Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit said government will be seeking assistance from the French in the search for 15 year old Shanice Jemmott who has been missing for one month now.
Skerrit said the new approach comes on the heels of information received that Jemmott may be in the neighboring island of Guadeloupe.
He said police have also put in place a high level team to coordinate efforts relating to the search of the missing teen.
“The fact that she is missing is a concern for all of us.” the Prime Minister said. “The police have followed several leads and people have been calling with all sorts of information but we have not been able to find her. There have been word that she might have had gone to Guadeloupe and we have asked the French government to help us out with that.”
Skerrit said the situation is very serious.
Most of you are bashing the pm its not his job to look for shanice
But still his making an effort to give a helping hand . Good job skerrit , besides
If the parents are so concerned why don’t they take the extra mile
And go look for her nothing beats a trial . They want our help and prays but
That won’t help if they sitting her and saying she’s in gwada or not .
SO LONG BORDIEAU
With regard to Shaniece’s disappearance the people making odious remarks should refrain from doing so for the sake of Shaniece’s family, as it cannot be easy for them day in and day out , not knowing what has befallen her.
Our children no matter good or bad belong to us and at he end of the day we cannot disown them no matter what.
Mama moi toujours dites moin, si ou par sa dites bon par dites mal.
As a concern citizen leaving aboard I think we should all stop the bashing and concentrate on the safe return of this young girl. This child could have been our sister or even our daughter. I remember once in Antigua this young lady from Dominica went missing so many things were said about her, even to the point they thought that she stoled her boss money and run back to DA only to be found couple of days after dead in a pineapple field. So please my people just for once stop focusing on the negatives and think positively and pray and trust God that this young girl is safely returned to her parents.
Why are people puting such negatives comment on here like saying the child went with her man and they have no solid facts on that. I mean lets be real it could be any of us in this crisis. have a heart.
Exactly!!!! the whole point is the child is underage whether or not she went willingly!
A friend of a friend’s daughter went missing a few weeks ago in the US and since you have to wait 24 hours before filing a missing person’s report she took to facebook. She asked all her facebook friends to post a pic of her daughter as their display pic and within hours she was found. Maybe we need to try this. Dominica should have asked for assistance from the rest of the caribbean a long time ago…I pray for her safe return every chance I get.
i don’t beleive she’s in guadeloupe i believe she’s still in dominica
The problem here with the PM we are not seeing is this if the PM does not get involved I am assuming nothing happens in Dominica. Seems like everything I mean everything PM has to speak and action. No one else has authority. PERIOD.
So Pm take as much time as you want and deal with the issues when you can – SO WE LIKE IT.
There are no Ministers – just pay check collectors, bench warmers and chair occupants by the way Chief of Police you too – otherwise you would be the one making the call here.
THIS IS DEMOCRACY IN ACTION!!!
En Ba La……do you now feel proud of yourself?FOOL!
I agree. The PM should not worry about DA’s crime, curroption, economics, education, etc., etc, ect… Just stop working on everyting required to run a COUNTRY and didicate all your time and government money to finding this one child. Don’t even ask the police chief to do his job because in America…no…I mean in Canada…no…England?…no…Israel?…no…New Zealand?…no. You know something? Could someone please tell me the last time a leader of a country has done this? I know…I’m ignorant. I just don’t want to bash the man if he is taking unprecedented measures to find this child.
they just need to listen to international news more and its apparent some people haven’t stepped foot out of the country they have small island mentality! How do we expect DA to develop if we are closed minded!
good move PM. u act on what u know
Why don’t you people spell correctly and verify your comments before posting?
Too much spelling errors, and bad grammar. Learn to write properly!!!!
YOU should check your spelling. “Too MUCH spelling errors?” Too MANY spelling errors.
lmaoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Tete Morne and you should check your GRAMMAR NOT SPELLING. TOO MANY ERRORS.
point taken lol
Should be to check the grammar, not the spelling. The spelling was ok but ‘too much errors’ is incorrect. Indeed it should be ‘too many errors’. You both gave me a much needed laugh anyway. Have a nice day!
