Minister for Housing and Urban Development, Reginald Austrie, has called for unity among Dominicans in the new year, in order to facilitate the development of the country.
In light of the divisiveness brought about by the recent general election in December 2019, Austrie urges citizens to forget the past and unite, despite political preference or affiliation.
“I want to ask Dominicans to please, let us let 2019, let’s leave that behind us. Much has happened then, but we’re over that now,” the senior minister stated.“So let us all – red, blue, green, yellow – let us all focus on Dominica because whatever Dominica achieves, it will be an achievement for the entire country.”
The minister thanked the public for its support so far but said that there is more work to be done.
“We are already beginning to show our face in the OECS, in CARICOM, and internationally, and I believe that should continue and I’m really, really calling on Dominicans, and to thank them, really for the support that they have given to this country, [and] for the confidence that they have placed in this government, but it doesn’t end there; it ends when we believe that every single one of us would sit back and say ‘I have done my best. I have tried, and I can see progress being made in my country’,” Austrie explained. “… That is what I would really wish for Dominica in 2020.”
In his victory address to the nation after the December 6 general election, Prime Minister Skerrit first made a plea for national unity when he announced that he would invite the United Workers Party (UWP) leader Lennox Linton, to early discussions, “as we all seek to unite the nation.” He later implored a disillusioned opposition that had accused him of stealing the elections, to put the “destructive rancour and revolt” behind them.
“We are one people; this is our country Dominica. Let us all work together to build a dynamic Dominica,” he stated. “I extend a hand of brotherhood to you and invite you to work in peace with the government and initiatives that will advance the national interest.”
Linton made his party’s position clear when, in his post-election address, he accused the DLP of bribing people to vote in the election and stated, “We do not recognize this government that has come by the theft of the elections of 2019.”
Which ONE of the two personalities really is Austrie? This “mellow” individual does not represent that brash, sadistic, unapologetic, demon I witnessed during the election. isn’t this the same man who wanted to hang Linton all UWP-ites high? Boy, stop talking from both sides of your mouth. No one, I repeat , not one soul, will listen to your pleas. Whatever….la la la la. I deaf. ( Finger in ears)
“Austrie calls for unity to facilitate Dominica’s development” Austrie, what on earth authority do you have to comment on and talk of “Unity to facilitate Dominica’s development”. This is nonsense. Austrie, you and others of this failed highly corrupted Labour government has been in politics and government of Dominica for over 19 long years and you all have not achieved absolutely nothing to make that difference to our ailing and suffer people, but to control the poverty that you all have created managed and you`ll still have these poor people quing up at failed incompetent immature Skerrit where Through that fraudulent Red Clinic your Skerrit give money regularly to these suffering, jobless, and single mothers in need of social service and you and your failed blind Skerrit have dismissed this service which seen operating professionally for yeas with mature dedicated professional who have for years worked with the poor and underprivileged. Now we have Red Clinic. Shame on…
Austrie which title you prefer, “Deputy PM” or “Senior Minister? Gason since all you calling Skerrit Doctor if I were in his place I would legally perform a surgery on you and remove those nuts of yours that still making you feel you are masculine because I just never thought you could be so foolish man
Is that the same Reginald Austrie that issued a call during the election to get rid of Lennox Linton at all cost? I am not sure if is the same feller because back then, he was carried Skerrit’s FAKE title of Deputy Prime Minister and today he is referred to as Reginald Austrie. Did he get stripped of that fake title? Boy My. zort wii gason. His new title is senior minister? Sacwe zort isn’t Ian Douglas and Blackmore also senior ministers? But my point is during the campaign you issued a public call to get rid of the opposition leader, Lennox Linton, which most of us understand that call to be a call for his assassination and less than two months later you calling for unity without even an apology?
Austrie, if after 20 years under you, Roosevelt, and the rest of your corrupted associates you all fail to develop the country.
