New Antigua airport opens with US$98-million price tag

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A shiny new VC Bird International Airport terminal opened on Thursday amidst much pomp and ceremony, and apparently with a price tag to match.

When the project was announced in 2011, the initial cost was US $45 million. That sum was increased to US $75 million by May 2013, and during the terminal’s opening ceremony on Thursday, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Tourism Paula Frederick Hunte quoted the final cost at nearly US $98 million.

Despite the cost, however, tourism stakeholders expressed high hopes for the new facility.

“This facility, at a cost of approximately US $98 million, is one we can all be proud of, and I am confident will help ensure the bright and successful future of Antigua & Barbuda,” she said.

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85 Comments

  1. SPEAK MY MIND
    August 24, 2015

    I’m a Dominican who works at the Antigua Airport and although i’m happy for Antigua, I wished that we had an International Airport in Dominica, ONE OF THAT SORT. We have been lagging behind too much. The world wants to come and enjoy Dominica, invest and to study and if we take the human factor out of infrastructural development, we would not reach that level of development we longed for however i’m quite confident that the Geothermal plant will generate much income in Dominica that we could attract much business and that we will be on a better standing to pay for an international Airport.
    May AHAYAH ASHER AHAYAH BLESS DOMINICA.

  2. Avery Shenfeld
    August 24, 2015

    I take one look at that airport and thought skerrit is de worse prime minister we ever had in Dominica.

    • Roz
      August 24, 2015

      Traveling back and forth from the UK to D/A , I have to say, how can I put it . What a crap airport we have in D/A. Where is the duty free shops, the choice of refreshment establishments . Why does the airport only have one floor. The colour is the only thing it has going for it.. If this Skerrit wants to change peoples views of his party and their behaviour, or the nations perception of it. Dominica is not going forward . Every time I return to D/A I feel more and more disappointed. If you are going to take your kickbacks then make it work for the people and the island . More investment more finished product more really marketing of Dominica and stop selling Dominica off to the highest bidder,for passports. Soon they will be selling whaling rights to the Japanese. WHAT IS NEXT DEFORESTATION.

  3. A. Non E. Mus
    August 24, 2015

    It bothers me the comments here by people who do not care to make a quick check before commenting. The terminal was built by the last government, not the ALP. They only get to open it. So to criticize Skerrit for not doing something which people claim the ALP did is to speak without information. Secondly, it’s a new terminal, not a new airport.

  4. professor
    August 23, 2015

    the airport is a master piece to be proud of. I look forward to the day when I can arrive in Dominica and see a much up to date terminal than we have now. I have not been back in five years and from what I have been told we have not moved an inch since then . repainting and planting a few trees and flowers does not do much of an upgrade. the price tag is not the problem cause every airport pays for itself.

  5. D ominica#nice#boy
    August 23, 2015

    Well that saves us building one. All we have to do now is have a ferry service to Antigua and to Barbados and that way improve international access to Dominica.

  6. FAST N FURIOUS
    August 22, 2015

    A set of PATHETIC, IGNORANT UWP idiots just posting negative comments on DNO and DNO takes pleasure in moderating them.

    • ....
      August 24, 2015

      You are the ignorant idiot….. Fool!

  7. forreal
    August 22, 2015

    mr primeminister,i am not here to criticized you,you are already the primeminister and there is nothing anybody can do about ,the majority of Dominicans have chosen you and your cabinet ministers to run the affairs of the country,so my address to you is,do not bow to any pressures from people who think they can do the job better than you,i do not support that behavour,the best players are the one on the sidelines screaming at the players,if you intend to build an international airport,do not build know giant shed and call it a international airport,make us proud go right to the top,with the help of china build an airport like tampa international in florida,that’s my contribution,no time to criticize it does not make any sense,it’s time for encouragement,work sir

  8. Anthony P. Ismael
    August 22, 2015

    It’s difficult to understand how we think sometimes. Everyone laments the fact that we should not take on anymore debt, however we owe 1.3 billion dollars in debt. I would like to see a cost benefit analysis of this debt.

    We owe so much, yet still our hospital sucks and the airport, well I need not go there.

  9. Francisco Telemaque
    August 21, 2015

    I suppose Skerrit will now write a letter of solidarity with the Antiguan’s, on the opening of this new International Terminal which by my observation looks better than some I’ve been into in some very developed countries. That is a master peace: when people are ambitious, even government all things are possible!