BIG UP DNO FOR KEEPING US ABREAST WITH DEVELOPMENTS.NEWS COMMING FROM MARTINIQUE SAYS THAT A MARTNICAN, VISITING DA WITH A GROUP, WAS DETAINED, SPENT A NIGHT IN THE CELL BECAUSE OF PASSPORT EXPIRATION.DON’T KNOW WHETHER RUMOURS OR NOT, BUT TRY TO DIG OUT THE INFOS TO CLEAR OUR GOOD NAME.
De girl go away so she can be free up with her man, you think if she doesn’t want to be found, anyone can find her??? You DOminican’s too hypocrite! Ask her family to come clean with the public, because they know much more than they are disclosing!!
All we need to know is that their under-age daughther is out of their home and they’re not happy.
niceness,maybe (interesting) know something we donot know and something the police need to know….interesting sounding so confident.hhhhmmm.
The main issue here is SHANICE not skeritt……99% of comments here are about skerritt.we need to keep praying dat she is ok and pull together as a concerned country to try to find this girl.Contact our families abroad epecially in neighbouring islands and put our computer to good use.
SCREW SKERRIT!!! Email all friends in guadeloupe and martinique and send dem pics of d child…….let us be better citizens ppl!!!
I was one of the first one s to ask to pray for that child, but, now I think otherwose. I really do not believe that mamselle was abducted. If she chose to run away why should they even look for her? Why should the PM be so involved? Don’t we have a police force? Where are the police and other investigators? Why is it the PM’s mission to find a wayward child? I am so sick of that story and I am sorry to sound so mean and uncaring,but, it seems that the child is waaaaaay to grow for her panties. Leave Shanice alone and she will come home dragging her tail behind her.
You’ll laborites that running a one man show and then when people call on the one man show – all you PM you’ll asking why ????????????????????????? ALl of dem is fouchettes anyways but he is the head fouchette in the cabinet and he wants to be at the forefront of all plate.
We should be calling on the appropriate govt minister or ministry to take action but instead we all calling MR. PPPPPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEE_EMMMMMMMMMMMMM.
Mr Skerrit as a muslim who has absolutely NO political affliation to any party in this country. I must say that I am very disappointed in your sluggish respond in regards to Shanice. I’m sure if someone from your relatives or someone close to you had disappeared you would have acted way sooner than this. Shanice is a native Dominican and a citizen of Dominica and you should make it a national priority of finding her, your department of security should have worked more ardently than this.
To only have Kelver Darroux speak to secure his political points is unacceptable. Ministry for security affairs should have made this case a top priority. Is that how citizens of Dominica are treated or more specifically how a young teenage woman is treated in amidst the new tune in our public psyche right now is ‘woman time.’
With that said, the events have already occured and now you are working with the French authorities. We hope that she is found and returned safely to her family.
I wish the Prime Minister well in the search for this young women. However againg this case should shine a light on the Prime Minister to come to the conclusion that Dominica needs qualify Investigators. The police department need more resources and a strong leadership. I call for a crak down on police drinking whether on or off duty. Their should be a special investigator unit, one that are able to understand the method of investigation, the important of field notes, special finger print investigator, one that can dust and and left the fingerprint without mistakes including good report writing, all in all the police department in Dominica needs help in all area of criminal investigation. In my point of view the Government of Dominica needs a Good District Attorney. Those that are representing the government need more training or get qualify individual (s) that understand how the court system works. A small Island like Dominica where every body knows some body should not take three weeks to find a missing person this is beyond my imagination. It come down to poor police work, and lark of exploring other avenues of the investigation. My intention is to return to Dominica. However, I want to explor the oportunity in the law department to better serve the government in the investigation process. In my last comments I encourged the prime minister to take the investigation to its next level. I am glad that other avenues are been search. However, this investigation should but more pressure on those that was with this young women. Hold them in custody while the investigation is in progress. The court should grant the DA the request to hold any suspect through the investigation, if the DA ask such request.
