LIVE NOW: End of Year Press Conference with PM Roosevelt Skerrit
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So about the manicou saga; The Pm said the manicou lost there habitat but he failed to say the manicou is hungry and is looking for food. He also failed to say that the manicou is protected by law and should not be hunted except in the hunting season. (septmber to november, i stand corrected ) He also fail to say that the manicou is the cause for Domlec power outages..
While we are struggling to establish a decent minimum wage we are effortlessly going ahead with increasing the salary of the President. The President gets $7000 a month tax free, free house, free utilities, free transportation. The President of China one of the richest countries in the world, the same China that Dominica is always begging from pays its President $2000 USD or about $5500 EC. It is time to start taxing the salary of the President or better yet just make it tax free for all.
So who said the President’s salary was $30,000 per mobth ?
Fair question!
This man’s press conferences are the most predictable. It’s all about lies, fantasies, excuses, long winding non-answers, outright nonsense.
These press junkets by Roosevelt are solely intended to deceive the public into thinking that everything in Dominica is bright and rosy. The country is performing at its optimum. An outsider listening to Roosevelt will think that Dominicans are living in utopia.
Meanwhile, good paying jobs have disappeared, poverty and homelessness escalating, malnutrition ubiquitous, NCDs wreaking havoc on the populace.
The country is in obvious crisis while the Liar-In-Chief singing like a Sparrow about conditions in the country.
@Ibo France, as predictable as your comments whenever Skeritt speaks.
PM
I’m skeptical about your price survey claim that prices dropped, call it a trust issue but you should publish the full study and survey methods before I accept that as true. Your claims of it being a representative sample should be backed up by the data which should be released and always be part of a transparent process.
How are we to be sure that you didnt just focused on the prices that made your claims look true?
Nice try PM but not true, prices are not only affected by international factors, supply and demand or just human thinking.
Higher labor costs will mean the consumer will pay for the labor cost increase.
Without effect incentives and deterrents to not raise prices, there is nothing tying an increase in price to a rational basis.
Even if the larger corporations use and can afford to think in rational terms, the smaller businesses will likely use emotion, panic and moral excuses of “tings hard enough already” to raise prices wherever they think they can force it through.
So yes along with lack of foresight and mismanagement of the this govt inflation is inevitable, inflation would happen regardless of govt policy. Raising the minimum wage without measures to raise GDP and other positive indicators of economy including individual purchasing power (affordability) will ultimately makes things worse not better. Admittedly, it does look good politically to raise minimum wage.