A member of the Australian media was attacked in Roseau on Saturday night. He was in Dominica covering the Test match between Australia and the West indies which ended on Friday.
The man told Dominica News Online (DNO) that he was attacked by two men on Old Street. He said the men approached him and asked for money. When he refused, they attacked him and took his wallet containing credit cards, drivers license and about 300 EC in cash.
The man stumbled to a local restaurant/bar bleeding from the nose and left side of his forehead. The Australian doctor with Aussie team arrived at the bar shortly afterwards.
The man, who is staying at the Flamboyant Hotel in Roseau, was taken to hospital by ambulance.
A member of the Australian entourage told DNO that this was the second robbery of an Australian in Roseau on Saturday night. He said an Australian cricket fan was earlier robbed and a gun was threatened to be used.
Despicable!!! These Uneducated Wicked People supporters are sickening!!!!
Alas Papa; look at the posts many of us are writing for the world to see. Some of us seem so happy that this incident have taken place on our soil. The bad politics some of us have adopted have really messed with some of our brains. We do not even care if it would have a negative impact on us.
Thank God the victims see it as random attacks and not how a whole country of people behave. I hope they do not read DNO, I feel very ashamed at some comments but again they are sensible people and would see it as bad politics at play. I am very sorry they were attacked and wish it had never happened on our beautiful Nature Isle.
Whether we live on island or away, when we choose to show our country in a bad light it is Dominica and Dominicans we are doing it too and not any other country. When you close your doors at night in your own home, think of it as Dominica and how you would protect it and those within the four walls. That is how Dominicans should always feel about DA.
My Aunt got rubbed at gun point the police did nothing there is no out cry when Black Dominicans gets teriorize no one should be rubbed is any body going to talk about my Aunt we should reject all crimes against any body not just the Australian . Dominicans is saying its so sad what happened to this people. Your country was not safe before you have a problem get together with the police and fix the problem before we get like Jamaica. Drinking , Drugs, guns, and money. Greed people want things . They should go back to need I think its to late . Help me find the criminals who hr LCD my Aunt at gun point.
Skerrit and Blackmoore while you and the police regime use tear gas on the people of Salisbury,the criminals are running rampant,Let me hear your news conference on this attack on the reporter,this is very bad for Dominica,Put the lazy officers of your regime to protect the citizens and not use force against them.Am waiting to hear your response Skerrit.
On behalf of our well mannered people of Dominica, I extend an apology to the visiting Australian Cricketers–especially the two victims—Lizavier4Jesus
Then the Elizabeth, start babbling about repentance, what does the nation repentance have to do with thieves embarrassing our people and country? –Francisco Etienne
Man the day you stop reading upside down or back to front, will be the day you come to know how stupid you are–that should also be the day you regret you had spoken or written about things that you did not understand. Until then keep on making a great full of yourself, greater and greater than the time before.
What is wrong, may I ask, about extending an apology, on behalf of fellow Dominicans, to the victims of those lazy and mischievous dead conscience individuals like you, who live at home?
If you think that the victims don’t deserve an apology, well I do, along with the 22 others at this point, who agree with me. So just short up, eh!
So just shut up eh!
Sigh…more international bad press about Dominica. Yes, some people are genuinely desperate, but this kind of aggressive gunpoint violence and gangster mentality is NOT acceptable if we are to thrive as a civil society.
For all those of you blinded by politics and do not want to hear the truth, if our justice system did not continuously fail us, our crime rate would be much lower. Dominica has a tiny population. Crime should be easier to control than countries like Jamaica. Instead, we give these imbeciles a slap on the wrist and allow them to become repeat offenders. We have politicians intervening on their behalf after their parents run to them crying. We need to punish these criminals so as to deter them. Thank God for G.O.N. Emanuel. At least for a minute, the country was nice.
Keep in mind their attorneys plead with the judge/magistrate that they are a first-time offender and they did not waste the Court’s time. Foolish plea if you ask me which do not warrant leniency and a reduced sentence.
We cannot catch the thieves stealing my ground provision in sailsbury heights ? Why, what about the rapist raping our children
Farmer, perhaps they are stealing your ground provision because you are too busy spewing illiterate garbage on DNO!
police commissioner i blaming not the pm ,where the police on a night like this lots of vistor in the town.
theses people go anwhere they do not know the countryor street.
let me say this im black but i think tourisim,the people do not need us we need them.i hate to say this but right now the bike police men need
“‘ the answer my friends is blowing in the wind ” the answer is blowing in the wind. so sad that this could have happen in a peaceful country . let us not be outrage because it happen to the Australians but let us be outrage at the social condition in our country from captain down to cook . our culture has evolve into a chronic mentality where our citizens are becoming averse to be working hard for their needs but instead prefer to be living on easy street. conscience ? do we have that still ? if we do is it dead or alive ? ” the answer is blowing in the wind”.
