qualified to positions. We are looking at career civil servants not political appointees. I am entreating my incoming PM to find a legal way to undo what ever was done for political expediency.
No problem…theyll still b parliamentary representatives…working on d ground attending to the needs of the constituency..the word minister is not appropriate for these people…on the ground pal reps working hard…lol…I want change..
Is Mr Skerrit serious? Is he sane? Does he listen to the nonsense that he speaks? Does he really think that Dominicans were not schooled? Mr Skerrit has lost it. Its time for him to go!
skerrit go and learn maths how could be it less that one third???? you are really losing it sir…10 ministers from 21 constituency is just about 1/2….you so desolay you don’t know what to say
Nonsense Skerrit talking.
Why is it that this PM and his cohorts are bend on mischeivously misleading the people of Dominica for their selfish gains and benefits. The UWP never mentioned abolishing ministries. They said that the Ministers of Government should be downsized, not Ministeries.
CUTTING DOWN ON MINISTERS AND ADVISORS DOES NOT AFFECT ANY PUBLIC OFFICERS. THESE MINISTERS AND ADVISORS ARE POLITICAL APPOINTMENTS. AND THE PM KNOWS IT BUT HE IS DELIBERATELY MISLEADING THE PEOPLE INORDER TO BENEFIT HIMSELF.
Freedom party governed the country for 15 years with a smaller cabinet of ministers and Dominica and Dominicans were doing well far better than they are diong now.
God is in control and he is on the thrown, his reign is eternal and only his reign is eternal surely NOT MAN.
THE GOD WHO WATCHES OVER ISREAL DOES NOT SLUMBER. THIS EVIL HAS COME TO AN END.
WHAT A SHAME BUT
I concur totally. Mr Skerrit thinks he is a Gid if the Minstry and the financial Centre. Since when a thousand more government minsters and political appoints equal more proactivity. How s Charle Zjong, a party political pointer enhance prosperity or Dominicians.? The man oes not think or analyze. He does anything he pleases. He nose and say s in very Minstry. A aster micr-manager, bent on mischief, calling managers to demand tht ppl lse their jobs if they are any olour other than red. He knows what he is oing. Is just malicious, deceitful and wicked. He s going out in the name of Jesus!!!!!!!!!!!!
God sits on his “throne” T-H-R-O-N-E not “thrown”!!
So, you are stating that Linton does not mischievously mislead nationals that he is so good? Oh dear! This is why people should not pay attention to some comments of people as you.
We all know that God is in control. However, you do not utilize the Most Holy Name of God in vain and in your wickedness.
What you are insinuating is that Linton and his UWP Party members are better and holier than the PM and his DLP Party members? You cannot deceive me.
God watches you too. He knows what is imbedded in your heart and mind. You are acting as if you are a just person, are not evil and do not possess such a heart. Get with it and change your ways. If you do not want God to punish you, leave Him out of your type of ungodly comments.
Sorry but you sound demented.
Oh said The Lord,
“My people would not listen, so I gave
them up to their own demise”.
Facts, LaLa is in no way insinuating not implying
righteousness.
Skeritt’s action speaks for himself.
The man is possess by the demons, medium and
witches he has invoked in his life.
“Do not bathe before going to the polls”.
The devil like filth-In the name of The Lord
we will destroy them.
CHANGE IS MUST!
skerrit u tell us Dominicans go to hell go to hell but rite now I see u walking strait to hell. CHANGE IS A MUST
Does he realize that Dominica has had much less ministers than 16. But then Skerrit and his band seem to think that Dominica was just a black hole before Roosevelt Skerrit.
Without Roosevelt Skerrit as PM , Emmanuel Nanthan as advisor, Charlie Jong,spiritual advisors and diplomatic passport holders, Ambassador A and others Dominica will go back to wait for the Big Bang in order to exist.SMH
I cannot agree with Lennox more! You have sixteen ministers most of them incompetent and cannot get the job done. Anything they do for example give a report on the activities of their respective ministries, is El Suprimo that butts in and does it…costing the state millions of dollars every year! You might as well have ten productive ministers who can get the job done…And all those useless advisers, get rid of them….they salaries, allowances and perks are a burden to the tax payers of the state..no wonder skritt wants to give civil servant 000%….
Skerrit you know Jolly well we can and will do very well with a reduced cabinet. You know very well too, that you are using promises of ministerial positions to lure candidates to your party. We have a much smaller population than our neighbors yet still our cabinet much bigger than theirs. Not to even talk about all those advisers you have that not worth a patat.
You have a minister of employment but no one getting employed. Instead you and your people asked Dominicans to stay away from Brizee’s Mart till it closed. 60+ people out of jobs, is that why we need a minister of employment?
Ministry of Public works, energy and ports, ministry of information, telecommunications. and constituency empowerment… just two of the ministries that can be made part of of others? why do we have a minister for constituency empowerment? Don’t we elect parliamentary representatives to empower their respective constituencies? why do we need a ministry separate for lands and housing? why cant they be part of physical planning?
Garcon give us a break with all those lies of yours.
He told his supporters to excuse their reps for doing nothing in their constituencies. I see
Skerrit really thinks all dominicans are fools , Oh GOD help him
people the 1/3 the PM is speaking about is the number of seats Peter Wickham predicted DLP is going to win in the real poll. PM Skerrit has lost his mind. 30 millions dollars spent on the campaign and the DLP is losing this election
What is this guy talking about I mean what is Dominica with a shrinking economy doing with 16 ministers? and it is really misleading to say civil servants will have to go if Ministers and ministries go – Skerrit knows some PS’s are holding two and three Ministries he knows that- he knows that some Ministers have no work to do on a daily basis; so what about all those advisors- I mean Mamo did not have 16 ministers; Edison did not have 16 minister; so what is 16 minister doing?
is not that you have to talk about idiot. tell us you will give our farmers duty free vehicles and other persons duty free on building materials.
What a load of bull, he well know that ministries can amalgamate and still do a better job than he and his cronies are doing.
Most if not all his ministers are not fit for purpose and are just bleeding the country.
CHANGE IS A MUST!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fellow Dominicans a cricket team on the field of play comprises of 11 players. Lennox is proposing 10 plus 1 ministers. This is the man’s team and no one else has no say in it…Remember the name is “UWP – Team Dominica”. I has never heard or seen a corporation nor government operate within advisors, so for him to say all advisors are going home, it leaves me to wonder the calamity and mess this man will take the country governance to if this Team Dominica is elected to power. Can Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin or Angela Merkel operate effectively with no advisors? Lennox understands jack shit about Governance…This man is insane, insanity to the highest level..call the doctor before it’s too late.
What is the salary received by the 6 ministers that would be eliminated?
Is it enough to fund something that would actually benefit the citizens of the country?
Could cutting such excess help to lift some of us out of poverty?
It can help to cut the grass on the road side so we can stay safe on the road.
All skeritt does, is react to U.W.P.’s statements. He is NOT an intelligent man. Lennox Linton has him huffing, puffing, sweating and wondering about his future…pli ta pli twiss…….