PM Skerrit says Linton’s claim of threats a distraction

The Prime Minister said Linton has done damage to the country

Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, has said claims by Opposition Leader, Lennox Linton, that he and his family have been threatened is nothing more than a distraction for what he said were damages done by Linton on a CBS program aired last Sunday.

Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday afternoon, the Prime Minister said if Linton had any reports of threats, he should report them to the police.

“This is just a distraction Mr. Linton is putting,” he said. “It is just an attempt to move away from what he has done to this country, the danger that he poses to the country and the serious damage his lies on this program on Sunday have caused to the country.”

On Wednesday morning Linton called on the Police Commissioner, Daniel Carbon, for protection following what he said were threats on his life and that of his family following the interview with CBS 60 Minutes.

This after a video appeared on social media of a man calling for an emergency cabinet meeting and Linton’s arrest and execution for “this betrayal that happened on 60 Minutes on CBS.” The man has since apologized.

However, Linton stated such video did not come out of the blues but followed days of denigrating, dehumanizing and demonizing by members of the Dominica Labour Party.

“What the Labour Party is doing through this campaign that is inspired by the CBS piece, is painting a Lennox Linton who really should not exist, who really does not belong among them and it would not surprise me if they are happy when they hear those kinds of things…” Linton said.

But Skerrit said the Labour Party has always been a party of peace in Dominica.

“Never have you heard me or any of the ministers indicate to anybody, or the leadership of the Labour Party, that we should attack anybody,” he noted.
“We condemn fully, with no reservation, any statements being made that threatens the life of anybody in the country.”

He said he doesn’t know the person who made the threatening statements and he is not a member of the Labour Party nor a minister of government.

“If Mr. Linton has evidence to show that a minister of government or a member of my party is orchestrating attacks on him, then he should go to the police …” the Prime Minister pointed out. “Because it is a serious threat, a serious allegation and if you are the Leader of the Opposition and you go to the public and you said you know for a fact, then as a responsible citizen you should go to the police and make a report to the CID, the front desk so that they can investigate the matter formally.”

He said if it can be proven that any minister is involved in such matter, then that minister will be fired.

“I can say no minister of government will ever involve themselves and if he tells me, he can prove to me, and the police investigate any minister, I will fire him today,” Skerrit remarked.

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59 Comments

  1. MILITANT DOMINICAN
    January 9, 2017

    Take ALL What The DEVIL Son Give All You In All You Asses! Dominicans Have ALWAYS ENJOYED Being Mistreated, It’s Evidently CLEAR As DAY

  2. viewsexpressed
    January 8, 2017

    Pm Skerrit says, Hon. Linton Says that PM Skerrit says Linton’s claim of threats a distraction.
    Skerrit is the real distraction to Dominica`s development. Go to India, there you will be doctored, or Mumbai, Dubai, go don’t come back until you have matured. This time go work hard to earn a doctorate…hope highly rated.

  3. For the love of D/ca
    January 6, 2017

    Given the recent attempt of an agent of the CBI programme to champion the cause of the CBI programme by saying it is open and transparent, substantiating possibly a lack of Governmental sensitising of the populous to be the problem – then what says the following:

    “The enabling condition under which transparency may lead to accountability intertwines with ‘Ambiguity’ of “Open Government”. The lack of an analytical framework on the CBI Programme evinces the ambiguities underlying the charge levelled against the Dominican Authorities on “Open Government” ethics.”

    The distinction of the Dominican Government’s failings re the CBI programme is a conceptual milestone in the field of open government and data and a welcome addition to a CRY for OPEN TRANSPIRANCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY, as being the real crock of the matter.

    All a deliberate act by the Dominican Authorities to keep the people in darkness!!!

  4. I WANT THE WORLD TO KNOW
    January 5, 2017

    SKERITT APP’ 90% OF THE COUNTRY IS AGAINST YOUR COMMUNIST GREEDY LEADERSHIP.

    we are suffering.
    wages are extremely low.
    everything is expensive
    only a few who are friends and family to the gov succeed
    skerit is on a high table making himself rich and the country poorer.
    agriculture is dying.
    manufacture has died
    everyone who has more than an associate degree is running away.
    others who can run away do so as well
    i could list a hundred more
    i am praying that skerit and his crew pays

  5. Jenner Trim, LLB
    January 5, 2017

    Agree with the PM. Edison James played the same card and then applied to be a salesman for the same company the hon. PM mentions.

