‘I am contesting the seat; there will be no change as it pertains to [the] candidate…’- Octavia Alfred

 

Parliamentary Representative for the Castle Bruce Constituency, Octavia Alfred, has confirmed that she will be the Dominica Labour Party (DLP) candidate for that constituency in the upcoming general elections.

She made the statement during a live interview on State-Owned Radio DBS on Monday.

Alfred’s statement followed an announcement made by Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit Sunday night when he revealed the date for the 2022 general elections during his address to the nation.

The Prime Minister announced that elections will be held in Dominica on December 6, 2022, while nomination day will be November 18.

Skerrit declared that the country needs what he referred to as a national reset, with a “refreshed” Dominica Labour Party team and said he will reveal a new slate of candidates on Tuesday, November 8.

“I am contesting the seat. There will be no change as it pertains to candidates in the Castle Bruce Constituency and there will be no change as to which party we will vote,” Alfred stated. “As of now, our constituency is with the Dominica Labour Party more than ever before.”

According to her, “Because of the crisis we are in, we cannot trust anybody who has no experience in handling these kinds of crises and we know the Dominica Labour Party and the leader, Honourable Roosevelt Skerrit, we have major experience in handling those crises.”

She continued, “We saw how we handled [Tropical Storm] Erika, we saw how we handled [Hurricane] Maria, we saw how we handled the Trough in December some years ago and now, we are in a position where we cannot gamble our lives and our livelihood as it pertains to our vulnerability.”

In addition to that, Alfred pointed out that there are a number of projects still outstanding that the DLP needs to take to the finish line.

“We will continue our work and I believe the Dominica Labour Party is solid in Castle Bruce,” The Castle Bruce MP stated, adding that the DLP is “ready to roll”.

“We have been ready to roll…so we are not gambling what we have seen for what we have not seen,” she remarked. “We are not gambling experience or handling certain crises for anything that we do not know…We stay with what we have, we know what we have, we trust what we have and we are ready to roll with what we have”

Alfred said the announcement from the Prime Minister is good news.

“For me, it’s good news…,” she said. “It’s just recently some of us got to really serve in our constituents as Parl Reps, because when we came in, it was just so exciting and when we had our first sitting it was motivating, and before we could breathe it was Covid-19 and we spent two years trying to keep our constituents safe, trying to educate them on the impact of Covid, trying to ensure that everybody was at work and everybody was taken care of…”

She went on to state, “It’s fresh, it’s reassuring and one thing I know about my leader, he knows what he is doing and I think his decision is in the best interest of the people of Dominica.”

Alfred, who contested in the 2019 General Election on a DLP ticket, beat her opponent, fellow educator Ernie Lawrence-Jno Finn, who represented the Opposition, United Workers Party (UWP).

Alfred is currently the Minister of Education, Human Resource Planning, Vocational Training and National Excellence in the DLP administration.

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24 Comments

  1. If we knew better
    November 9, 2022

    Was she on the stage last night? Different story now right Octavia?

  2. Kent
    November 9, 2022

    Well skerrit meet his met pampallam….

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  3. Bwa-Banday
    November 8, 2022

    A Message To The Bouncing Pampalam Lady:

    Dear Ma Pampalam, ove the last two plus years you have been rude and unkind to many who work for, with and supported. you. Now its our turn to see your pampalam out of the door speedier than Speedy Gonzalez. From a national point of view you have been a failure in the ministry of education.

    Looking at your constituency, the people have gotten poorer and one can see it by simply visiting the Big Prison like structure at CBruce junction. People are actually standing there in a daze waiting to see who will stop by and offer them a drink. Castle Bruce, one of the most productive villages in Dca is now one of the poorest. While I know for a fact that Mr.He-she cannot win an election in CBruce Constituency, you definitely will not win either. Not sure how the Mal-norm from Teepier area is going to manauver in the labour melee… :mrgreen: :mrgreen: So, keep shaking your pampalam out the door and don’t return.

  4. RandyX
    November 8, 2022

    Pampalam, you do what your masters tells you! When you signed up with him a while back you closed all the other doors. I told all you years ago to consider your options in particular when he is gone. All you are damaged goods and I believe that all you haven’t got a future in your own country anymore. HE will be ok, because HE has enough money to buy himself a new life in another country. Do you have that option? I doubt it. You see, Karma is a bi.ch… All you deserve everything you get.

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  5. JAH KAL
    November 8, 2022

    Waste of time, waste of tax payers money ,(dotish).

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  6. Tt
    November 8, 2022

    Dominican majority don’t want yall but trust yall to force your will on the people. Out of fear of being locked up for the travesties yall have done.

    We don’t want no more labor party. In any way shape or form. Anything but labor. Even a damn hobo on the side of the road.

    Enough is enough!!!

