Cara Shillingford-Marsh wins vaccine mandate lawsuit case in SVG

Astaphan, Shillingford

Dominican attorney Cara Shillingford-Marsh has secured yet another victory at the court, this time against the government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

Earlier today, the High Court in St. Vincent and the Grenadines ruled in favour of nine employees who Shillingford-Marsh successfully argued were wrongfully fired by the government when they refused a mandate to take the COVID-19 vaccine.

This case arose out of legislative measures enacted and implemented by the Minister of Health, Wellness, and the Environment in SVG in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

During the pandemic, the Ralph Gonzalves government fired more than 300 public sector workers over their failure to take a COVID-19 vaccine, as mandated by Cabinet. However, in handing down the decision, High Court Judge Justice Esco Henry said the legislation by the government was unconstitutional.

Six individuals: primary-school teachers Shanile Howe and Novita Roberts; Cavet Thomas, a senior customs officer; Alfonzo Lyttle, an assistant supervisor employed with the Customs and Excise Department; Brenton Smith, a station sergeant of police and Sylvorne Olliver, a corporal of police, brought the lawsuit against the government.

In her judgement, Justice Henry further ruled that letters issued to the claimants, including letters issued by the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Community College, violated the Constitution.

The judge also said that none of the claimants ceased to hold the public offices to which they had been appointed and held at the relevant times, and they remain entitled to all of their full pay and benefits due and payable to them, including pensions.

“The crown is liable to the claimants for any damages, including interest of 6 percent per annum,” the judge ruled.

The claim was brought against the Minister of Health and the Environment, the Public Service Commission, the Commissioner of Police and the Attorney General in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

The lawyers who represented the Claimants are Cara Shillingford, Shirlan Barnwell and Jomo Thomas.

The defendants were represented by Solicitor General Karen Duncan, Senior Crown Counsel Cerepha Harper-Joseph, Crown Counsel Moureeze Franklyn, and Graham Bollers.

Senior Counsel Anthony Astaphan who represented the Minister, the Attorney General and the Police Commissioner, had unsuccessfully argued that SVG was justified in its decisions to dismiss employees who failed to comply with the vaccine mandate.

In response to the judgement, Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines Dr Ralph Gonsalves, said he is optimistic that the judgement may likely be overturned in the Court of Appeal.

“We have given instructions to them to appeal,” he disclosed. “In fact, they orally indicated that they would appeal. The government is satisfied that our actions were lawful; we were so advised, and this matter is too important for us to just rely on the judgment of one judge in the first instance… let’s hear what the Court of Appeal thinks.”

He concluded, “I have been advised by Senior Counsel in this matter and I have accepted that advice, that there is a likelihood this decision will be overturned at the Court of Appeal and I am satisfied from the standpoint of our actions, we saved lives and livelihoods.”

Labour rights advocates, the SVG Teachers Union, Public Service Union (PSU), and Police Welfare Association (PWA) sponsored the lawsuits.

The verdict of the judge was made one day before the island’s commemoration of  National Heroes Day.

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54 Comments

  1. Nuffield Burnette
    June 16, 2023

    Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves, my name is Nuffield Burnette, I coordinate a Facebook program called, “law and order in Antigua and, Barbuda. I gave you some free advice telling you, not only you were going to lose the appeal, but that you shouldn’t but you didn’t listen.

  2. Lin clown
    March 15, 2023

    What is Cara record at the court in terms of wins and losses?I am sure not of those people who say Cara is a star can answer.Norde,Dyer and Tony have an impressive WINNING record.

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    • Marty
      March 16, 2023

      I wonder why? Give it some thought. I think you ran into an open knife, Red Nose Person

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  3. Lin clown
    March 15, 2023

    Mr Francisco,I will go back to Los Angeles to take you to an all you can eat restaurant.You have exposed those fake news liars.First as you have posted had Gonsalves gone to Parliament and passed a law Cara would not have a case,that is a fact.Cara being a rising star is just BS,coming from a holes who do not read.Surely Cara is not a rising star in Dominica,the Dyers and Norde are household names and not Cara.Tony has represented almost all governments in the Caribbean,he is the best in constitutional law in the Caribbean.Cara has never won a case all the way to the Privy Council or CCJ.That is why Tony is confident he will win on appeal.What does Cara specialize in,marine law,criminal law,constitutional law or land law?Since Cara was given a whipping in the UWP nonsensical lawsuits she disappeared untill now.In the treating case brought against the DLP by Mervin,St.Valle and Defoe,Cara was nowhere to be found.

