Security alert for US citizens in Dominica and Eastern Caribbean

The US Embassy has placed its citizens in Dominica and the rest of the Eastern Caribbean on a security alert because of what they describe as heightened tensions in the Middle East.

According to a release from the U.S. Embassy in Bridgetown, the tension in the Middle East may result in security risks to U.S. citizens abroad.

They are encouraging their citizens to keep a low profile, be aware of their surroundings, stay alert in locations frequented by tourists, review personal security plans and have travel documents up to date and easily accessible.

The Embassy says it will continue to review the security situation and will provide additional information as needed.

See full alert.

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29 Comments

  1. Casio
    January 9, 2020

    Nonsense. so why are we still aCCEPTING CRUISE SHIPS? this call is misleading. We have no bomb threats or terrorists here.

  2. Dan Tanner
    January 9, 2020

    Thank you, Bone Spurs, you cowardly swindling narcissistic sociopath. You and your offspring are a stain on history.

  3. Proud american
    January 9, 2020

    I was planning a trip to the Dominica with my family and spending my hard earned money there, I’ve decid d to spend my money on another island in the Caribbean. I’ve wanted to visit the island but after reading some of these comments it seems as an American, I’m not wanted there along with the money I would have spent there. I’ve visited 8 different islands for a week long vacation on each island and in that week besides th money for the hotel and food, we’ve pumped over $4000 in cash into the local merchants hands. We would visit and shop at the open markets while talking and getting to know the locals since this gives us a true feel for the island. So sad that Americans aren’t welcomed to the Dominica. What’s even more upsetting is the regurgitation Democrat talking points by locals in the Dominica by claiming our president is a white nationalist. That is very disturbing since this president has done more for minorities in the United States than any president prior to him.

    • viewsexpressed
      January 9, 2020

      Proud American, I`m a proud Dominican, visited USA many times, at areas considered dangerous, for example: Harlem, some areas within Chicago, and other areas. I have enjoyed the visits and focussed my visits to see and witnessed myself the truth of the mighty USA and not depend on people who have scared others of so called crimes within this large, prominent amazing USA. Dominica is peaceful and safe, secured and embracing. Our only concern and issue with our nature Isle, is not our people but that of this failed, incompetent, worthless sitting Labour government with the worse Prime Minister called Skerrit that we have had for 19 years. Now our struggling people que up to see this corrupt Prime Minister to receive states cash in his office called the “Red Clinic”. That is fraud.
      Our Dominica is safe and this government headed by this immature Skerrit and failed government are highly corrupted, immature, idiots and abuse our states funds to gain loyalty. We have a corrupt Prime…

      • Casio
        January 10, 2020

        In addition the reading the many disgusting things that Americans say about immigrants, when America as a company was founded by immigrants, for immigrants

    • Eagle-Eyed
      January 9, 2020

      Proud american, It wasn’t the democrats that accused your vile President of chanting to his white nationalists supporters to send back the black congresswomen to the countries where they came from (although they where born in America). It wasn’t the democrats who accused your vile President of describing Haiti and other predominantly black populated countries as ‘S**t holes’ and said he would prefer more immigrants from Norway and other Scandinavian countries. It wasn’t the democrats that decided to ban people from Muslim countries from visiting or living in America and described all Mexicans as rapists and murderers. It wasn’t the democrats that accused your vile President of murdering the top general of another country. These are the things coming directly from the mouth of your President for the whole world to hear and see. So don’t go blaming the democrats. You voted him and it would seem continue supporting his policies. So i’m not sure what you whinging about.

    • Silver fox
      January 9, 2020

      @Proud american, Rubbish rubbish your comments is crap ahole take your hard earned money and” P” off.

  4. My My
    January 8, 2020

    Wee Papa, they just can’t stop licking their wounds! Topic, Security alerts for US citizens……, how does the word Skerrit fits in that scenario? Eventually the cancer name Skerrit will take a negative toll on your health, You haters.

  5. Up den dung
    January 8, 2020

    Hahaha…..You know what I like to see? Roaches scrambling to find a hole to hide whenever the lights are turned on. The lights are being focused on DA, so look for those roaches. Already they started playing nice! Baygon spray didn’t kill em, so we should try “BE GONE.”

  6. Galileo
    January 8, 2020

    Where are all those who said that killing the Iranian general would make the world a safer place?