What is the difference now and the past twenty-five years? Be reminded, the five years you Roosevelt and the rest of the corrupted boys, and girls spent in the coalition government, is actually a labor party government.
You all took credit when you Austrie said the collision government “is the labor party.”
Those are your spoken words. So, if after after one (1/4) quarter of a of a century, one quarter of a hundred years you all fail to move the country forward, what can you all do differently this time to bring any form of development to the country?
Talking is all Dominicans do, but when comes for action they get amnesia!
Under Roosevelt, Dominica is doomed.
The sale of passports is not an industry.
Some crack heads just need to have it
What DLP know about love? Last week I walked past DLP headquarters and the place looked dull and uninspiring…. people passing and this place have no effect on Dem at all…..now that all de shell stop blowing alot of DLP supporters like zombies…quiet and hungry.
That’s de effect of the love of DLP right in your face!
Go make peace with yourself by Reggie, your foul mouth semi illiterate! Dominicans should be on the streets of Roseau today, asking for fresh elections, after the atrocity of December 6th.
Missing passport money and Chavez money for housing, are additional reasons why there should be no peace without we get justice.
I am ready for the next protest,!!!
Skerrit
Whey is di money?
Whey is di money?
Whey is di money?
There will never be unity when thieves and vagabonds running a country. To sit and listen to Austrie and skerrit is to accept mediocrity. According to Malcom X there are house ni….. and field ni…… The field ni…. fight to be free. Tho house ni… love being a slave. Pick who you are. I clearly understand why it took black men 500 years to get out of slavery. Some things did not change. I will never accept rule by deception, lies, propaganda, deceit and vulgarity. Austrie knows where to go shove his ugliness.
Skerrit and Austrie’s words are incongruous to their actions, their actions and words don’t match. They practise exclusion and have rejected inclusiveness for the past twenty years. Every country, more particularly Dominica, whose economic and developmental state is at rock bottom, is due to corruption. Corruption by public figures in high office is the obvious reason for Dominica’s underwhelming present state of affairs. This must not be swept under the rug. Investigations must be carried out and the culprits be made to forfeit their loot and spent time in the penitentiary as restitution. Their actions are so loud that I don’t even hear them when they speak.
Austrie has absolutely no shame! Your immediate family should seek help for your distorted mind. You have personally fired innocent people whom you believe did not vote for you. You publicly promised to kick them in their unmentionables, now you are here asking for unity in the same breath? I dont wish bad on people but Austrie you are looking for God to really crush you in 2020. I am afraid for you sir, I smell a heavy crailing upon you. Wow, just wow.
When someone supports a political party in hopes of having gain, such as a house, an apartment, and or money, not realizing to themselves that the time which they may have spent waiting on this expectation, with a vibrant economy, they could have done this and much more for themselves! This is called creation of Poverty and this is what Labour party is about, originators of this culture of poverty which is plaguing Dominica. This is done so people will not pay attention to your corrupt and thieving ways, while the economy is collapsing with a significant drop in GDP since 2016 (https://data.worldbank.org/country/dominica) which is the equivalent of a depression but we’ve never heard any mention of this. Address the issues of the society.
Original, when was the last time you heard this current concoction of a government gloating about the economy? Instead Skerrit gives hope to the thousands of economically deprived citizens living in abject poverty that clueless infidel talking about expanding NEP. This, combined with the Red Clinic, will adversely affect government ability to increase the salaries and wages of public servants and build the necessary infrastructure to spur economic growth (a widespread network of roads & bridge connecting the entire country, intl. airport, modern cruise ship facilities, etcetera). The Skerrit-DLP led government has the severest ‘Red Eye’ disease that has blinded these rapacious reprobates basking in public office doing little or nothing.
Austrie garson, all you definition for unity is for people to go along wih the DLP coruption and BS in DA, News flash, we the people will not put up with it.
