(DNO) Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit says under his leadership the Dominican economy has improved significantly.
Skerrit told an interview with Line and Length reporter Andrew Mason on Sunday that the country has transformed in several sectors.
“You can see the improvements in the roads… we have improved education and we have improved in our health sector. We believe in our people. They are the best assets that we have. We have made housing affordable to Dominicans whether you are in the middle class or lower class. Government has opened doors that were said to be shut before,” he said.
He said however that there is still a lot of work to be done.
“The vast majority of Dominicans are very appreciative of what we have done,’ he added
China? Venezuela? Cuba? All communist countries where the individual is expendable.
you doing good darling….all now dominica is well known only because of you….especially the two days of cricket that just pass there….so to the haterz, keep on hating…a lot of you all have stress that needs an outlet so yeah go ahead and just let it out on skerro….we love you daddy skerro!!!!!
Only in the Prime minister empty brain the economy improving.
And your brain full of shhhhhh
It seems like Dominicans are not ambitious.
They look to the Prime Minister to improve education while they’re not spending time with their children to teach them how to read and do all basic fundamentals.
They encourage their children to Drugs and expect the PM to provide work when they can be motivated by their parents to work the fields to earn cash. Apply the principles of Drug trade to Agriculture.
The Government is making sure that all the ammenities are here for us to utilise, don’t let them spel it out to you all the time, it’s time to teach our children to become ambitious utilise what we have to improve dominica.
GOD BLESS SKERITT AND DLP.
I cannot for the life in me understand the way people interpret economic information.
Everybody there is making noise about the economy as if they really know about economics and macro economics at that.
Come on people all the noise and foolishness written there and the nonsense on the radio has one fundamental reason for all of that – Lack of full employment. Plain and simple.
Now read the comments of the PM again and understand clearly he is not talking about full employment or the concept of full employment. This is only theory and that stays in books and in lecture debates among students of economics.
All Skerrit has mentioned is about improvements in the Dominican economy.
Now strangely economist will tell you that if your economy cannot grow at all – that if there is no room for growth such that all economic resources are used optimally and efficiently then you have Full Employment. If not you have a contraction in your economy – whereby economic resources are not used optimally – there is surplus of labor and other economic inputs.
Growth, no matter how small and no matter how narrowly distributed within an economy is still growth. Why? Because it can be measured and recorded as such.
The challenges we should throw at Skerrit is that to a large extent his economic policies are not sufficiently broad based to have the greatest impact on the whole nation to experience real improvements. And that is an irony in terms.
Whereas Skerrit spends millions in red clinic there is no real economic value since such policy lacks sustainability to drive effective demand, consumption, positive terms of trade, surplus foreign reserves, self determination to work for self and employ others so that employment in government will be seen by the educated masses as unattractive and lead to a lower recurring expenditure of government budget.
So people what we need in Dominica first and foremost is to see the wisdom in taking risk by employing ourselves and our fellow brothers and sisters.
Trust me that will quicker result in lower government taxes. But as long as we want to depend on government as our godmother and godfather we will always have the stress and the vices that we have in government.
And do not give the excuse about the banks not financing poor people.
All the banks wants to know is the sustainability of your project , continuity of your management decision body and your plan for attracting, retaining and phasing out employees at all levels of your business and your future prospects for growth.
Thus your vision and mission statement will give a good idea of your strategic focus while your core competencies and core values will determine adaptability to changes in the business environment
Can someone please explain something to me please..With all this ramblings by that Guy.(.I am not that bright) ,but what the heck is”,macro economics”?,,,,I know what ..”Micro-economics is…I will be waiting…Thanks!…..
um…i’m no Einstein.. but i do believe Macro Economics….is Micro Economics on a much broader scale. For example, managing your home would be Micro as opposed to managing your country which would be considered Macro. Try looking stuff up before typing comments that may make you seem foolish. i know you have internet access so no excuses. http://www.wikipedia.com
Ha ,ha,ha…..Thanks….I knew what…macro…means. Just didn’t kno one could apply it to economics…(Remember ,I told u I am not that bright.)…No more comments from Cadence!
