The government intends to name the new housing complex in La Plaine after Petter St Jean. It will be named “The Petter St Jean Housing Complex’’.
St Jean has been the Parliamentary Representative for that constituency for the past ten years but he wasn’t selected to represent that community in the next general elections.
However prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit said the decision to rename the complex after St Jean is a form of gratitude for his contributions to his people.
“We have to give reverence and express our sense of gratitude to honorable Saint Jean for his stewardship because we all knew the state of this constituency when he became the senator in 2005. People somehow intend to forget when life gets better for them and this constituency, notwithstanding the impacts of these hurricanes and storms, we have seen great improvement in this constituency,” he said.
Skerrit made this announcement during the handing over ceremony of commitment letters for 64 new housing units in La Plaine on Tuesday.
The Dominica Labour Party never gave a reason why St Jean was not their pick this time around but Skerrit told those gathered at the ceremony that “you can say what you want about Petter Saint Jean you cannot deny the fact that he has worked hard for this constituency”
Adding, “so we must never treat lightly the contributions of our conscientious leaders. A people who have been there with us not in the good times, but in the most difficult times”.
Those sixty-four families who will benefit from the new housing facilities could be given their keys to their new home within two weeks, according to the prime minister.
The new homes are paid for in full by the government of Dominica, through the CBI.
PM Skerrit also gave a further commitment to build more homes from funds contracted from the world bank in the sum of $EC104 million.
Meantime, Saint Jean said three hundred and twenty families were given housing materials for home repairs.
“Not only have homes been recovered, reconstructed and rebuilt but through the government’s material distribution program a total of three hundred and twenty-four homes among the three villages, the homes owners were given the material to complete roof renovation,” Saint Jean said.
He added that $EC1.4 million is currently being expended to upgrade the La Plaine water project and another $EC1.2 million on the Boetica water upgrade; both projects nearing completion.
I think we can say that St. Jean out-foxed Skerrit.
After firing St. Jean Skerrit has buyer’s remorse.
This is high comedy…….
Speaking about opposition crowds protesting the missing money being bribed, hey Mr PM yours truly your highness, almighty and king of Dominica and great one, what you are doing is real bribery, giving people a house right before an election to fool them into voting for you. By the way, where is the missing billion dollars? Is in in your overseas bank accounts? Inquiring Dominican minds want to know.That is enough money to build every person on Dominica a brand new hurricane proof house with a basement shelter.
DLP, a very serious warning to you folks.
It may seem like you are getting a landslide victory in the upcoming general elections. But truly, the winds of change seem to be a great opponent for you.
Don’t be too arrogant. Don’t be to certain but rather, do what you must.
Don’t try implecating Lennox with falsehood. Leave him alone. Just run a decent campaign. Stick to the issues.
The more you focous on them is the more you lose grounds.
I just have a funny feeling that the results may be very disappointing for DLP. I also sense a ” goat pretending to be a sheep” in the mix of the PM’s team.
You may not want to take my counsel but it would be necessary to do so.
PM you have worked hard, very hard, that we may enjoy a stable living after Maria, don’t defeat the purpose of progress.
God bless you PM.
Well I myself don’t even know who building these houses. I saw a letter given to some residents and it appears as if it was signed by Roosevelt Skerrit, which suggests that it is from Skerrit and not even from Petter St. Jean. But interestingly they quoted a Scripture from Job 1:21 that reads: ” the Lord giveth and the Lord has taken away.
That passage raises a lot of questions you know especially when we know for a fact that Skerrit has been and still is presenting himself as lord and the Bible makes mention of some whose god is their belly . So did Skerrit use that particular passage to remind the people that he Skerrit gave them house and he has the power to take it away from them? I don’t trust that Skerrit one bit
Since Petter has not contributed anything significant to the country; what has he done deserving in your shallow mind Roosevelt; which caused you the government to name some residential property that might belong to you and “Petter” after Petter?
We hear about housing revolution; we see what supposed to be apartment buildings; out of which apartments are given away to your supporters.
The fact is no one in the country besides yourself “Roosevelt Skerrit” and perhaps a few corrupted crooks in your regime know who owns the buildings!
We only know that you made the claims that the source of money utilized in building these apartment derived from the sale of passport.
Roosevelt we want to know who owns the buildings, and how much are the tenants paying in rent per month!
Petter St Jean is the PM really is an “AS.”; can we so easily be bought and sold in the twenty first century? guess Slavery was never abolished.