    In order to improve on a country’s infrastructure, cost should not be an obstacle, to the Dominica, government the motto is “we doh want it,” or “it too expensive.” Skerrit claimed that he gave twenty million dollars to the Antiguan’s because Antigua is in worst shape finically, however, a picture is worth more than all the words spoken about a thing.

    The picture we see proves once again that our country is simply a backward place, and shall become more backward as long as Skerrit, and his supporters, and circus clowns are in control of the country! Funny almost all of them who said it was too expensive, and “we doh want it, When Edison James and the UWP…

    • Francisco Telemaque
      August 21, 2015

      Funny almost all of them who said it was too expensive, and “we doh want it, When Edison James and the UWP was building one are all dead. Dominica however, remains backward!

      Way to go Antiguan’s, All of my Antigua born children are proud of their island!

      • Police Friend
        August 22, 2015

        why dont you do a spell check before you press the send button Telemacque

      • The Real Facts
        August 22, 2015

        So blame those who did not want the international airport because it would cost too much as if their money would have paid for it. That is the problem with some people. They contribute nothing or practically nothing to their country’s economy but they are loud-mouthed about the cost. These are the ones to be blamed. Actually, no one should pay heed to them and their views except to refute them.

        Would this be a few children in every port bragger? :lol: :lol: :lol: Tell us about your Antigua-born children. Tell us about their profile. i.e., how well they have done/are doing that they are proud of where they were born and what do they contribute to it.

      • Francisco Telemaque
        August 24, 2015

        I’ll tell you what: learn to spell “Telemaque” when you learn how to spell my name I will consider using the spell check. For your information I do not even read back what I write until I see it posted! And if you thing I cannot spell, pay me to write for you, and see what happens.

        As for you Facts (doh) worry about my Antigua born children; just incase you wish to know “we doh want it” is not in their vocabulary. They are all aggressive, and productive.

        Sink or float if they want something they go after that thing; I taught them the value, of an education, as matter of fact, money was not the cause of me bring them here, a good education is the cause, I taught them how to work also, they all have their business, form insurance agency, to trucking business, and in the field of medicine; to my youngest daughter operating a business on the Strip in Vagas. If I die today, I do not have to worry about them.

    • The Real Facts
      August 22, 2015

      “masterpiece”

      Cease comparing Antigua to Dominica and vice versa. You are aware of the number of tourists Antigua gets daily and the number of planes which land in Antigua. All financially contribute to a big chunk of Antigua’s economy, probably more so than its employed and business owners taxpayers.
      You have noted the proposed cost and the increased cost at its completion. It is enough to eliminate poverty in their country.
      Cease bringing back the past “of words” stated which should be laid to rest.
      Cease also bringing down your country. Antigua has been way ahead of Dominica since bygone years.
      You consistently live in the past. It is an ill wind that blows nobody any good. Anyway some of it is misconstrued and exaggerated.
      When will you live in the present and try to foresee the future of Dominica confidently?

    • Bad news for DA
      August 23, 2015

      The picture we see proves once again that our country is simply a backward place, and shall become more backward ( stating Meard et Al are backward is being nice to Skerrit) as long as Skerrit, and his supporters, and circus clowns are in control of the country! Funny almost all of them who said it was too expensive, and “we doh want it, When Edison James and the UWP…

  10. dortyboy
    August 21, 2015

    Why dominicans like to cry about things they can’t afford. No one wants to pay taxes in Dominica. Everything comes at a cost. We owe every bank in the world money. How do we propose in paying back a loan to build an international airport. $98 million usd. Shit we would end up like Greece

    • Francisco Telemaque
      August 22, 2015

      “Why dominicans like to cry about things they can’t afford.”

      Here we go again, you see the crap, that is the Dominica mentality at it best. Every island people can afford what it takes to develop their country,Dominica as the fool said in the quote “they can’t afford it. If we wait until we can afford everything we will never accomplish anything.

      I.E. I came here in 1980 with less than a thousand dollars in my pocket, by 2004 I bought my first property, costing $68, 500.000 dollars, my down payment was five thousand dollars, by the time I was finished paying the mortgage, it coat me more than $300,000.00 dollars that includes principal and interest.