    Anyway, who would want to dispose of Mr. Linton? He is the biggest joke in the Caribbean and must be kept alive and kicking to continue to entertain us all.

  6. BlackMan NET
    January 5, 2017

    Pure Idiocracy……….I have yet to see anybody say that what linton said was or is a lie ….. you can purchase a passport for 100,000 dollars there are documents I have seen. It just really messed up that a prime minister refuses to own up and realise that the Punch bowl in the Party done no more refil. Time to get to work. Passports are dominica’s only export right now after almost 13 years of labour party. I support mr Linton because it seems like telling the truth . Well Let mr Lnton be cause he is courageous and not scared of these that think they know it all….

  7. Academic
    January 5, 2017

    Why did the dictator fall short of condemning the video on youtube????

  8. January 5, 2017

    How can a treat made on the opposition leader be a distraction? DA civilize society is better than the vocabulary of Mr. Skeritt.

    • Me
      January 5, 2017

      Bur he himself going around in an armoured vehuicle with armed policemen all the time?

  9. Wilderness voice
    January 5, 2017

    Brothers and sisters, in Genesis 37 there is a beautiful and yet very sad story about Joseph and how his brothers ploted to kill him, but his brother Reuben and Judah saved him. I have listened to annoited preachers like Evangelist Peter Augustine, Rev. Bernard Joseph and others preach from that passage, and how they have made me cry as they vividly painted a picture of the brothers as haters and dream killers while Reuben was seen as the hero and the one who saved Joseph. In my opinion there is a similarity in this article. Mr. Skerrit was elected and vowed to defend Dominica, but instead, he is selling it on the black market as it were. Mr. Linton was also elected and vowed to defend Dominica, realized that Skerrit selling us and therefore informs us of what is happening so we could be saved. Who then is the tractor and the Savior? Who hated Joseph, was it the rest of his brothers or Reuben, who spoilt the plot? Reuben saved Joseph and it was because of Reuben we have Israel today

  10. Anthony Ismael
    January 4, 2017

    Linton’s interview is threatening all those evil wicked lawyers from the Labor Cabal, so now you guys are out to silence him for good. This is not about political party affiliation, but what is good and just in a Democratic society like ours, or a pretend one at best. Wasn’t this the very premise that you used to jail Danny Lugay Mr. Skerrit?
    Dominicans will wake up one day and recognize that they are truly living in a Banana Boat Republic. “Spider” said it best in his song, “Look How We Come.” Let me see how many calypso tunes you will ban this year, because of the ongoing scandal that you created. Dominica was listed in the Panama Papers, but the poor is left to suffer and wilt away, unless they bow down on their knees each week at the “Red Clinic,” for a few sheets of plywood, galvanize and cheap cane rum.
    How so many people are brain-washed by this Labor Cabal is simply amazing to me. This is not a government, but a band corrupt thieves.

  11. Free At Last
    January 4, 2017

    Here is the entire script of what was produced by CBS NEWS, and let us see if it is Mr. Linton that is the enemy of Dominica or, the one that has sold us and continues to sell us like slaves were sold on the plantation

    https://www.google.com.ag/amp/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/60-minutes-citizenship-passport-international-industry/?client=ms-android-hms-tmobile-us

  12. Bahrain
    January 4, 2017

    yeah Skerrit Linton concern is a distraction because nobody else saw the video from the lunatic and his so called follow up apology! yet you can come and claim publicly that ” unamed persons threaten to kidnap your family, that your name and others was conviniently written and thrown by cemetery only to be found by a top labourite, you can send police to search the home of someone for your clothing that was never missing, you can allow tony to forward your info, then send the police to traumatize Lennox family only for you to say you give tony permission to leak said info in your failed attempt to jail Lennox.. all this and more but you seem to think that Lennox is the one with a credibility issue?..” when you remember Earl williams told me last night and this morning”.. just for Earl to say “that is a lie I never spoke with the PM”… and with the wind knocked off your sail you dropped the lie.. carry on.

  13. Patience
    January 4, 2017

    Why didn’t you Man up like the Antiguan prime minister and defend your program? Instead you went hiding.
    You knew well you that this program is money for the click so stop dispensing garbage

  14. January 4, 2017

    Skerro you are a family man like Lennox with awife and children. This not a nice behavior on your part and those of your supporters. Because some people feel that their honey pot/passport sale is under threat they are nervous. To them it’s all about personal interest and not about patriotism .Most of us have families and it is not a nice thing for your family to be threaten by others for the truth.