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  4. dissident
    March 15, 2023

    History must remember your achievements Mrs Shillingford-Marsh.
    On de other hand, Tony has been very silent lately……
    I wonder if there’s a little slack in his relationship with skerrit

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  5. Pale Face
    March 15, 2023

    Money cannot buy brain.

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  6. Let Truth Be Exposed
    March 14, 2023

    Qui Covid -Sa?
    Covid has always been there! Look at the Dettol bottles, Lysol bottles & disinfectant sprays. A conspiracy, lies, & fear-mongering for persons to take something called a vaccine. What was the motive? Now garder toutes woun L’ater.. People dying. Vaccine & battery boosterers too. Now people open their eyes! Who suddenly dying? All over – Blood clots, strokes, etc., Stop being afraid. That plot to do away with some people. Why would one give this to Elders?

    Have no trust in PAHO, WHO, CDC, etc,. and all the so-called Health organizations.

    The famous cough in your elbow which does not stay closed but is exposed. The frenzy of wiping everything; the obsession of wearing masks all day in the hot sun. This still lingers on. The breathing back in of what is supposed to go out. The obsession with using alcohol that is detrimental to one’s skin (creates dryness).
    Look at lies, deception, & fear to die though death is inevitable. The war of the vac & unvacc.

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  7. Lin clown
    March 14, 2023

    When I refere to those people as Jacka and a hole DNO take offense.This Jacka is telling the world that more people who took the covid-19 injection died than those who did not take it.What does that have to do with the Astaphan,Shillingford case?Is the overeducated,know-everything Jacka saying more people in St.Vincent died from taking the covid-19 injection than those who did not.This case is a case of a person’s right to choose,Jacka.

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    • Ibo France
      March 15, 2023

      Your usual full helping of horse manure. Nothing substantive!

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  8. Bwa-Banday
    March 14, 2023

    Very well done Lioness Cara. My good friend Hilary (ur dad) must be very proud of his little girl (yup he still see you as his little girl :mrgreen: :mrgreen: ). Kuddos in order!!

    On another note, Dcans and the region in general needs to know that the arab lawyer was not the brightest bulb in the room at law school. If I recall, according to well informed sources Tony relies heavily on a law firm in London and the likes St. Lucian attorney Ritchielow Alberton who happens to be a top notch regional lawyer. Mr. Alberton is a household name in St.Lucia and not one to jester with in a court of law. To put it bluntly, the man is a legal luminary and lion. So as Lioness Cara continues to day-kar-lay the little Willie Arab in the court, I pray that the Vet continues to qua-zay his domestic bird into breathless submission with his elephant trunk until he begs for mercy from Dcans.

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  9. Legion
    March 14, 2023

    The lockdowns and vaccines only destroyed lives and livelihoods. Gonsalves and his cabinet should be in prison for crimes against humanity. Congrats to mrs. Marsh.

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  10. Truth Be Told
    March 14, 2023

    The Labour Parties in the Caribbean now have a reputation of ruling their islands like rouges and gansters!

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  11. Channel 1
    March 14, 2023

    Well done Cara & team. The authoritarianism & well-orchestrated psychological warfare tactics used to push these covid injections upon human beings against their will is despicable and absolute madness.

    Once again, I am calling for a complete investigation of those medical ‘experts’ i.e. those doctors, nurses, public health ‘experts’ & others (including their puppet-masters) who proclaimed to the masses that a medication that is branded as a vaccine is not really supposed to prevent/protect an individual from getting infected with a virus but rather its main goal is to reduce the seriousness of symptoms post-viral infection.

    It is so unfortunate that in the Dominica context, this very well-orchestrated psychological warfare operation was successful on over 30,000 people who allowed these injections to be put into their bodies.