      Nevertheless the life style that I enjoy right now is because of that property, I have millions of dollars invested in Real Estate, all due to that first investment of five thousand dollars. By the same token I know people from Marigot who gave up their mortgage saying they tired pay, but they are renting this day with…

      • Francisco Telemaque
        August 22, 2015

        They are renting this day with nothing to their name! One have to spend money to make money! In reality I paid $232,000 dollars more than the property worth at the time, nevertheless, in 2008 just the collapse of the housing industry.

        I was offered six hundred seventy thousand dollars for that same property, so how much did it appreciate. Math do not lie $670,000.00 – 68,000.00 =$601,500.00 dollars okay Dominica will forever be poor and stagnant because everything involving money is too expensive, at lease that is the philosophy of the Labor Party.

        Our nation under the Labor Party is destine to be the poorest nation on earth! If I decided to take that five thousand dollars, and party, by cloths, and fly to Dominica, I would be the same as some waste of time Dominican in this country.

    • IslandG
      August 22, 2015

      Who paying for the palace only one man using? I don’t expect you to change nor do I expect Dominica to change. Too overrun with a certain brand of person.

  11. JACK HALL
    August 21, 2015

    yes i see everytime i post a comment on dno its not printed,but all garbage and trash talking dominica and the prime minister and things against the government are printed..good luck,i hope the people who sabotage you recently will find time to do it again..you all gust bias and a tool for uwp

    • Francisco Telemaque
      August 22, 2015

      There must be a reason why your comments does not get posted. One of the reasons might be you do not know how to write. You wrote every time in lower case letters: i.e. you should have written it like this “Yes I see every time.” But no you wrote “yes i see everytime.”

      You need to realize you are not the only person whose comments does not get posted. If DNO posted everything I wrote on their site, there would be no space for anyone else.

      It is very sad that you express happiness about the attack on DNO by the hackers, and the elements of evil who are hampering the people business. I the personal at DNO was evil like you and those who attempted to menace their business, the would have blocked you from their site.

      Your remarks are evil, and you should be ashamed of yourself!

  12. forreal
    August 21, 2015

    when I read these comments thread I ask myself,what Dominicans think dominica is,dominica has always been behind these countries,dominica can not compete with these counties yet,these places like Antigua,jamaica,trinidad,barbados are already known the world over,places like dominica,st lucia st kitts,grenada are now starting to break on the world scene,you all want to sound of like you all been there done that,give me break,i am a Dominican to,and we are the lesser antillies and has always been battling for recognition,not even the west indies cricket team we can be a part of,cancel out you all ignorances and give dominica a chance to crip up,you all just writing crap just because you all can write it,but know dam reality

    • Francisco Telemaque
      August 22, 2015

      I do not wish to be the police of this blog, nevertheless, it irritates me to read such nonsense. In case you do not know, Dominica had the same opportunity as all of the islands you mentioned. The problem is us. Our people who are contented to be poor, and live in backwardness.

      There was a large British presence in Barbados, Trinidad, and Jamaica. They invested on those islands, the British only involvement in Antigua, was the manufacturing of Sugar, the same apply to St. Kitts. We had L. Rose and company, and a few other British land owners and investors in Dominica, our people chase them out, claiming that the land in Dominica belongs to the “Dominican people”.

      We had the same opportunity to get a free left over International Airport the same as Antigua, St. Lucia, Barbados, Guyana, Trinidad left by the British & Americans after World War II

      Ours got started, but because we doh want it, cause we do want Americans in our country, we are without one to this day. I was…

      • Barbara Saunders
        August 25, 2015

        Thanks for the “historical education” if I disregard the grammar and spelling. I really thought that Mr. Skerrit was responsible for all the failures of our island Dominica. Perhaps those lost opportunities which you wrote about were his fault in a previous life?

  13. Anthony P. Ismael
    August 21, 2015

    We should be proud of Charles Douglas. It’s great! :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P :-P

    • Met Jel
      August 22, 2015

      What’s so great about Charles Douglas?? Waste of money. You have to come outside (rain, thunder or lightening) after you check in to go to the exit lounge. Your luggage is put on a trolley outside before its loaded and a leaky tarp is placed over it if it rains, wetting all your stuff if it rains; The little stuffy place they call a restaurant can hardly sit one family; The only thing the washrooms were clean when I was last here. We need to set our standards higher than our noses. Please.

