The United Workers Party (UWP) say it will present its own budget to the Dominican public next week.
Speaking at a press conference on Friday morning, Leader of the party Lennox Linton explained that the budget is being presented in an effort to make Dominicans aware of the party’s plans for the Dominican economy.
It will be presented at the Arawak House of Culture.
“The public can expect the United Workers Party perspective on a better Dominica,” he stated. “The public can expect to see what will happen in the first few years of our administration on the matter of making Dominica the best place to live, work and enjoy life.”
He added that this will be an important statement of economic strategy and policy as the UWP seeks to renew, rethink and rebuild the economy of Dominica which he said is in “shambles.”
“We have hit rock bottom, we have seen our major growth engines going down the tubes and we are saying that this government has had enough time to arrest the slide they have done nothing, things continue to get worst,” she said. “On Tuesday night we will show how things can begin to get better.”
Linton added that, although the opposition will receive the opportunity to respond to the Prime Minister’s budget presentation, this is a new initiative by the UWP.
“Things change and this is a time of change,” he stated. “We are a party with our own ideas about the economy of Dominica and this time around we are not going to be restricting ourselves to responding to what Mr Skerrit has to say. We will do that because that is a requirement of the Parliamentary process but in addition to that we will be presenting our own ideas on how we see this country moving forward from the budgetary cycle process and from the economic strategy point of view.”
In the meantime, Linton pointed out that the party will be hosting a public meeting on July 24th to discuss the way forward in achieving free and fair elections in Dominica.
“We have invited representatives of civil society organizations across Dominica to a consultative meeting on Thursday 24th July, 2014 at the Public Service Union from 4:30. On Thursday, 31st July,” he said. “We will host a town hall meeting at the same venue for the general public on the question on the threat to free and fair elections in Dominica.”
Linton noted that these engagements will focus on the way forward to safe guard our democracy following a careful examination of the key contributing factors to this worsening national crisis.
According to him these include but are not limited to the failure of the Independent Electoral Commission to deliver an accurate register of voters and identification cards for voting.
“I want to make it clear that the Electoral Commission is under no doubt as to what its fundamental responsibility is for free and fair elections,” Linton said. “You can read it on their website in terms of the responsibility for an accurate voter registration and you could read the same commitment on the Facebook page of the Electoral Commission.”
He pointed out further that although the commission is fully aware of its responsibility they continue to find ways to avoid doing that.
All dominicans that following lennox linton and his cronies are FOOLS. All you need to wake up and see the light. remove the lasci in all you eyes……
UWP BUDGET FOR THE COMMONWEALTH OF DOMINICA 2014!
1). 150 lbs of sugar for the kool aid at the victory party.
2). 600 lbs manicou meat for the karwat that voting for us.
3). $10 million EC to pay back the money we borrow to campaign.
4). $1 million US for Monelle travel budget.
5). $200,000 for Monelle lunch and drinks for the next 12 months.
6). $40 million travel budget for the entire party ‘you know we like to dwivey’
7). $800,000 for short pants and shirt jacks I going back school.
8). $16 million for new headquarters in labass.
9). $500,000 plastic surgery for you know who.
10). $1,000,000 to buy an education for each of my ministers.
11). $650 on national defense
12). $25 on roads Skeritt already fix de roads!
13). 10 million EC to paint everything blue like a touloulou!
14). $250 to paint the hospital strictly materials we can make 3 parot it for $17 dollars.
15). $20,000 to buys guns for Lugay
16). the rest is for personal emergencies. Plus the expenses to move the treasury from where it is to my house in Labass!
17). 5 million dollars to dig a big hole to hide the rest of the money i going n voleur!
@UDOHREADYET You forgot $400 000.00 to rehabilitate you, since you are a PARO!. Always remember you were warned that sniffing cocaine is a bad thing to do. YOU DISOBEYED ALL OF US! Now it has you like a living dead on the street, walking in rags, and feeding yourself anywhere. You have become an accomplished beggar and demendted individual. ISTILL FEEL SORRY FOR YOU!
@ the sot that cannot type their name. Your comment is in typical touloulou style… nonsense. UDOHREADYET!
lol. choh
We are really Dummy in a can. Give Dominicans their PM Skerrit. Lennox and his team need to leave Dominicans in their Labour calamity.