  15. Sizing up D/cans
    January 4, 2017

    Let cuts through the nuance of this so called press conference. First, when the PM stated that it is possible that Linton’s action will affect the sale of passport; if the parties purchasing this document is only interested in more access to travel, how does his utterance affect the amount of countries that allow use of Dominica’s passport? No mention was made of how the Americans can affect Dominicans seeking US visa. To me and any lay-person the US officials concern of the CBI creating a gapping hole into the world’s security architecture. Linton is the list of Dominicans problem as without him saying a word the country is being viewed negatively by the incoming Homeland Secretary, who wrote a damning report last year. Dominicans we are more intelligent or am I wrong that your loans and pursuit of a salary increase has made us become so mentally lame that a lot of us have surrendered our independence to a man who runs the country. In summary, we have a problem and Linton is not…

  16. jonathan st jean
    January 4, 2017

    Skerritt says that the Labour party has always been a party of peace.Lies you hear lies.Last year Skerritt told his supporters in St Joseph to go up in the faces of the opposition,no matter where you meet them and shout in their faces “traitor”.Is that peaceful behavior?Slick Lawrence said we are hunting them like Obama is hunting Al Qaeida,.does this sound like peaceful behavior,

  17. January 4, 2017

    While you pointing one finger, four are pointing back at you :-D :-D

    • DA girl
      January 5, 2017

      I fail to see the relevance of this comment :-| :-?

      • Me
        January 7, 2017

        Go and see an eye doctor.

  18. Doc. Love
    January 4, 2017

    Their is a video circulating social media, allegedly posted from the U.K., threatening to execute Mr. Linton, because of an interview he had with an American news media. The person specifically called on the Prime Minister to call an emergency cabinet meeting to deal with the matter. This situation is no longer a national matter, but an international one, because of the players involved. In fact, the person who allegedly posted the video on face book has apologized to him. My advice to the Prime Minister is to send his Minister of Foreign Affairs immediately to the U.K where the video originated, in order to disassociated his Government with it. He should also send his Ambassador to the United Nation in order to disassociate his Government with the contents of the video because it was an the American journalist who was the one who interviewed Mr. Linton , which subsequently caused a vicious reaction from supporters of the Government.

  19. %
    January 4, 2017

    The distraction is what you are presently saying..I am 100% in support of Linton…Simple reason is his truthfulness about our CBI PROGRAMME!!!

  20. GOD IS Watching
    January 4, 2017

    They can jump high, they can jump low the God that we and our children serve MUST and WILL INTERVENE And deliver this country from this corrupt ONE MAN GOVERNMENT. OUr children are crying out to GOD BECAUSE while their BELLIES ARE FULL OUR CHILDREN BELLIES ARE EMPTY.

  21. committed
    January 4, 2017

    Skerit , I hope when your turn comes you will also consider it a distraction.

    • bravo
      January 5, 2017

      Is this a veiled threat?

  22. Real possie
    January 4, 2017

    Hold on, the press conference was not about that, that was asked by a reporter. DNO did not see it fit to actually report on why this press conference was called? This country is doomed when the one most looked at can play politics with its reporting.

    • %
      January 4, 2017

      When will you tell you God Skerrit to man up answer questions about this fetid CBI programme?Gaston Brown,struggled but he answered..Was Skerrit at your home hiding?…I AM SO PROUD OF HONOURABLE LINTON!

  23. January 4, 2017

    skirit you acting for the chief of police arrest the person and let the court deal with the matter and stop talking about fire linton is a god sent man he is letting us know the truth of what is happening in dominica

  24. August
    January 4, 2017

    Did u say Labour Party is a party of peace
    What great lies who said this
    When u see them at the
    Market
    Grocery store
    Funerals etc
    SHOUT TRAITOR TRAITOR

    • %
      January 4, 2017

      Skerrit said that!

