A cup of tea, some sugar to sweeten it and a leader who appears to be excavating the bones of Hitler himself. Now while I have no interest in politics it is getting to the point where politics is becoming a prayer. It seems like the people involved want to blast the air waves with various aspects of communism that our leader seem to portray.
America is in a state of crisis… GUESS WHAT!!! their economy is crashing and no one wants to collaborate with each other to achieve the stability and sovereignty that once ruled this great nation. They are in trillions of dollars in debt to themselves (owing various individuals and institutions, owing retirement funds including military and even Social Security), various foreign nations including China, Japan and the UK and they also owe oil exporters. China alone owns more treasuries than the US Federal reserve owns.
Honorable Roosevelt Skerritt is trying to develop our country and evidently he cannot accomplish this task on our tax money alone. He has to seek help from foreign sources. Most likely he went to the American government for help and they turned him down because they can’t even manage their own ridiculous spending habits. Even if he didn’t consult the American Government for help (I personally wouldn’t), it was a smart move because what would happen is that he would either be paying back a high interest rate or stuck in debt along with America.
Picture it like this if you owe $1,000 and all of your bills and other ‘useless necessities’ come up to $900 a month, then it will take you 10 months to pay back your debt. If someone comes and asks you for a loan of $200 that puts you further into debt. You would either lend them the money or set the interest rate high so that you make back the money that is sending you further into debt (inconvenience fee). Your other obvious option would be to say no, that you are over and beyond in your means and cannot facilitate a loan.
Therefore if America turned us down or our dear Prime Minister assumed that the interest rate paying back the Americans would be to high the obvious move would be to go somewhere else. This is where the Chinese, Venezuelans and Cubans come in. They give us lower interest rates and are able to give us more. It would be absolutely absurd to take a loan from FAST CASH with high interest rates when NDFD is more financially feasible. Yes it may take longer based on the resources available and the amount of people thinking JUST LIKE YOU! But in the end it is more beneficial for both parties.
While I am one who believes in a fair system even if communism seems to be the battering ram trying to break down everyone else’s free thinking, we are far from communism. Quiet people in truth are the people who can reserve their anger. Look at a mercury thermometer it reports the temperature normally on point, everyday regardless of whether it is hot or cold or if people complain it is too hot or not.
Honorable Roosevelt Skerritt is like that heavy metal liquid, in normal temperatures he normally does his job, provide jobs, generate revenue try to keep us from ending up like Good Ol’ America. IN DEBT!!! But sadly like mercury he is a bad conductor of heat, the more heat you apply to mercury the more it rises in that thermometer until it bursts through the top of the glass containment that it is refined to.
Hence the recent lashing out from our Prime Minister, when he said that “the only people that going to push me out of this thing is the people of Dominica that voted for me and more importantly the people of the Vielle Case constituency.” Seeing as this is a democracy and our Prime Minister is doing nothing wrong there is no reason to break the law and form a coup or take to the air waves and pry ourselves into his life on a constant basis.
I will admit that I don’t totally agree with everything that our PM does, no one totally agrees with everything someone says but this aggression against his every move is becoming a personal issue that does not have the country’s best interest at heart. The human brain is weird in the sense that as soon as something seems threatening or not in line with what you picture in your head we riot against it, when we get our way and realize hey things aren’t so much different from before we begin to regret the decision.
I suggest we stop poisoning each other with the useless political debates, the useless hullabaloo about our allies, and let’s go for nation building. When one government fails instead of slamming them at your next convention point out their flaws and how you would improve on it.
Peace my people, peace.
Opinions expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect those of Dominica News Online.
you people are so full of crap. that u can’t even open your eyes and see the fact in this documentry. i beleive that alot of young people living in (dominica)is fed up of all this politics and this is the reason for this documentry. we hear it frist thing in the morning and last thing at night, that is why the writer said politic is becoming like a prayer. to all those that think he/she should go back to primary school, i think that you all needs to go back to preschool and learn ur alphabets. this politics need to stop all over the airways dont u people have anything better to do with allu life than check the PM. It is going nowhere, everyday a breaking news on the PM. where is he now sipping on some wine at his mansion laughing at u allu ignorant bastard. go and mind allu children allu say that allu cannot fed, shate man.
Great unbiased article. Pity it’s wasted on stupid people.
the writter faied to mention that most of america’s debt is owed to the chinese…so shut up about ur hitler bull..u that kind of dominican can say thank you cuzz there is still development in d.a.watch the other islands they crying,murder on the rise and things so hard for some..even in the states u know how many people homeless?it have some dominican in america that just cannot come home they just to dam shame and brokes….so just shut the up and enjoy ur peacefull life….dickwit
I grew up believing the propaganda of the West, communism was bad capitalism was good.
then Eugenia and the freedom party sold the Caribbean and the rest of the Caribbean to Reagan and America, results, Dominica had a brain drain, the whole Caribbean had a brain drain, their economies were destroyed.