I am disgusted with this an am surprised there were not enough police presence to protect the obvious revenue Dca requires. Get those vagabonds and dont give no damn bail a**holes.
Skerrit is always prepared to send military to areas he don’t like whenever they talk for their rights. There should have been police presence in the streets since a test match had been taking place. Everyone knows that there would be tourists walking the streets of Roseau, therefore there should be tight security in the streets of Roseau. Shame
Tell the p.m. every body that went to the Academy got a bad Education, the Brothers teach Latin french and Religion, they did not teach us how to create any thing. We tell our kids go and study when they come back they will not be able to manage a 30 room Hotel in portsmouth. The money is in Africa is any one getting Educated to build city’s in Africa. We say we are not Africans ? Why do we drive Japanese cars? Why dont we drive Dominican cars. Every kid going to Grambling state is going to come back worst than they left. The subject they are taking will not be able to draw the city of Roseau. All the big jobs of $2.1 million doing the blue print of Roseau will go to Barbados. Why do we go to college . The state college make it a for yrs. Change the British model, teach our kids to build city’s, factories, food supply, ships, and every thing we need to service export our people to help build Africa and make money to help build the Black world. The Education we are getting now no good
The country nice boy, the country nice
Need to send those punks to fight issis if is gun they want to use . Those lazy guys.
I hope d police get them
THis is very sad. You know what upsets me I didnt even see any police patrolling the streets seeing that there were so many visitors. On friday a Dominican was robbed and beaten up in that same area. So these two guys were on a spree. What is the priorities of our police force eh..
This is an unfortunate situation . Innocent people who came to enjoy cricket and the beauty of our advertised ‘ isle of beauty with loving and friendly people ‘, now has to denounce this advertisement . My problem also is the law and penalties for these perpetrators ( 6 months – 2 years imprisonment ) and they’re out again destroying the good name of our country and affecting an already extremely shaky tourism industry . Sign of desperation . God save our country .
Lets not bury our heads in the sand and make excuses, Roseau is very dangerous at night, particularly for visitors. One just have to take a walk from Fort Young to a restaurant or bar downtown to be harassed by a motley crew of drug addicts and vagrants. Sad to say but the worst is yet to come.
u guys are trying to be like americans but the law systems sucks now that is effing shameful
When I come back on line 10 percent politics , and 90 percent solving our problems. Our Leaders cannot follow us if we dont know what we want . A good leader delivers when you have an educated public who demands leadership. If the country is number four in the world with Drunkards then you get what you d erserve bad Leadership on both sides. If you listen to Dominicans and the rest of the caribean leaders will always take advantage of them, every body had a bad British Education, every body just talk and make noise and the leaders know it. Get educated again quick and be successful and face facts and talk the truth like me , I love you a lot you may not think so , my heart is in your hart I want change for you and a good life dont challenge any thing that I say embrace progress. You dont question the world bank so dont question me just do what I say it works you dont have more time. Stop b lamming Government bad Education caused your problem. Tell Skerritt fix it now
In the international press, especially in Australia when that is publicize, Dominicans will gain an excellent reputation. The criminals cannot use his drivers license, they cannot use his credit cards unless they know his password, or his pin number.
So, for a meager three ($300.000) hundred Dominica dollars totaling approximately one US$111.00 dollars, and far less than a hundred Australian Dollars, they attack the man injuring him.
Then the Elizabeth, start babbling about repentance, what does the nation repentance have to do with thieves embarrassing our people and country? These criminals if caught should get fifty years in jail, that is the only we will rid Dominica of crimes, and the embarrassing they are causing the rest of us!
Well, before dem say I dunce let me write $300.00: That is three hundred okay! So, my foes had better not tell me how me dunce eh! Especially dem two, but in particular dat wan de teacher, (who took it on her own to become the apologist) for we nation oui!
