A staff member of the General Post Office (GPO) is now in police custody assisting in an investigation to do with letters which were found open in that department almost a month ago.
According to reports reaching DNO the male staff member has been working at the GPO now for “about six years” and he was picked up by members of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) on May 7, 2013.
“All I can say to you is that he used to work in the box section” our source revealed.
According to reports the suspect has been under police surveillance along with two other staff members but the two others were cleared and released while the main suspect was kept in police custody.
“No one had any idea he was doing such a thing …….he always wants people to borrow him money and everyone expected him to be an honest staffer, it’s a complete shock,” the source stated.
Mail belonging to Save the Children Fund and which also had cheques were found open in a corner at the GPO in Roseau and the police were called.
The police say the matter is still under investigation.
Dominica land of liars and thieves.
ya they should investigate the Trafalgar post office as well for my mail always missing and am sure other people as well. and why does the post office there always have bus driver from Trafalgar sitting in the post office. isn’t it suppose to be for workers only. I would like to no.
Hey accept correction, this is how we learn. DA we are to close minded. Thanks Jay.
My husband send me 110:00 us dollars to pay some bills for him I am yet to received that money I report the matter to a good friend working at the post office told me I will Check for u nothing it’s years now and I still have not gotten the money I knew it was stollen at the Roseau post office they should make him pay back
In this day and age why send money in the mail when one can wire the money plus u can do bank transfer ?
What the heck is this object hanging from the side of the building.
Oh boy, everytime I look at that I shake my head and laugh. It is a clock affixed to the post office by the Britsh when they build if for us. I has stopped for ages, nobody has bothered to fix it and now gives the perfect Dominican concept of time, one for the south, one for the west and one for the north (…there is no east face). In other words, no time at all. It conveys our island philisophy about time very well. Time can be any time you want it to be. In this case you have a choice of three, all frozen in time!
thats a clock
Hello. The staff member is in custody and he is assisting the Police with their investigation. First if he is stealing from the mail then he should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Now if the Police arrest you why would you speak to the Police. Based on my twenty four years in lawenforcement if you are under arrest you shouldn’t speak to the Police because anything you say will be used against you in a court of law. This also mean that the Police don’t have enough evidence to successfully prosecute you therefore they are seeking an Admission or Confession from you. This applies to any Country so my people don’t commit any crime but if you do please protect yourself and your rights and don’t speak to the Police.
D amount ofsecurity camera d place have ask d question how comes d postmaster do see that and some body else that have to tell her Hmmm.
Maybe the camera isn’t working .
one thing Dominicans do speak their minds and I always get a good laugh.You all make my day.
Ohhhh no wonder my letters not getting to me. But where are those words coming from? Bowdel? Hmm, i know what it means but instead of learning English words, or using the time to speak properly we’re making up new ones.
5 months ago i posted some pictures of my child to my family in Dominica from the US. Up till now my family still waiting on those pictures. And I actually took my time and write COMMONWEALH OF DOMINCA ON IT. THAT WAS TO NO AVAIL. I didn’t receive it back so i guess that means it’s lost.
The time has come. December 2011 My people sent two boxes all the way from Florida that had some outfits for the family. Can realise that we met the two boxes opened and them people charged us $ 1000.00 to declare them . Papa met i gave them the $ 100 0.00 and i put in their skin too. You all are too voleh in that GPO it’s time to catch you all one by one. Sacway tonnerrrrrrr.
I waited for a month and sent a tracer….the packet (registered and sealed with scotch tape) was then delivered, but minus one CD….
those CID fellars busy to arrest de little man but they fraid of those fellars that steal money to buy bins…
what a ting
you won’t be concerned until its YOUR letter you get opened missing YOUR cheque or money.
In the US opening or stealing other peoples mail is a federal offence.
This have been going on for to long not only money was lost but your immigration papers from Barbados went missing we use to have some post masters in Mahaut from the 50s,60s,70s,80s,and 90s that got rich from families living in the USA and ENGLAND make an example of them
sorry boss my mother check from the us was not going so i put them to hold you fool
Thats why I often receive mail already opened. I now advise family and friends to seal the envelopes with sellotape.