Austrie and labour party has used the ideology of equating their party, the Dominica labour party, to being the commonwealth of Dominica, which is a major fallacy, such irresponsible behaviour from men who have been entrusted to govern a country. Now, calling on the public to unite, what hypocrisy! You all victimize people, there is no inclusion in this society, plus the corruption which is excessive. The only way is that your regime step down and resigns.
That language that you used during de election against individuals who you figure are not supporters of DLP…. you don’t have de moral authority to call for until you apologize to your your political opponents and particularly their supporters.
If you want to see unity in parliament…. from de President to Skerrit you guys have no idea how to unite our beautiful Waitukubuli.
You making a bold statement begging for unity from a party in government for 20 years. you and Skerrit sound empty soulless and pitiful.
Only de hearts and minds of honest, humble, forgiving patriotic Dominicans can answer your prayers… but you and Skerrit sacrificed de heartbeat of de nation.
I see DLP supporters every day looking empty and lost… just like you and Skerrit.
In case you and Skerrit wondering what happened to your soul, why you feel so empty… unable to celebrate honestly.
Skerrit sold his soul…. you too and many others in dat DLP cabal.
It ain’t my fault!!!!!
Austrie all you helped Skerrit decide and destroy the country and now all you in otter darkness you calling for unity boss? Get those that helped destroy us, to facilitate the evils of Skerrit, help bring all you type of development. Let me quote two verses of an old hymn that I heard many laborites were singing on the eve of the Evils that took place on December 6, 2019:
Now the Day Is Over”
1. Now the day is over,
Night is drawing nigh;
Shadows of the evening
Steal across the sky.
2. Now the darkness gathers,
Stars begin to peep,
Birds and beasts and flowers
Soon will be asleep
I knew darkness would fall on us but I didn’t know it would start to get dark so early. So good luck Austrie and Skerrit. My grandma would say “reap what you sow”.
All you decided everyone and everything damn thing to facilitate Skerrit and his corruption, and now all you butts in real trouble with the international community all you calling for unity so the world could see you all as a good legitimate club? Austrie, let me borrow a quote from Roosevelt Skerrit himself to respond to you ” Go to hell, go to hell, it’s not your damn business” .
I echo your sentiments: Indeed, GO TO HELL!
Austrie, you mad or what. You want us to follow the son of Belzebub into hell then. First you kick us in the balls and then turn around and say let’s be friends and this is not the first time but it happen over and over again giving Skerrit pleasure for his wickedness. Not me, go and find another playground victim for the bully. I’m not in that brother.
Austrie, you and your failed incompetent, DLP leadership and failed Labour government have brought disunity among our people and our nature isle Dominica overall. Austrie go talk to your failed immature Skerrit to have some respect for our people that you all stood by and watch, encourage Skerrit to reduced our people to beggars for years through corrupt Red Clinic. The endless known Bobolistic political behaviours and the immaturity of this Prime (Odd) Minister Skerrit that you all have created and stood idle by as our nation deteriorated into more poverty. Austrie, all we hear from you is venom loud disgusting talk. “Austrie called for unity among Dominicans in 2020 to stop Skerrit facilitate the destruction of Dominica.”
In light of Labour`s divisiveness brought about by this corrupt Labour Govt. in Dec 2019, Austrie urges citizens to forget the past corruption and unite, despite DLP political failure and Red Clinic.
Austrie/Skerro are jokers despite political failures of…
Development in Dominica?? Well over 15 years you on your fellow headless chicken have had time for development in Dominica. What have you all achieved? Nothing, absolutely nothing!
Oh sorry, I forget, you achieved a lot for your private bank accounts, you achieved a lot as far as massive corruption is concerned…
You also got rid of Ross! Well done all you! How much more time do you need to ruin DA completely?
So you all brought Jamaican laced RSS killers to petrify, subdue, and to terrify Dominicans with live bullets, and now that you have stolen the elections in a very ruthless and undemocratic manner, you are calling for peace.