Boss you put a lot of points across in this small contribution of yours.
Yes I
Do not expect public servants to agree with you. They do not see the big picture and feel save with the fact that someone else makes a salary available to them. Never mind the treatment of indifference towards the public that they serve.
If they were working for themselves or in the private sector for one of those big boys they would fire d work within three months.
Them people go and get a so-called ‘degree’ in a kind of university in the states and when you employ them they more dotish than anything i see on God’s earth! Degrees are a dime a dozen! Don’t take my word for it, just look all around you and see if all these ‘degrees’ that have been employed have made a significant difference in the way business’ have been run in this country.
Tell me where you get your degree from and i will tell you if your degree is worth the paper it’s printed on. I’m sorry if your school fits into this bracket but that’s the way it is. Any school that has a marketing department is one to be avoided. It’s clear to see where their focus is. Their results should be able to speak for itself.
People don’t fool yourself, not all degrees are created equal, so don’t think for an instant that a fat check is due to you upon employment just because you accumulated a portion of credit hours over the duration of several years.
I think you may need to go get a degree yourself. Any school with a marketing dept. needs to be avoided? Pure ignorance!! In today’s global economy, every business needs to have a marketing department in order sell what they have to offer. Running a country is like running a business, thats why alot of the leaders of the world have a strong business mackground. I have a degree in marketing which has proven to be quite useful in any industry, and indeed i encourage others to pursue some level of marketing training in order to make themselves more “marketable”. It’s not the degree that will push the country further, its the attitudes of the people who are able to make changes. I cant wait for the day when the older generation is gone and the younger people with real ideas and guts to make dominica truly what it should be, come into power. In the meantime, i guess we’ll leave it up to foreigners to do that for us. Yes i said it, the foreigners are taking the baton (which should be ours) and running with it. Even haitians who come here with nothing are better off than alot of locals after a few years. Y? because they have progressive attitudes and are willing to do the jobs that need to be done. All Dummynicans can do it seems is call Mathias Peltier in the morning and cry, or criticize others for trying. In the meantime, your business which your should be minding (the country) is deteriorating. Yes there is growth, maybe more than neighboring islands, but significantly, more can be done
thinking man, eddie is right. not all degrees are worth much.
seroiusly, can you compare a doctor or engineer who graduated from cuba with a UWI Grad. dont take my word for it look around you.
What is it that you’re trying to say? Are you dissing Cuba or UWI? Cuz both have produced widely respected academics!!
Name one of those fringe colleges in the US if you want to name a place with inferior degrees!! You are obviously uninformed!
obviously i am not dissing UWI.
I think you may need to go get a degree yourself. Any school with a marketing dept. needs to be avoided? Pure ignorance!! In today’s global economy, every business needs to have a marketing department in order sell what they have to offer. Running a country is like running a business, thats why alot of the leaders of the world have a strong business background. I have a degree in marketing which has proven to be quite useful in any industry, and indeed i encourage others to pursue some level of marketing training in order to make themselves more “marketable”. It’s not the degree that will push the country further, its the attitudes of the people who are able to make changes. I cant wait for the day when the older generation is gone and the younger people with real ideas and guts to make dominica truly what it should be, come into power. In the meantime, i guess we’ll leave it up to foreigners to do that for us. Yes i said it, the foreigners are taking the baton (which should be ours) and running with it. Even haitians who come here with nothing are better off than alot of locals after a few years. Y? because they have progressive attitudes and are willing to do the jobs that need to be done. All Dummynicans can do it seems is call Mathias Peltier in the morning and cry, or criticize others for trying. In the meantime, your business which your should be minding (the country) is deteriorating. Yes there is growth, maybe more than neighboring islands, but significantly, more can be done
I,M WITH YOU ON THAT ONE.
If u waiting on Roosevelt skerrit and his Dominica Labour party to increase your standard of living, old age must get u first. So when people say Dominica economy doing well, what is the benchamark? Are u comparing Dominica to St.Lucia, singapore, or are u looking at what was there before. Nothing from nothing gives u nothing.
