The Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica, with funding provided by the European Union under the 11th EDF B-Envelope State Building Contract, has embarked on the rehabilitation of key feeder/farm access roads.
This programme is seen, in part, as the successor to the BAM (Banana Accompanying Measures) programme and addresses an underlying weakness in the agriculture sector relating to commercial competitiveness and low productivity, by improvement of the physical infrastructure.
The roads were identified and prioritised by the Ministry of Blue and Green Economy, Agriculture and National Food Security.
Contracts have been awarded and signed for the rehabilitation of five farm access roads. These contracts constitute an amount of EC$9,943,819.47 committed from EU resources as well as Government of Dominica counterpart contribution.
The Contracting Authority is the National Authorising Officer for the European Development Fund and the Project Supervisor is the Chief Technical Officer of the Ministry of Public Works and the Digital Economy. The project beneficiary is the Ministry of Blue and Green Economy, Agriculture and National Food Security.
Middle Ridge Feeder Road, Calibishie
Contractor Name: Emile Gaddarkhan et Fils, Ltd
Contract Scope: survey of original scope of works and redesign, clearance, excavation,
earthworks, pavement of 720 metres, irrigation sleeves, culverts and
drainage
Contract Value: EC$5,389,184.64
Commencement Date: 2
nd March 2022.
Projected Completion Date: 1
st July 2022.
Morpo/Macaton Feeder Road, Grandbay
Contractor Name: Public Works Corporation
Contract Scope: demolition and clearance, excavation and earthworks, pavement of 700
metres and drainage
Contract Value: EC$1,436,845.74
Commencement Date: 2
nd March 2022
Projected Completion Date: 1
st June 2022.
Formie Road, Castle Bruce
Contractor Name: Asquith Bannis (trading as ADA Trucking)
Contract Scope: demolition and clearance, excavation and earthworks, pavement of 225
metres, drainage, culvert crossing
Contract Value: EC$830,240.66
Commencement Date: 2
nd March 2022
Projected Completion Date: 1
st June 2022.
Boplan Feeder Road, Paix Bouche
Contractor Name: Sonny’s Construction and Plywood Rental
Contract Scope: demolition and clearance, excavation and earthworks, pavement of 200
metres, drainage, retaining wall and culvert crossing
Contract value: EC $1,453,740.93
Commencement Date: 2
nd March 2022
Projected Completion Date: 1
st July 2022.
Agricultural Station Road, Laplaine
Contractor Name: Paul Jno. Hope
Contract Scope: demolition and clearance, excavation and earthworks, pavement of 400
metres and drainage
Contract Value: EC $833,807.50
Commencement Date: March 14th
Projected Completion Date: June 30th
Contracts will be awarded to commence works on four (4) farm access roads by April 1st, 2022 at an
estimated cost of EC$13 million.
- Mango Gutter Feeder Road/Wesley
- Grand Riviere Feeder Road/Laplaine
- Cuba Feeder Road/ Carholm
- Morne Rachette Heights
The Government of Dominica is also developing plans for the rehabilitation of the Chatwell Road,
seen as a critical alternative route, linking the villages of Pichelin and Bellevue Chopin.
Elections must be coming soon that’s why roads are getting fixed.
I can tell when Roosevelt Skerrit has trouble on his hand. There is usually a flurry of activities by his obnoxious, do-nothing oligarchy to placate the restive citizens.
It took this morally inept regime twenty two years to realise that feeder roads are essential for farmers to have easy access to new and existing plots of farmlands.
What the country badly needs also is a new network of roads connecting major towns/cities throughout the island. This would increase travel, commerce, jobs and an increase of revenue in government coffers.
Dominica needs a new driver behind the economic and social wheel of the country. The present driver cannot drive. He’s driving his passengers over a steep cliff to their demise.
The Delices to Petti Savanne fedder road providing access to: farmers, buses and general public is an obvious ommision, saving monies for these groups from the high cost (petrol, vehical maintenance,farmer prices at maket…) of travel on the alternative route and the generation of the tourism industry in the south east of the island.
So really and truly it does not matter what the government do
People are criticising
Well well
Many of them remind me of the children of Israel
God gave everything but yet still they complain
Stop it you wicked Dominican
Nice preacher you are! How about your PM constantly lying, is that ok with your god. How about your PM misappropriating CBI funds. How about your PM keeping silent about 100 million PetroCaribe funds? I guess Your god is ok with that. Just leaves the question, who is your god. Could it be that one with horns??? How much has that one given you? You are a disgusting creature!
They do not know what they want. They complain all the time like disobedient children cause they believe in a clown and a high school drop out.
This DLP regime deserves no credit. It is not only morally inept, it’s also illegal. Got into power by a severely corrupt electoral system plus bribery, cheating and treating.
What has this scandal plagued reggime done for the country? Here it is:
*placed tens of thousands of citizens into abysmal poverty
*destroyed the economic livelihoods of most resident Dominicans
*permanently stained the image of the country
*created everlasting political and social divisions among the people
*shared the country’s resources among themselves and their foreign buddies mostly of Wear descent
The list of unflattering things is inexhaustible. These looters need to go.
The government isn’t doing anything other than spending other people’s money – in this case, the European taxpayer. Take away grant funding and CBI and then ask yourself what the government has created and achieved after all these years. This is a country that has become almost entirely dependent on handouts.