Today America capitalist policies have come home to bite her,and the real hatred for black people is being demonstrated in the inability to come to a common consensus, because the far right, religious far right have decided to bring down the black man who dared to be president.
Sadly their are black people who can always be bought, and so they will do their best to bring down another black man who is doing his best for the island.
They did it to E.O Leblance until he resign in disgust and to protect his family. They did it to Patrick John,they used the young people and the black power movement to disrupt his government,then they used the civil service movement,then they used the FBI and planned coup, and staged it and threw him in jail for 15 years,and they got rid of the Workers party because Timothy actually knew about economics and was stimulating our economy.
Sadly today as a black people we don’t know how to work together, we are fulfilling the Lynch prophecy that jealousy is greater than loyalty to our selves.
I love both Britain and America for they created me, but one thing I have learn about the white race, they have one common policy for their countries, until they put a black man in the white house it was business as usual no matter which party was in power,but we as a people don’t understand,America does not care for us,neither does the Chinese, it is business.
Our Prime Minister is a statesman he is making alliances with countries who can help us financially, it is business. He has the wisdom to understand that. Time for us to grow up and stop being fooled.
He also have to make laws to protect the Dominican people from foreign interest.
We need to work together, break the cycle of distrust of one another.
For someone to find fault with this comment just shows the Dominican understanding of macro issues.
this article was well written…and instead of sit bk and criticize yall need to analyze the facts and stop look at everything from a political point of view…..thats y Dominica is the way it is…..props to the writer for this artice…
Whoever this indiviual is here is FAR , FAR from reality and he needs some COMMONB Sense. The PM Done nothing WRONG — LOOk BS to the highest degre…What is wrong with US?
Did Patrict John did anything wrong for 1979 outcome?
Did the UWP did anything wrong when they were voted out?
Did the Freedom Pqarty did anything wrong when they were voted out?
People No NEED to GO CHURCH…No Truth in there anymore!!!
4u2c….u need to get up….if nutting is wrong with our PM….soon we will be heil hitler…soon be afraid to express our self….soon have curfew…dis was well said…keep it up
I’m so happy I did not finish reading that mess….third paragraph…I clicked off….before I start sounding broken myself….
wow…u mean to tell me DNO published that…this is laughable….
Child go back to school and stop playing politics!!!!
“Opinions expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect those of Dominica News Online.” You just disgraced yourself by not reading the disclaimer.
i am not a good writer mysselt sooo… i think you left some people confused…
i don’t get the part about POLITICS BECOMING LIKE A PRAYER ….isn’t government business politics?…the economy?…government loans?…government projects? ….PARDON ME but i thought that what was politics involved
This is the worse essay I have ever read in my entire life. Writer, you need to go back to primary school and do Phonics and Grammar. you sound very uneducated and it seems like you did no research what so ever. retarded…
Is this one of the paid bloggers!! I hear people are being paid for their minds papa!! This one looks like one of them! How much would you say this one was worth? A blackberry?
this was well written and said….it is worth much more than a blackberry….we need to ready get up and smell the rubbish dat is being feed to us….
go high or low, all we need are honest leaders
What do you mean honest leaders???? Like Obama right??? Get with the program…if you want honesty, go to some Penetecostal Pastor…they know all about Honesty.
What is politically and diplonmatically right might not be honest…but Governement are here to provide the services and the security for the country to function.
The US shouldn’t blame Obama for all the stuff he promised and maybe only 25% got accomplished…then turn around an say he is dishonest…NO WAY.
I mean “honest” according to the commandments given to all….
dont send us in places where we wont find honesty..
let’s look for the dishonest people who might just be waiting for a friend to put them back on track….
Unless we choose the path to regret….our primary mandate is not intellectual diversion but basic integrity…..
let’s not make corruption a science
pentecostal pastors??….who said they r honest…smh….
I know that quite a few of the educated Dominicans are abroad but I would want to believe that the rest of us still have common sense. Open allu eyes and look around. Don’t u see how much crime n violence we have going on now??? Don’t u see all the hungry people with no food to eat??? Don’t u see all the unemployed people who cannot support themselves neither their children? Who do u see flourishing??? The Chineese, the PM, Ministers and the other members of government!!! While de rest of us there cripple and struggling to survive. What is wrong with allu????
rubbish!!!!
I was abroad for a while and i went back to dominica to see what all the fuss was about. and guess what, i see everybody with blackberry, people who’s only concerning is texting and knowing when the next ‘sewo’ is. mothers who give their children quick jabs to behave so they can get back to their phone. little girls under 15 shaking their a** to bet music. little bois smoking weed and acting gangsta. so tell me this, who is at fault for the condition in dominica?
There are lots of truths in this article and I’m saddened that the most influential ones in our society do not see it this way.
We need to wake up and smell the coffee. While everyone is misguided by the misconception that America is the answer, we need to face the reality. Just look around our region, what is America doing for us?
Grenada’s, Bahamas, St Vincent – where are their help coming from?