I wish you well in your investigation and may God bless you and the people of Dominica. Good Luck.
Well just blame the PM because allu dont know who allu pregnant for nuh..stupess …give the guy a break
the thing that burdens my heart wit some ungrateful black people… skerrtit this, skerrit that, he’s the worst PM ever, but every time we in some crisis they want him to be super hero like them boys he freed in cuba. of ppl stuck on the vessel in Venezuela, now is the missing child…poor skerrit…God be wit you My PM
eveyone has a right to speak out,we live in a democratic country,i hope he does not use this child later at a political rally and say he found her.people like you need to wake up,but the slap will come to your face shortly.
give it a rest dude…. negativity must be your second name…sotttt…. everything is politics for allu small minded bafoons. u will get the slap bec u are stuck on stupid. Here’s a 5.00 dollars to buy a clue.. zehzeh
Is either the PM is very lackadaisical, just doesn’t care or was hoping she would have been found before he would have had to show any concern. Almost a month? Ah way eh, after almost every social agency and NGO made a call to assist. Is the government machinery and national security that slow?
Mr. PM with all due respect, you just lost a few points from the little that were still ascribed to you in my opinion. You could have done a lot better a lot sooner.
Hope she is found soon!
But ppl tell me where in the Prime Minister Job description is has to do that….. thats police and CID job and all u stupid people doesn’t relalize that…out of his own kind heart he’s doing it
oh please ! is not out of his good heart nuh he is the pm he suppose to look out for the well being of the country which includes the citizens whether rich or poor! chupes
Sorry, he is the leader, so he does not need a job description to put the safty of Dominicans first
yeah he is the leader thats why he appointed people in various positions to do different jobs, he can’t take on the demands of the entire country. He is not atlas to be carrying the whole of the country on his shoulders!!!
that’s what the police and CID and the others are paid to do; it’s the not the pm’s job to go out for pp. Like now he must have heard that she is in guada and that’s where if he did not do something you should complain; but give him his credit; he deserves it
“No Name”, u just talking 4-creez. Skerrit is not doing anybody a “favor” by seeking assistance from the French on behalf of Shanice. Don’t come running ur blabbity-blah about “his own kind heart”….It’s his freaking DUTY, since he was elected as our LEADER and let’s not be biased or political in our opinions. We all agree that the weight of this lies on the police department, but as the PM of a small nation such as ours, as well as a former minister of National Security he should’ve understood the magnitude of this crisis within a week of it’s commencement. A 14 yr old child is missing….how often do we hear these things happening in DA? Let’s not compare to the other island or even the US where these things and even worse happen every other hour. Come on ppl. Stop posting silly comments all over the place and let’s treat this as a case of NATIONAL concern.
Well said!!!
he de the PM of dominica, all the people of dominica are his resposibility thats his duty and he knew that when he take de job,he should have give orders to the ssu to go look for her. my god he lives next to the ssu outpost, i wonder if it had been a member of his family, or one of his major sponsors family, things would take so long????
Are you so ignorant, that you believe that the SSU hasn’t been looking for her?!?!?!? As for the PM making a statement… why? Of course he is concerned, who isn’t when a child goes missing. I statement doesn’t make a child come home. Thousands of kids runaway or are kidnapped a year. How many heads of government do you see making pleas for a safe return????
do you watch nancy grace for example?
THERE ARE MILLIONS OF KIDS MISSING IN THE UNITED STATES AND U DON’T HEAR JACK SQUAT FROM OBAMA..SO PLEASE STOP EXPECTING SKERRIT OR WHOEVER IS IN CHARGE TO BE THE ULMIGHTY SAVIOR…WHY DONT U USE ALL THE ENERGY YOU HAVE HERE AND HELP IN THE SEARCH INSTEAD OF CRITISIZING?
AMEN!
err cuse me, the US is a little larger than dominica, skerro only has 70 thousand to worry about, obama has 57 states to worry about and a population of 307,006,550 , plus also a war, and one of the largest economyys, so i think he has a little more on his mind that skerro and his new goverment house, he is supposed to be our leader.