  7. Trouble I See
    January 8, 2020

    No matter which direction we look the picture on the wall reads :
    “DOMINICA IS IN SERIOUS TROUBLE”

    Here are two verses of a well known hymn that describes the condition of Dominica today:

    Now the day is over,
    Night is drawing nigh;
    Shadows of the evening
    Steal across the sky.

    Now the darkness gathers,
    Stars begin to peep,
    Birds and beasts and flowers
    Soon will be asleep.

    • candid
      January 8, 2020

      This is serious, An Arian will not do any damages themselves, they will pay locals to carry out the acts, this could be your next door neighbour who have access to PM office,therefore,the alert start from there. Am worried.

  8. Annon
    January 8, 2020

    I doubt that Iran has any plans for DA or the Caribbean per se. More scare tactics.

  9. The old Prophet
    January 7, 2020

    Either before or shortly after the war with Iran is over, expect the US to come very hard against Dominica CBI program due to the danger of the CBI program and, because of the anti America statement PM Skerrit made during a DLP rally in St. Joseph in November 2019. I believe it’s just a matter of time and it won’t be too long

    • Eddy A
      January 8, 2020

      No surprise here, as long as the ku klux Klan is running the white house and Trump that is to be expected. I don’t care for Iran and Islamists either way but white Supremacists will continue to do lots of very bad things. That’s the nature of the best. Nothing to do with skerrit nor the Caribbean, just pure scare tactics to get us to make their enemy our enemy.

      • Eddy A
        January 8, 2020

        Why are you using my name for your rotten Skerrit propaganda???? And DNO tolerates it!!!! Why don’t you investigate????

  10. My Bad
    January 7, 2020

    I know the alert is for the Caribbean but trust me, The US is more concerned about the threat Dominica pose to them than any of the other English speaking Caribbean islands because the US knows that many Iranians invested in the Kimpinski hotel and many did so to run from the US sanction against Iran. I think Dominica under the leadership of Skerrit posses a very serious threat to the US and other European countries with his CBI program and his personal friends and allies. It’s just a matter of time before we hear serious sanction on Dominica even worse than what they put on Venezuela.

    • It's Miss Alie
      January 8, 2020

      The Caribbean has every reason to mistrust the U.S.; because the United States wants to carry on with the same imperialistic ways of Europe. Dominica and the rest Caribbean hold the sovereignty (emphasis) to do business with whomever they want to without having to explain their decisions.
      It’s 2020 and no country should be forced into Eurocentrism ideas, because those ideas(economic and political) have kept us hostage to the ways of Europe.

      • viewsexpressed
        January 9, 2020

        Miss Alie, this is silly talk yo have written there. Please wake up, and read what BS you comprehend.
        “The Caribbean has every reason to mistrust the U.S; because the US wants to carry on with the same imperialistic ways of Europe.
        Our focus has to be on the decline of our resources that Skerrit and his failed corrupted Labour government has endured on us. We have a Red Clinic that is managed by this little boy Skerrit and appears no one within the Ministry of Finance is able to stop this thievery but to gain support from poor struggling people rather that get our agriculture and economy growing to some level of growth. We have blind idiotic labourites shouting that they love their “PM”? Love this failed dirty PM my foot. What has he done for Dominica lately other than the abuse of states money flying all over the place and returns empty handed with BS talk and reduced our people to beggars at the Red Clinic that the ministers of government are scared to stop this thievery…

        • Man bites dogs
          January 9, 2020

          @Viewsexpressed,
          You are a loser liar and master of all crap you don’t know what you on about that is why you keeps sounding like a broken record singing the same old crap. I’m a Dominican and UK citizen what Miss Alie, said is true to facts of course you would not know that, you are a propagandist demon.

  11. RED FLAG
    January 7, 2020

    1. During the Zampoli verses Range Developers court matter, we understood that several of our passports were sold to Iranians and others from the middle-east who invested in the Kimpinski hotel. That alone is a RED flag for us because remember that case took place in NY and the US have all the information.

    2. In November 2019, during the Al Jazeera Expose’ we understood that Prime Minister Skerrit himself was involved in a Diplomatic passport sale to a known wanted criminal from Iran, by the name of Alireza Monfared. Monfared is now in jail in Iran for 20 yrs. Do we know how many more like Monfared that using our passport to hide and maybe even launch an attack against the US and it’s interests?