We had schools before we have more now, we had scholarships before we have more now, we have no international airport we still have no international airport, who dem fellas think they fooling. We never had a stadium but so what some countries have six of them. Personally i really tired of this mediocrity.
If we doing so well what is our national debt? Is it decreasing? WHAT IS OUR NATIONAL DEBT SKERRIT? WHAT IS OUR DEBT?
WHY DO WE SIT BY YEAR AFTER YEAR AND ALLOW OURSELVES TO BE PLAYED BY POLITICIANS. AFTER TEN YEARS IN POWER CAN WE DOMINICANS HONESTLY SAY THAT OUR LIVES HAVE IMPROVE. USING THE LABOR PARTY’S FAVORITE PHRASE- “WHERE IS THE EVIDENCE” . OUR FARMERS ARE SUFFERING, NO JOBS, DECLINE IN LAW AND ORDER, POVERTY ON THE RISE , MORE YOUNG MEN ARE TURNING TO DRUGS BE IT FOR PERSONAL USE OR AS A SOURCE OF INCOME.
AS I’VE SAID- THE POLITICIANS IN GOVERNMENT ARE THE ONES WHO SEE THE IMPROVEMENT. BUT THAT IS ONLY BECAUSE THEY ARE AT THE TOP OF THE PAY SCALE, THEY ARE THE RECEIPIENT OF THE UNDER TABLE DEALS ; THE EXPENSIVE GIFTS FOR POLITICAL FAVORS- LIKE MIKE DOUGLAS WOULD HAVE SAID ” THEY SWIMING IN BUTTER”.
IT IS HIGH TIME WE ELEVATE OUR STANDARDS AND EXPECTATIONS. AREN’T WE TIRED OF HEARING THOSE PETTY CLAIM TO DEVELOPMENT; A SCHOOL IN PICHLIN OR CASTLE BRUCE ; A HALF A$$$ FEEDER ROAD OR A BADLY BUILT BRIDGE IS WHAT WE CALL DEVELOPMENT IN THIS 21 CENTURY?
WAS DOMINICA BETTER UNDER EDISON JAMES AND HIS BAND OF CROOKS?
Improve seem to have taken a new meaning.It means more paros,more unemployment,more increases in the standard of living,more decline in the education system,more decline in agriculture,more crime,gloomer projections for the country,and it continues.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Mr. PM, you and your collegues got a large salary increase.
It’s a long while Teachers and Nurses are asking for a small raise.
The rest of the people of DOMINICA are crying things are hard.
The money is not circulating around. It remains one place!
We are jobless and sometimes hardly make ends meet.
Yet still you are boasting our economy is great.
IF YOU ARE NOT BE CAREFUL, A GLOO GLOO WILL BOWL YOU OUT CLEAN IN THE NEXT COMING GENERAL ELECTION!
MR PM YOU HAVE REALLY IMPROVED DOMINICA I AM SO PROUDDDDDDDDDDDDD OF YOU!!!
As my lecturer once told me statistics can lie .I could not say that the economy of Dominica is not improving. An economist would say that there is growth in an economy when their is the smallest percentage increase in the countries GDP.Therefore a 0.2% growth is growth.The problem arises where that growth is not being felt by the common man.If one looks up social growth and economic growth one notices that they are both different there maybe overlap between the two but they are different nonetheless. For social growth to occur one standard of living must increase. At present some persons standard of living is slightly better, others it remains the same but for some it has gotten worse.
It is my opinion that persons with degrees should be paid for their qualification and not be short changed.To obtain ones degree does not come by easily.The initial run around with banks can just upset you .Then at the school the level of pressure your under should be rewarded by a good salary where you could live comfortably.
I do not believe on waiting for the Government to do everything for you,but the way how the society is structured in Dominica the rich will continue to have while the poor man will continue to struggle.
I will not say that the Government is doing nothing but the rate at which things are happening is much too slow.What needs to be done is that all person in the various sectors of Society come together and think of innovative ways to help create jobs and cause the country to have both social and economic growth.
That is the job of your Govt. Sir, to create jobs and opportunities for the People!.
One of the obligations of Govt. is to facilitate the creation of opportunity for its People.