  14. Jack
    August 21, 2015

    Sometimes it worries me when our pm align himself with Antigua labor party. This was the party which was categorize as the most corrupt governments in the carribbean Antigua passport is selling like bread and butter.under pm Spencer only 5 cip passports were issued..just one year since Alp in power over 500 passports have been sold.just recently US authorities was in Antigua investigating a smuggling Ringo human trafficking of Syrians and cubans,then the sneak into USA territories seeking asylum. I could go on and on..you hear corrupttion,check Antigua labor party record.i lived there and I know them.they ask for change now they get change,they bawling murder..Dominican watch out when you here people crying for change.

  15. REASONING
    August 21, 2015

    :?: skerrit…!Where’s the airport China is supposed to build?

  16. Ami
    August 21, 2015

    Not forgetting to mention the struggle that Antigua had to face for sometime to have afforded them this Luxury but Dominicans don’t know about opportunity cost. But Congratulations to Antigua.

  17. Black Nobility
    August 21, 2015

    When will LABOUR GOV’T and supporters come to term that without the diaspora vote and ballot reorganizing the Labour Party cannot win a fair and balance election.

  18. Bob
    August 21, 2015

    WHAT GREGOR SAYING NOW?

  19. Delvin
    August 21, 2015

    Congratulations Antigua but please stop a so called owner of Fort Young Hotel from entering your airport

  20. communism
    August 21, 2015

    Hear Nassief, we cannot afford it? Antigua laughing at us :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
    Nassief don’t want sandals to come Dominica so they don’t want any airport, after Ralph
    highlight his airport, skerrit legacy will be toilettes & bobol. De whole world laughing at Dominica.

    • anony
      August 22, 2015

      …and roads (lots of them), geothermal development, Douglas Charles, schools, police stations, coffee plant and the list goes on and on, yet you only focus on toilets and bobol? Maybe you are the reason why the world is laughing at Dominica. Also FYI, since you probably haven’t left Dominica, the world is not laughing at us. Most don’t know we exist…

    • mahaut strong
      August 23, 2015

      look man — 98 million USD is a lot of money — obviously though that figure only represents the cost of the building… if we had to do that in dominica and blast away land and flatten it and put a building it would be much more along the lines of the over 1 billion XCD figure they paid in vincy.

      don’t need it, can’t afford it, don’t want it. that is what u call fool’s gold.

      • Met Jel
        August 26, 2015

        More like a fool’s comment. We not going any where fast without proper transportation. We have no major airline coming in or leaving the country. You expect investors to come here and put down any serious business. The NEP not going to employ everybody and it’s not sustainable. Agriculture both feet standing its grave, tourism in hospital and all these ministers running around like headless chickens, the hand does not know what the head doing and the foot feeling left out. Where is our country going??? Bon Dieu, ayde nou!!!

  21. Anonymous
    August 21, 2015

    Wow!!! – this facility was built by former PM Spenser and he was removed from office while it was under construction. Food for thought?

  22. Glen
    August 21, 2015

    Beautiful airport and architecture. However, we must be mindful of the things that we ask for. This airport was initially budgeted at $45 Mio and 4 years later we are getting a completed structure with a price tag of close to 100 pcnt exceeding budget. What’s the reason for the overruns? Something just doesn’t look right to me. I’m certain if this were to happen in DA, we would immediately call for the head of the PM.

    • Francisco Telemaque
      August 22, 2015

      There is nothing strange about that, the same happened in Trinidad, they estimated a certain amount of money, however, it ran about three hundred million dollars more.

      An estimate is simply an estimated amount, it could cost more as well as it could cost less; that’s not a mystery, or indication that something cynical occurred.

      Price of material goes up everyday, so assuming the project took five years, the cost of material could have increased by one (100%) plus. That is why when an estimate is made there must always be a cushion that is an extra amount added to take care of the unexpected expenses.

      The fact is its a done deal, Antigua is fast developing that terminal will eventually par for itself. Antiguan’s usually do what is in the interest of their people and country. “We doh want it” is not in their vocabulary!

