Chairman of the National Emergency Planning Organization (NEPO) Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has told Dominicans that the deadly coronavirus should not be treated as a partisan political issue.
He was speaking during a meeting organized by NEPO which was held at the Office of Disaster Management (ODM) in Jimmit on Wednesday.
Skerrit wants to ensure that people recognize that the threat of the Coronavirus is not a Ministry of Health or Government issue and should not be sensationalized.
“This is not a matter to take lightly; this is not a matter to treat as any partisan, political issue,” he remarked. “This is a matter that each of us must take seriously and it can impact any one of our countries. It can impact anyone of us; it can impact any member of our family.”
The prime minister also called on the Dominican public to cease from spreading fake news as it relates to the Coronavirus.
And according to him, in this era, the world is bombarded with fake news and “sensationalization now has become part of the DNA of society these days.”
He went on to say that people get more excited when they see ignorant things being shared on social media, “and they pay little attention to facts and accurate information and we sensationalize these.”
Roosevelt, it is TIME to quarantine your mouth! Afforce he thinks people actually listen to him? Afforce he thinks he matters. Afforce he thinks he is legit. Voleh, what have you done with de money? You think we forgot? Your time will come. Rome was not built in a day, every beginning has an end, every dog has its day. Your day, will come! What a blessed day that will be.
what is this foolishness. This man is really out of touch, do you really believe people taking you seriously. Skerrit you are the cancer to our beloved country long before the corona virus. I just do not know how people are not seeing that, and to even say it’s not a government thing or a ministry of health thing so what thing is it. You want to put that kind of burden on the backs of Dominicans, you want them to pray Corona away. Man get your act together or like a previous contributor said get out the way!!!
Skerrit says, or is trying to say that “PM Skerrit calls on Dominicans not to play partisan politics with Coronavirus.
We will take this Political Coronavirus to mean that for years, meaning over the past 19yrs that Skerrit and his failed , corrupted contagious political virus has been killing our economy, ignored our poor people who are in deep poverty, after 19 years has reduced our people to this “Skerrit-virus”. that has now spread all over Dominica and he has done absolutely nothing to clean it up. Well, he is scared to clean it up because like the Coronavirus, that dangerous SkerritVirus must go, and please be advised that we are exceptionally serious.
We had enough of this failed Coronavirus/SkerritVirus and this corrupted Labour government must come clean and get out. This virus and disease has been in Dominica now over 19years. This SkerritVirus has killed our agriculture, Hucksters, our exports for example: Our bananas, limes etc and other rich produce.
SkerritVirus…
This long serving Over stayed Clown, who has us not in a laughing mode has said that:: “PM Skerrit calls on Dominicans not to play partisan politics with Coronavirus”
The Devil is talking to from his Satanic environment. You have reduced us and our Dominica to poverty and begging over 19yrs and Skerrit, yo are not in any position to lecture to us about anything where you have failed in many areas where our Dominica has deteriorated under your failed, idiotic, Bobolistic leadership and our government. Skerrit, you are in no position to talk or lecture to us an=bout anything of decency and on matters of our ailing poverty Dominica that you have created with your blind political bats friends, where all of you are in denial but rubbing each others shoulders for company. It is a fact that you blind Labour bats are in denial, obviously you all know that you all have failed us the people of Dominica and have killed our economy now you have our people as beggars. This is sad. Skerrit Get…
Skerrit, every message that I have read on this matter above gave the message to you to get out, get away from our Dominica government. You`re this perfect failure and idiotic in your words and deeds and its visible obvious looking around and driving all over Dominica that we are in a state of poverty, begging, disrepute, angry, suffering, no jobs, no income but yet you operate this scandalous, corrupted, deceptive Red Clinic abusing and using our paid tax state money where people come to you where you are able to gain loyalty for something. This is a sad state of affairs and in any other decent country, you would have been arrested and kicked out of our Dominica already and incarcerated somewhere on top of the Hill.
You Skerrit has shamed us with your fancy talk and all you are able to do with your limited political common sense and waste of time going after our credible UWP Team and its Decent, Professional Intellectual Leader, Hon Linton, we need in government.
Skerrit has…
Mr Skerrit, trying to educate that bunch of arrogant goats that only listen to other goats on Q95radio there’s no chance of getting though to that lots of boomboom flies you might as well talk to the wall!
You see that’s the kind of thing we get from that man. Excuses, propaganda, criticism of the opposition, lies, false accusations and rethoric. Never ever anything sensible or of substance. By the way Dr., where is our money? I mean the CBI and PetroCaribe money?
Mr. PM, you have wasted so much of Dominica time and resources over the years with nothing significant to show for it. Upholding the highest office is a huge responsibility. You are responsible for infrastructure, contingency plans in case of emergencies, and designing a path of development for one to follow or build on in the near future. It’s sad and once again you have failed your country men and women. What protocols or health care does Dominica have in place to take care of people on Island? None. You feed your pockets for as long as you can, but what about Island people? How are they going to help themselves? Dominica is the least equipped, for all the time you have wasted. Other islands can’t come and fight your fight cause this issue is Global. Once again, you shall disgrace your country
DNO,
Can you find out from Skerrit why he didn’t invite the Leader of the Opposition and the leader of the Dominica Freedom Party to the meet at the ODM.