Why is DLP talking about a housing complex and not talking about our 1.2 Billion dollars? Mr. Skerrit come clean. If you stole it, you can tell us. West Indians are forgiving people. We might forgive you.
Mr Skerrit. Did you use our 1.2 Billion dollars to build these apartments? So long we are asking you to account for our money. You have stayed mute. At this point I think it is safe to assume that you stole our money!
How much more kudos the PM would have got for naming the project the Ron Green Apartments …. or at least the Green St.Jean Complex… Green is retired from politics now , so that would have recognised his service in a magnanimous and statesmanlike way … probably a bit too much to hope for.
How much more kudos the PM would have got for naming the project the Ron Green Aparatmants …. or at least the Green St.Jean Complex… Green is retired from politics now , so that would have recognised his service in a magnanimous and statesmanlike way … probably a bit too much to hope for.
So here’s a different take on things from a land far far away.
In the UK, there are carear politicians, those who’ve held the same seat for 20, 30+ years. And it works like this. If you first win your seat with a mojority of 30,000 the opposition candidate must beat that to gain a seat. Now they may whittle it down slowly by each election cycle or there’s a drastic change. But essentially as long as you win your seat even by a mojority or 7, the party can’t reject or replaced you.
So in effect, by the DLP changing encombants, this surely gives the opportunity for the opposition to claim that seat. So those of the UWP persuasion should welcome this.
Lastly, retaining your seat for 20 or 30+ years is not a direct reflection on your effectiveness, and so changing a candidate may also refresh the skills, ideas and talent that could end up in government which essentially is what we all want. Fresh ideas, fresh thinking, fresh outlook.
It has its pros and cons.
My dear people of all of LaPlaine, please do not fall for anything that you hear of failed Skerrit dirty politics, desperate now for fame
Skerrit`s popularity and ability to run a poor country has failed. His government has created begging and poverty. People be advised and run away from failed Skerrit and his highly incompetent corrupted Labour government. Skerrit is not of leadership material, he is only there for fanfare, niceties and other matters to keep him afloat from the corruption practices that we all mentioned he has been engaged with. To be reminded they are; 1. Bin Bobol (that Hon. Linton exposed us of, and he denied and then Hon. Linton presented facts and then he busked to silence, also 2)Fertilizer Bobol that there was a conflict of interest because it appears that the leak came out that he Skerrit broke all government`s purchase Protocal in the purchase of states items by evading Protocal and used a family member in Pennsylvania re the Bins.
We need failed Skerrit…
I hope all those people take their houses and enjoy them. Equally I hope that all of them will vote for the good of the country and dismiss Skerrit. We are still waiting to hear where our CBI money is.
@Eddy A, do you know the song dream, dream, dream? Well if you do keep on singing it along with your bunch of blue boomboom flies dancing on common crap.
Like most of my fellow commentators I just totally ignore you. You are well below the level that is required to be taken seriously…
There isn’t anything under the sun that big big aspiring Supremo won’t do.. Taken apparrtments to another level.. After Petter called you out, you rewarded him.
Now billions of dollars into nasty campaign..
Alll over the country labour took nastiness to another level.. Cbi money running election campaign just sooo..
Even Roseau south constituency office, dealing out cash n all kinds of madness..
I have a question to alll Dominicans, ” How can we expect to see God’s face with such behavior?
Where has Godliness gone? Are we selling out to the devil?
Dominicans, Did not Maria ring a belll? God warned us to behave ourselves, then the same people cried yet became a 1000000000 times worst Dan after Maria..
Wen God ready for you allll is more fire n brimstone.. Alas for you Dominica, I know your works…… God is watching the evil works n angels of the Devil cause war, choas n strive..
Lord rescue Dominica from the hands of these from evil men and women.. Lord dont delay…
Mr. Skerrit. Why would you use this portion of scripture on the letter you gave to those people? Eh? job 1: 21 …The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away;
may the name of the Lord be praised.
Why do you feel the need at this time to suggest that their apartment could be “taken away”? Are you planning to take away those apartments if the dwellers do not support your party? smh.
Kalinago Justice see what you type
“, using passport money to give foreigners the construction of these structures,then trying to make the people believe that giving them an apartment is making their lives better,how dare this rogue :?:”
So giving a person a house is not making their life better????? Does it really matter who builds the house???? You all continue to say Dominicans are poor so i take it you all are upset when a poor person get lifted to a higher standard… The things STUPID POLITICS can make all you people do and say is amazing!!!!!
225 × 225MORE SIZES
Skerrit keep riding your as. tan
PM is using psychology on the poor citizens of this country. wicked man
Very good to that’s what he go school for I guess he lean.