Right now there is no hope for us based on the fact that our people are so small minded and love to depend on handouts from the government. Hence the reason we will continue to support labour.
I’m so discouraged by our people lack of intelligence to understand and make informed decisions based on the statistics that made available to us as well how our living conditions have changed significantly for the worst over the last 10 years.
God Bless us all in Dominica.
eEnough is enough! Mr Linton,you had a mock parliment and now a mock budget.Lennox what next?YOU will be the first and only Mock Prime MInister.YOu know what, that is where you belong>A fake! we all like movies ,you have the potential to be a movie star, most Movies are all mockery of true life stories.YOu are just like a failed movie, many twist and turns ,ups and downs ,alot of suspense,but at the end a,real anti climax , a bad moive !
i vote labour many years BUT the way tony astaphan talk down us black people we must be mad to stand for this sh,,t
no more they can go to hell not me again
I want team Dominica to act . Too much talk. Create 5 jobs for the party leadership.
1 for Lennox, 1 for Tomson, 1 for Danny, 1 for Prevost and 1 for Ron and all you will have my vote. me and my household.
ps. I am a mamam wadeen, plenty children
@hello I want to act on your behalf. I shall ask Skerrit to invite you to the Red Clinic, and let you have money to buy an exercise book and a pencil, so that you attend NIGHT SCHOOL.
What is this bull? Is this a state within a state? This is nothing but desperation.
@Hell with politics No! It’s not a state within a state. It is RESPONSIBLE OPPOSITION!
Again outside of the official House of Parliament where some of them are paid to be….. but that doesn’t trouble UWP supporters at all
Whatever else you may say about them, the opposition have once again outsmarted Roosevelt Skerrit and wrongfooted him. His own budget will now have to be presented from a position of defence. I wonder whom of his entourage will suffer his wrath this time for not seeing this coming.
hmmmm i just want to ask ,so when the U,W,P come in power that is the only time the election was 3 and fear ,just asking {2} i have bone to pick with mr luguy sir when you do wrong and first and for most you ask God to for give you and then the person or persons you wrong ,you don;t make your self hero,a victim or point finger at any body , you thank God for forgiving you and you move on .stop making your self a victim i would like to ask you to look at the life of king David, as i see it you there riding on high horse get down and humble your self under the might hand of God
@as i see it Lugay is a humble man.Maybe you wanted to write arrogant Skerrit.
@ July 18,2014 so you say i hear you ,but i will tell you action speak louder then words.
Regardless of your smooth words mr Linton I and I will NEVER put an X on my ballot paper for you or any member on your team of cronies!!!!!
You spend years trying to break down Dominica and now you want to come and finish with our race!!!
STUPES!!!!
@Empress That’s your views. I see him as one who spent years trying to take out or remove people like you and other Dominicans from the clutches of a brutal Labour Party led by Skerrit. He has sacrificed time to expose corruption and bobol in government. That’s why he single handedly forced the return of motre than $ 500 000.00 to our treasury.
I CONSIDER HIM A STATESMAN AND PATRIOT.
I LOVE THIS SOON TO BE PRIME MINISTER.
Pray that hsi soon to be position will NOT GET TO HIS HEAD!
I am a free thinker. I am certainly not under the clutches of any party unlike you who is wrapped up in the drama of Q95 and Lennox Linton. Once someone talks against UWp you all magpies of the UWP always quick to say our eyes are veiled!!!! What about you? Your eyes aren’t blinded by the UWPwee at all??
Mr Linton How can you ask people to vote for you when you and your cronies go around the world and say so many bad things about Dominica and you turn around and expect people to vote you in as their leader you keep tearing Dominica in pieces I wonder by the time you decide to stop there will be nothing for you to build on, and as for Mr., Lougay who admit that he did something wrong do you want him to go unpunished what kind of message are you sending to the young kids, that it is alright to do or say anything and don’t expect any consequences,WOW what a leader
@concern
People like you always seed the TRUTH as being bad. Skerrit does so too.
I WILL VOTE FOR UWP for sure.
WOTRKERSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!