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I bet you most people are somewhere listening to an orginized cult begging jesus for something it never worked in the past and will not work now. If you believe in jesus he gave you Dominica thats all you need stop begging jesus to save you. Go read john chapter 16 verve three thats your answer. Find out who Constantine. Stop begging you are the chosen people. Every where you are you have every thing you need stop taking dope thats not the answer , stop drinking Heineken all your money goes to Holland . Jesus will never bless you again , you are not doing any thing with what he gave you. He did not put you on earth to be the tail, he put you here to be the head why are you begging. You dont understand Religion why are you the poorest people on earth when he gave you fertile soil. All you do is stay in church doing nothing
Times are not had you are a chosen people who was chosen to live in paradise you are to lazy to think, you received a bad British Education to beg and wait for some one to save you. Change your education to thing and every thing in the country will change. Get red of all the British education it keeps you helpless hungry and begging. When are you going to enjoy your self paridise and family. Next week end take your family any where in the country stay still and dream of a better Dominica you talk to much politics. Take a look at Haiti there is $2. Billion waiting to be spend not one Haitian contractor involved in building one single Hospital , where are the Dominicans in Haiti to build Hospitals , the Haitian only wants power in the capital just like the Dominican, where are the smart people from the caribean in Haiti making money none
Black people all over the world are so illiterate they dont even know what they have. For those of you who believe in Jesus and was born in Dominica , jesus put you in paradise, have you driven all over Dominica to see your country, the caribean sea, the Atlantic ocean, the rivers, the mountains the natural rocks you can sell, do any Dominicans own a badge and water boat, good soil to grow any thing, beautiful flowers and plants grass to feed animals, why are you begging for food , did God give you brains like every body else. They educate you to live your country to be servants for live, and fight and be confused. God put most of the minerals that humans consume in Africa. Jerusalem have nothing but desert, God or jesus put every thing where you are, white people always say the caribean is so beautiful why do you all people live they no what they are saying, thats why jesus will not bless you again, because you are not doing anything with what he gave you, dominicans do not need beg
I wonder if The Facts, Labour of love , A Doubting Thomas, Fast & Furious catch some robbers asking an ambassador for some cash i wonder what they would do? would they jump in and say Hell No you dirty bastards go to the red clinic if u need a$100?
why dont these robbers ask the men with the millions in their account from passport sales for some of that money instead? And i mean ask them nicely. like “hey you mister stop right here ,can we have $5000 please?”
That is why I will never attend a cricket match in Dominica again. ever since they fooled us with that seconds team fro Bangladesh some years ago. Nanthan and co. only serve us with crap for their own benefits but God only knows what they are. Who is paying for all this. With low ticket prices, plenty people getting in free to make the stadium look fuller on t.v., they must be losing money. Who is paying for this, we the taxpayers?
You have just displayed a self centered mind of political foolishness.What a sad why to look at an incident like this.This only shows your mind set.
There is no one talking about the bigger problems, why are we behaving like people with no Brains, we spend most of our lives doing nothing. All other Races have think tanks where men and women get together to solve their country’s problems. The British set up the University of the Westindes in 1952 there is not one person in the entire Caribean that the British taught to solve any thing. All we learn in school is how to quote great people of Europe. We cannot even put water in a bottle and sell it. The world bank and the I.m.f have to tell us what to do. If you dont change the way we educate our selves we will be professional beggers for life. By the conversion on this site , they did not teach us nothing at the university. How many Black people in the caribean that employs100- people, we just talk, where is change
All over the world where you have Black majority in a community and something happens to another Race you have that same reaction, we get confused and turn on each other. The problem is we accept Black degenerates amoung us. It has nothing to do with U.W. P. Or Labour we are not very good when it comes to talking the truth or accepting responsibility when it comes to one of our own. We apologize for rong doing when it happens to other people. If you listen to every body its so sad what happens to these people people we should have the same reaction when it happens to us. Like rape we are doing nothing I hope strangers dont get rape in our country. Stop it before you get into areas you cannot handle. Criminals should not be allowed to walk free amoungs us . All the drug dealers supplying the drugs to your kids you say they have no jobs are lazy people that will stop at nothing until they distroy the country. They will stop at nothing until they achieve their gold. Hunt them down
Hello and good morning my people. It’s very sad reading obout such vicious robbery and assault in sweet Dominica. We must hold the criminals responsible and severely punish them if they are arrested and we must stop blaming the Government for this criminal acts. Law abiding citizen don’t engage in this type of acts regardless of which party they support so let us hold the criminals responsible. I want to apologize to the victims and tell them this act isn’t a reflection of the majority of our people.
Dominica is full of too much potential. I always boast that when I am in Dominica that money is sure, and if i do not have it there is no need to stress because we are not like so many other countries where money is that big of an issue. You can still do a little work on a man farm and get something to eat in return plus a $20 . I know most of us don’t want that but it is an honest day’s work. There are still so much that we can do that we are not doing to grab the tourists’ dollar, and I am not talking about stealing, we lack imagination and vision. We follow other islands although our product is unique. these guys may have gotten more than $300 XCD from these guys if perhaps they had a product/service that they could market to them. Uneducated people will most likely make poor choices.Sad thing is that I hardly ever hear these guys being caught and sentenced.
I pray it was a random stupid act by some thieves and nothing more.
After the British left you never had a plan to educate and feed your self. I was in Grand Bay last week beautiful place with good land doing nothing. There is absolutely no reason why Grand Bay people should be begging g for bath rooms and roads. Grand Bay alone can provide the whole country with chicken, pineapple , plantains, yams, and fish. They can even put a pineapple factory to produce juice, what about bottle water. Laplane land idel people begging Government for every thing, what about planting high value products like vanilla , cocoa, coffee, bottle water, Bayrum, all kind of wines like ginger wine the french likes it, cottage pigs, water, M arigot wesley bread basket can grow every thing , our kids like apple and grapes plant it to dont forget bottle water. With the brains we would have full employment in every village we dont have to go to Roseau yt? O fight for jobs and crumbs the money is in the country , all we need is thinking people and a plan we have the good soil
What has that got to do with the robbing of two Australians in Roseau?