    Disclaimer – I will not participate in this ongoing tomfoolery of referring to these covid injections as vaccines.

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    • Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
      March 14, 2023

      But you are talking nonsense; because had it not be for the vaccines, more than half the world’s population would have died!
      To date there are one hundred-five (105,651,630) million, six hundred fifty-one thousand, six hundred- thirty) cases of the virus still in America.

      Not forgetting the one million (1,149,021) one hundred forty-nine thousand twenty-one people who died from it. (that’s in America alone); compile the worlds statics and see how many millions of people this virus has killed.
      Thus far: one hundred three million, two hundred thirty-one thousand, one hundred-fifteen people recovered from it. And that includes three of my grandchildren, and two daughters. Meanwhile it killed my sister husband in Tortola, and my sister in the village of Wesley.
      Had that crap get out of control in Dominica, with a handful of people Cara would not be around to sue.

      If Gonsalez had make it legally mandatory by tableting a law making it mandatory, there would be no case!

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      • Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
        March 14, 2023

        So, we know that Cara is a damn good lawyer, her purpose of getting a law degree is to practice law and win cases; that is the name of the game; I have retained many lawyers in my lifetime in America, and I can tell you not many lawyers take a case unless they know they can win.

        “The authoritarianism & well-orchestrated psychological warfare tactics”(channel 1).

        That in the quote is a bunch of hogwash, which makes absolutely no sense!
        It is stupid for someone to equate the notion of getting a vaccine to save their life as “orchestrated psychological warfare tactics.
        We use words and do not know the meaning!
        Psychological warfare means the use of propaganda, threats, and other psychological techniques to mislead, intimidate, demoralize, and influence the thinking or behavior of an opponent.
        Now can anyone say a vaccine proved to have saved the eradication of all life on earth be a propaganda?
        Leave it to us Dominicans to talk fart for self-gratification!

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        • Channel 1
          March 15, 2023

          @Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque – The figures I utilized above in the COVID Case Fatality Rate calculation were obtained from the following WHO link -> https://covid19.who.int/?adgroupsurvey={adgroupsurvey}&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI276l_K3e_QIV-RXUAR0OogvSEAAYASABEgKC1vD_BwE

        • March 15, 2023

          You got my thumbs up. I say no more.

          • Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
            March 15, 2023

            You can’t say anymore when you do not know nor understand what he has conveyed!

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        • March 16, 2023

          I was given you the thumbs up not Channel 1. You misunderstood. I do not listen or watch Channel 1 but Channel 13 instead. We will await the upshot of the appeal, then, we will get the fools’ reaction.

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      • Channel 1
        March 15, 2023

        @Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque – You told me to compile the world statistics & see how many died from the virus. Okay sure.

        Permit me to use the Case Fatality Rate calculation:

        Global Case Fatality Rate (for COVID-19) = total # of deaths / total # of confirmed cases x 100

        Global Case Fatality Rate for COVID-19 (as of March 15, 2023 using WHO figures) = 6,866,434 deaths / 759,408,703 confirmed cases x 100 = 0.90%

        In simple terms, 0,90% of all confirmed cases succumbed; 99.1% of all confirmed cases as recorded by the WHO survived COVID. Of course one death is unfortunate & my condolences to you & others who lost family members.

        Further analysis needs to be done re: the deaths attributed to COVID as there is a difference between dying FROM Covid & dying WITH Covid. There are speculations in some circles that Covid may not have been the direct cause of death in a number of deaths claimed to be covid deaths.

        • Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
          March 15, 2023

          Well, when I wrote that first submission it was based on this:

          “Well done Cara & team. The authoritarianism & well-orchestrated psychological warfare tactics used to push these covid injections upon human beings against their will is despicable and absolute madness.”
          Nevertheless, I now see you have done some homework and presented something much more plateable, and I appreciate that!

          Regarding this: “There are speculations in some circles that Covid may not have been the direct cause of death in a number of deaths claimed to be covid deaths.”
          So, let me tell you the world also contain a bunch of dumb people, always in denial; I have a daughter a nurse by profession, who don’t believe COVID-19 is real, I had a friend who did not believe, within three days of her becoming infected she died.