…And yes,Innovative mechanisms will make the Country better…You need innovative minds..innovative thinking….Positive vibrations and Positive solutions…..Why oh why can your Country model its after a little Country name Singapore?……I am tempted to answer but i don’t want to come across as Anti-Establishment !……Aren’t you tired of the same routine year in and year out…
exactly right? we have not improved in education cus more and more students are moving into higher grades but still cant read….development wise wat can you boast of? the roads? new roads that still UNEMPLOYED people have to travel over to yet another failed job interview..? more money in their pockets i guess but how…? u mean more loans!? and mre ppl in dept! sighh..
i dont think he boasted i think those were facts. for the person asking about th international airport, dominica cannot afford to run one. not yet anyway. and loads of students come back home. but then once they have their degree, we cannot actually afford to pay then the amount they are worth. that is a problem, since we only have availability for few lawyers, doctors, solicitors, medical workers etc… we only have one court, one hospital, few practices for lawyers and accountants and so on… Me personally, i educated myself and would be in dominica right this minute if i could get a job where they could pay me my worth. or if i could have an actual career where i can be guaranteed promotions and raise. till then, till those kind of jobs are available i will stay where i can earn my worth
I educated myself as well and i am not acting the way you are acting.I agree that they do not pay persons with degrees their worth .I totally agree. But the problem arises where the educated minds are leaving the country to be run by person with what “experience” or in many cases been working their for so long you get management positions.
You are a self fish person i gather just form your statements.I have a student loan to pay back just like you but because i wanna have an effect on my country i would stay and help work to develop it. Not sit where you are not knowing what the common man in Dominica is feeling and think all is well.
Haha you are so silly. Becuase you got a little degree you somehow think that you are too big for my country.
wonderful!
More jobs and wealth creation for French and Chinese.
Way to go:
Starve the locals
they must surrender this economic and psychological warfare.
Keep up the French agenda
Hey,
what’s with the francophobia in some quarters? Next you will be asking us to dump wine in the gutter like the americans did years ago? come on, french agenda, get with the program.
Good questions dor
I want to know where are the jobs. Some of our students do come back but you would hardly know that they are people who just came from studying since they mostly sitting home, or working at home for next to nothing. Most stay as long as they can sit by jobless, a few months for the most. As for the roads! Still agree with dor, they are not doing things the right way. It seems like there is a deliberate attempt to keep educated people out of Dominica, because educated people challenge what we as Dominicans see as the norm.
Stop depending on Skerrit to make your future better. Help urself.
Well trust me, I am not one of those sitting back waiting on Skerrit, besides a degree is not worth S###, it does not mean i am any better than the average Dominican and really do not mind get my old job back and get paid as the average Dominican, I would prefer a job in my field but hey nothing is perfect. Depending on Skerrit waht a joke, lol, if only you knew me.
Mr PM why it is that so many young people are runing away from Dominica. These are just words no substance , where are the jobs , show us where the econonmy grew. Agriculture has been on it’s lowest; farmers are struggling.
If Housing has become more affordable then why so few construction jobs. Politics cannot substitute for the realities of life. People can seperate money in the pocket and food on the table from politics – or s I think.
Good job P.M.Some Dominicans just lov 2 hate.GOD will continue to give u blessing in this difficult time.better 2 get education and come back with your head on your shoulder than no education at all.once you are educated you will find a way to help yourself.stop depending on government people.Dominica is at it best right now with the best team we ever had in politics….W.V.L..
Journalism and reporting is much more than only being sensational. Has the economy really improved? Wouldn’t it be more revealing if people knew how exactly? Maybe increase in employment, more production and as a result more revenue to the State, improved standard of living etc. etc. etc.
Thank you PM Skerrit .You are doing well. Am proud of you.
I am happy with the physical development of our country, i.e roads, schools etc etc… and I know PM Skerrit has the country at heart.. I just wish we are able to still bring down the cost of living because life still seems hard for many of us.
I agree100%
I have been to DA lately and I was impressed by what I saw,but still the cost of living is still a bit high. But with the new Supermarket that was just opened, competition might make the prices go down even more!