I would dear say it’s Skerritt that is playing politics with COVID-19 virus and not the other way around.
We need more action than talk to deal with the virus.
I can see why you would say that especially given the fact that 70% 0f Dominicans on the island did not vote for you or your government and don’t recognize you or your government as legitimate.
Perhaps you were speaking to the Diaspora.
Skerrit, nobody takes you seriously.
Prime Minister,
This corona virus issue is a Ministry of Health and Government Issue.
Full stop,if you are unable to recognise that time for you to GO.
Ditto! The Dear Leader will NEVER understand that IT IS the Ministry of Health AND the Government issue. But where they find him, ner?
Who playing partisan with coronavirus more that you that lying Skerit? Just say you can handle it na!
The only person that plays partisan politics is you and you alone. You out of your depth with this one and you know it. By the way, we have not forgotten about the missing CBI money and PetroCaribe money. You are not going to get away with it. Mark my words!
He already started playing partisan with coronavirus and he is asking people not too. Shame on this man
fella politics is part of everything. you yourself know that. If your administration doing absolute nonsense where this is concerned, like everything else we will call you out on it. “dont play partisian politics with corona virus”. MY DONKEY! your administration went ahead and said it will make dominica the first country in the caribbean to be able to test for the virus, we were yet to even recieve one testing kit. We didnt or still dont even have quarantine areas at our ports. or on island for that matter. Meanwhile antigua and antigua were well on the way to having all of that in place, making us look like fools once more with your outlandish statements. But you dont want us to play partisan politics with it. Is the hospital ready for covid-19 under your administration?
We should not use the coronavirus to play partisan politics but we should definitely use the coronavirus to get rid of Roosevelt Skerrit by all means. We need to have the attitude of those four lepers that didn’t care about anything as seen in 2Kings 7:4 3 Now there were four men with leprosy[d] at the entrance of the city gate. They said to each other, “Why stay here until we die? 4 If we say, ‘We’ll go into the city’—the famine is there, and we will die. And if we stay here, we will die. So let’s go over to the camp of the Arameans and surrender. If they spare us, we live; if they kill us, then we die.”
Look who’s talking and why should he bring that up? Skerritt is the one who taught Dominicans how to disregard those on the other political parties. He has not given Marigot and Salisbury their fair share and Austrie admitted to it. Now, who controls the government and the public health sector? It’s the labour party. Therefore Skerritt must be warning those he inculcated in his doctrine of exclusion. This is the result of petty political strategies and victimization .
Skerrit playing partisan politics with everything and he talking partisan politics? Why was Judas invited and the opposition Leader was not? Keep lying and deceiving. Your day will soon be over
Are you serious Roosevelt? You bar the opposition from your health conference and say we must not play politics with this disease. Do you know how ridiculous this sounds.If you behave like opposition does not exist why you even mention partisan politics. You do not make sense bro.
Everything revolves around Government, skerrit as long as it relates to Country. First of all, all cruise ship should be put on hold if you are so concern about the citizens of the Commonwealth of Dominica, so you shut your mouth and stop belching bubbles.
Advise your MOH to stop betraying the citizenry confidence in health care through his incessant lies and irresponsible statements.
Stop Corona from reaching our shores by closing our borders/entry ports to ‘hot spot’ areas
Don’t practice the folly of home quarantine. It is contrary to life in Dominica to restrict yourself indoors.
Have effective and efficient national quarantine centres when a case is suspected or diagnosed in D/ca.
Have facilities available for treatment and support of the affected
Have appropriate body disposal mechanisms for those who succumb
Skerrit please get out of the way. This is a public health crisis with lives on the line. You are making it a political crisis. I suppose that is all you know anyway and asking you for other wise is useless. Let the doctors and public health officials deal with this and please don’t interfere.
“Skerrit please get out of the way. This is a public health crisis with lives on the line. You are making it a political crisis.”
Well said Leslie, Thanks much. This man Skerrit has been this failure and a political nuisance in our government for too damn long. Skerrit must Go. Get the hell out of our government. You have nothing of substance to offer us. Shame! It is just talk and more useless talk wasting our time and our tax payers money
You have exposed yourself enough that you are not even at the intellectual level of meaningful development to that of our Leader of the Opposition Hon. Lennox Linton and his formidable professional UWP Team.
We need decency in our government that we can begin to plot the direction where our people and our nature isle should be heading to.
Skerrit and his failed Labour government has plot our people to numerous Bobol activities and also dismissed it only when our Hon Linton exposed the Bin Bobol.
Also we need answers for the other Bobol…
Well said Leslie, keep it up. This failed PM Clown is now a joke in a circus within his own failed corrupted labour Party. This man should have never been a Prime Minister, much ess to be in government. Skerrit lacks visionary, the meaning and purpose of socio-economic development. He is just spontaneous and ridiculous and either lack intelligence or is ignorant of what development of a people and country means and is all about.
All Skerrit has is how to go after the poor and their families to come up to him or have scouts go about delivering hard cash and then they say until the next handout that “We Love our p.m. wi”. ? Well, what a sham, what a fake, what a “Scare-it” what an abuse, what idiocy, what hypocrisy, what childish behaviour.
This entire Labour Government is the biggest failure that we have had in Dominica since our Independence in1979. Skerrit know not what our “Independence” means and its purpose to this generation and those to come. This is Skerrit’s playboy…