It seems some people think the PM is God! I guess Dominica is too small!
Why is the Prime Minister the one seemingly leading a missing person case?
Tell me about it! Seems some people not doing their jobs.
My sentiment exactly! Prime Minsiters/Presidents do not usually get so involved in such cases. Police, CID, Village People…show your face!!!!! You are the ones who should be searching for the missing child, NOT Skerrit. Guess Skerrit should forget about running the country and focus on shanice.
skerrit did not make a statement 3 weeks ago we complain ,now he make one we still complaining toneh give the man a break.despite all the bad rumours i hearing there i hope this girl is ok.
black people that’s how we are…give a voice we complain….stay quiet we complain…toneh! stupes
just cant please black people! They need to make up their minds what they really want.
if this child on her own,when she is found they she discipline her.
how would you possibly discipline her ?
everythin in Dominica politics must cme in….if d prime minister never did anything all u would tlk….now he do smethin all u still tlkin… can never please black ppl…Better late thn never anyways
why Guadelope ?
many boats enter illegal to dutch st.maarten,why not call Pm ,wescot-williams and ask for them help if she’s there? and i think the police should pull in all those fisher’s en in who has boats and make the talk, ( I mean in anyway the have too ) some one took them out if so,
i pray that child is okay i hope the one who has her takes a big time jal
thanks, pm our prays are always heard good move.
We have now entered thy next level
AHHHH!! AHHHH!! MAGWAY SA!! You mean to tell me it took Skerrit an entire month to realized that
shanice disappearance was of grave concern to seek external help and offer a reward……
My prayers goes out to shanice and her family!!
well if who ever kidnapped da gyal find out dat allu starting a search over in Guadeloupe he may go a next island. allu should a do it wit out saying it pan da news
I see we have one bright light. To me saying it in the news is only a public relations stunt.
yur ungrateful D*G…. he didn;t had to do that… thats the police job yur idiot, so be thankful he did
It isn’t the job of the PM to take on such duties. What do we have the Police for? The PM has his own duties. He didn’t have to do anything at all, but the fact is he did, be appreciative!
everyone is entitle to an opinion here its a democratic country y the name calling see example you setting. hmmmmmm
well how dam long did that take?????????
why you prasing de man, he should have been calling for help a week after he hear no one see her or hear from her.now ya all wanna paraise him,,
my name is my feeling
thats so true.
Who cares about your name,now he has to get involved because it is said she in guadeloupe.nothing more to say IDIOT.
Boots , you can not go from one place to the other in dominica with out some one see you, and why the abuse, there is no need for that, it is people like you that cause so much heart ache to families with nothing but gossip, i am sure if it was your child you would not appriciate people telling you that.
get out of the play ground gossip son and wash ya abusive mouth out, better still go to church where you might find some feeling for your fellow human beings
Everything is Oh Thanks my PM, Domincan people real stoopid boy. Anyways what do you expect Matt and Angelo and Lennox to say ?????????????????? , they were the ones calling for all this action to be taken from the beginning now weeks after you’ll PM comes out and again he is YOUR GOD ALMIGHTY.
YOU PEOPLE ARE PATHETIC !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hope that this child is found soon.
you are ignorant and cant even spell…………..it is not the prime ministers job to search for missing people ……and our ONLY GOD is the one above
I pray to God that when she is found she will be okay,I am keeping her in my prayer .
i pray to god that when she is found ,her familly give her a nice wooping .
think that gonna help. it wont do nothing especially if the mind is made up
how will that wooping help- makes the situation even worse- find out why she had to leave and see who needs the wooping before you give it to her
GOOD MOVE PM.
HOPING TO HEAR LENNOX ANGILLO MATT EDISON RON AND THE OTHER U.W.P CABALIST WOULD HAVE TO SAY.
OH PLEASE
boss u talkin nonsense pure crap…hold ur fingers
Well “GOOD”, it seems Lennox and Co. are de lawyers for de PM.
