The National Joint Action Movement (NJAM) in collaboration with Wesley Development Organization (WEDO) has organized a virtual symposium on the subject of the proposed international airport for Dominica.
The event is scheduled for ,today, Saturday 30th January 2021, at 2:00 pm.
It will focus on Best Practices for Development of International Airports and will be carried live on Q95 Radio, on the Wice Qfm Facebook page, and on the Dominica News Online (DNO) live feed.
This symposium is aimed at educating the general public and other stakeholders on the processes and practices that are followed as acceptable procedures during the planning and implementation of international airport projects.
Presenters will include local experts and professionally trained Dominicans in the diaspora.
An invitation has also been extended to the Government of Dominica to make available a nominee for the presentation of a status update on its intended airport project.
Video of virtual symposium below:
https://www.facebook.com/DominicaNewsOnline/videos/1078492689315901
“The National Joint Action Movement (NJAM) in collaboration with Wesley Development Organization (WEDO).”
What is that; is it only in name?
As for the contributors I listened to talk about how many degrees they have and where they studied.
I will be hated for my opinions on this one; however I don’t care; because I am an independent self-sufficient man who requires nothing from anyone!
So, my cousin Emlord Timothy called me from his home in New Jersey on Sunday, and suggest I listen.
I tuned in and heard that boy, or man Baptists from Castle Bruce talking; only to discover I was listening to a partially senile person: I called my cousin and told him I did not want to listen; he compelled me to listen. I got nothing from what this guy Baptists said except he is very angry at Roosevelt; next a recording of his son was introduced; more garbage was spewed, to some people such comments may make sense, to others they are worth listening!
When it was time for Willmouth Robin to make his presentation, that earned my curiosity all because he is my cousin, his grandmother; fathers mother, was given birth by my aunt.
So, anyway I devoted my time to listen to “Will” only to be disappointed; he spoke as an immature first day uncertain college professor lecturing his class for the first time.
All these people spoke about I doubt anybody in Dominica cares about; it is one thing to play politics with something; it’s another thing to inform.
Frankly speaking I gave up when he commented on pieces they use on the drill to test the land; all he should have said it is essential for the air port to be build where there are solid bedrocks!
One can dig as much as they wish they may not find it totally, you my cousin mentioned Argyle in St. Vincent, it took five years longer to build because in the interim they did not find the granite they encountered:
And Will if you read my comments; I need to remind you that it is not under every International or Municipal Airport culverts are erected to disposed of water, it all depends on where the Airport is built.
And no International entity in the building of international or municipal airport would undertake such responsibility unless they first obtain a complete geological report from a reliable geologist okay!
This is no mystery Will, except to most Dominicans; let it be known the calculate required thickness of the pavement. (Pavement thickness) varies from airport to airport, with commercial airports serving heavy aircraft having runway surfaces with a thickness between 10 inches and 4 ft. deep including the subgrade.
You all are pretending that it takes more than is required to build an International Airport in Dominica than any other place.
Having a degree don’t mean much; it is simply an indicator that a person remained in school long enough to be trained.
Ask me about that…
EIA: Unwanted guest! It stands for Environmental Impact Assessment. Sadly, it’s being short-strif, bypassed, overlooked. One gets the impression it is being disdained, as in being OVERLY concerned for the welfare of the less-endowed.
And the responsible state organs like the Ministry of the Environment and Physical Planning seem to have been reduced to rubber stamp status, to formality and ceremony; having no bark nor bite.
For them minimum regulation is the way to go, and zero regulation is the best of all worlds. Just clear the way QUICKLY and QUIETLY too and get the job done. Minimum delay. I have the troubled feeling this sells!
Yet it should be part of standard practice in society. After all it is poorer people being discussed, involved and impacted; but can be counted on to tow the party’s line when “push comes to shove”, which means elections.
In the eyes of the government, any EIA is unwanted baggage, a presence to be tolerated by studiously ignoring.
HOTEP!
Another unwanted guests are geotechnical reports. Had one been done at Antrim before the contractor conveniently dumped millions of tons of spoil from Red Gully the road and surrounding land would not be in the mess it is in now.
This is not the best use of our limited resources, to build an international airport, in my humble opinion. But again I have been absent from Dominica for 40 years.
Have we done financial projections to see how much this airport will cost? What are the benefits and how are we going to pay for it? How long?
Making a big splash and then killing the country with debts that it will never repay is just an ego trip.
We are in the middle of a pandemic. Heathrow and Gatwick Airports in the UK are struggling and asking the UK government for bailouts. Yet we in Dominica seem to think that we have the magic for success.
Dominicans are hurting now- no work, no income, rents sky high. CDC squeezing the population with monopoly prices, to support high director’s salaries. There is poverty in Roseau, Portsmouth and Grand Bay.
Think Mr Skerrit? Are you doing the right thing?
Why don’t you ask the university of the West Indies, to do you a feasibility study?
It is not too late !
“This is not the best use of our limited resources, to build an international airport, in my humble opinion. But again I have been absent from Dominica for 40 years. (Ronald Mitchell).
You see it is people like you with your confounded feeble and backward mind whom for more than thirty years talking the same nonsense, which prevented our nation from getting involved in anything significant that would aid in the development of the country.
In as much as I hate to say it!
Nevertheless; only foolish who don’t know what they are talking about would come to this stupid conclusion that because of limited resources that an International Airport should not be built in Dominica.
Your kind are the same people who said: “we doh want it.”
When the progressive minded asked “why we doh want it?”
The idiotic confound people answer was always:
“We doh want it because Antigua and Barbados have one already.”
How stupid can a people be?
At that time was the revenue…
While the foolish people of Dominica, including members of the Labor Party, even Roosevelt Skerrit was talking hogwash “we doh want it” they forgot to asks themselves if the revenue generated into the economy of Antigua, and Barbados, any part of it went into Dominica’s treasury?
It’s about money, it’s about doing something to generate resources “money” which our nation needs.
Guy you are talking hogwash!
From Jamaica in the North of the to Guyana in the South of the Caribbean all of the islands saw the need for International Airports, none fail to exists for lack of business even the newest one; Argyle International recently built on the island of St. Vincent.
You people have nothing to offer to Dominica except talk nonsensical garbage!
You are the kind I like to simply order to shut up!
I am not in support of Roosevelt Skerrit, due to the fact he is the most corrupted human to be born in Dominica, but I want him to succeed this time.