          As for my daughter, she and her three children got it only God knows how many times, how they survive I don’t know, her mother and my younger daughter suffered the fate not…

          • Robert
            March 16, 2023

            Ooh get out of here, you dipstick. You are ten times more annoying than a swarm of mosquitoes.

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  12. The Vet
    March 14, 2023

    Now a days Tony getting blows on every side from a bird to a cat to Cara Shillingford. My advice to Tony is that he should switch from a lawyer to a vet

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    • Dominicafirst
      March 14, 2023

      A long time ago, i knew Tony was not a good lawyer, he can only win when the judge on his case is brided

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      • Marie
        March 16, 2023

        Exactly, there we have it!!!

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  13. Ibo France
    March 14, 2023

    Cara Shillingford-Marsh is fast becoming one of the most respected and competent luminaries in at least the sub-Caribbean. This is twice in recent times she has made the foul mouthed Senior Counsel seems like a toothless barking dog – all bark and no bite.

    Knowing Comrade Ralph, he will go to all lengths to deny those whom the court has made whole what is rightfully theirs. I was always oppose to mandatory vaccine. I still maintain that every person has a right to decide what goes into his or her bloodstream.

    Again, congratulation to Cara Shillingford for being a strong advocate and defender of the constitutional and inalienable rights of the little man.

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  14. My little take
    March 14, 2023

    Tony I failing to win in every area. All dogs and Birds beating him up now

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  15. Unbelievable
    March 14, 2023

    Which part of that C19 injection saved lives??? People who were injected still got C19, still passed it on and many succumbed to it!
    Those who mandated it should be arrested for selling us false information.

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  16. Waiting for Airport
    March 14, 2023

    DNO – it starting to look like us the ‘conspiracy theorist’ are being proven right! All what we were saying during the SCAMdemic, is being proven true!

    The Cochrin review (the most authoritative body in medicine) has proven that the US Government has been the biggest spreader of misinformation. It proved masks were inefecctive, myocarditis is 4-28 times more common after the vaccine, that the top experts in the FDA quit because they knew what was going on – and a whole lot more is now being exposed.

    The US government is now being investigated and is being forced to admit their lies. Footage all over the internet of them being exposed.

    Twitter is being investigated for their role in suppressing the truth.

    SO many people died because of the biased info you guys spread, at least have the integrity and balance to report the truth now! Why the silence?

    ADMIN: “SO many people died because of the biased info you guys spread, at least have the integrity and balance to report the truth now! Why the silence?”

    We actually want to be held accountable (preferably with balance and valid criticism) but such biased claims make it difficult for us take your feedback seriously. You actually claimed information on our site caused deaths.

    For one, we published this article and are interested in the truth coming out regardless of what position that truth supports.

    We do not have a news agenda that supports the narrative for or against vaccines.

    We have published varied articles and allowed for a forum where people could weigh-in on any side they choose (twitter ,which you mentioned, did the opposite).

    We only removed the articles and posts (regardless of the source) that contained information we could not verify.

    We have gone further by publishing multiple posts that actively challenged the established narrative. For example, posts by Dr. John Campbell a retired medical educator who deeply examined the reporting surrounding COVID-19 and the vaccine who often eviscerated the false narratives.

    Link to one such post from Dr. Campbell: https://dominicanewsonline.com/news/homepage/combatting-covid-19-vaccine-immunity-vs-natural-immunity/

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    • Waiting for Airport
      March 14, 2023

      By ‘you guys’ I mean the mainstream media – in Dominica, you are the main online mainstream media source.

      ‘You actually claimed information on our site caused deaths.’
      Here is an article which contains a video encouraging people to take the vaccine. https://dominicanewsonline.com/news/combatting-covid-19/

      The US government is now being forced to admit that the vaccine is responsible for the deaths of millions, or to use more ‘media friendly’ language – “myocarditis is 4-28 times more common after the vaccine”

      We uderstand you exist in a political set up where you may hae been coerced by strong armed government pressure, however, this is too big of an issue for you not to address!

      You and all the other media houses betrayed the population and people have died (at least partly) because they trusted the information on your platform!

