Special envoy for netball Her Excellency, Loreen Bannis- Roberts has called for the reinforcement of the sports division, starting at the primary school level.
“My suggestion is that we reinforce the sports division,” she said. “They are already doing it, but we just need reinforcement and we go back to the primary school level,” Bannis-Roberts said while speaking as a guest on the most recent edition of Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit’s Sunday talk show. “Once you get to the primary school level, the teachers, the coaches, the parents, the community must understand.”
She believes that a decision must be taken at the top policy level using sports as a tool to achieve the sustainable development goals, “because all of the 17 goals, sports is a major component to achieve them.”
According to Bannis-Roberts, if that decision is taken, coaches, athletes, parents, administration, “must understand where we are going.”
She said the government will put everything in place, but if there is confusion as to where the division is going, “then we have a problem.”
Parents and teachers, she said, must understand that there is a future in playing the sport of netball and other games.
The netball envoy also emphasized the need for a consultation and a policy decision.
“We need a consultation and a policy decision… everybody must be clear where we are going,” she noted. “You have a consultation and out of this consultation you have a declaration, so every sporting organization must have in their office that declaration which is a blueprint and a path to sports in Dominica, because we are going to use sports as a tool for achieving the sustainable development goals, getting our athletes out there, making money, boosting our economy.”
Other recommendations from Bannis-Roberts include the establishment of sports clubs within a club structure, and the same netball court with the lighting and the fencing in every district, “so all players can have access to these facilities.”
Special envoy for netball my arm (lol). But where are these laborites getting their credentials? From unknown and unscrupulous sources, they’ve become excellencies, Doctors, seniors, etc. etc. Jacks of all trade, masters of none. The paragraph before the last makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. And why would the news editor of DNO publish such irrelevance. Just words upon words without merit. Unfortunately, the taxpayers of Dominica are made to fulfill her wallet. Wasted.
While i am tempted to agree with what the most greedy and most corrupt woman Dominica has produced said, I would be fully onboard if she had added this part of the penitential Act :” through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault; “
Annou palé pawol sort!
Ya day moo moo becuz skerrit giving dem de.cool out to shut up. The problem is who u think can replace skerrit. tell me..all of dem is de same sh*t them looking for their pocket. I see no better group. Uwp is crap people’s party failed already as for freedom they dead long time…smh..de diaspora just running their mouth and they doh care sh%t I doh vote skerrit but allu put him there so when allu ready allu will take him out. Lemme see allu big mouth
Go on kairi and tell prosper and dem dat Nuh.
We used to have birds like Fu-Fu and seekiyey in Dominica and some Toutwell. Now all we are left with are “PARROTS.” Mimicking the skeratt labor gangsters brainless and ineffective initiatives which keep the country in a state of stagnation. Look this lady, another puppet tied to dictator Skerrat’s finger. In order to have any kind of “mediocre” position in the labor party, or any other government or public offices like the post office, registry, ministry, hospital etc, etc, you must first show (in one way or the other) that you are loyal to all skerrat’s policies, (which are corrupt of course) and that you are no longer a decent human being with morals and conscience; but rather, you have evolved into a PARROT 🦜. But one day that PARROT will sing, “SKERRIT IS A ……”
“My suggestion is that we reinforce the sports division,” she said. “They are already doing it, but we just need reinforcement and we go back to the primary school level,”
Look at rubbish; this is the same woman who accepted a trip to England from the late Rosie Douglas in exchange for her to jump from the UWP to join his failed coalition government.
Her only contribution to Dominica while in the coalition government was when she said ” the government is working feverishly in order to get the price of “rum” cheaper for Dominicans to drink!”
Now look at the crap she has spoken again!
If you have already, or are in the process of doing something, how can you suggest doing the same thing?
Alcohol and drugs have a way in getting into our system by forming cell, and even when we are treated for drugs and alcohol, we may not ingest any for years, however the cells burst and get us inebriated or high!
Drunken or dumb?
Not to forget the same for music no matter how much $ you throw at it, so pick wisely.
Never pay attention to the broken English, is the message.
Mmmm Dominic’s special envoy for netball (what a truly bizarre job title) lives in New York. I suppose our special envoy for saltfish bakes lives in Dubai ?
All skerrit interested in.now is for people to take white man jab…where you come out nah Loreen smh ally killing the country…FulL allu pocket and then allu just resurrecting. Allu kill de vibes now.skerrit interest is to make everyone take de..jab. lemme see sports after allu.mess up people with allu white ma jab…all now.my cousin knee well swell since de jab she can do sports for how long I don’t know. But de knee just getting bigger..no knee problem but and see that. Smh
If you don’t like the ‘white man jab’ I suggest to take the black man jab. Apart from that an appointment with Dr. Benji might help you in the short term.