On the subject of ‘lend/borrow’ to some Dominicans if they ask you to ‘lend’ or ‘borrow’, they really mean ‘give’.
Why do we have such a tendency of straying away from topics? A problem has been identified, rather than discuss solutions to eradicate this in our system, we carry on about a grammatical error. That is why things will remain the same. We are forever competing with each other, always trying to outsmart another, in end, things never change. People, we were not all born to be Lawyers and Doctors, our intellectual capacity will never be the same. If makes an an error and you are in the position to correct that person, then do so in a positive way. We must stop being our worst enemies, otherwise, we must all look in the mirror and point the finger at ourselves.
They should have camera operating 24/7 in the mail sorting section of the post office. Tht way the workers will know they will get caught if they tamper with mail or parcels.
That should also be done at the ports. I remember working at the port years ago and they amount of thievery that took place was mind boggling. Some of the worker thought they had a constitutional right to pilfer imported goods.
It’s about time. I wonder if this arrest will put an end to the “tampering of personal mail”.
Finally!!!! That will teach the rest to come that they may be caught if they try that foolishness again. Many times I send holiday packages to my grand parents and they never receive it. Then the PO knows nothing about its where about. You even get an attitude when questions are asked. Always blaming it on the Dominican Republic. Am so sick of it and am glad the issue is being investigated. Some Dominicans need to Learn to work with integrity and practice discipline.
These people don’t learn. So expect the same.
Padna was working out his back pay way in advance.
I sent stuff home to my family. When they received the package, the stuff I sent was stolen, and a set of magazine was placed in the box. Personnel at the Roseau PO gave no satisfaction when a complain was made, But one day for the thief and one day for the guard. It was just a matter of time, Your day has arrived!
Amazing! Why not discuss the issue at hand?
That was meant for JAY who complained to DNO about the direct quote [lecturing about borrowing and lending]. There are more critical concerns here.
and they blame it on antigua.everything that get lost in the mail they saying is antigua.i use to believe till my friend that have his friend working in the post office tell me thats not true.he tell me not because dominican dont get theit mail doesnt mean it didnt get to dominica…i put two and two together
thief
i sent a parcel to dca it got returned to me when i open it a chain that was in it was missing i made my report to the post office and police and up to now nothign has been said to me about it
i hope they make an example of him yuh cause that will make the rest behave themselves
now y do u want to put a chain, something of much value or whether is ‘gle gle’ , gold, bronze or silver, in a pkg to post huh? doesn’t matter what, don’t take these chances..lesson learned and the theif will pay
You fortunate is not Santo Domingo the parcel went, because you would never seen or hear of it again.
A friend send me a cheque from Boston some time ago and it never reached me. This thing has been going on for a long time, some of the perpetrators were caught, some escaped prosecution by runing away from DA, some have ended up in jail. I dont know why the others are not taking heed, Now after this , this young man will be without a job, when people are saying that there are no jobs in DA
Hey, you sure the mail ever reach DA? Sometimes mails get mis-sent to other places right from the place of origin, and of course….they never reach their intended destination. So not every-time we don’t get a piece of mail, is steal somebody that steal it in the post office or elsewhere. Sometimes the tv news have news items where mails reach their intended destinations many many years later. So let’s be real!!!
Smiders
my people there is another reason why the PO is going out of business.and,money gram and western union making all the profit
people who always want to borrow or lend money, lol always end up stealing. Frequent borrowers are a red flag to people with money problems either they have money disease or they volere or both.
my memory cards from canada never arrived. they told me it maybe got stuck in jamaica
@ sexy slim what does tampering with mails have to do with the word bowdeI suggest u look up the meaning of a word before u use it in a sentence.
boss free up, is jus slang, we know what it means buh here we gane it another meaning, meaning look trouble! get with the program
*gave
Bowdel is bowdel…..no matter what meaning you give it…..bowdel + bowdel + “lavi sal”
Do tell what does Bowdel mean?
