Roseau, Dominica- September 29, 2023: Mrs. Sylvanie Burton will be sworn into office as the President of the Commonwealth of Dominica on Monday, October 2, 2023, at 4 p.m. at the State House Conference Center.
Mrs. Burton was elected in a 20-5 vote during the Fifth Meeting of The First Session of The Eleventh Parliament on Wednesday, September 27, 2023.
She is the first woman and indigenous person elected to the position of President of Dominica. Mrs. Burton of Salybia, Kalinago Territory, is a former public officer who last served as the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Environment, Rural Modernization, Kalinago Upliftment and Constituency Empowerment.
Her Ladyship, the Hon. Justice Jacqueline Josiah-Graham, Resident High Court Judge, will administer the Oath of Office to the President. Following the swearing-in, Prime Minister of Dominica, Hon. Roosevelt Skerrit, and Her Excellency, the President will address the ceremony.
He said that the people took his statement “out of context.” What he meant was, “I’d eat that like my favorite drumstick.”
The AG make it clear his distaste for drumstick. Some body please give him backs and necks, or maybe wings
I’d give him the drumstick bones to chock him.
What should have been the greatest achievement and celebration by the people of Dominica and the Caribbean and indeed the indigenous communities around the world by extension, has been turned into a fiasco, created by the “star boy of stupidity” encouraged and abetted by members of his cabal and “mouton batalie” followers. Cleville Mills and the other spin doctors who think it’s acceptable for your wives, daughters, mothers and other female relatives to be referred to as “drumsticks” that’s up to you guys but please don’t put the rest of our Dominican women in the same category; stay in your lane jacka..es; and to you our Kalinago Present bring respectability to the office of president and especially our Dominican women.
Quit the bellyaching! Were was your hypocrite voce when each day and each hour your friends curse Skerrit and his team? Have you word-checked your post to see the number of times you have referred to the PM in a derogatory manner with impunity? I bet you did not! Quit being a sour puss, cry cry baby!!
You stupid clone of that Russians demagogue, I’m sure you do not want me to start on your hero and properly refer to your PM in a derogatory manner with impunity. Let me spell it out to you: your PM is a GANGSTER.
Everything Ole Police has castigated Roosevelt about is the incontestable truth.
The ascension of this man by default to his present political position has heralded an increase in poverty, crime, corruption, political polarization, dispossession, depravity, disparity of wealth, indebtedness, hunger, homelessness, victimization, injustice, and I could continue ad infinitum. These are stubborn facts that cannot be questioned with any seriousness. Ole Police is right!
Great pomp and ceremony by the same old miserable and life of continual hunger, deprivation and abject poverty continues unabated.b the lady’s ascension to the presidency changes NOTHING for the better. Can anyone refute this?
Take a rest, miserable, frustrated, disgruntled, old man. You are the embodiment of evil, hate, and envy. Your thumbs up and messages do not resonate on Election Day. Even Handbag is more important than you.
Highly estrogen laden attacks coming from an octogenarian don’t perturbed me. You bring no value to this forum. You’re nothing more than a pathogenic bacterium contaminating the news site.
It would be such a relief to see civil dialogue from both sender and recipient, instead of all that vitriol. I would like to believe that we are a civilized, Godly people!!
Nothing at all to do with hate! He just speaks the naked truth and YOU have a problem with that. Get out of here, sucker!
Women Power.
Congratulations!!! Ok, it’s time to elect another WOMAN Prime Minister.
Let women reign!!!! You can do it Dominica. Let’s go!
Who Jesma Paul? She does not even possess a High School education. Are you loco?
Are you speaking about Melissa. The only certificate she has is a birth certificate like Dog Biter. The only other certificate both will ever get is a death certificate. Both of them are averse to learning.
Melissa is the quintessential Dominican beauty. Her essay, her glamour, please pardon my grammar, but she is everything school boys dream. Her ageless, timeless, intelligence, grace and fineness, her beauty and elegance. Her rhapsody, her comedy, her symphony and at play. She is every love song ever written but what did Skerrit see in her.
Beauty, intelligence…?? OMG. You just have smoked a good dose of that bad tobacco. Shame on you, you are salivating. Disgusting creature.
In that case you ds equal her you know; because you cannot say how many GCE you earned when you finished whichever you attended in Dominica.
Be it SMA, or DGS, you lie and said, how can you attend two secondary school simultaneously!
In those days they required either O’level, or A’level “Ordinary Level or Advance Level;” when one graduate secondary.
You ain’t gat none oui!
Hahahahahahahahahahahahah!
In 2002 if memory serves me correctly I believe they shifted from the GCE Advanced Level to the CXC CAPE examinations, making them a de facto university entrance examination in some nations. Some universities also require applicants to take separate entrance examination. The International Baccalaureate and European Baccalaureate are also accepted.
Shut up, you worst than her, Roosevelt too!
Let’s take a walk down memory lane and revisit chemistry, maths, physics and biology at the secondary level. Rupert Lance taught me Chemistry, Perry George taught me Physics and Rupert Sorhaindo taught me Biology and Perry George taught me maths. You want more, en? I came from a well educated family unlike you.
Keep on talking, eventually you believe your own lies. You come from the gutters of smelly Roseau. For profession, by your own admission, you chose to be a latrine diver for the white men in the US.
And whatever number of GCE’s I earned does not and should not concern you. Did you pay for my sitting the exams? No? Then shut up. Also, McFord Zarmore taught me Maths as well. Henry Volney taught me History. I never said that I attended the Grammar School. I attended the St Mary’s Academy – Ora et Labora. You want to know my name but, you will not know. Stop trying, your Wesley bum.
“She does not even possess a High School education.” Really?