With Dominica being last kakarat in the netball tournament, the special envoy for netball should resign. Empty talk equals failed actions
In response to Mrs. Loreen Bannis-Roberts.
Mrs. Roberts, it is no accident why Dominica languishes in cellar position throughout the sub Caribbean region. The reason is conspicuous like the midday sun on a cloudless day.
The DLP is in power for twenty-two consecutive years so stability should be a strong contributing factor in propelling the country to great achievements. Then, what is it that is soffocating progress. These are:- exclusion, opacity, disunity, corruption, under-utilisation of the country’s best human resources and other factors are shuffling progress.
Dominica needs an inclusive government with a short, medium and long term STRATEGIC / ACTION PLAN. Bring together the brightest and best of the country’s human resources together regardless of political persuasion or social class. Task them with devising one comprehensive and overarching strategic plan for all sectors ( agriculture, health, sport, etc.). I’m certain that progress will be had.
Boy when one of the Cabalist gang, from the very inception, is now exposing and washing their dirty linen in public on a very big stage, you know things are very bad. Indirectly Mrs, Honorable and now Ambassador Robert is saying , based on my understanding, that she is satisfied that Skerrit had destroyed the young people of Dominica
No shame any of them, just money they are after. Lock at the seize of all them.
Oh shush Loreen, how can anything you say be truthful or trusted. Your conversion took place not on the road to Damascus. You are just a turncoat, worse than Joseph Isaac even.
What my very good friend and former national netball player Mrs. Roberts forgot to say is the Regime had over 20 years to accomplish her suggestions and failed miserably. Sports failed, Ross failed, Guiyave failed, Frans failed, Multiple businesses failed, Small Churches failed, the Catholic Church failed along with the Cathedral Project, the Police Force failed, Geothermal failed, Lil Willy Tony failed in favor of the BIG Valley Vet-taire, Medard failed in favour of the RC Sniper Boss and on and on.
The only successful things in Dca today is Corruption, Drug Trafficking and Prostitution. There is no coming back for sports under this cabal. Now Mrs. Roberts planning a come-back against the C/Bruce Mr. Sweet Tight Pants and the Pampalam Lady she trying to play smart? Ebeh look it! The only way out for sports in Dca, like everything else, is a CHANGE IN GOVERNMENT!!!!
Very, very well stated. Respect!
Dear Lord, in the name of Jesus, have mercy on Dominica and the Government and Cabinet of incompetent persons in position of leadership in Dominica! Oh my God, have mercy on us. Twenty years this Labour Party Government in power and now that they have killed sports, agriculture and all things local in Dominica for Labour party politics and Labour political power, this lady talks like what she is talking about is some kind of new complicated rocket science! Utter nonsense! She helped to kill sports in Dominica and now she talks such nonsense. The problem in Dominica is the lack of competent leadership! No competent leadership like Barbados! Just Labour power, that is all we have now! While Dominica suffers in last place like kakarat in the Caribbean. Oh yes, we think that we are better than Haiti for now! But watch it!
This statement is a clear indication that the Labor party cabal has failed the young people in the country. Sports has taken a back seat just like agriculture and manufacturing. After 20 years in power this admission is what we are getting? Enough of the lip service. There are too many cooks and not enough bottle washers. Everyone who ran on the labor ticket has a high profile job in some ministry, yet Skerritt makes all decisions. All ministries have been rebranded with some fancy names yet the performance and output has gone astray. Dominica doesn’t win any sporting activities. It’s mediocrity. I weep for you my country, aye Dominique.
As long as the Cabal of Deplorables remains in charge of the affairs of Dominica, it’s all downhill for the country. The present leader of government cannot lead efficiently nor effectively.
Roosevelt Skerrit has put sports; banana production; agro-processing; small, local businesses; the public library before a firing squad and executed them all.
Mrs. Bannis-Roberts, special envoy for netball? What kind of creative position is that? Go and do your real job and stop looking for a chance to go loitering.
The good lady talks about reinforcement. That is not the solution. She has deliberately turned a blind eye to the obvious, the unmistakiable truth. Anything Roosevelt Skerrit touches or is in command of turns to coal dust.
In order to reverse the downward trajectory of the country , we have to completely efface Roosevelt ‘Wrecking Ball’ Skerrit from the political landscape of Dominica.
This is the most incompetent cabinet I have ever seen in Dominica.
Special envoy to netball?
But what happened to Regina?
Don’t we have a minister of sports? You and Melissa seem to be sharing that position….. even Skerrit himself…. and de minister getting paid to be sports minister……..jokers!
Name 1 primary school with an equipped sports ground…..we making so much money in CBI unit.
I bet is Skerrit that send you to say this…. you looking for relevance?
Because of DLP preoccupation with CBI money in secret de real issues in Dominica get no attention what so ever……if Skerrit doh say it can happen…… nothing happens.
De ministers moo moo except to praise Skerrit