      During the scam there were daily updates, now that the authorities are being exposed, we simply want the same energy to balance…

      ADMIN: Understand, that responsible science (and responsible reporting) will not just assume that the increase in myocarditis is due to the vaccines but will examine all possible factors. Your assumption might just be validated (or invalidated) but the work by qualified experts must be done first. This very sentiment has been expressed by responsible scientists and medical professionals that vehemently oppose the current vaccine narrative.

      You provided a link to a government COVID-19 update with cases and statistics backed by the premier medical officials in our country – remember we are not medical officials.

      By virtue of being open to various views we have published information (from other medical officials) that challenges the view expressed in the video you cited and we will continue to do so where merited.

      We have never claimed to have all the answers, if the government and government aligned institutions lied to us then they lied to all of us – DNO included. If you choose to lump us all together or blame us in their stead because we worked to published everyone’s views in good faith then you are looking to take advantage of our open forum (as low hanging fruit) to baselessly assign us blame – which we will not continue to entertain.

      However, we do recognize there is cause for concern and we will continue to highlight informed posts or articles that speak to that concern.

    • hmm
      March 14, 2023

      Now that the tables turning everybody talking about being fair and balanced. But back in the days of the “pandemic of the unvaccinated” it was a unanimous chorus of “shut up and obey the science” from pretty much everyone (including the media), all except for the “conspiracy theorists”.

      Now we’re being asked to trust these same scientists and health officials who hid the truth in the first place, who are now trying to reason away their culpability in this fiasco, and in doing so trying to stall for time so that this blows over without any of them being held to account, until the next planned pandemic starts (which they are already doing simulations for).

      At least more people are waking up to how corrupt the majority of our instutions are.

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    • Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
      March 14, 2023

      “The US government is now being investigated and is being forced to admit their lies. Footage all over the internet of them being exposed.”
      Are you, crazy guy; you piece of fart from Dominica, where did you get that lie form?
      You all don’t like Americans, you talk things you don’t’ know about America, and Americans. The world knows that the virus originated in China, and by whatever means touched the entire world, that is every nation on earth, including backwards Dominica.
      Had it not be for the knowledge and skills, of a Black American scientist with a name like Corbet popular in Dominica, skilled in the research of RNA viruses, life on earth might be eradicated by now!
      Talking fart about United States being investigated; where the hell you got that crap from, you have people in Dominica investigating, are you ordained to do the investigating? Why don’t you shut the F. up, and deal with the poverty Roosevelt has immersed you and Dominica into; submerge find a way out don’t…

      • Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
        March 14, 2023

        “Footage all over the internet of them being exposed.”
        How ignorant are you, if your source of information is from the internet, I feel sorry for you, because you don’t seem to have a brain, and so you need to find another way to educate yourself, perhaps revisiting some kindergarten!
        Tell me something to which power on earth is the United States subjected to!
        Could it be the sovereignty of Dominica?

        Hahahahahahahahahahahahahah!

        Roosevelt Skerrit: boy stop talking nonsense okay!

        • me
          March 15, 2023

          @Francisco Etienne-Dods
          It’s funny you as the most ignorant blogger on DNO can call someone ignorant. Everything that you know is based on what you see on fake western media…And trust me your fame us to insult people, but otherwuse you are very, very, very, EMPTY!!!

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          • Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
            March 16, 2023

            Okay, asks me any question on any subject in medical science, see how I deal with it, let me asks you one let’s see how you deal with it!
            This is a challenge.
            Ask me a question pertaining to Electronics, in the field of electrical, and electronic engineering and let me asks you one. Ask me a question on the subject of Anthropology, or any such science and see how I deal with it and in return to a similar question you let’s see how you deal with it.
            And by the way write your question not under a fictitious name, you are nobody without a name so I know you will accept that challenge, if you cannot get into medical science let go with some mathematical science the type used out in space.
            The reason you all get insulted is because of your ignorance.
            One calls himself Mystilics talking fart that people in America don’t vote for themselves they vote for lobbyists.

            The guy does not even know the meaning of lobbyist, or lobbying!