    3. During the election Campaign we heard PM Skerrit once again making anti America statements, though his children are US citizens and so many of us are either US citizens or studying in the US. Statements of Skerrit alone forced the US to put us under surveillance so I am not…

    • The Crow
      January 8, 2020

      They didn’t just expose Skerrit, they exposed Linton as well!

    • Lin clown
      January 8, 2020

      Here we go,UWP IDIOTS again.Can any UWP fools tell us how many IRANIANS ARE LIVING IN THE USA?Why does it have to take an Iranian,with a Dominican passport to perform act’s of terroism on the USA?There are IRANIANS everywhere in the world,including the USA,where thousands live.No wonder UWP lost the election .FOOLISH PEOPLE.

      • viewsexpressed
        January 9, 2020

        Lin Clown, just go to your home and have big …… Laugh at yourself.
        You see, you are just not interested in our aching and ailing Dominica that s in deep poverty, with high unemployment and you hang about this failed idiotic Skerrit with your blind ….. statements that is not in the interest of our Dominica and its unemployed people. Too hell with Skerrit, “Go to Hell, Go to Hell, Go to hell”, it is non of our damn business, Skerrit is ok., but our people are jobless nd Skerrit has killed our agriculture and reduced our people to beggars. We are interested in the ongoing denial and poor governance of failed Skerrit and his corrupted friends like Lin fake Clown and Labour government.
        You see, it is all about trusted, professional decent Hon Linton and his highly professional UWP Team, serving well as Leader of the Opposition to attempt to retake our country and stop this immature Skerrit in government and the ongoing shame and discourteous of our ailing Dominica. Skerrit…

    • Man bites dogs
      January 9, 2020

      @Red Flag, Where did you get that ridiculous story from was it Frankenstein Linton, or the clowns at q 95 radio?

    • Gary
      January 10, 2020

      Why do you misrepresent facts. is it because of your ignorance or are you’re doing this maliciously to give credence to your political partisan beliefs. I am referring to your opening paragraph making such statement Zampoli verses Range Developers court matter, is this what really happen, wow. Here is something to read https://www.thedominicadaily. As to the rest of your comment. Do you know how ludicrous you sound when you make such statement “Skerrit himself was involved in a Diplomatic passport sale to a known wanted criminal from Iran, by the name of Alireza Monfared.” can you absolutely prove intention on The PM to do such thing. Do you really think that The Government would give a person a Diplomatic passport knowing that person is a wanted criminal, pity your ……., so long for you silliness.

  12. I still Red
    January 7, 2020

    This is not the first time the US is involved in war in the Middle East. In fact just a few years ago there was a major war in Iraq to get rid of Saddam Hussain. But inspite of the war US residents in Dominica were safe and there was never a need for anyone to be concerned. But this time around things have changed as it is no secret that Roosevelt Skerrit has used the CBI program to sell passports to Iranians, which means Iranians carrying a Dominica passport could be hiding in Dominica and the Caribbean just as Alireza Monfared, an Iranian, was hiding legally hiding in Dominica. This is the beginning of DANGER Roosevelt Skerrit have put us in.

    • Kalinago Justice
      January 8, 2020

      :?: It’s not only security alert that should be for that slave plantation mentality island! There needs to be sanctions, blacklist and restrictions on the one-man corrupt rogue regime from entering any European and American Territories!!! Too many crooks and criminals with our diplomatic passport in the likes of mon-fa-red!!!

      • viewsexpressed
        January 9, 2020

        So true. We therefore need to get at this failed fake Skerrit AAP and his Blind Cabinet to ensure that the name of our Dominica is not stained and corrupted just as it is well known that of the highly corrupted and fake failed Skerrit’s labour government with his bind acolyte who are so blind cant see and wont talk and encourage this fake Skerrit to continue deteriorate our poor economy that he and his rougue labour government has been responsible for over 20 years. What a bunch of hopeless, inept, corrupt labour government. Who the cap fits. let them wear it.
        We need to take our nature Isle back and kick Skerrit and his fake corrupted Labour government out of our Dominica. We have in waiting our decent Hon Lennox Linton of our formidable United Workers Party and Leader of the Opposition who is our eyes and ears to monitor the continued incompetence of failed immature Skerrits failure as Prime minister and the misuse of states funds through the Red Clinic. That is Fraud. Skerrit Go

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