Dominicans were much poorer and in a worst employment, income situation 20 years ago. The people that commit these crimes are the ones you should target with your negative comments. That stupid election fever trend of blaming the government for everything has no value, does not offer real solutions or means and cannot address lazy criminal minded people.
I agree with you here. Since you have this excellent vision of progress, prosperity and success, you should make yourself visible and available to advise and help those people.
Yet again we see this madness going on. I have always said and will keep saying, “we only will beginning to cry when it hit closer to home.” This is unacceptable, and every citizen of Dominica should work to protect our streets. We should become better stewardess of our communities in order to irradiate these types of criminal behavior. We need to work closer with the police to catch these perpetrators of these crimes and bring them to justice. The people in the community who are buying the stollen property from those criminals are just as guilty, the mothers, fathers, neighbors who know and see something is out of place and remain silent are just as guilty.
When there is a crack down by the police and security forces on these vagabonds and hooligans, I hope that we will not start crying down the police for trying to protect Dominica and Dominican citizens. I hope that the leaders can put aside their political differences and make a joint statement on this matter.
Enough I…
Doc love and the rest who are using this situation to spin their political crap, just a reminder if things were better these scum bags would have done the same things because they are criminals. Are you saying that when your party (UWP) was in office there were no crimes against visitors, you might want people to believe that knowing it is a lie but you will still try.
Maybe not Point but I can assure you that under a new “Team Dominica” govt. there would be more police presence on the streets of Roseau, particularly at nights and especially on the occasion of an international cricket match. Foreigners reading this are not interested in local mwpi, they are interested in safety and security when they visit us.
@titiwi, could you tell us why street crmes still continue to happen in London, NY, Paris, Brazil, other Caribbean countries, the list is long it is a global issue. In many of these countries you see a heavy police presence on the streets and crime still happens. We cannot solve our social problems when we continue to examine them with politically tinted lenses. It would be outrageous to say that Team Dominica or UWP which ever name you choose, is behind these criminal acts. However the way it is been used to push the agenda of Team Dominica/UWP begs many questions.
No, that is not what he is saying. What he is saying is that a government (DLP) that turns it’s citizens into beggars is responsible for their behaviour. Furthermore, a government (DLP) and it’s leader that clearly states on numerous occations that they are above the law and practice it as well, what do you think ordinary citizens will do. This government has been poison to this country since 2000 and slowly that poison is trickling through the ranks now. We only get order back if this government goes!!!
Some of you make some foolish comments. When will you comprehend that those who are in need of financial help, the government is obligated to assist them?
All non-West Indian countries provide financial benefit for those who are unemployed. We do not call them beggars.
It is ignorant, low and insulting to state that those who accept this help from the government are beggars and that the government is making D/ca a beggar state.
If you have an idea how to administer it and to whom, then you should suggest it, respectfully, to your government in writing.
Talking, writing and criticizing are insufficient to help the situation in Dominica. Action is necessary. Do something about it!
Tell those who receive the small monthly income, there is no reason that they should steal from others and harm them.
You have an obligation to your country and nationals. Make the most of it and of your time.
All you critics, be good, genuinely concerned nationals and Samaritans.
Stop blaming skerrit it is not his fault he is not sure of his duties as prime minister, he thinking he only supposed to sell passports.
At a time like this there should be more patrols. Not one cop about. Go figure!
We have a problem in the Country we accept Degenerates amoungs us you see how quick we want action we can get things done if we want to . Lets have some quick action to feed our selves and keep most of our money we send to the Cubans in Miami buying rotten Chicken and create jobs for all the Degenerates we created.we should not be blaming any one but our selves, we spend most of our time talking about blue and red producing degenerates begging and doing nothing. This will continue until we use our brains to produce and be productive as a people. We have liquid gold which is water flowing into the ocean we cannot even sell that. We have good soil we cannot feed our selves.The only action we take is steal , fight, hate, pray , and do nothing, wake up my people, do you have the same brains like all other humans
Shame on my fellow Dominicans. There is/was no need for this. Don’t adopt the violent attitudes of the so-called civilized West!!
Take a look at the attention these punks are getting, lets blame the Police, lets blame Skerritt, lets blame the punks. These punks were there all the time, they Rub the Australians so now we care about what is going to happened to our good name. If these punks were there before did we really care about our good name. We are scared because we are proffesional beggers who thinks Tourist will not come to feed us. This are the same people who things the Parro- have rights to sell and take Drugs and terrorize Black people, so now is the A ustrialians they are more valuable than us we give them so much respect than our leaders. Criminals and Thieves and degenerates Drug Dealers should be dealt with all the time. Not only when bad things happened to strangers. Every body is upset my Aunt got rub last week where was the out cry for her she was only a poor Black women from Sailsbury. The Law should be for every one.
