New Grand Bay fire station to house 16 officers, La Plaine facility to be funded by US gov’t

Minister for National Security Rayburn Blackmoore handing over of new fire trucks

Minister for National Security Rayburn Blackmoore has announced that the construction of a new fire station in Grand Bay is ongoing and will house 16 officers.

He made the announcement during a handing-over ceremony of two trucks to the Fire and Ambulance Service last week.

“As we speak, we are constructing a new fire station in Grand Bay, which will house 16 officers, and we are also equipping that fire station with appliances,” he said.

Blackmoore continued, “We are also working in concert with the Government of the United States of America and received the funding for a fire and ambulance service building in the village of La Plaine.”

He explained that the contractor has already begun to mobilize, and construction will commence during the course of this month to build a new fire station in Laplaine.

Meanwhile, he revealed that presently an additional fire truck is being manufactured.

“It takes more than a year to manufacture a truck,” Blackmoore indicated.

He said the truck being manufactured is worth around $1.5 million.

According to him, based on the schedule that he was provided with, the truck was originally expected to be in Dominica by April of this year, “but there is a little lapse in terms of the time for the manufacturing process, so  it might be a month later.”

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3 Comments

  1. Labour power
    March 10, 2026

    Stop making yourself a jack from your perch on Skid Row and Figueroa street.Just now you will post your usual bs about constituency government.

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    • Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
      March 10, 2026

      Responding to an idiot, is like dignifying a combination of dog, and human feces!
      Hahahahahaha!
      I do not have any interest or intention of lowering my intelligence nor intellect to argue with one who only graduate kindergarten.
      You and Roosevelt had the same professor, the only difference is that he brought two pieces of useless paper, with the insignia Ph.D supposed to be honorary degrees, hoping to be called doctor!
      Do not forget that Roosevelt is also a knight you know, you will declare yourself a knight soon too.
      Anyway I prefer to live on a rubbish heap, than to be any place where you are breathing the same contaminated oxygen that you and that boy balled head Roosevelt utilized.
      Go take my name back to Roosevelt, he will give you a fist full of Dominica pennies: that’s how you live, on handouts.
      Until next time have a nasty day!

  2. Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
    March 9, 2026

    In the United States, there is the Federal Government, States Governments, and also city governments, which of the government is black-boy talking about?

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