The other day I listened to a particular woman on dbs giving bowdel a certain meaning, not sure where she got that from about that word meaning “prostitution.” However if that’s what you are inferring, might I tell you BOWDEL means loud, lawtah, mass confusion, drama nothing to do with prostitution and brothel. Some people too like to make things up and others pick it up and run with it. Sexy Slim used Bowdel right to mean roro.All you must stop that in Dominica, too much BOWDEL over nothing
yes the person is right for we the french people bowdel all so means prostitution love DOMINICA
where are so many stupid iliterates trying to spoil DNO!!
Asking for a loan from peeps puts out a red flag. Is it an Addiction of some sort that he needs to mentain, or just living above his means?? .
not necessarily!!
be careful, many red flags flying in Dominica.
with that kind of salary, there is no such thing as leaving above your means, 6 years clerk, salary is 1400.00,what about rent,clothing, light,water,garbage,cellphone,groceries, AND WE ALL KNOW EVERYTHING HAVE VAT ON IT…
but again he see ministers escaping with millions, so he try a ting.. there is an old saying.
THINGS PEOPLE GET JAILED FOR SOME ARE PRAISED FOR IT..
Ohh ya….How far will one go..
.It’s not the first time!!!…So many letters and parcel got lost when I sent them off from Europa!!….And no one held responsibility when asked what happened?!!..So I wrote “Please not the Dominicanish Republic” in bold letters every time…Cause they told, the letters/parcel may have been shipped there..If so,why was it never sent back on the return address?
That’s why today the registered letters and parcels are traced from the time you post them off at each stops….It cost but worthwhile…I may lose the letters or parcel..But I get my money back!..
To be fair to our Post Office, mail from here to Europe gets there quicker than the other way round. I was told it is because many of the European mail services are privatised and employ immigrant labour that may be unfamiliar with geography. Our mail service is also cheaper. It costs much less to send a letter from Dominica to England than from England to Dominica. Not only that, our post office will even sell you a stamp without glue, so you dont have to lick it and chose whether to use glue from a bottle they provide on a string or staple it to your letter. Some joker told me they call it the next-level stamp. You find bad people everywhere and overall, our post office does a good job.
@ malgraysa
Yes “our post office does a good job”..It is horrible..Stealing from it’s own peoples!!
Registered mail from Dominica isn’t safe either. My check got lost and the lady supervisor never trace it, got no help from her, she blame Dominican Rep. and the US Post Office but never did any tracking for me. very frustrating, Western Union is better.
No wonder I am yet to receive my package after 4 months…smdh
The island of Dominica is way to ill for my liking.
Folks need to understand the society is rotten to the core…
things will get worst before any signs of recovery.
well if where you crawl from is so good and have no crime,then stay there. Noone invited you to go to Dominica
I would tell you what’s rotten but not on FB
Very true! Dont mind the thumbs downers they are the reason DA is where it is so they must disagree with you!
DA is rotten to the core!!!!
Aw! You make me want to resort to expletives galore. Dominicans are no better or worse than others. Everywhere has theft. Everwhere has violence, so back off dim wit!
Jolly,you were one of the first who brought such ILL to Dominica.You sound good from the outside but you are so rotten in the inside.Take the beam off your eyes before you critisize others.
Whilst we are at it. Can the post office also please, stop the practice of depositing unsolicited advertising material/flyers in people’s mail boxes. The worst one I can recall was for a gambling establishment in Citronier. I don’t care what is promoted, be it religion,opolitica or commerce. It is an intrusion and abuse of privilege and I don’t appreciate it. Thank you.
lolzzzz lolzzzzz which part of the law that says it’s intrusion and abuse of privilege?…hahahahahah allu dumb dumb read your laws first before ok honey
Geezzz…you are so small minded..if you were in the US, you would go back to Walmart, rite Aid, Publix etc to return their mail catalogues placed in everyone’s mailbox for advertising.
we always slow in Dominica. There is a trash can conveniently placed outside the PO, just dump it on your way out…
Hence the reason why when a friend ask if a discount/coupon newsletter would work here…and I flat our said,..”in Dominica??!!!?hmmph”
lol
Jay just heard some big words on CNN ‘intrusion and abuse of privilege’ and wanted to use it
free up de man
The post office is not responsible. People like yourself send their advertising to your mail box. Must the p O say they are not accepting mail? Man! There are some half-way thinkers on board.