The police and the people of roseau needs to reclaim the streets of roseau.it is pointless to pretend they do not know this has been going on for a while.
Carbon and the rest could send the police to Salisbury to intimidate the hard working people, but could not send them to patrol the streets of the capital.Square pegs in round holes.
Good reporting DNO. Hope the police focus on catching these thieves and leave peaceful protesters and danny lugay alone.
Now DNO did you hear about the 1.5 million in the private bank account?
Oh my this is very sad. I hope if and when they get caught they are sentence to lengthy prison term. Please government go and revise our laws and penalties one by one. I am so fed up with these crimes accruing here, i am afraid to go exercising in the morning because i am afraid i get rapped or robbed, Maybe we need to start doing our own community policing . I also think we need the right to bear arms.
great job, rob more. the country needs it. any action is better than no action to demonstrate your frustrations. if people, especially young people had something to do(a job) they wouldn’t need to be doing these petty crimes. maybe next time they need to target the ministers.
mr carbon, mr skerrit, and mr blackmore maybe now is a good time to have your tear gas assault team patrolling the streets of Roseau to instill fear in potential robbers. is the assault team only there to brutalize and suppress people who you think do no support you?
Sad sad sad indeed! Are these people stupid or what? When this story hits the world media chew-nou-patay! Please folks let us all come together and turn these imbeciles over to the police immediately. I call on the Roseau parlreps to hit the ground running and effect a citizen arrest if necessary.
How dare these punks destroy my country’s name. With such a high profile activity/ game going on in Dca where was the police anyway. Roseau should have been been teeming with plain clothes officers throughout the weekend. But again, Carbon Daniel is not a manager and must have been cozied up in his house as usual hiding from Dominicans because of his incompetency. Who is incharge of police operations? Bring back the likes of Butcher, Alpe, Duke to straighten out these punks and manage the force. According to the good Dr. Blessings of Senjo city, I am watching king…
Assertive, NOT Aggressive!
WAW..Dominica is finally being recognized on an international level, and then this had to happen. I mean on one hand i understand the current hardships here on Island, However- not an excuse to jeopardize the little recognition that we have going on. It’s like you people want us to remain with these bad names.
SAD SAD SAD!!!! GUESS THE NATURE ISLE IS NOT AS FRIENDLY, PEACEFUL AND CRIME FREE AS BEFORE….. HMMMMM SAD SAD SAD
Certain top ranking officials can get away with white collar crimes because of their political affiliations, not a dog bark, therefore, some Dominicans believe, they too, can do the same, not realizing they are hurting the country. It is alleged, a top ranking public servant , very close to the Government, has on his bank account over a million dollars, which he has not been able to give an account. A popular radio talk show host has been asking for days, where de money come from, neither Prime Minister or any Minister of Government has denied the allegations. Do you believe , other Dominicans, who are suffering financially, will care who they hurt, whether it be Australians or other foreigners, when they see certain men walking the streets of Roseau with their jacket, tie and a big million dollar smile on their faces. According to the song, ” follow de leader, leader, leader, follow de leader.” My apologies to the Aussies.
You seem to be a very intelligent person. Why are you condoning this kind of behavior? What we should try to understand wrong is wrong and will never be right.
Doc love stop being an ***hole.this is not about politics or who have how much $ in their bank account.this is about the image of the country that these young men are destroying,and as far as ur saying ur ok with wat they are doing.we as a nation has to stand together put politics aside and condemn this robberies whether it is on our locals or visitors.keep in mind that government comes and go tomorrow ur party would be in power and this is going on,who ru going to blame?hope you will share part of the blame..
The point is that the government is NOT providing opportunities for the citizens of the country and they are hungry. The only place I feel safe in Dominica is in the Kalinago Territory. In addition, Roseau the city is very filthy for a main town!!! The Dominica government is not serious about tourism period!
And DNO just as bad to let a statement like this come out, I remember once I posted about something that was being said in the public because they did not have the news on it they deleted it but Doc Love can come on here and say what was said on a talk show, just because no one answered the host does that make it true? look at Mr. Liverpool he had never answered about the lands issue now we finding out it was not what they claimed happened, a man won his seat on lies and now one by one you finding out he lied. SMH. Am sure if they hold these guys now you will see them on here saying people makes mistakes and how this to will pass, but now it has not hit home yet.
Your comment epitomize what politics can do to the mind, it is an absurd comparison used by you to justify such behavior. Why are you making an assumption believing such things are a certain way with little or no evidence that shows you are correct, you have displayed lazy logical thinking. You must be careful with your assumptions, they are your window on which you view the world scrub them every once
in while or light won’t come in.
