Information reaching Dominica News Online (DNO) is that former government minister and Special Envoy in the Office of the Prime Minister, Dr. Kenneth Darroux is now on a $30,000.00 bail after two charges were brought against him by the police.
Police sources revealed that Dr. Darroux has been charged in connection with importation of firearm accessories without being the holder of a valid firearm importation license.
Dr. Darroux appeared before the Roseau Magistrate Court today sometime after 4:00 p.m., where he was granted bail in chamber by Magistrate Michael Laudat.
He is represented by attorneys-at-law Lennox Lawrence and Jodi Luke. Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Sherma Dalrymple, has conduct of the State’s case.
Dr. Darroux is expected to return to court on January 24, 2024, where the two charges will be read to him.
The former Parliamentary Representative of Petite Savanne held office for the past 18 years, serving in various ministerial capacities during his tenure in parliament. After his departure in the last general election in 2022, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit announced Darroux’s new role as a Special Envoy in the Office of the Prime Minister. This position includes attending Cabinet meetings on invitation as well as specific responsibilities for “Electoral Modernization.”
DNO will continue to follow this story and report new developments as the story unfolds.
Hello and good evening my people. Well Dr Darroux it seems that you don’t understand how things work even though you’re an experienced legislator. The Prime Minister wants his wife to be the next Prime Minister but word is that you planned to run for that office. The Prime Minister had to destroy your reputation so your plans to import those firearms were exposed by a confidential informant. You are a member of his of his party therefore he will take care of the little embarrassing problem by allowing you to pay a fine.
oh crooked disciples…same as their leader….no law no constitution….u have him agreeing to call the honorable lady drumstick….what u expect from tem…oh crooked bunch your days are numbered….when is d speaker going to have his court date?when? crooked bunch….immigration cannot process passport…imagine….worthless….the main hospital has turned into a funeral home…oh lord help my people…none of them in office will go there….all of them running overseas for medical care….so they afraid of their doctor fan Cho hospital…in time to come …u must hear more….
There are more criminals in there that will get caught sooner or later.
Darroux cannot be convicted because the case was called on Q95 by Brian Linton,Matt Peltier and the UWP acolytes and Darroux was was found guilty on January 24 2024.That is discrimination .The case was discussed in public by supporters of UWP and the man was found guilty without a trial.I hope Darroux lawyers are listening,and they should sue Matt Peltier,Q95,Brian Linton and others for calling their client a Criminal on Q95 before a trial.Do Matt Peltier and Q95 what Mills did to them.
@Lin clown
Imagine a nobrainer, a cliwn with no IQ acting as lawyer.
Go to school.
Seems to me that you are either shocked or pissed that Darroux was charged.
Get real doctor, your beloved DLP is make up of a bunch of crooks et al …
Now, go drink some water and mind your business
You are such an idiot, so stupid to understand that the criminal, has pleaded guilty to committing the crime and is now a convicted felon!
You will blame everybody including yourself for the crime Darroux committed except the criminal himself!
Liars, criminals, of all kinds including thieves in government all raspiest and the degenerates like you always flock together, that’s why to the day of your demise you will be upholding all the corruption and criminal activities in Dominica government.
How come you have not yet given a reason why government Roosevelt treasury checks are bouncing?
If you don’t understand the term bouncing, it simply means they can’t be cleared in the bank because government Roosevelt Skerrit bank a account is empty!
Tell me why Dominica government is not able to pay its bills!
Tell us why Skerrit government is unable to pay the debt owes to people who extend credit to Dominica government Roosevelt.
Question that you SOB!
They say wonders never “cease” to happen: nevertheless, I see this as another political ploy by the Roosevelt Skerrit corrupted regime!
Why would Darroux import gun(s), and ammunition into the country, as part of the regime unless he had done so in the past and knew there would be no consequences to suffer since he’s a member of the corrupted cabal?
I suspect this is all planned, by the regime, to impress someone, I think the impression is that the new puppet chief of police will take down even members of this corrupt government!
Let’s see how this plays out. If Darroau is convicted and sent to jail, then I will convince myself that wonders never cease.