Even Trinidad and Jamaica recently signed deals with China. It is obvious who are the ones willing to help.
We need to adopt the notion, I scratch your back you scratch mine. Fidel understood this 50 years ago the USSR offered the olive branch, after America gruesomely oppressed more than 10 million persons with the embargo against Cuba. So what is taking us so long? When will we wake up and smell la café dominique? Unlike the writer of this article, I don’t listen anymore- these programs are nothing more than a vexation to my spirit and a becoming way of life that I refuse to live.
There is no truth in this article… Not 1 bit. SMH. Pure Nonsense.
seriously….u need some common sense….smh…..blind Dominicans
this person is a literary simpleton. the unlettered person above me: well written essay? well it goes to show that when you are one standard lower, you admire the one over you. the essay, or article, is garbage. the writer, or the unknown composer whom it’s ascribed to needs to improve his style and effectiveness in his or her proses.
Did you even understand the point of this? Even in its simpleton form… Some of you are so jealous or want to critize for no reason that u miss the point of things staring you down in the face…
not the content simpleton, the style in which it was written. i thought it was a primary school students work
omggggggggg…..jeeeeez u pplz r so biased..this article is NOT rubbish….stupesssss
Look lies, skerrit going to china, cuba, and Venezuela because they easier, he does not have account for the money like the US,
Do you follow regional news? Have you not seen all the postings right here on DNO about all the other C/bean islands who are also going to these same countries?
So is that the reason all these gov’ts are turning away from the US and embracing relations with the Chinese etc?
You are so ignorant!! The US’ idea of giving development money is to send down the IMF to dictate to countries how to run their economy.
“A cup of tea, some sugar to sweeten it and a leader who appears to be excavating the bones of Hitler himself.”
You see, this is where problems start. Hitler’s bones? Really? Do you know ANYTHING about Hitler, sir? Because if you do, I am shocked beyond belief that you think calling Skerrit a future Hitler accurate. Hitler was responsible for the extermination of vast quantities of people he did not like, primarily (though certainly not limited to) Jews, as well as the mass ejection of Jews from Germany; he also was a prime mover in a world war. Hitler attempted to turn Germany into an almost literal world power where a certain race, the “Aryan,” would live.
Sounds a little more extreme than Skerrit, doesn’t it!
This brings me to your title. Since you begin with Hitler in your first sentence, I am led to believe that Hitler was a communist. This is simply untrue; Hitler was in fact an enemy of communism. Communism and dictatorship are not the same. Most attempts at communism have been dictatorships baring little to no relation to Marx’s writings.
At very least, remove the first sentence, since it is an unpardonable mistake.
Do you know the ‘the furor’ himself was of a paternally Jewish background?
Sorry Neitzche, but that has been argued for decades but NEVER confirmed. Well said Humanist.
and why address him as father neitzche?was he your father,he was the devil himself,and he would have done worst to black people,used their skin to make boots for his army,god bless and forbid.
humanist again you are missing the point,what the writer is trying to say that skerrit is going so deep,it like he is asking the devil for money to develop dominica,in other words he is not going to america for aide,in fact to it is america’s enemy’s,do you see what i am saying,that is why he mentioned hitler’s bones,he was drawing reference to all the criticism that skerrit is undergoing,he is putting his head in the lions jaw,read the article again.
Ah, so I’m missing the point when I point out two glaring historical mistakes and then tell the poster to remove the sentence containing the mistake. I see. I only told him to remove one sentence, but I have “missed the point” of the entire article. Wonderful. Misunderstanding history and writing out those misunderstandings to unintentionally confuse others is a GOOD thing. After all, Skerrit will soon start committing mass murders and will eject all people of a certain race out of the country and will proclaim Dominica a nation of one superhuman race, and all because he’s a “communist,” even though that stuff is not related to communism. Yep, good stuff there, indeed. Note again that I am referring to ONE sentence.
I think you have missed the point of my point. Like, for real.
@Humanist
very well said man. Most people are blatantly ignorant of pertinent facts, like the one you mentioned about the difference between communism and dictatorship.
You see the thing about ignorance is that it usually encompasses ignorance of the condition of ignorance. What I mean to say is that people who don’t know usually don’t know that they don’t know. That’s why you have uneducated, uninformed people spouting such inane garbage with such confidence.
Again I must say very well said.
thinker you are confused yourself,this man is comparing skerrit with hitler,and you do not see that as ignorance,and all i am simply saying this not what the article is stating,the article is only drawing a referrence,not a conclusion, that the pm is like hitler,that is why i said read the article again, the article is referring to the fact that the prime minister is going so deep for help and where he is going for it,is like he is going to hitler.
there are no facts, only interpretations
Well said.
I can’t help but to support this very well written documentary. We in this beautiful country do not understand what is needed for the continued prosperity of our land. I would hope that people reading this would not look at it as being political but rather it coming from a very open minded individual.,,,well done.
finalllly…some1 with some common sense….
Tell me about it