  7. Tt
    November 8, 2022

    Dominica in trouble, more than I could ever imagine. This is a dictatorship disguised as a democracy.. wow. The worse part is that the people are for it. Go head with yall insane experiment. This does not lead to anything good. My heart whips for my country, The opposition, the youth and the hopes/dreams of a nation. The pursuit of power and blind faith in one man is borderline insane. Wake up ppl. 20 years the man still blaming uwp and others, 20 years and the place is no better than it was 30 years ago. Come on people!!!

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  8. TeteMorne I From
    November 8, 2022

    I am this, I am that. Shut up! There is ONE I AM and He is called God. Allu just have Dominica and Dominicans teberre. What is going on?
    It is no coincidence that your dear leader, and his henchmen decided to PULL A FAST ONE as soon as he thinks UWP is “dead.” God is good…

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  9. Bring back the kidnapped parrots
    November 7, 2022

    It seems that there are some Trump supporters within the Prime Minister’s party they are taking lessons from Trump. Dominica now has Trump-ism in the mix. When they do not like the political climate where they know they will lose just rig the election and change the date. Dominica is becoming another Haiti.

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  10. November 7, 2022

    Well go out an vote and stop all the talk, when Skerro win again, don’t blame him, blame lack of enough voters that support UWP. Freedom is not a party and UWP is in civil war so someone have too lead.

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  11. L C Matthew
    November 7, 2022

    ……..And this is who is supposed to enact the policy for education in our society. This is who we entrusting with the development of our mental resources.
    We aint going anywhere anytime soon. All the intellectual folks we have who are philosophers of education that is the best we can do. This ladies utterances alone says it all. I have never seen a society accept mediocrity as this place.
    Lord have mercy on Dominica

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  12. dissident
    November 7, 2022

    pampalam minister doh finish her work…..after shaking what you have to get what you want what else do you do to get what you want
    makes me wonder
    utter disgust!!!!
    she was actually part of the ‘dynamic ‘ group that skerritt is getting rid of for a new face of representative…this face is stale and shameful

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  13. Iamanidiot
    November 7, 2022

    My lady when the gentleman said about we need “new” and “fresh” and “reset”. You were one of the people he was thinking about resetting. You’re the minister of education yes, but you went to school when all you had was 2 sheet of paper and a piece of pencil the length of your finger nail. The man said he needs fresh people, fresh people that will change that chalkboard thing in classrooms, and make classrooms smart and all that new stuff. Fresh

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    • Toto
      November 8, 2022

      You forget it is the same gentleman that made her his minister of education then. What does that tell you about the judgement of that gentleman?

  14. Braindamage
    November 7, 2022

    The Minister of Pampalam said, “We are not gambling for what we have not seen”
    Didn’t Skerrit said he wants fresh meat in his Labour Party??
    Another set of don’t know what …..to follow his given orders…

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  15. November 7, 2022

    “Hold on Pamperlam” before all you came into office what experience did you have in dealing with disasters? You are a so called ed-u-cator stop playing games with the intelligence of the people; damn you damn you don’t.

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  16. KID ON THE BLOCK
    November 7, 2022

    Can’t wait to board flight 5 MORE YEARS to DOMINICA. Cabin seat, sipping Catch them with their pants down.

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    • Ibo France
      November 7, 2022

      You broke like a church mouse. Living on scraps of pizza and leftovers from diners. Not even a garbage collection job you can get up there. Relax in your foul smelling, damp, decaying, rodent infested basement.

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      • Donkey
        November 8, 2022

        George Rutaganda : [background radio broadcasts] “I say taste those Tutsi whores before they die. Then they’ll know what Hutu power is, my warriors. Remember, one cockroach can start an infestation. We need to exterminate these vermin.”

        Black hatred is real. It’s always incredible how deep Black hatred is. We are hypocrites.

    • Bwa-Banday
      November 7, 2022

      Just wait my partner….we go see who was caught with his pants down. Skerrit and people like you encouraged madam pampalam has taken Dcans for granted especiallly the poor and vulnerable. Madam Pam Pa Lam is just singing for her supper now that Mr. He-she is about to replace her. But labour days are over especially in CBruce. Not after what they did to the Bannis family. Skerrit announcing snap elections prematurely has no idea how he did that…..thats gods work on our behalf so its up to us Dcans to take the bull by the horn. Take a seat, grab a drink and watch the movie unfold in the coming day. Remember I said so!

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  17. newtral
    November 7, 2022

    You can not even spell your own name and you talking about contesting a seat…. look… go and shake up your pam pa lam tan. That’s all you good for.

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    • Ibo France
      November 7, 2022

      Madam Pampalam is the worst Minister of Education in the Caribbean region and very possibly in the world.

      The lady is morally, ethically, intellectually, and most definitely behavioral!y challenged. Roosevelt has set the bar so low by having this cognitively deficient woman and his academically underachieving wife as parliamentarians.

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      • November 8, 2022

        I love Minister Pampalam. She is one of the best after WS Stevens of Marigot. Nobody is underachieving. Everybody is achieving, Mr. Smart boy.

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  18. Me
    November 7, 2022

    With candidates of the calibre like these, may God help us.

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