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          • Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
            March 16, 2023

            Con:
            What this guy don’t know is that the term lobbying or lobbyists are professional people whose business is trying to influence legislation, regulation, and other government decisions, actions or policies on behalf of a group or individuals who hires them.
            As such individuals, and nonprofit organizations can also lobby as an act of volunteering or as a small part of their normal job.
            So, how the hell this Dominica Mystilics or what that name is can stay in and say people in America vote for lobbyists and not for themselves?
            I had to throw this in their to draw to your kind how ignorant some of you are.
            For instance you call me empty; well if you are full when I write something on DNO which you believe to be shallow or empty, contrast, or contradict me on the subject with something better than I wrote.
            Just saying someone is shallow or empty and not being able to present something better makes you much more empty then the one you suggest is empty.

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          • Nurse Ellie
            March 20, 2023

            Dr. Telemakak-Dogs, give us the sum of 2+3=? Now a medical question, what’s the best medicine for YOUR verbal diarrhoea?

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      • Waiting for Airport
        March 15, 2023

        Stay asleep @Francisco Etiene-Dods Telemaque, this convo is above your paygrade. Keep doing what your politicians tell you and carry on being a good citizen. God bless you

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  17. Truth Be Told
    March 14, 2023

    This is how those Labour parties in the Caribbean today want to rule the people with dictatorship, and many of their herdlike sheep are happy to be led like slaves for peanuts, without law, without constitution, without human rights! It is heart warming and reassuring to see some are taking a stand against the Labour party rouges ruling across the Caribbean today. Ironically their actions are always against the poorest working man, civil servants and farmers! Keep them poor, dependant and under control. Civil servants too are afraid to speak up in fear of losing their jobs. Victimization gone mad!

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    • Ibo France
      March 14, 2023

      Your assessment of the current rulership by the Labour parties throughout the Caribbean today is brutally truthful.

      These rogue governments have reduced this once tranquil, thriving region to a place of stark poverty and constant escalating criminal activities. Soon the region will become inhabitable . Nothing these present day oppressors like more than a gullible, ignorant, destitute electorate.

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  18. LL
    March 14, 2023

    aylah, all where Tony goes he getting blows and nobody is feeling sorry for him, stay and take your blows Tony, don’t run. Just now you will be on the un employment list. Hurray to Clara..

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  19. WeNiceMan
    March 13, 2023

    I know we’ll try to put a local political spin to this. Rather than the legal arguments at hand. And thats just the sorry state we’re at in Dominica.

    But for me it’s all national pride to see two of our esteemed jurists “duke it out” on the regional stage. Especially on potentially a precedence setting case for the rest of the region.

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    • Hmmmmmm
      March 14, 2023

      @WeNiceMan
      Everything is political. You being on DNO to comment is political….Educate yourself, because your point suggests that you still do not know what politics is.

  20. Bravo
    March 13, 2023

    Now this is what justice looks like. What is that fool talking about saving lives and livelihoods? Thanks to government actions (lockdowns, mandates, insane health policies) entire industries were almost completely destroyed, businesses closed down, people lost their jobs. And yet still this did not prevent the spread of the viurs. Not even the vaccine was able to stop the spread and that is pretty much a fact at this point. In fact people need to start taking more governments and health officials to court now that so many people are having these side effects from something that they were forced or coerced into taking

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    • Channel 1
      March 14, 2023

      @Bravo – Very good observations. There also needs to be a much deeper investigation of this seeming increase in sudden deaths and whether in these sudden death cases the underlying cause are blood clots.

      It would also be interesting to find out what is the covid injection status of these sudden death cases and whether any correlations are emerging. Something does not appear to be right and these observations are not only being seen in Dominica but in other areas of the Caribbean & globe.

      The people who were branded and lambasted as conspiracy theorists sounded the alarm from very early o’clock about what was going on re: these covid injections (what ‘the experts’ claim are vaccines for covid).

      This whole covid injection thing has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with genuine medical science.

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      • Ibo France
        March 14, 2023

        The vaccine that was forced on us, truth be told, was still in its experimental stage. The people became guinea pigs.

