Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has announced that a team from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will visit Dominica next month to assist in the island’s efforts towards digitization.
He made the disclosure during a press conference held at the Ministry of Finance Conference Room on Monday.
The prime minister attended a summit in the UAE last week where focus was placed on innovation, tourism, climate change, and financing of global initiatives.
According to him, this participation highlighted the need for continued multilateralism in addressing global issues.
He said the participation in the UAE was very important as he had the opportunity to interact with leaders and business people, “and to let them know that, yes, we may have some vulnerabilities brought on by climate change and external shocks, but there are opportunities for investment.”
“One of the things that we got off, from the Government of the UAE: they will be sending a team to us in March of this year to look at our efforts towards the sensitization of Dominica and to see where the gaps are in our strategy and our national plan and to see how they can assist us…,” he said.
He is of the view that Dominica should go deeper in terms of its digitization project, “and so they will be coming in to look at this and the whole idea of using technology in every sphere of society.”
Skerrit continued, “At the airports, at the hospitals, in our schools–not only telling a child that you have a laptop, but how do you use that laptop?”
He added, “We have to come to a point where technology is properly immersed in society.”
BossMan you doe think your country have more pressing issues than digitization???
So you think if someone goes to the hospital you think it’s priority to fast track the record system or to make sure the patient get the Health Care they need,,,
EveryDay BossMan you coming and tell people and show How you really don’t know your @$$ from your elbow and how FOOOLISH you does make people see you as that Pardner that is head of Dominica Bizniss,,,
Step Aside nuh already and stop making people see you as the @$$ that you are with your fooolish agendas and priorities,,,
In the age of Technology, you mean to tell People MistaDem have to travel all the was from Behind God Back to come Dominica to see what???
Allyou cannot gather up all what mistadem need and show dem on a WhatsApp Video call???
But Den again What is is allyou feel that people need Digitizing again???
Dominica doe even have a public Transportation scheme nuh all you want to go Bring More Arabs to figure…
So what the heck has the Ministry of works, Public Utilities and Digital Economy been doing? What about that World Bank Digitization Project? What about those programs that Robbie Tonge has been talking about?
Oh boy, someone please pinch me, ’cause I must be dreaming
I more believe is to open a new laundromat and each one will carry a few million pieces of US garments in their 💼, right through the VIP lounge where no one will be questioned
Your roads, bridges, schools and hospitals are falling apart. You barely have a population or an economy. You want to digitalize what? Trafalgar Falls? Roseau river? Pit latrines? Dude you are an idiot and your priorities are all wrong. Twenty-five years of Labour, the country has not moved, sports people cannot use a stadium, in a country where people celebrate an airline arrival as if we are in the 1960s and 1970s era of the Geest Line ships to England while every Caribbean island boasts an international airport! In 2014 you told us we did not need one! Now Dominicans are left behind in the Caribbean, led by fools enriching themselves.
Build industry, the economy, create employment. Oh, it’s too late for you. You have already expired your useful date!
I never see more. In 2025 we celebrating a plane landing. Ebeh when that international airport build we will have a national holiday.
We just might, you know. Considering the mountain of opposition forces against this airport, a national holiday to celebrate its triumphant opening would be fitting; well, after we rename it the Roosevelt Skerrit International Airport (RSIA).
TOUFAY, TOUFAY. It’s eating you guys alive that this BIG plane was able to land at Douglas Charles airport in Dominica without incident and that’s the reason you guys keep mentioning it especially in this negative way. Some persons even referred to the 737 aircraft as a small plane. Imagine that. Hope you’all don’t suffer heart attacks when the international airport commences operation. It’s coming soon.
Don’t worry, that heart attack that you just wished for others will have you toufaying long before me or before the international airport is opened, Mark my word!
Learn to read and understand what is written before responding. Where in my comment did I wish heart attacks on anyone? My comment clearly stated “hope you all don’t”, go back and take a look. You are writing something which is false even when everyone can see what was written. HORRIBLE…
But we do have an economy, we sell passports