  23. too late
    August 21, 2015

    we doing much better than antigua. we had destra ,donnie mclurlkin, carimi …. plus we have red clinic, yes we care. NEP, a state house, a abattoir , my Dominica trade house , Moroccan hotel, douglas charles airport with lovey lights on the runway plus we sending money for people in america and we gave anguiilla money when they were broke. most of all ‘we love our PM’ so tell Antigua and st Vincent go to HELL with their new airport

  24. Zbigniew Brzezinski
    August 21, 2015

    Now that is what u call another level, congrats Antigua u all blessed with a great leader.

  25. Ambra Battilana
    August 21, 2015

    Gaston Browne put skerrit in the shade and skerrit there 15 years :lol: :lol: :lol:

    • forreal
      August 21, 2015

      gaston browne did not start it,stop making a joker of yourself.

      • Titiwi
        August 23, 2015

        No, but he did not demolish a project started by the opposition either to built his own monument! he used his brain instead of pride.

    • Francisco Telemaque
      August 22, 2015

      That’s from the vision of Baldwin Spencer, Gaston Brown came after all the arrangements were made, and he did not shut it down as Rosie Douglas, Ian Douglas, Athie Martin Roosevelt Skerrit, Reginald Austrie, Pierre Charles, and others did when they came into power, and found Edison James, and the UWP had a International Airport in the commenced stage.

      Mind you the New Airport was costing less than four hundred million dollars, Ian Douglas said that the Labor party could get one built for a fraction of what James was spending, bit in twenty years of their reign, fifteen plus years under Skerrit, and five under their coalition they have yet to deliver.

      What have they done with the money secured by James. Some is spent on the pink and green Elephant called Charles-Douglas. The remainder is in the pockets of some of them. Under the Labor Party, Dominica is anchored nothing can shake our backwardness!

  26. dunce
    August 21, 2015

    Gaston boy,, your partner Skerrit needs some advise on this one.

    • Jack
      August 21, 2015

      You jackals you got it the other way around..Most of the projects on stream and recently complete were the brainchild of the great leader Baldwin Spencer who kicked your Uwp leader out of Antigua for meddling in Antigua politics. Find out how much debt Antigua Government owe to the social security scheme, and now want to raise social security benefit age to 65yrs..Antigua people ask for change but getting shortchange. almost all big jobs are managed by foreigners and if that was the case in Dominica you all would be calling for skeritt head..Antigua labor party is the equal of Uwp.

  27. Hmmmmm
    August 21, 2015

    let not your hearts be troubled.Dominica will top it at the end of it all.

    • anony
      August 22, 2015

      You my friend are what the country needs. Optimism

    • mahaut strong
      August 23, 2015

      no wonder this comment has so many dislikes – don’t worry the guppies will one day catch up. short term pain = long term gain. progress is generational.

  28. Green Gold
    August 21, 2015

    Congrats to the citizens of Antigua…. Well done with what appears to be a world class terminal.

    • just saying
      August 21, 2015

      what they need right now is stellar customer service to go along with such airport.

  29. Titiwi
    August 21, 2015

    Man, for a start I would be pleased to just have a decent restaurant at our airport, where I can get a real cup of coffee and not an overrated snack bar like we have today.

  30. Mwen
    August 21, 2015

    OK. Dominicans using Antigua, to get to and from the outer world. We all have to help pay for that.
    I really think we need to stop paying for others development and start concentrating on ours. If we had direct air access, Antigua would not even think of spending that kind of cash.

  31. leanna
    August 21, 2015

    Dominica should take hint! !!!!

  32. Ray
    August 21, 2015

    Mr Skeritt

    Please take note. This is progress, not the carbuncle State palace you built in Dominica.

    P.s. Mr P M, did you attend the opening ceremony? And were you the only leader without an international airport?

    Ah….

  33. Labour Power
    August 21, 2015

    I guess the GFC and the Arab Spring have not hit Antigua, this is after Gaston Brown has been able to attract in access of US$1BN in DIRECT private sector investment, without having to sell a single passport!!!

    • Thorbjørn Jagland
      August 21, 2015

      Wow, US$1BN in DIRECT private sector investment, without having to sell a single passport!!!
      Now that is a prime minister

      • forreal
        August 21, 2015

        are you guys crazy,the whole world sells passports

  34. Dagem
    August 21, 2015

    wow! Amazing . I wonder when Dominica is going to be upgraded to an international airport like this

    • MY 2cents
      August 23, 2015

      For what? For the Duminicans to run around in it displaying their ignorance and lack of customer service.