Empress, you are being ridiculous and absurd……please think of Dominica first…..and careful what you read and say as it is not linked with the true poverty and lack of governance we face in Dominica.
we are living in bad times led by a corrupt government.
Tell me, before the Labour Party took office, was everybody or most people in DA swimming in honey, milk and sugar?
Lol is this a joke?? You’re going to present a budget high lightening your plans if you were to get into office right–but are you forgetting that to present a budget would mean that you need to have the before you the total amount of money sitting at the treasury, then you need to know what the full expenses are each month after which you can identify what can be done. so you’re about to do the same thing that you are accusing the current administration of–fooling us with what we want to hear… you got jokes…people seriously no one can present a budget if you do not know how much money you have to work with–think people think..
Go to school. You have not understood what you read.
They have a money tree some place so it will work for him but not in Dominica.
Unknown,….it is clear that yo are an unknown to budgetary, government and development procedures……..Skerrit`s governance in the past 12 years has been misleading, self centred and lacks vision to this day…..wake to what developmental processes are and I advise yo to listen to Linton and te UWP team and go educate yourself.
Please GET OUT of the corrupt unqualified school of Skerrit and th=is corrupt DLP government
“high lightening”……
Unknown is you alone dat laughing dat joke. De joke is in you, skerrit presenting a budget KNOWING DE TREASURY IS EMPTY. You must be living on Mars. You seeing any production taking place in dca for de treasury to have no money. Try puttin dominica first, remove your wooden glasses and take a good look around you and tell me if you no a crazy f…l to be dere backing labour while they rape and plunder de country, alas papa bondieu, trop moon sot asi un ti paye.
These guys are going to put up a play at the Arawak… “The budget of Narnia.”… I thought “mock parliament” was for school children..
I guess some play acting. What else?
Pure rubbish…..so what makes this different from the so-called “people’s paliament” you’ll had sometime ago. You’ll have no idea…bunch of guys looking for Job to play the huge debts you’ll have. You’ll dont care about less fortunate people….if UWP ever win election is when we will see hard times and things in shamble…..Give me a break already.
If Skerro win again, then you will see misery, the state of the economy will give him an excuse to put more taxes on you. A new team with a new vision and purpose, they deserve a chance. Mr. Leblanc, Patrick John, Mamo, Roosey, Pierro, Edo, they all had a start and made their contribution, give TEAM DOMINICA A CHANCE, with God’s grace and prayers of the populace they will make it.
When people counter-argue you all call them foolish or uneducated. I do not know what exactly he is going to present in his budget but I would hope that he has the dollars figures (stating the source of funds) to present his plans, if it is a budget!!!
I hope with the new budget you all will be able to state where the funds will be coming from to assist with your budget if you come in power…..Action speaks louder than words. Being the opposition it is very easy to say we will do this and we promise to fix the economy.. just to get the votes. Then when you all r the government it is certainly something different. Again I will say talk is cheap. And awaiting to hear where exactly you will be funding this money for your budget ..hope you wont empty the treasury and start off with loans.
People – platitudes and untrue “observations” don’t win elections or convince or trick independent thinking individuals to come your way: these are some of the numbers on the Dominican economy as reported by independent international organizations:
Dominica economic statistics are important data that provide critical information on various aspects of Dominica’s economy. They are crucial as they provide a good view of state of the Dominican economy.
Economic Indicators
Gross Domestic Product (Constant price):
2010: US $355.86 Million
2011: US $361.68 Million
Per Capita GDP (Constant price):
2010: US $5,031.36
2011: US $5,106.54
Growth Rate (%):
2010: 0.72%
2011: 1.91%
Inflation (%):
2010: 3.09%
2011: 1.10%
Exports:
2010: US $31.22
2011: US $34.15
Imports:
2010: US $217.11
2011: US $215.60
Key Sector %
Agriculture 2010; 18.19 2011: 18.66
Manufacturing 2010: 3.74 2011: 3.33
Construction 2010: 6.92 2011: 7.07
Hotels and Restaurants 2010: 1.86 2011: 1.67
Communications 2010: 6.66 2011: 6.61
Real Estate, Renting & Business Activity 2010: 10.74 2011: 10.69
Other Services 2010: 3.83 2011: 3.35
Mining and Quarrying 2010: 1.04 2011: 1.06
Electricity and Water 2010: 5.61 2011: 5.54
Wholesale and Retail Trade 2010: 13.98 2011: 13.20
Transportation 2010: 8.59 2011: 8.79
Financial Intermediation 2010: 7.78 2011: 7.78
Public Administration & Defense Compulsory 2010: 8.53 2011: 8.59
% Percentage Contribution by Key Sectors: GVA at Constant Prices
These are real indicators of the D/can economy – it shows a rather constant pictures with some up / down but within the global context of the world wide financial / economic crises – D/ca seemed to have fared decently.