Shamelessly, the most austere and verbally violent politician in the country is calling for peace. Did you call for peace when Melissa was taking about her hit men? Why did you not see the necessity for doing as Linton and Joshua were doing, calling for peace, which I had always believed was a big mistake. I know Charlie was a person who would stop at nothing to get what he wanted which is why the two garrats, sent assassins to assassinate Dominicans.
Al Sharpton coined the phrase: “No just no peace.”
Unless there is justice in Dominica, there should be no peace; Austrie calling for peace? hmmmmmmm.
Like Fredrick Douglass said: agitate, agitate, agitate. We cannot allow: I cannot miss a meal Motley and Browne to decide who should lead Dominica.
The day of reckoning for Dr Smell-E-Deek (Skerrit), Reggie and the SLP is drawing neigh. No justice, no unity , no peace. You can’t come into my house, steal my most precious belonging and then ask me to accept the fact that you have stolen it and move on. Oh HELL to the NO! You all MUST resign!
Haters continue to lick your wounds. It’s a Labour of ❤️ 💕 💗. You have five more years for you to remain bitter or join the 💗 love 💕 🚂 train. Since life is so short I’d rather be on that Labour of love 💕 and enjoy 😉 my golden years.
Some crack heads just need to have it
What DLP know about love? Last week I walked past DLP headquarters and the place looked dull and uninspiring…. people passing and this place have no effect on Dem at all…..now that all de shell stop blowing alot of DLP supporters like zombies…quiet and hungry.
That’s de effect of the love of DLP right in your face!
These ‘die hard ones’ will never understand. As long as they get their daily ration of rum courtesy of the red clinic, they are good to go for another day. Why worry about tomorrow at this stage.
If any other political party had employed the violence that Charles and Skeritt had employed to win the election, I am confident people like you would have already been shooting up the streets in Roseau.
Just that the Wednesdays of your golden years will be spent on a line begging. You flipping beggar. Go look for work to do
You carry the word love, yet you continue with your fake “Love” words to appease people to your failed blind, ridiculous clown word of “Love”. Where has this failed corrupted Labour government of yours demonstrate “Love?”. Well, nowhere at all. All we see from this fake, failed corrupted labour government under this failed immature Skerrit is the abuse of states funds, bananas, the abuse of our poor people. We drive through Dominica and we still see poverty and begging by our people in city of Roseau, within the villages that Skerrit and his blind bats drive through because there is nothing of substance Skerrit and his failed Labour government has to make any difference to our Dominica. Skerrit, “Go to Hell, Go to hell, Go to Hell….you are not of our damn business. Skerrit and corrupt labour government has failed us, corrupted our Dominica as we see no face of development in our Dominica. Guess the riches are well saved in their banks accounts here in Dominica and overseas…
Haters continue to lick your wounds. It’s a Labour of on-going Corruption. We will not have five more years for your corrupt Labour Skerrit Government to remain within this Bobol failure or join the confession of thievery and lies💗 and fake love 💕 🚂on this broken no good train. Since life is so precious for our people who has been stained with Skerrit`s red corrupted paint. Labour would rather be on that “Hard Labour of love at Stockfarm Prison”, plenty love💕 there and go enjoy 😉 you all golden years of thievery, states Bobol, deception and abuse of our states funds. etc.
Too much Bobol and deception over the past years by this failed corrupted Labour Government, headed by this failed immature, childish Skerrit, who knows nothing of Socio-economic development but the abuse of states funds through this “Red `Bobol` Clinic. There is no development taking place in our Dominica. We need an account of the sales of our passports and where is our money? Skerrit must Go. He has failed us.
Haters/ WHAT, EXACTLY, is a hater? WHAT are we hating on? The truth offends. It IS hypocrisy to all of a sudden call for ” peace” amid ruins. Reggie et al, are insane. Enough rope is given to you Laborites to go hang yourselves.