So giving a poor person a home is equal to “using psychology” ?? i mean Roseau River are you really serious??? i take it that you are a hater of the PM but am wondering if you are a supporter of uwp because those days i observe there is a new breed of people who just HATE the PM after being propelled and brainwashed by the UWP propaganda will tell you straight they can NEVER vote for Lennox to be their PM because they have no confident that he has what it takes….
If you are a supporter of the UWP can you tell us what is your party plan where housing for poor people are concern, will we see a termination of such policy?????
Joe, your question should be ‘do the recipients of the apartments’ own their apartment?
What about when time comes for maintenance repairs, who’s responsibility is that?
And haven’t you heard that Roosevelt said when the one to whom the house or apartment was given die, the house goes back to him the government, and not the surviving relatives of the previous owner?
Think of the crooked corrupted mess you are supporting!
Take the house and vote against them because they will not care about you for the next five years until next election………well except if you want wait for five more years to get car car!!
Ok so Petter St. Jean used the bible to call the PM “As.”. Oh yes as a former preacher who taught me in Sunday school, St. Jean used the passage to make PM feel good about the As. that carried Jesus, but we all know he St. Jean did what he wanted to do which was to call the PM an as. aka donkey.
So here comes PM naming a housing complex in memory of St. Jean. Unlike St. Jean, Skerrit is not a preacher so he could not use the scripture back on St. Jean. But knowing PM as well as I know him, I know he used the scripture in Numbers 22:25, where the as. tried to crush Balaams foot “When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD, it pressed close to the wall, crushing Balaam’s foot”
So St. Jean the AS. crushed you political feet and is using the housing complex on you. He sure crushed you
Petter was right! Skerrit, is an azz!
Skerritt, a lasting legacy to Petter St Jean would not be to have his name clouded in controversy for years to come. If seems like you are coming up with a way to keep your rejects quiet and they are falling for it. Petter is a relatively young person. Unilaterally you rejected him from your slate for the next elections. Now you are praising him for the work he had done in the constituency! If you are so proud of the work that he did why did you pay him so handsomely to keep quiet and accept his replacement? What is your reason for replacing such a hard worker when you have been in parliament before him? Surely you know that the decision to name the complex after Petter can be changed after the elections. Why then do you want to make him a laughing stock? I would advise you to leave the complex simply named the La Plaine Housing Complex. To add a name to it will be exposing that to ridicule. Is that your way of doing just that to him for him equalling you to an as.?
But Skerrit is an azz for real man?
What nonsense is that ner?! Petter St. Jean housing scheme? What azzness is that?
St. Jean you see what you caused bro? You go and use our platform to call PM ” As.” and use Bible verse to cover it up thinking PM would not find a nice way to get back at you bro? So now PM gave you a home goiy service by naming the housing complex in memory of you so that when the people enter these homes they will think of a candidate and preacher PM was powerful enough to send to his political grave? I hope you don’t take this as a compliment because the inner inscription reads “PETTER ST. JEAN FINISH
Ha, ha, ha, ha! Look me a scream boy. So the Doctor doctor pronounced Petter St. Jean’s death when St. Jean still breath left to call the double doctor an “as.” though I wished he said donkey instead and to confirm that St. Jean is dead PM had the guts to name a housing project that was built after the destruction of Maria, PM said he wants to name it in memory of the man that he buried alive? PM St. Jean will not take that one so in addition to the Bible passage he used to talk about the … Jesus rode on expect the minister of education and preacher to use another scripture that talks about hole to further discrbe you. But when it’s all over Peter St. Jean’s new name will be Donkey Whole ok
People, think seriously about this. If Petter St. Jean was so deserving of a project of this magnitude being named in his honor then what are the real reasons for firing him from his post as Minister? What an anomaly! It makes absolutely no sense. This is like firing a surgeon for malpractice then naming a new wing of the hospital, where he did his practice, in his honor. Does that make any sense whatsoever? Skerrit feels confident in engaging in asininity because he has a verbal arsonist (SC) to sway public opinion.
Imagine a housing complex being named in honor of a rejected Minister of Government who has contributed significantly to the entrenched political tribalism presently gripping and suffocating the country. Where else in the world would this take place but under dictatorial rule? Dominica is truly unique for its injudicious judgments. Skerrit is doing this to appease his dismissed, disgruntled political rejects. Under Skerrit the government has become a one man bandit. Does this make any sense whatsoever? Naming a huge part of the public landscape in honor of a failed, rejected, useless soon to be Ex-Minister. The man is not even remotely qualified for an obscure, back alley to be named after him. This is politics at its worst. Having Peter St. Jean’s name associated with the project will only serve to soil it. This is strictly political gamesmanship by a desperate misleader who is being frowned on by many of his fellow citizens at home and abroad.