IN CASE U HAVEN’T BEEN LISTENING, THEY WERE THE ONES WHO WERE UPFRONT SINCE IN THE BEGINING OF ALL THIS…..ONLY NOW UR P.M CAME FORWARD. THEY HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO SAY, THEY HAVE SAID ALL WHAT THEY NEED TO SAY ALREADY.
Tomorrow will be a month since that child is missing and the PM is now making a statement and we are supposed to glorify the pm for that allu well mayshastay. Isay we shld have heard from the Pm much earlier than now.
Please !!!! How many kids go missing overseas and Obama and other Presidents and PM’s making statements ?
The PM is not obligated to get involved ! That’s what the police and other ”special task force” units do.
Who else but the PM could ask for help from other nations? Fact is Dominica has very limited experience and expertise to deal with missing children cases, crime on a whole in fact. He should have enlisted help from the beginning. That’s all people are saying. Maybe if that was done to help look for her in Dominica, she may have been found.
Anything that is of national concern should be of concern to the PM. Elected by and obligated to Dominicans. So yes, it is his obligation to get involved. Same goes for Obama and any other elected official.
that is the job of the police force. allu just talkin talkin talkin and allu dont understand anythin about the roles of different departments. jeez
Good move PM but HOW EARLY. Wow!! The ariport security and port security should have been checked within at least one – two weeks of the child’s disappearance for flights originating from Dominica at least the first few days.
Anyway better late than never. Hope the kid is found – Dominica is way too small a country for someone not to have seen her please!!! And it is high time the police stop pretending like they do not now anything. Everyone is a village knows something and for some unknown reason has anyone noticed that the police seems to not even know – are they so far removed from the community? This should tell them something.
Forget it have bk door man?
This is rubbish you know! Firstly as family friends we know the situation! Please print my comment it woud be more than helpful. Even the PM said the police should let the public know about person who is with her!! Check it out. Action needs to be taken and the child is not in Guadeloupe! We all very much feel so! Just think about it. Shanice left her home in her school clothes she did not take anything with her at all, she did not tell a friend!!
Jesse I am somewhat curious but I am going to ask a few questions and hope that you would be willing to answer them for me. Did you or her family members searched her school bag before leaving home the day she disappeared? Do you think a 14 year old who wants to do whatever she or he pleases would go to a friend and say well today I am leaving the country? Did her parents give her money for recess or did she have her own money ? Hey anything can happen, she can buy herself an outfit on the way, she could have decided oh tomorrow I am skipping town. We do not know unless Shanice is FOUND. If she is found alive ( I am wishing and hoping) guess what the Dominican public in and out of Dominica would LOVE an explanation, don’t you think?
How do you know that she is not in Guadeloupe? IF Shanice is a runaway, then runaways do not usually take an overnight bag when they are planning to bounce.
Tetemorne my exact reaction here. Runaways just go and go far too until they are ready to come back home. I think her family know where she is, give information and spare us grief you know. CMON ALREADY
This should be helpful !
I believe that’s a good move from our PM….talk, or rather “gossip” of she migrating to Guadeloupe surfaced within 7 days of her disappearance, so maybe that move should have been made sooner….but nonetheless, it could be the breakthrough in this situation.
Much love to my prime minister!!!!
Thank you sooo much for getting in touch with the French on the matter.
I can finally see a break-through in this situation.
Praise the Lord!!!!
Too little too late. Your PM should have done this 3 weeks ago. Don’t you think?? Although better late than never.
@ Jay, stupes. Pas parlez sot ba robin. You not hearing is not word coming about the child being in the french island? What was the PM supposed to do, go from island to island?
so u honestly think the pm wasn’t on top of the situatiin? that’s y we have designated duties to different sectors. the pm alone cannot run a country, he alone cannot solce every problem. the news that shanice may be in a foriegn land is a whole other level. at this point his help is needed. this is a whole new level. skerrit should have done something about japan sitaution too??? send some ppl? all welfare organizations in d/ca have been on this case. would saying something sooner have made any difference? from the minute that shanice was reported missing it was on national radio. id he’d said something would more ppl have listened? really? u think?