  25. August
    January 4, 2017

    Hahahaha u are so laughable and full
    Of lies I call u the father of all lies

  26. Concern citizen
    January 4, 2017

    What SKERRIT thinks because he is fooling his lackeys he can full every one else,
    the Emmanuel’s on Christmas morning 2010 went to the police, up to this day nothing came out of it,
    he and his spokes person and the police connive to put Lenox in prison and he want Linton to go to them, he stayed at the press conference and lied every thing he say is a lie, but his lackeys were there cheering him up, all I do know is Proverbs chapter 15 and verse 3 says the eyes of the LORD are in every place beholding the evil and the good, the good Lord will deal with him at the appropriate time, and the Lord will not over look the supporters of skerrit they will pass in it too

    • The Truth Be Told
      January 4, 2017

      Now you are judging others and not yourself as if you are better than they. You are not exempt. God also took note of your words. God is impartial. God will also deal with you at an appropriate time and the Lord will not over look the supporters of Linton. Therefore, be careful of stones that you throw.

      • January 5, 2017

        There is no damn god………….SHEEPS.

  27. papa
    January 4, 2017

    My my with these children running the country

  28. Corruption in passport
    January 4, 2017

    Pm I do not believe one thing that came from your mouth in that press conference today, because I know what I know, someone can purchase a passport without coming to dominica and is true.

  29. Marcus Hill
    January 4, 2017

    “You have heard then, comrades,” he said, “that we pigs now sleep in the
    beds of the farmhouse? And why not? You did not suppose, surely, that
    there was ever a ruling against beds? A bed merely means a place to sleep
    in. A pile of straw in a stall is a bed, properly regarded. The rule was
    against sheets, which are a human invention. We have removed the sheets
    from the farmhouse beds, and sleep between blankets. And very comfortable
    beds they are too! But not more comfortable than we need, I can tell you,
    comrades, with all the brainwork we have to do nowadays. You would not rob
    us of our repose, would you, comrades? You would not have us too tired to
    carry out our duties?” From Animal Farm by George Owell

    • Lenovo
      January 5, 2017

      Always loved this book.

    • Gary
      January 5, 2017

      Wow, you quoting excerpts from Animal Farm by George Orwell as an analogy to the issue at hand is not in any way connected, wallow in your ignorance.

  30. d-a born
    January 4, 2017

    The same PM that instructed his supporters at a rally to confront people anywhere and call them traitors because of different political views. Bravo.

    • Lies
      January 5, 2017

      You lie the man NEVER told his supporters of such. He always said to walk away and stay away from trouble. Skerrit never said that to his supporters.

    • Tjebe fort
      January 5, 2017

      Yes Sir, that same peaceful leader that called the opposition “bastards, those bastards” and forgot to look at his own belly button. I’m praying for deliverance, believe me brother.

  31. uk Dominican
    January 4, 2017

    i am sincerely shame really to tell people that I am Dominican when we have a man like skerrit for the primminster it is saying to the rest of the world that we cannot do better.just listen to his presentation taday my God.

  32. Ignorance Breeds Incompetence
    January 4, 2017

    Con’t: exports? Honest, really honestly can these bunch of no hopers not formulate government policies to drive these other key industry sectors – where are they:
    1. Agriculture (incl: food and beverage etc
    2. Construction
    3. Energy and Unities
    4. Export services
    5. Green Business
    6. ICT
    7. International Business
    8. Manufacturing
    9. Real Estate
    10. Retail & Distribution
    11. Tourism
    12. Clothing & Textile
    13. Garden Equipment
    14. Water
    15. And On, And On

    Finally, what are D/ca’s top export markets?

  33. Ignorance Breeds Incompetence
    January 4, 2017

    Con’t…
    exports? Honest, really honestly can these bunch of no hopers not formulate government policies to drive these other key industry sectors – where are they:
    • Agriculture (incl: food and beverage
    etc)
    • Construction
    • Energy and Unities
    • Export services
    • Green Business
    • ICT
    • International Business
    • Manufacturing
    • Real Estate
    • Retail & Distribution
    • Tourism
    • Clothing & Textile
    • Garden Equipment
    • Water

    Finally, what are D/ca’s top export markets?