As for this being new – please – go to the seventies – the Freedom party did oral and written presentation every year in an out of parliament – and – not for the first time right before an election.
UWP has not been a responsible opposition. They have failed as an opposition party. This is a little bit too late to convince the serious among us to support them to form the next government. Freedomites need to come home and rebuild their party to include contesting seats – I am not saying we will win and become the government – but I do believe we can become the official parliamentary opposition.
If Freedom joined the 2015 race, DFP would may win, but we would till the ground, putting grit and the smell of earth in the contest – for our comrades. We would energize the Freedom Party’s base which would then stir up other none practicing Freedomites to come home from UWP and Labour.
You seem like one bawling in the wilderness, and no one is paying heed to you. POOR THING!
Keep on dreaming!
Positive indicators of a stagnant economy. The numbers seems to have you dizzy!
You almost sound like the shim who said his politics is based on lies and that if any party who lives on truth is destined to fail. @Objectivity we all know your lieing 4some. Tony at your back, bomboclat at the front. scare-it to your left and why to your right.
could not agree more
Uwp don’t deal with facts and figures- just raw emotion. Tou cho tou flam.
Objectivity, you forgetting one thing. DFP is dead, sold for 30 pieces of silver by Charles Savarin while all you block headed blind anf doolish freedomites sat there and did nothing about it. When all merged with Labour labour swallowed DFP and spat if out with savarin appointment to the presidency. Lennox and his team are the best thing that happened to D/ca politics in about 20 years. So wake up from your dream and stop being a goat.
Great initiative!! This team seems very focus and creative. The DLP never had any ideas and they prove it in 14 years!! World creole Festival, brain child of UWP, it still making folks get some money in their pocket even the hotel love the season. This new team will make every Dominican proud, they have demonstrated that in every action of theirs!
MAKE UWP/TEAM DOMIINCA OUR DAMN BUSINESS!! TIME FOR CHANGE!!
Patrick John was a great Prime Minister in his days, but the advise of Leo Austin led to his downfall. LIKE WISE P.M SKIRRETT HIS DOWNFALL WILL BE TONY ASTAPHANS AND WHEN HE LOSE THE ELECTION TONY IS GOING TO RUN TO MAIMI. MARK MY WORDS.
So what abut his buildings in Da? Will he leave them for Secko?
The writing is clear on the wall
Ask Tony if he is even a Dominican citizen?
dreamers of change,keep dreaming because your sleep will be for a long time..dream! dream! dream on you dreamers.
hold tight workers. dominicans are behind you. if labour wins, we don know. but majority of dominicans are on your side. dont threat.
when you come into power, please go over the laws governing teachers pay and benefits. please
At Powpow ,does 18/3 in favour of DLP look like majourity of ppl behind uwp? very strange !
listener don’t pretend you don’t know the election was stolen. Do your research. Millions were spent to buy votes from outside. One thing I know GOD IS WATCHING US.
Too much lazy uneducated people in Dominica that like to beg and get handouts people like you so that’s why DLP got that majority.
THIS IS RESPONSIBLE OPPOSITION.
Oh how much i regret having been a Labour Supporter for 7 general elections.
Sorry Dominicans! However i was smart enough to move away from this party, and associate myself with the party that mean well for my country. THIS IS UWP/TEAM DOMINICA.!
Ah ah. All you self Uwp that putting all you comment. No labourite would write such crappie.
There are many under cover workers in DLP, election will reveal who was supporting who the whole time. Fourteen years is enough for any party. One more term for Labour is problems.
