CREAD Bill to go before Parliament today

Damaged homes from Hurricane Maria are shown in this aerial photo over the island of Dominica, September 19, 2017. Photo credit:  Nigel R. Browne/Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency/Regional Security System

A Bill to establish the Climate Resilience Execution Agency for Dominica (CREAD) will go before Parliament when it meets from 10:o’clock this morning.

The CREAD Bill 2018 will allow for the formalization of the Agency as Government moves ahead with its objective to make Dominica the World’s First Climate Resilient Country in the world after the devastation caused by the passage of Hurricane Maria in September 2017 .

The objectives of the proposed bill are to promote the swift and cost-effective recovery of Dominica from climate-related disasters; to ensure that any physical and other infrastructure damaged or destroyed during a climate related disaster is reconstructed or restored to a state that is better than its state before the occurrence of that disaster; to ensure that Dominica will be more resilient to natural hazards and better able to respond to climate-related disasters; and to assist the public and private sectors and civil society to be better equipped to manage and recover from climate-related disasters.

Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, in explaining the mission of CREAD at a CARICOM-UN High-level Pledging Conference in New York in November last year, said the agency will be audited externally, will cost $3.5-million a year, to operate, and a parliamentary committee will provide oversight.

CREAD was officially launched on March 9, 2018.

The opposition United Workers Party (UWP) has repeatedly called for parliamentary approval of the CREAD and described  its launch earlier this year as an ” imposition of the Climate Resilient Executing Agency of Dominica (CREAD) in the governance structure of the Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica without first seeking Parliamentary approval.”

 

 

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9 Comments

  1. Ibo France
    December 12, 2018

    CREAD is just another bureaucratic machination.. Who gives the final approval with the decisions of this redundant government entity? The supreme leader of course. Everything that this man does is meticulously calculated for political supremacy mainly to curry favor with the electorate using the finances of the State and monetary contributions from donor countries. The longer Skerrit and his henchmen and women stay in power, the poorer and more splintered the country becomes. Show him and his devotees the exit door on Election Day.

    • KID ON THE BLOCK
      December 12, 2018

      Ibo, You are really suffering from some kind of complex. Why don’t you get a life!? After this coming Election, You and % will definitely go loco because Skerrit gonna be given the mandate to govern again.

      • Ibo France
        December 13, 2018

        KID, once I’m above land, I’m thankful. Have you ever traveled to even the neighboring islands? The comparison to Dominica and these neighboring countries is stark. Your blind support for possibly the most corrupt, anarchic, clueless regime is mind boggling. To throw hour support behind this Sherrie-led administration, you either have to be a doer of evil or a simpleton.

  2. CREED
    December 12, 2018

    CREAD will be audited externally? There in lies the corruption.

  3. don2fresh
    December 12, 2018

    I find that the UWP is very inconsistent. I remember them agreeing to the CREAD bill. Why?

  4. what is this
    December 12, 2018

    Why do we need a separate agency to put our country back together after a natural disaster? Isn’t that the government’s job?

    • don2fresh
      December 13, 2018

      And you all call for development with that kind of mentality? It is important for everyone to be involved in the development of countries. In organizations that is why they have the main executives that implement policies and source resources, the subcommittees who helps with the development of the policies and the administrative staff who helps in the executive duties. Why can’t we have this for something as serious as disaster risk mitigation?

  5. Pipo
    December 12, 2018

    Why isn’t our P.M. on island for that meeting. Mister always galavanting overseas without telling us anything. I’m pissed off.

  6. %
    December 12, 2018

    After the Creed is established, will the useless DLP MISLEADERS be sent home?They were already useless lazy dunderheads who don’t read or listen to news..Now we have a government within a government,will they be redundant?
    Skerrit Must Go
    Skerrit Must Go
    LAZY Skerrit Must Go Now

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