This DLP has hijacked all the principles of good Governance and instead instituted a policy of “some shall eat all”; their modus operandi of selective distribution to mainly DLP strongholds is not in the best interest of Dominica’s economic development and advancement. Yes every feeder/farm access roads need attention and rehabilitation but the question that bothers the mind is whether due consideration was given to the most productive areas in the country as far as our Agricultural is concerned?. The once bread baskets of the nation are consistently ignored by this ROGUE regime passing for accountable Government.
DNO I am lost. You talking about feeder road but I saw this here that had me baffled :
Boplan Feeder Road, Paix Bouche
Contractor Name: Sonny’s Construction and Plywood Rental
Contract Scope: demolition and clearance, excavation and earthworks, pavement of 200
metres, drainage, retaining wall and culvert crossing
Contract value: EC $1,453,740.93
Commencement Date: 2
nd March 2022
Projected Completion Date: 1
st July 2022.
DNO first of all two people own majority of the lands at Boplan and one is a former agriculture minister and the other is another labor poto from Skerrit’s constituency that Skerrit gave government land to for nothing .
Second of all Sonny’s construction all you giving all that money to? And part of the deal is for demolition and cleaning? Demolish what when Boplan has no walls or building to be demolished? DNO you sure is not money they gave Sonny to build those apartments in Bois More Park and they hiding it under feeder roads?
Come portsmouth and fix those poor farmers damn feeder roads.. is not all u blasted money.. wicked set of people.. all you must go
So Skerrit killed agriculture for his Sale of passport program and now his passport program has landed him in serious hot water, he running back to agriculture? But it was feeder roads the farmers of Salisbury asked him for and instead he gave them tear-gas. But this man is so wicked that neither Marigot nor Salisbury getting feeder roads though they are the two biggest farming communities on island. Why? Because they voting UWP. So by this alone we can see he is not serious about bringing back agriculture which he killed.
But what agriculture? Skerrit knows the banana industry is dead in Dominica so he won’t resurrect it. So farm roads to plant dasheen, yams and plantain? But where is the market Skerrit? Oh maybe to plant cantaloupe and watermelon. But that makes no sense because I getting these in the US for nothing so is not export we going to export. Maybe it’s feeder road for local consumption. But again it makes no sense because nothing is selling in Dominica thanks to PM
So there is no market in Dominica for agricultural products? Do you know what the food import bill is?
I am no fan of Skerrit, but you cannot fault the man for doing something. I am first in line to knock him as a lazy, visionless leader. But when he is trying to re-energize the agricultural sector, if it is not within you to applaud him, stay quiet.
It’s much easier to kill than to resurrect. It took Skerrit and his kind of DLP administration almost 20 yrs to destroy agriculture and regardless of their false pretenses I don’t see them bringing back agriculture to life. In fact the so called contracts signed are no doubt monies legally given to their laundromat owners and roads for their supporters.
In terms of Skerrit’s Blue and Green economy added to the ministry of agriculture, that’s just a fancy name that is not visible on the ground. Maybe he should have added a Red economy to the ministry of finance since Red represents Blood and what we have seen it is CBI money or blood money from known criminals like Monfared Skerrit is interested in which is why he killed agriculture.
Since 2014 Dominica has not shipped a box of bananas to Europe thanks to Roosevelt Skerrit and his agenda. He blamed it on Black sigatoka but our neighbors like St Lucia and St Vincent also had Black sigatoka but they have NEVER stopped shipping
This is great investment for agriculture. Now the farmers need to be enabled further by allowing them to go into additional income generating aspect of cannabis production for the phyto oils export industry. It’s imperative! Dasheen, Cabbage and fig will feed us but can only generate a basic and important fixed income for the farmers who need to be enabled further to participate in the economy. Be brave, legalize cannabis, it’s not a big deal anymore its here; research the industry to boost the farmers’ income.
How can you develop your people when the largest pie goes to a foreigner, all this government does is export our resources. Dominicans built Dominica in the 60, 70, 80 and 90’s now we are exposed to more technology we a suffocating our people killing our economy by exporting the little we perceive to have, by the way which is not government funding.
Secondly Salisbury has been complaining since the inception of this administration about their farm access why are they not in this group of roads.
Mr. Lavelle honestly I saw you as a young man, qualified, and expected much better from you, I believe you can do better and I knew your father and I would want to believe you had more testicular fortitude, your father was straight forward in Guest Industry and in the Freedom party, Ms. Charles was not to great to be put in her place when needed. I expect that of you an independent young fellow.
It’s time this administration stop being selective, you all were selected to serve Dominicans,…
So vaccine campaign finished skerrit on another misión, nobody talking about booster. Woy..a gd thin I never take their crap. Well well well
. Next on de agenda.lets wait and see. dummicans too gulllible. When skerrot speak them bow down..smh if skerrot come with another vaccine today and tell them to take it..here they go…No boy skerrot worse than them haitians to have a while country afraid to kick him out…but God seas and knows.
Boy skerrot do just like de prodigal son. After he waste de money giving to people to shut up, bring sinache and de rest. Boy Mr. Waste our money we..the people’s money and no body tellibg de likkle boy nothing…now he come back to agri..so long farmers crying out Lord..smh..fin de dam fedder road man and shut up.