        There should be a thorough assessment as to the deleterious effects these experimental vaccines have had on the world over especially we in the Caribbean.

        People like Gaston and Comrade Ralph and the other like-minded misleaders in the region who mandated the citizens to take the vaccine should fired whenever the next opportunity arises.

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        • Channel 1
          March 14, 2023

          @Ibo France – Agreed. Most definitely.

        • March 15, 2023

          Believe it or not, say what you want, Francisco Telemacque is certainly right. Had it not been for those vaccines, the whole world would have been obliterated. So stop talking all your hogwash and nonsense. Cara won her case because you have judges who think just like shallow-minded UWP bums out there. I am very happy that I took all my three covid shots..On their death beds in America, you had these dying citizens who said they wished they had taken the covid shots. Well, they did not because they were listening to these judges and people like you.

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          • Channel 1
            March 15, 2023

            @ds – You must cease with these exaggerations that the whole world would have been obliterated had it not been for those injections you claim are vaccines.

            WHO’s COVID figures show that just about 0.90% of global confirmed cases succumbed while 99.1% survived (see my reply to Francisco above). A significant percentage of the confirmed cases include people who did not take the injections since the thing you claim is a vaccine only came on the scene long after covid had already infected millions worldwide. Remember THEY claimed it was a ‘Pandemic of the Unvaccinated’.

            A greater percentage of people in Dominica & the Caribbean did not take these covid injections. The populations in Dominica & Caribbean were not wiped out. How many deaths WHO stats say Dominica had? 74

            The pseudo-science, manipulative statistics, deception, irrational fear, illogical reasoning & greed that drove this covid ‘vaccine’ psychological warfare operation upon people must stop.

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        • Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
          March 15, 2023

          “The vaccine that was forced on us, truth be told, was still in its experimental stage. The people became guinea pigs.”

          lbo, that above is not correct, almost a lie! The Covid-19 is an RNA virous similar to the SARS-Co-2 which is also an RNA virus which killed thousand on the continent of Africa. A vaccine was developed here in America and used to eradicate SARS in Africa!

          The reason Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett a Black scientists from North Carolina was able to zero in and perfected the vaccine as speedily as she did is because it was already a work in progress. There are thousands of different RNA viruses, hence research is ongoing continuously.

          You all stay in Dominica with absolutely no knowledge of what’s happening and talk, I am surprised is to read something as that written by someone like you, I believe to be an intelligent person.

          • Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
            March 15, 2023

            “Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, a research fellow and scientific lead at the National Institute of Health, is on the frontlines working with a team of scientists studying Moderna’s vaccine, one of the two COVID-19 vaccine shown to be 90percent.”

            “I want to make it clear that the work we have been doing for so long I personally stand by it, essentially with all of my being,” said Corbett.

            So, you see lbo, this here according to you is simply something sweet sounding to fabricated in your mind. I had both the I had both vaccines, and boosters, and I am still alive although I was exposed, I showed absolutely no symptoms although I have a complicated, immune system.
            Do.t simple assume things when correct information can be obtained from the appropriate source.

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      • Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
        March 17, 2023

        Channel who; where are you getting your information from? If you do not understand what you read, you had better be quiet!

        Somome people even when the truth jumps off the ground and slap them in their face, they simply brush the slap off their face and continue to believe and indulge in lies and inuendoes!

        The following are not my words, they are that of the doctor scientist who formulated the vaccine, and she did it after the virus was taking over the world!
        “Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, a research fellow and scientific lead at the National Institute of Health, is on the frontlines working with a team of scientists studying Moderna’s vaccine, one of the two COVID-19 vaccine shown to be 90percent.”

        Here are Corbett direct quotes: “I want to make it clear that the work we have been doing for so long I personally stand by it, essentially with all of my being;” said Corbett.
        So, trying heard to contradict the issue will only confirm you don’t know what you are arguing about!

  21. Zandoli
    March 13, 2023

    Of course Tony Astaphan would advise the PM to appeal the case. The more the case drags through the courts, the more money Tony and his lawyer friends will make.

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    • March 15, 2023

      He should appeal the Judge’s decision. Only Zandolis like you who would not and scurry into a hole to hide.

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