You heard it here first. And don’t say I did not warn you. Given enough time an hubris, he will rename the island Skerritland.
Our PM belongs in a psych ward. DUDE IS CRAZY!!
Excellent idea. I also recommend that he be given an honor for his theory on THE THEOLOGY OF THE AS……
So after Skerrit fired Petter St. Jeanne for being a failed minister, he now going to name a housing scheme after him? So the name of the adopted name of housing scheme will be THE FAILED Petter St. Jean housing project? So St. Jean called Skerrit an “AS.”and in return Skerrit named his housing project after the FAILED minister? St. Jean I know you wanted to run again but Skerrit rejected you. Now he left you with a very tarnished reputation for life and my brother he used his controversial housing project to name after you. Wow
Of all the remarkable people laplaine bred, yall find to make laplaine even more politically divided by naming the complex after a man that half of community despises and the other half are scared to voice their feelings for fear of victimisation. What has petter really contributed to laplaine? You brought this complex to assist the laplaine residents with their living conditions. Yes it was done by dlp but the whole of laplaine is not dlp. Why give it a political name? To constantly remind pple of how Petter has terrorised them? Why not name it after somebody of the soil. There was a recent article about ‘Ma Paten’ on DNO, a woman who did so much for the community in her time. Why not name it after her? I really cannot deal with this county
That address not looking positive on a job application does it. I mean, where do you live Petter St. Jean housing project? That is a bad stain my boy and marks you. Petter could not refuse could he, I mean the P.M.calling him ungrateful if he did. But this is some kind of backhanded compliment, not so?Who want his name associated with a housing project. Same thing Skerrit do with Rosy Douglas name in Portsmouth. He did not ask for his permission did he, because the man dead you see now the family stuck with that project name. Go and see what happen to these projects in Jamaica brother, like Tivoli Gardens. I glad I am not famous or notorious to have my name link with ghettos like that.
Yes my boy % and company eat yourselves, you didn’t build it so you cannot claim it. After the election you will just be an illusion. Where de land Lenox!
The bogus land thing was exposed for what it is!! ..
You call that DLP desperation.
It failed miserably, and did more harm than good to the corrupt DLP!!!
Whey is di money?
Whey is di money?
Whey is di money?
@ thanks; don’t you know that the land has already been given to kempinski
All of a sudden, where’s all this money coming from?
The Skerrit Labour Party is experiencing hospice end-of-life changes:
“Patients may experience hallucinations, illusions and delusions. They can come to believe that they are much more powerful than they really are and think that they can accomplish things that are not possible.”
Petter St Jean gets a reward after calling skerrit an as. on their political platform!
skerrit is making arrangements for $104 million from the world bank for housing?
what about de $1.2 billion we have for housing??????
Alas, no new bridge for de people of Boetica.
de bailey bridge has a load limit
it’s very difficult if not impossible to get heavy equipment across that gorge…..so we shouldn’t expect any developments in Boetica or Delices.
a trailer cannot turn on that bridge
Skerrit you talking hogwash.
The lives of the people of Laplain has not been made better.
1. Are they earning more?
2. Do they have a better infrastructure?
3. The main ‘main stay’which is agriculture has not developed under your leadership. If anything, it has gone down.
4. Can they better afford the basic amenities?
5. Does this community have more people coming to Red Clinic?
When you can answer these questions then we can talk about “better”.
Sir, you do not even know what is development. Your own constituency looks like an abandon mechanic shop.
This government is not for the people. They trying to gain – or rather- maintain points where they already have it – or think they have it. you mean to tell me Skerrit dont know how majority, and yes i said majority, of the people of Laplaine feel about Petter. If these people were looking out for the welfare of the villagers there is no way they would think of naming that complex after Petter. There are other names that cld have been given as an incentive to unite the pple rather than cause more division, and we all know there is gonna be more division.
Try walking thru the village on a wkend. the place is dead. like something out of the apocalypse. a set of wasted young people with nothing to do. and you want to reward a man who is responsible that? We really are living in sad times
Goodness…. Gracious… Everything you nayseyers castigate with your political tribalism. For Jah sake, get a life.. Hatred and animosity will get you no where , they both kills.