We have hit rock bottom, we have seen our major growth engines going down the tubes and we are saying that this government has had enough time to arrest the slide they have done nothing……instead they arrest Danny Lugay? Well instead of asking Lugay to apologize…why are you not apologizing for NO increase to salaries of public servants…no payment of workers at Public works garage? Well enough about election reform Lenox..u have a mental block or what? ppl not living on election reform. Stop letting Thomas Letang be the leader of the opposition and do your work. I wait to hear ur budget. Hope the topic is not election reform….SMH
Great idea Mr Linton. I am not supporting any political party but the government has really lost its way and they believe any foolishness that they present they can sugar coat it and give Dominicans the impression that all is well.
I applaud this move. May be, just may be you might get my vote.
The ideas that they claim to have may just be the same sugar-coating, have you ever thought of that? Desperate People will do and say anything for power, mark my words!!!
This is new thinking. Team Dominica will show how it is done.
New Thinking? Mike Douglas did that a couple times in the 1980s when Freedom was in power. He presented his own budget, but he did it in the House, not in the street, where it is not official.
The house that you speak about has become the most dishonorable in Dominica’s history. The intellectual witch will have to behave like a lady on the street.
If a tree falls in the forest, does it make a sound
If the UWP wins the elections, will they say that the results were wrong … you, given that there is no free and fair elections in Dominica. I will wait to see
@Peace
Not if they win but WHEN they win.
I cannot see Labour Party winning the next election. They lost the election about 5 months ago. I also maintain that the longer they take to call it, THE MORE CATASTROPHIC it will be for them.
Look at traditional Labour party strongholds like St Joseph, Petite Savanne, Carib Territory , Roseau South and even Colihaut. Labour is losing its strangle hold on all of them with every passing minute. A delayed election will have Labourites asking if God has really cursed them.!
GO ON THE GROUND LIKE ME AND DO YOUR WORK. Let no one tell you. Do it yourself!!!!
HOW LONG?
NOT LONG!
I agree with most of your comments EXCEPT St Joseph is NOT a labour stronghold. History will show we always vote people who can speak. This time it’s obviously Monelle. We voting workers this time.
Good question Peace;
If by some miracle the UWP wins the next general election would the results be free and fair? And would they accept the results?
If they win, it is possible that they could have won by a wider margin. So what’s your point.
This thing is now becoming a big joke
@test-tube Yes a comment like yours is indeed a joke.
I would like to commend the UWP on that. This is indeed smart thinking. As the soon to be GOVERNMENT, all eyes were on you all to do this . BARRING ILLNESS OR DEATH, I shall be there.
HOW LONG?
NOT LONG!
@test-tube, you sound impotent. Do you know who is the father of your baby?
I like your style. You are a good manager, a hard worker, an honest man, a team player, punctual and exellent at time management.
As for me, I hehe and haha too much and need to take a serious page from your book and get out of petty business.. So far, I have dissociated myself from the liars and the tiffs which is a step in the right direction.
What time of day is the Budget meeting?
Agreed. He is truly a very hard working man. A disciplinarian, keeps to promises. Does not waste your time…when he tells you he is coming at nine, he might be there at 8. Visionary and Focused. My faith in him has grown by leaps and bounds. He is not afraid to speak the truth, which before God will set you free, But there are those who believe that the truth is not good especially when it comes to politics. But I say, hold on brother, hold strong.
Great initiative. At last, I see light at the end of the tunnel.
Unheard of, as it’s the first in the history of our country for a party not in power to present a budget. We know change is really on the horizon for our country.
I’ll be looking at how it’s going to play out, and across the board for incentives to promote and lure investments so we can get our young people meaningful employment. And do not forget Grand Bay is desperately in need of a bridge across the Geneva river, just in case….
very good lennox
New Thinking? Mike Douglas did that a couple times in the 1980s when Freedom was in power. He presented his own budget, but he did it in the House, not in the street, where it is not official.
Grand bay fowl, you really a fowl, your own labour party did dat under Michael Douglas when he presented his budget together with miss charles in de parliament. Bondieu mi moon sot!
Go down lalay and up bordiaux and tell me if you see labour doing anything for us in grandbay for you to be dere talking that foolishness,.