I disagree. Growth has to come from the development of domestic markets, not as it has been or is today fixing roads, giving scholarships and the endless creation of debt.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing brother.
AM sure u did not go out and study when u were younger. Why? There were hardly scholarships available except from USAID and CITAP and French Technical Corporation. And u know just like me you had to be a Freedom boomboom fly to get half of one and your parents had to sign a bond for you to get that half and still go and borrow money to send u to school.
D problem with you is that u try read books without lecturer help and listen to man on TV with their bias and make u make foolish comments here.
Go and get old man barzey to expalin macro econs for you.
Just this morning on DBS news, Charles Savarin in responding to the ongoing negotiations between GOVT. and the Dominica Public Service Union mentioned that Govt would have to go back to the IMF to get money to be able to pay the salary increases to its Public Servants. Was it a threatening pronouncement, reminding public servants of the IMF conditions imposed and the sacrifices that the workers had to make when the DLP GOVT. entered into an arrangement with that institution a few years ago? Dominicans were structurally adjusted. Skerritt and his GOVT. now finds it difficult to pay its workers, many more are losing their jobs, ask PWC, unemployment is on the rise, production is at its worse, our exports have dropped significantly, the economy is in shambles. Yet he boasts of economy improving? Show us the statistics Mr. PM. The PM told Dominicans that the economy was doing so good that he was able to even bail out Anguilla and Antigua with dollars. Of course the leaders of those countries vehemently denied what Skerritt said. Was the PM speaking the truth or was it an election ploy to make people believe that things were A OK So within six months the economy has gone so bad that now Govt. have no money to pay? If the economy has improved so much, where is the money now for those same workers who made many sacrifices just recently? Continue to fool the people.
There was no problem for 50% increase for politicians, how comes is a problem now for the workers who deserve the increase because their standard of living have declined. Cost of living has skyrocketed. People find it difficult to pay the bills. Poverty increases. The rich is getting richer, while the majority of Dominicans are becoming poorer and poorer, yet Skerritt has the gall and boldness to state that the economy is improving. Who feels it, knows it. Who in the kitchen feeling the heat.
You lie. Dominica is the least developed state in the OECS and this government had 10 yrs in dividing the people, most Dominicans are living under a voodoo spell cuz they love and blindly follow their PM to their death. Politics and religion are our new slaves masters so we must free ourselves from mental slavery otherwise we would have not learnt anything from being chained.
Boss U must go out there and see the little salary people in St. Lucia and St. Vincent getting all now so.
Imaging a manager in St. Vincent getting EC$2,200.00 and a cashier getting EC$900.00 a month.
St. Lucia not better by much .
Although their prices cheaper in some areas their people still balling like is hot water that pouring on them
So why didn’t you quote how much Dominicans are making? I stick by my comments and do you wonder Y there are more Dominicans living outside of the country than in?
Dear Mr. Pm
i appreciate your efforts in all what u have said . I would like to ask u if roads and the stadium and many other project how many dominican are or were employed , especially with the china funded projects. like Barbados, Antigua, St kitts and st lucia the first thing they payed attention to is international airport and then roads,
For Education u can built schools and collage in every village and town , but mere fact if there is no proper invest plan in the field of education you are trying to promot it is wast of time . cause these same students have recevied scholarship in mba or other thing when they come back to the country or if they come back they cannot fine sutaible jobs for what they are qualified for.
For housing i agree that only old people should be the one to get the benifet from housing revolution.
For health hospital is in dier need of specillest docters, not general practiceners.
in this country what we need is investment or investments revolution . in last 20 years we never had a investment which can creat serious long term jobs. the only company i can name is CLEAR HARBOUR.
My request to u is pls for gods sake pls start INVESTMENT REVOLUTION in this country.Cause this country is ticking time bome as far the young people are concern. Young children are demoralise cause they see there family and friend not having good jobs with having a good education.