Bounty, I am talking about advertising material that is neither enveloped, franked nor bears an address. It is obviously placed in the mail box by post office personnel on behalf of a local ooutfit. Do they get paid to do this?
hmmm pram pram
it is not today, not yesterday. for years people mails are being tampered with locally. when u thinking is overseas your money missing in the mail. it is right in dominica.
ahhh ahhhhhhh!!!! chhh!!! bout 5 years ago i ordered 2 pairz whit AF1 thru post office via posting the cash up till this day $ unaccounted for…and its only now i realize it cud have been a case…No One To Trust Yet!!! JAH!!
Agree with you, they need to investigate some of the post offices in the villages, especially the one in Point Mitchel, where people’s mail keep going astray, also this business of giving people’s mail to other people need to stop
I had a very bad experience with that post office, only to find out that I am not the only one in the village
People complained about the former post lady only to see right now that the present post office person is worst, as the saying goes we have to be careful as to what we ask for
Not him alone. I got my parkage that should go to parce post at a oca post office open too. im not saying is in there it happened but it have such all over the place in post offices.
“he always want people to borrow him money, what kind of English is that? What does it mean? “lend him money…” ,”borrow money from him…” perhaps?
@jays – stop criticizing. just correct the person decently. there is too much harshness in your tone of writing. not everybody have the same level of education. Miss Genius NOT
Hallie, if you want to put up with mediocrity this is your prerogative but I do not. I sincerely can not make sense of DNO source’s contorted phrase. By the way, “everybody” is singular (…everybody “has”). Best wishes.
JAy BOII U HAVE NUFF JOKES EEEEEE…u wa talk bout not putting up with DNO…blabl blah blah..too much to write ..just stop please..we all make mistakes and while u talking bout dno n ..u self making errors..so what is ur point ehh ehhh?
you doh wah put up with DNO “contorted” well stop come on DNO ner
Jay is a pseudo intellect…you dont want to put up mediocrity? what youre posting and nothing is the same…below mediocrity
Have a seat
stupess..doe play smart. you know wat it means
I said the same thing! He is the borrower, the person he is borrowing from is the lender!
I know you got the point though!
Man you got the point, chupes, peeps alway,s trying to correct, you are a typical whatever.
man chupesssssss daz just de way we speak sometimes…even if we know borrow from and lend to. so wat is ur point ner..when u way ner you ever find it in de dictionary? buh waiiit buh is you dah just make dat stupid comment bout abuse of privilege and intrusion tehbeh? an u wa come talk bout people?
hmmmmmmmmmm save ur comments for urself papa
we not in grammar class brada. way u dere?
im saying!!!!!!! calm down people. Address the issue. This isn’t english 101
ARE YOU ALWAYS PERFECT
Well sar! Now who can you trust? SMH!
What was he doing? Asking people to borrow money from or he was lending money to people.I know you borrow from and lend to. Please DNO explain
ADMIN: That is the source’s direct quote.
@martin Joseph – what u think it is. English class. give DNO and the person a break. I hope you have a general one in English.
I’m not even Dominican, but that’s how most Dominicans say it. If they say borrow me some money, it means they want you to lend them some money.
Eh ben, that’s how they teaching it at Dominica State College? better we learn Chinese for true.
People talk backwards here. Get used to it.
its aboout time they did something about that tampering mail issue…too much bowdel happening
What happen to the people who were forging birth certificates? I am particularly concerned cause my identity was compromised by this group of people who were involved in selling birth certificates.
@Franky – Take a doze of “get a life”.
Lol
Most people post using some fictitious name and you keep posting with the handle Hallie Berry. A sign of weakness and lack of confidence. But that is not all- your postings indicate shallowness.
By the way after loosing your identity to scum bags and greed one has to literally try to get his or her life back.
Can you conceptualize someone using your name, birth date, and other personal records? I am not sure if you cause again you are way to immature and shallow to do so.
Ebeh!