These acts are so shameful, be it against our own people or strangers . Some people are desperate, and things are rough out there , but they should make an effort to get out of this way of living. Hope they are following DNO . Some of these guys are educated , but just drifted , bitter and sometimes refusing to accept their true conditions , so they direct their frustrations to who or wherever . They need a start- get something legal , sell peanuts -fruits- T-shirts- ……be occupied in something worthwhile .Security will definitely have to be beefed on all fronts , but during sports , not the first time . Shame , shame shame , I hope the police will apprehend the offenders.
If they make the most of their time by keeping fruitfully occupied, they will not have the satanic urge to do this to visitors and their nationals.
Some of them want quick and easy money. When they get money in this manner, it will soon be finished. It is like a bag with holes in it. What next will they do to get more?
They have done much harm to Dominica’s reputation.
That’s sad! These lazy good for nothing ppl need to get a dam job. Go farm go fish. Stop giving Dominica a bad frigging name. Skerrit need to tighten on security and home seriously.
go farm what,? are you not following that the government isn’t interested in agriculture? go fish to sell who? the same Skerrit u asking t tighten up n security why don’t u ask him to create jobs and stop robbing the country. you asking a thief to help stop other people thief, how ironic.
I hope the PM and the police authorities will do something about it.
Dominica, its population is really too small for this to happen.
Is people like these Skerrit , Blackmoore and cabon need to keep an eye on, and not hard working farmers of Salsbury that trying to their government to hear their cry. They knew we had Australian visitors in Dominica for the weekend, and they should have ensured that every street in the capital was under giving 24 hr. police patrol, especially when one remembers how some female cricketers from one of the islands were attacked a few years ago.
The last time the Australians were here, it was a member of their media that gave us kudos and spoke highly of Dominica. Three years later we will hear the opposite from them, as the Chavez policies of Skerrit continue to turn many into criminals.
Let us call this what it is, shameful. Before I blame the government, I would blame the parents of these individuals. Somewhere in their lives they were lead astray and that is where they are to this day. No, an I repeat, No decent, forward thinking, ambitious, God-fearing, patriotic and educated Dominican would have engaged in such an act. It is hard for us to think what would drive someone to do these things because for the most part the best of us are rational beings. It is like trying to sit and understand why does a pig do what it does, or a cockroach for that matter. Trying to understand if there is thought behind what they do or it is merely instinct. I am one who believe that if you act like an animal you deserve to be locked up and beaten like an animal. These guys are no more than senseless animals in my view and we need to control or terminate them.
This is just such a shame that this happen. I was talking to a Australian spectator on Friday during the match. he kept saying to me, how lovely this country is. He thought the people of this lovely country was so nice, kind, and friendly. He was telling me how much he and his friends had enjoyed their stay and been made to feel welcome. Shame.
These attacks and thefts really put a damper on their spirits as they exulted Dominica, its beauty and the friendliness of nationals. It is enough to scare them and others from returning and others from coming to D/ca.
These criminals are bold. If only they had the decency to consider, that these visitors should not be touched/attacked and their personal effects stolen, but that they should protected from harm.
This is GREAT news for Dominica’s reputation as a tourism destination for potential visitors from overseas – NOT!
WHAT? You can’t even attend a cricket match in our capital city without getting molested or robbed? These idiots who endanger visitors’ lives are nothing but rat’s asses – stupid, mean, violent and ignorant!
I hope the police catch these morons and throw the friggin’ BOOK at them.
When these two Aussies get back home, WHAT DO YOU THINK THEY WILL SAY ABOUT DOMINICA? Or for that matter, the rest of the Aussie team!
Now you understand why Skerrit is saying people that want to buy our passports don’t even have to visit here to get it, just in case it puts them off, y’unnerstan?
A lot has already been said about the attack and theft in Dominica. It is all over Australia and will be through other Media outlets worldwide and sports fans. This is not good for Dominica. For the size of Dominica, it makes it look like an unsafe place to travel to. Consider other teams who plan to play in Dominica in future. I hope they will learn from the Australians.
Do not go out alone at night, i.e., to walk the streets. Go in a group with more than two people.
Do not walk in secluded/dark places at night.
Do not go to an ATM in Dominica at nights.
I do think the criminals were on the look out for anyone who goes to an ATM. They know that visitors will have a certain amount of money on them.
They also had the nerve to steal their documents. Their vicious actions are a total disgrace. Shame on them!
Rob ministers not tourists they causing your problems
Are you that stupid!? It is not okay to rob anyone. If you rob a criminal you are still a robber yourself. Do you think that they will ever be content with robbing just the ministers?
Omg look bad press our agriculture dead now tourism, crime rises when the economy is bad time skerrit change his
policy and create jobs cause red clinic causing robbing of foreigners.
And you think that the robbers actually want to work?
Well look international coverage for Dominica on BBC, CNN, Asia and the rest of the world! These Rogues are not being dealt with seriously, Period!! Give them the Cat -o-nine- tail please!!
hypocrite, you want them to be dealt with seriously but yet you silent on the pm and his goons robbing the country everyday while you stay poor and beg.