GOD BLESS THIS COUNTRY
ABSOLUTELY!…Agree with you 100%. Any one who has that Country at heart,should feel the same way you do..There are no Jobs and most importantly there are no opportunities for the People…especially the young ones.GOVT. must create opportunities for the People of the COUNTRY….Also Dominica needs to start producing.Without Production,your ecomomy is stagnant!.
Is it enough what this Govt. did in Ten yrs?..Where is Dominca standing presently amongs its neighboring Islands in terms of progress,developtment, and economy….Honestly?…Yes the Govt. have done some things,but is it sufficient?,is is enough?.A heck of a lot more needs to be done…..Things are very hard for the vast majority of the People of Dominica…. Though the few who get handouts from the Govt. won’t admit to that. i.e. the Tribalist,and the Party loyalist. But any true Dominican who knows better,and who have their Country at heart will tell you how hard and difficult things are. So let’s not get complacent and start salivating..you have a long way to go….You got to be kidding me when you say,one can see improvements of the Roads..really?..wow!…How about your Hospitals,and Health Centres..Dominca is not only Roseau you know!……And please don’t tell me i am criticizing the Govt…far from it!…I want much more for Dominica and its People..I want to see opportunities for the People,and want to see investments.The stimulus of an economy is investments and a solid work force…Not a political Party that is interested in the interest of the Party and its members,but for Dominica and its People…All the People…whether DLP,UWP,Freedom,etc.
PEOPLE BE HONEST TO YOURSELVES, HOW LONG WOULD AN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT SURVIVE IN DOMINICA? HOW ARE YOU PEOPLE GOING TO SUSTAIN AND MAINTAIN IT. THE BIGGEST INFLUX OF PEOPLE TO THE ISLAND IS CARNIVAL AND INDEPENDCE. SO WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO THE REST OF THE TIME? ARE YOU GOING TO INVITE ALL THE BIRDS FROM BIRD ISLAND TO COME FLYING IN?. TAKE A LOOK AT ANTIGUA RIGHT NOW.
MY POINT OF VEIW: IS EXPAND AND MAKE IMPROVEMENTS TO WHAT WE ALREADY HAVE. LAY OF THE PM. HE IS DOING HIS BEST. DOMINICANS HAVE BECOME TO DEPENDENT ON POLITICIANS. OUR PARENTS, GRANDPARENTS
AND GREAT GRANDPARENTS DEPENDED ON NO ONE BUT THEMSELVES TO SURVIVE. THERE ARE THINGS THE YOUNG PEOPLE CAN DO FOR THEMSELVES WITHOUT THE GOVERNMENT. ATER ALL, THE GOVT IS NOT THE ONE”S HOLDING THE DOPE TO THEIR MOUTHS OR NOSES..
Though there is still lots of more work to be done, Dominica has definitely developed under the leadership of prime minister Skerrit. Give god the glory!
Opposition politcians must get on board in developing Dominica. Ron , Edo , John , Prevost, Judith, Afie, Para please know that you do not have to be in governemnt to do your part in developing DOMINICA.
I pray that god continues tobless the government ,and people of Dominica.
True Say
It still has a long ways to go.
More detail please on the open and shut doors.
whats up with the dominica wesley international airport
Big tings a go on for this Airport padna
Doh worry !! Be happy
That Airport will be called Prince Skerrit International Airport.
But man like U so doh know where I coming with that.
Anyway keep the faith and u will know by then what I was saying is true and U will enjoy the next level.
ok!!
How many student coming back?
How many jobs were created?
How many of our engineers working on the road project?
I can see your efforts in trying to develop DA!!
But your administration is still not doing things right! Not just this present one but all the pass ones
We need to be creative!
agree with you there padna! what is being done to avert the massive brain drain? when you tell me you have people coming back with Masters degrees from a university like UWI and the administration cant find ways and means of utilizing those Human Resource and that the only thing the Ministry of Education can do, if the individual is an established public servant is to throw them in places like the public library to do data processing, while persons who just came back from all sorts of unaccredited learning institutions are being placed in high positions because they from certain constituencies i would like to know what kind of progress is that!
What have u done for Dominica Lately?
Pay my income tax and VAT.
On another note…PM can I get a Scholarship pls????…De one for Serbia.