And so, I must asks the question: when will Roosevelt Skerrit be arrested, and his bail set at one ($1,000,000,000.00) billion dollars?
Darraou, may have conspired with Roosevelt for what ever reason to place himself in such jeopardy; either that or it goes deeper, maybe he has become a thereat to Roosevelt Skerrit!
Crooks, criminals and fraudsters have been the hallmark of this PM Skerritt led Dominica Labour party and we all know that! What else is new!? If its is not guns is drugs is contraband is people smuggling is women abuse is underage girls violation, all consistent with this Labour party, but this is the new Dominica and Dominicans seem to like it so! Just throw in a little free sewo and we all forget the crimes tomorrow!
Now, I am just waiting to find out who is the top Dominican associate allowing the Russian national, Peter Kambolin, who was late last week jailed for two years in the United States, to launder his fraudulent and illegal money in Dominica bank?
Darroux Karma is a B, it was just a matter of time, you guys thought dominica belong to you and the gang you useing the young people in dominica as pawns the young man you send and clear your stuff for you whats gonna happen to him ,a you gonna pin it on him, you guys have to fall one by one,by the way ask darroux if he know in which bank the russian put the money in dominica.
More and more dominica is involve in so much!!!!!! and dominicans not doing nothing about it ,Man!!!!! only in dominica that can happen, Roseau Should be shut down and people on the streets by thousands asking the hole government to resign now, enough is enough,these bunch of idiots have to go.
Free di man! Time to amend the law to allow importation of firearms to protect ourselves Because do police dem useless. While ordinary tax paying citizens being prosecuted, criminals running loose robbing and wreaking the community
That the man who was put in charge of “Electoral Modernization” by Skerrit. All you see what your PM is made of. He’s a gangster and all the cabal members are gangsters too. Birds of a feather always flock together.
I know it is an offence to have a firearm or live ammunition in your possession without being the owner or user of a firearm licence.There is a licence to own,and there is a licence to use.I do not know if there is a licence for accessories like sling,scope,magazine loaders and cleaning kit.Mr .Expert ole police will say.
Lie Clown, your feeble attempt to absolve this hoodlum (the gun slinging doctor) from culpability, your comment is indecipherable. In fact, this statement is an inadvertent act of self-deprecation. You don’t have to let the whole world know about how asinine you are.
Lie Clown, it is better to shut your mouth and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Even when these gangsters put out a game of pretense to deceive us yet we can see their hypocrisy in every step of this so called arrest. Why was the Skerrit special envoy brought to the chambers after working hours instead of at the cell? Why was he bailed instead of having him to sleep in the rat infested cell like they did to Dr Fontaine and other regular Dominicans? Why was bail set for just $30k for such a serious matter when members of the opposition are charged $75k for politically trumped up charges? Anyway, the fact that one of theirs was charged by them tells me that they have a lot of known garbage within themselves and only a matter of time before the depth of their garbage and naughtiness will be exposed, not by their local corrupt injustice system but rather by international criminal agencies
Pertinent questions! Brilliantly said! How much over all Dominicans treats the deep seated corruption of this dictatorship? You can’t wish this widespread pollution away. It only is going to get worse. CORRUPTION is Lying Roosevelt’s religion.
I thought UWP said the law was for them and their supporters.I thought UWP said the police were Skerrit dogs and working for Skerrit against UWP and their supporters.Those police officers who arrested and charged Darroux must be working for UWP,I GUESS.Everybody who break the law and is found guilty in a court of law should pay.
This DLP government is replete with BAD EXAMPLES from top to bottom. What a shame!! He should be jailed for a longer term than the poor man’s child. This is the same bad example who went free after brandishing a gun in parliament. He is obsessed with guns, and i often ask, is it why the original residents of Bellevue Chopin have been complaining so profusely to the police about the number of gunshots being heard in what used to be the most quiet village in Dominica???? The young men who have befriended him, must be careful. Please stop being used!! If you possess a gun, surrender it to the police.
Jail the scamp!
Jail the rascal!