It is a good thing that as some D/cans, other people are broadminded and may not penalize Dominica and the good nationals, knowing that there are bad eggs in every country. This is why the good people, worldwide, call for severe punishment for criminals.
I am not condoning the action but I would put the blame sqarely on the lack of visible police presence on the street to deter this. You can’t leave cheese outside and expect rats not to bite.
I agree with you.Such a big event should have a visible presence on the streets and hot spots like night clubs and bars.I wonder if there’s any security planning for such events.
Hear, hear. They want to cancel all police leave in case there is an uprising because of the Salisbury protest but when cricket tourist are here the are back in their police station, snoozing and playing domino. Bad, bad image for us.
the Australian need to be told the real reality NO LAW and NO constitution one government minister deposition one and a half million in his private account, paroo smoking crack openly in the street of roseau the police knows that and do nothing. the country nice boy.the Australian would then not get trap in this illusion and would be proactive with there security.
You are wrong. Cease harping on that for it is not true. Some of you have misconstrued and exaggerated those words. You blew them out of proportion. In any case how long ago you heard those words? Do you not think it is high time to bury them and place the lid over them?
For events like these to be hosted in Dominica our streets should have CCTV coverage 24/7 to act as a deturant for criminal activity .
Just a suggestion the government of the day should consider that .
It appears that the situation is such that I would recommend 24/7, year round CCTV surveillance.
As an afterthought, if I were fortunate to win some millions of dollars as $60M in Canada, I will give some of that to Dominica for security – CCTV especially in Roseau and the main areas. No kidding! Hold me to it. I always honor my promises if they come to fruition.
It will be one of my gifts to my beloved country, Dominica I was born and brought up in which I still love and always will. As long as I live, no one can take that away from me.
The government should reimburse what was stolen plus compensation for not providing proper security in the streets of Roseau and media centre .
Police are to blame for they should be on their P’S & Q’S policing Roseau and surroundings where ever our visitors are staying they should have security 24/7 with them .
Rats will always play when the CAT is away .
yes the government should reimburse them, but keep all what they have stolen from the country, right? ignorant fool
This is very bad news for I nternationsl cricket in Dominica. To make it wort the victim is a media personal. This news will go worldwide . Hope the police is on the case. Once again we need CCTV in Roseau. Why the police did not increase patrol during the tourists stay here?? Bad news for Dominica. The incident is already viral worldwide n in u tube. ….. The government needs to make a statement on the incident
Those kinds of individuals in Dominica do not represent me, and the rest of our well mannered Dominicans, who love our country and is proud of it.
Those individuals are a small minority, in our country, wandering the land with the form of a human being–but they are in no way human –for a human being was made to have a conscience, which is from God, He uses that conscience to teach the way of Life in Love.
On behalf of our well mannered people of Dominica, I extend an apology to the visiting Australian Cricketers–especially the two victims–those lazy and wicked individuals do not represent us; we are largely a God fearing people, who knows how to share the Love that He bestows to us, with everyone–whether local or visitors.
Why was this allowed should there of not been extra patrols at a time like this. When will this country ever get it right. A bloody disgrace.
What a shame, further discouragement to visit / stay on my Island home – but I will continue to promote her beauty!
Times are hard in Dominica , indeed, jobs are scarce and opportunities are non existence however these no-good bums need to be made a lesson off. I am not sure if there was an increased police presence in the Capital when the cricket was on.
Cricket in the country means more people than normal in the city, more party than normal in the city and more tourist than normal in the city.
An increased presence of the police in the city both foot patrol and mobile patrol, especially in the area where the tourist are most likely to frequent and where the bums live.
The very same thing that happens during carnival should happen when there is cricket, police should be out there trying their best to protect the country`s image by protecting the tourist. You never get a second chance to create a first impression and once your imagine is tarnished then that is it. We in Dominica cannot afford this to happen because we have not reached anywhere near our full potential within tourism, nowhere…
Impeccable logic. The unemployment rate in the US has dropped. Do you see the statistics on crime dropping as well?
Those thugs who do not give two hoots about D/ca’s reputation and visitors or anyone for that matter, know that they, the tourists/visitors will have a lot of money on them.
Really, there should have been more police patrol presence in Roseau at that time especially those areas the cricketers/visitors reside and would frequent, as also banks/ATM’s.
I hope the police authorities take note of that and step up their surveillance at such times. If D/ca has undercover police in unmarked vehicles, this would be a good idea to catch those criminals in the act.
If D/ca does not have them, it would be an opportune time to consider and implement them.
I suspect one of them man will hold up somebody and kill them
When one man can deposit $1.5 million in the bank and walks free, the rogues and vagabonds believe that they too can take people’s money, whether it is local or visitor, without any remorse.
This is shameful but the punishment must start from the top. Blue coloured crime encourages this type of vagabond behaviour because everybody thinks they are entitled to other people’s property.
Dominica needs a cleansing, physical, political, social and spiritual.