  34. Ignorance Breeds Incompetence
    January 4, 2017

    Finally, the PM, Labour Party Cabinet members and supporters’ reaction towards CBS News 60 minutes exposé on Dominica’s Citizen by Investment Programme – Selling of Dominica’s Passports confirms they are not fit to be in office. With the implementation of VAT through IMF’s forced stabilisation programme years ago, and the “no brainer” sales of D/ca’s Passport, never has it earned such easy revenues through the “Sweat” of thy “brow”. If the cry out/foresight is seeing ONLY these two income generator as our saviour then it qualifies a bunch of incompetent people, lacking the skills, knowledge and expertise required to take D/can forward. This Labour Party Government, under the stewardship of PM Roosevelt Skerrit and although serving in power the longest of all ruling Political Parties, has had it the easiest. Let’s look at this critically, so what are D/ca’s other leading export industries? What are D/ca’s top sectors that account for a significant amount of its…

  35. Dr Clayton Shillingford
    January 4, 2017

    The statement fro Skerrit that his administration and DLP are not involved any treats to the opposition Lennox Linton is encouraging.. Nonetheless i have advised bit Lennox Linton and Thomson to lodge complaint with police just in case.

  36. Please help
    January 4, 2017

    Skerrit you making me laugh . Linton is the one putting his country in danger ? man go look in the mirror.

  37. January 4, 2017

    Shameful that’s how the PM came across and that’s sad. As I see it if the PM had made himself available for the interview it would be difficult for him to respond to the questions, it would show him up as speaking untruths.. The only person this is hurting is Dominica and it’s people.

    • To the corrupt Neo-DLP
      January 4, 2017

      Overstand you but ur sentence needs reconstruction just like DA

  38. Academic
    January 4, 2017

    Skerrit believes that everyone is foolish like him? How can this be a distraction and the idiot is on youtube making his threat to the man’s life???
    I more believe its Skerrit’s bogus press conference that’s the distraction. I analysed three responses that he gave to questions and the responses were all trash!!!

    • bravo
      January 5, 2017

      What about the video that came out after elections threatening to assassinate the PM and his ministers. What was your opinion then?? Or did you conveniently miss it?

  39. Elephan
    January 4, 2017

    > he should report them to the police
    >> On Wednesday morning Linton called on the Police Commissioner, Daniel Carbon, for protection

    > serious damage his lies on this program on Sunday
    >> Did Skerrit actually listen to the program? I’m putting anyone to task to point out the lies. Good Luck.

    That not making sense Skerro. But you already know Skerrit never makes any sense.

  40. %
    January 4, 2017

    You bragg so much on island,but a simple and truthful CBS programme has you BAR ZOO DEE! People even knowing when you are having press conference now..No wonderits its always MAKAKWE you stutter at those bogus press conferences. I rank honourable LINTON,the patriot and statesman ahead of you in 99 out of 100 affairs to do with governance…

  41. Continue:

    And let me just remind you; I know that you are a residence of the United States, but do not even contemplate suing me, because Los Angeles or Florida are not Dominica, there is no easy triumph here!

    Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!

    All are equal in the sight of the law

  42. Roosevelt how the hell can it be a distraction, when there is a video out there calling for the arrest, and execution of Lennox. Boy are you mad, cant you see with the lies you and Tony told have cause people to say Lennox must be arrested, and executed.

    That is a treat on the man’s life. Skerrit in the eighteen hundreds in England a politician went on political platform and said in regards to his opponent “who shall be my avenger) over statements his opponent had made. Days after he suggest an avenger, someone went out and killed his opponent.

    That tape on social media is as a direct result of the comments Tony make that Lennox committed economic treason against Dominica. And Tony, regrettable I have to mention your name, but you are wrong, very wrong to that, the only and most appropriate way to out the fire you have started, is to apologize to Lennox, and go to DNO and retract venomous comments you have made against Lennox!

    And let me just remind you; I know that you are…

    • The continuation should have followed here!

      Continue:

      And let me just remind you; I know that you are a residence of the United States, but do not even contemplate suing me, because Los Angeles or Florida are not Dominica, there is no easy triumph here!

      Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!

      All are equal in the sight of the law

  43. %
    January 4, 2017

    Don’t come on here and LIE in broad daylight.I heard the threat,I understand english better than you do,so stop the LYING…I honestly thought you were still hiding…Is Gaston Brown smarter than you?Well obviously I know that!He was answering questions on the CBS programme..You dodge the Night Landing trip at Melvillehall,you dodge CBS….Now you are bringing yourself even lower by denying a threat on the patriot HONOURABLE LENNOX LINTON..The world heard it.I listened to your raving which you called a press conference…Do you know the roadmeaning of Mail Order? I LOVE PATRIOT HONOURABLE LENNOX LINTON!

  44. binsley
    January 4, 2017

    the sultan want to wake up in the middle of the night, look out his desert and see his bodyguards outside

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