  35. derp
    August 21, 2015

    Dominica will never have a nice airport like that

    • ukip
      August 21, 2015

      I no longer have to go to a hotel when my flight gets diverted to Antigua (for trade winds, or what ever), I can just make myself comfortable at the airport like my firend in the movie ” The Terminal.”

  36. watchit
    August 21, 2015

    Very nice, however its Dominicans who will be paying for it. We are the most frequent travellers via Antigua.

  37. Black Nobility
    August 21, 2015

    Take note you arrogant this is development, not a state malice.

  38. lightbulb
    August 21, 2015

    but wait.. 100M, and that doesnt include the interest payments. is not my liat ticket price will gone up. them man going to have to increase departure tax, landing fees, and all that ta la la.

    • Peeping Tom
      August 21, 2015

      :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

  39. Real Dominican
    August 21, 2015

    This is a first-world piece of project. When is Dominica going to have, even to a smaller extent, an International Airport. We have been thrust way behind into the doom and gloom of backwardness.

  40. Pedro
    August 21, 2015

    Wow, this is similar to the Charkes/Douglas in Dominica.

    Lovely

    • %
      August 21, 2015

      @Pedro
      I like that!
      Ha! Ha! Ha!
      I wonder if the clowns which make up this wicked regime are not vex that DNO has shown this to us!WICKED LEADERS!

    • Titiwi
      August 21, 2015

      Whis – or was Charles Douglas? I have never heard of that man. Legally it is still the Melville Hall airport and I ill continue using that name until it has been properly changed.

    • Broom Stick
      August 21, 2015

      Yes that’s very true. It reminds me of the CDI (Charles Douglas Int.).
      I pray one day, DA will no longer be the TALON of the Caribbean.

  41. grell
    August 21, 2015

    Antigua congrats,onli if our foolish pm would take a look in the mirror,this is what working for the people is Skerrit.

  42. 植芝 盛平
    August 21, 2015

    We 1.3 billion in debt without one, Laybbbbaaaaaa whimper :lol: :lol:

  43. %
    August 21, 2015

    You call that government and leadership with a vision. Compare that to the leadership of the gang leading Dominica.
    ABSOLUTELY NO COMPARISM!!

    • Me
      August 21, 2015

      “Comparison” please “comparison”. We may be poor but no need to hang our lack of literacy on the line.

  44. Miss Pretty
    August 21, 2015

    Now thats an International Airport

  45. Analy Thomas
    August 21, 2015

    Now this is something that I would cry to see in Dominica. While I know that everything goes hand in hand, IE, if we construct an international airport we must have a supportive hospital, fire station and emergency facility in place, I would love to see this Island move to another level and we can only do this by taking chances. Look at our location in the eastern Caribbean. With the upsurge of fuel prices we may just become a distribution hub to save fuel and time. We already have a growing medical school which simply needs 24 hour access so that families and friends/ businessmen and curious individuals to stop by for a day or two without travelling difficulty. I am an advocate for development and I want to see this Island become an example to its neighbors. .

  46. Malatete
    August 21, 2015

    Great development and very much needed. Surprised to read about an airline Air Italia scheduled to start operations from Milan to Antigua this Dec. To my knowledge there is no such airline. There is an Air Italy but that operates now under the Meridiana label. Is that the same airline perhaps?

  47. Really
    August 21, 2015

    What! A quarter billion ec and there was already night landing, we spent 100 million to include night landing and there was so much criticism,something is wrong somewhere,there has to be.

    • Ray
      August 22, 2015

      Get real

      How can you compare the two?
      Antigua has a world class airport whilst Dominica has a cow shed! If Antigua cost 98 million, Dominica’s should have cost 98 dollars!

      Anyway, which night landing are you talking about? Dominica does not have night landing.

  48. Thorbjørn Jagland
    August 21, 2015

    “I am confident will help ensure the bright and successful future of Antigua & Barbuda”
    Skerrit cannot build one, he only building toilettes :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

    • grell
      August 21, 2015

      lol i like this one,when his poor foolish and brainwashed educated people decide to get this fool out then we will see the light,Nothing Skerrit has his hands on will ever produce in Dominica,God is on our side and he will be moved.Antigua has not one river for example,and we have all the resources,Wake up people Skerrit is taking you alll back to the colonial days .

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