Is the prison only for the poor man’s child?
Excellent commentary! It’s quite evident that Darroux has an obsession wit guns. Send him off to Stock Farm for some time to get therapy from his gun mania.
You violate the law you must be held accountable and the punishment must fit the crime. So whether you are importing guns illegally or exporting crab backs illegally the law must be respected it should not be colored in politics.
Another one of Skerrit lazy bunch
Special envoy in de office of de PM
All these years and de man never have a valid gun license
But he boldly ordering firearm accessories ……..checking he is part of leadership so laws don’t apply to him?
what about de woman in de cabinet that surrounds de tiefing incident at a pharmacy in Roseau?
she was never brought before de court
All are equal before the law.
I hope for his sake that the charges are (in Brian Linton’s voice) “bogus.”
@Putin
You shall never see all are equal before the law in Dominica..Maybe when things change, but not now. Are you losing it?
@Putin
For your own sake, when you have nothing to say why not stay quiet. It exposes your emptiness, stupidity, slavish mentality and off course it tells the world that you are in mental slavery…You cant see it, but you are a mental slave!
“After his departure in the last general election in 2022, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit announced Darroux’s new role as a ‘Special’ Envoy in the Office of the Prime Minister. “
Gason no damn former minister. That thing is just fake just as the arrest. The man is Skerrit’s special envoy or minister so I wonder if he was doing his bids?
Let’s make no mistake about it. These former and current government ministers are and have been always involved in their dirty things and are responsible for most of the bad things on island. So today even if they arrested and charged him to deceive the nation they just cannot fool me because if the police was serious they would not only charge him for a minor incident but they would have arrested and charged every damn one of them from captain to cook for far worse matters. So I don’t buy that and I won’t think of Skerrit’s corrupt police force any better than I viewed them before. It’s a damn old cabal that working together to our destruction
This is just the beginning. I Hope that he is jailed just like døthey do the ordinary citizens without titles to their names.
I have always said that the spirit of Satan and his demons that is behind all the drugs, money laundering , illegal weapons and really all manner of crimes and evil on island .
DNO again I am referring to Satan of the Bible, whoJesus calls out by name and mission in John 10:10 “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. “
The court should use this case to send an unequivocal message to the rest of society. Regardless of status, from the Head of State down to the drain sweeper, all would be treated equally before the law.
Those law enforcement officials at the airport did their job. The question is, when will the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) do theirs by recouping the billions missing from the CBI funds and prosecute those involved in defrauding the state?
The entire Roosevelt led Reid has proven that that lies, idleness, ignorance and lawlessness, are the right ingredients to qualify for a position in his cabinet.
This is precisely what happens when people think that the laws ad constitution of the country do not apply to them. Both present and former ministers of the ruling Roosevelt led cabal suffer from power toxicity. These rogues truly believe that they are untouchable.
A fish rots from the head. A society takes on the characteristics of its leader. It is of little surprise that the society has become so lawless. The youths are only copycats of those who wield political power at the highest level.
Every citizen should be equal according to ur laws. Justice is blind. Having said that, I hope Dr. Kenneth Darroux doesn’t get any special treatment. He should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
I hope the country take note of what are the criminals and real enemies of the state. For sure, not Messrs Lennox Linton, Thompson Fontaine, et alia.
What joke. Darroux was bailed in CHAMBERS. They sat in Laudat’s office, had a few shots of blue whiskey, laughed and made another order from more guns. This country is just a joke. Real joke. No wonder Southern district is a haven for guns and drugs. Gun stingers can shoot and get away and drug users under the influence can drive and kill and get away. Dominica? You are in real trouble.
They just start falling. One by one Jah will quail them especially he Darroux for playing games with the people’ electoral reform process. Tick-tok-tick-toc I can hear the clock saying kookooo!! Allu think when them bee-doe catholic start praying it will not catch allu. The bouche have to daymoutay all of allu in time to come. Keep harassing them old walkers still. U see how allu have the country brokes? hmmmmmm
that is just the beginning is all them so that could be bringing drugs to our children kia pool kwazai