Lord Jesus help us!
Please stop making excuses for these idiots. You sound smarter than that.
These lazy punks need to find jobs. They’re not contributing to the economy and still finding ways to hurt the country. They will be caught in Jesus’ name.
yes they need to find jobs, but where do they find these jobs? in another country perhaps because Dominica sure dont have any.
Times are hard and life in Dominica is rough. Still, it’s no excuse to Rob and hurt others. This attack on visitors got to stop. Those who feel deprived and being denied a decent way of life should direct their anger towards those responsible. Namely, the Reckless and Roguish Regime oppressing the people of Dominica. I share the frustration of those who feel there is no way out, but I beg of you don’t take out your frustration on those contributing to the Economy.
Let them experience the beauty of our Unique Island and enjoy the kindness of it’s friendly and proud people.
So stand up to this Corrupt Government and say Enough is Enough! We will not take anymore. Dominicans deserve much more. Use your Minds to fight back not weapons. The Awakening of the Mind is the biggest Threat to the Rulers of this World.
Those culprits are not going to read ur comments, so its a waste of time trying to preach to them. It worries me when ever a tourist is robbed on our island I disgust a robber. I single handedly caused the capture and conviction of 2 robbers
man DA man,can make black people look real low;world class cricket just start picking up in dominica,and them man had to do this,then they go say police bad,the country so free up,no tight security,and that is the best thing to they will do,tighten security skerrit,mamo was a beast,but she was not playing,some Dominicans deserve to get their #@$& kicked
If you catch them give them a good beating which they deserve for what they did to Dominica and its reputation.
What is bad enough is to steal from and harm the visitors; also the shock of the attack and theft. I can imagine how they feel.
because the Polioce did not take dem off the streets for the week till all foreigners returned home, is dogs an animals we have dat desperate
Pedro, you have a small point here; except that you forgot the fact that the police cannot just approach a person and say to him/her–you are under arrest! Arrest for what?
What we the people need to do is to stop blaming the government for every bad situation. Someone said about those people: “I share your frustration!” I beg to differ! Regardless of our frustration, we do not express them through mischievous behavior–that is what those lazy and futile minded individuals are doing.
You may have meant “Peter”.
@The real facts–I know Peter Karam from 4 years ago; we used to communicate on another forum. We call him “Pedro” as a knick name. How could I mistake “Peter” for “Pedro”?
u want the police to take them off the streets, but what you want them to do about the ones is office that stealing from the country?
blame caricom. where dominican’s getting gun from? all this flood of people coming in and to tourist we all black so they won’t know who is dominican and who isn’t. Margaret Hospital can not handle a gunshot wound God forbid and any little thing you have the whole island knows. I would rather not get shot and end up in bush somewhere. every island has crime, but I am not going home for that! No tourist attractions if you aren’t into nature related activities and I can get robbed…I love my country, but I can stay in New York and you can miss me with all that shyt!
Lysa you may be well illegal in NYC. Just look at the way you write. You’re in the land of opportunities, which you seem to have claimed as your new home, but will not even bother to try to educate yourself. You are just rumbling on….tsk, tsk, tsk.
New York is bad enough. I have been to NY several times. I have family and friends there but I will not travel alone in NY. I have always had a fear of it.
To Lysa.
Hello and good afternoon my people. Well I type your name as you did but am not sure if you meant “Lisa”. Many of us reside in the tri state area,NY,NJ and CT and we know there are lots of crime in those states. So please don’t allow the criminals in Dominica prevent you from going home because they are not a reflection of the majority of our people. Let us hope they are apprehended, prosecuted and severely punished.
My my what is wrong with these imbeciles, go plant dasheen if u all need money, i hope they are caught and given maximum punishment, time d law go with maximum punishment lesson need to be taught
Can we please bring back the CAT-O-NINE these guys have it too good; “The Country Nice Boy”.
This is bad publicity…but hey…this is the norm… SAD!!!!!
. . .But not to be used as an excuse.
This reminds me what Saint Pope John Paul II, brilliant man he was, stated which I made note of:
“An excuse is worst than a lie. It is a lie well-guarded.”
Is a bunch of thievery going on in town. They stole plenty equipment in the Media Center on Thursday night as well. What they did not still was what they could not carry. Even those cameras they stole….set of dam enviege people giving Dominica a bad name. Shame on them. Hope they catch them
Dominicans must be smart and also help the police but do not get yourself involved.
Here is an idea of what could be done when people steal those things:
For one, they will try to sell them. If they approach anyone to purchase them, they should refuse by doing so politely and say, “I cannot afford it”. After that they should report it to the police.
Or they could agree to purchase them and say they have no money but will bring the money later and get the particulars of the location, etc. Then they should report it to the police. Before they return (but they should not), the police will be on their heels and arrest them.
Criminals should be caught in the act. It would be wise to have a hidden camera which will take their picture without them knowing it.