The Government of the People’s Republic of China is continuing its efforts to provide assistance to Dominica Post-Erika and has signed two agreement with the Government of Dominica.
On Thursday morning, the Government of Dominica and the People’s Republic of China signed two important agreements, one on the Economic and Technical Co-operation which provides for grant aid to the government of Dominica totaling ($150RNB), a little over US$21-million to be used for the implementation of the West Coast Road Rehabilitation Project and the other agreement for the Implementation of the China-Aided West Coast Road Post-Erika Rehabilitation Project, signed Between the government of Dominica and the Ministry of Commerce of the People’s Republic of China.
“The Chinese government has always demonstrated its true friendship to Dominica especially through difficult circumstances which our country has found itself,” Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit said while addressing the signing ceremony held at the Ministry of Finance conference room.
He went on to say that the Chinese government has been among the first to come forward to commit assistance to Dominica.
According to Skerrit, China is providing assistance to Dominica not because they do not have any challenges in China, “it is a huge country with a population of 1.3 billion people and it has its own challenges.”
“I am sure that they could speak to a thousand things they could use these resources for in China itself, but China recognizes that it has also a responsibility to the international community in their efforts towards creating a sustainable path to economic development,” he stated.
Skerrit said that through the understanding and mutual friendship which exist between the two countries, “China continues to provide assistance to us.”
“For the last 12 years we have had this relationship, unlike previous relations we had with the Providence of Taiwan for example, you would see a greater presence of the impact which China has had on our economy,” he remarked.
He said the reconstruction of the west coast road is critical to Dominica and to the commercial efforts.
“The Roseau to Portsmouth road is one of the most traverse roads in the country and it experienced tremendous damage during the storm, with three main bridges naturally washed away and several sections of the road were also washed away, edge failures and also concerns with the slopes,” Skerrit noted. “I am satisfied that we will get an infrastructure that will withstand the possibility of something similar to Erika happening in our country, God forbid.”
Skerrit made it clear that his government continues to maintain the “Build Back Better” concept and principle, “because if we are to respond to disasters we have to build infrastructure that can withstand the effects of those disasters when they do occur.”
Meantime, Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to Dominica, His Excellency LU Kun, who made his first public appearance since the presentation of his credentials, said the signing of both projects is another symbol of China’s strong support to the rebuilding of a better Dominica following Tropical Storm Erika.
“This is also another significant symbol of the continuing good cooperation between our two countries as well as the deepening friendship between our two peoples,” he stated. “We are not building a road, we are also building the friendship. It is a friendship road that will last forever.”
He said the project will be accomplished in high quality and high efficiency.
LU thanked the officials and technical experts from both sides for their expertise in the projects.
Hello and good evening my people. Well China has provided a lot of assistance to our country therefore I say allow China to build a military base on the East side of the country. In that way they will have to build good roads to get to their base Which would also benefit our country . They are our true friends since their assistance don’t come with any strings attached.
Post Erika again??????. Who getting the jobs???. I hope Dominicans. Pay Public Works salaries Sir
Sell passports and beg. Is so we come.
Keep signing Don”t ever stop cause one day your damn finger will stick on a pen and we will see what is Black and white hidden in small prints
2 agreements
The first is on the economic and Technical Co-operation providing for a grant of just over US$21 million. This is to be used for the”implementation” of the West Coast Rehabilitation Project.
The second is for the”implementation” of the China-Aided West Coast Road Post Erica Rehabilitation Project.
De common man on the street doesn’t understand any of this.
Someone is hiding something from us!
Correct me if I’m wrong but didn’t the West Coast road Rehabilitation project finish some 5 years ago?
De only thing outstanding to my mind are repairs post Erica……… George Trucking apparently hit de road before the Chinese put one pick axe in the ground
Is that a subcontract from the Chinese?
Was there a tender for the work ongoing near Dublanc?
Erica cause a subsidence on the bank. The road dropped.
It appears that the guy is building on the subsidence without correcting the levels.
Originally the road was not at that angle.
Why are the Chinese giving us that kind of money??
What do we have to do to get it?
Are you guys stupid??? Don’t you understand that were aid is given by any country, it must be justified? That is to say there MUST be some form of payback for them?
COME CLEAN SIR BOBOL, WHAT HAVE YOU PLEDGED US TO DO FOR THE MONEY! Tell us, let us see the agreement.
Do you have money to help build our country I wonder if you even pay taxes we love to call names and sit down and do nothing our country is moving on thank god.
Are you a Dominican? Do your children live in Dominica? If yes to either, or both, are you not concerned that a man who does not have any Dominican’s mandate to do so, pledges us all to repay $21M to the Chinese? Or profits in other ways personally for this kind of deals with foreign persons?
Don’t you think we need to know how this kind of money is to be repaid (assuming we actually get this ‘pledge’ in the first place? From our taxes perhaps, from the buying of our votes in UN, or other international bodies? By doing whatever the Chinese require of us? Are you not concerned about this?
I guess not, because like the Sir Bobol, you have already sold your soul to anyone who gives you a fast buck and want to encourage folk to go down that way with you.
There is name for people like you, is is the same name used to describe people who are at most risk of sexually transmitted diseases and who walk the streets at night and put out to anyone who gives them a fast buck.
We may not have the yoke of iron around our necks anymore, but truly we are destroyed. Let he who have eyes to see and can read, read Deutaronomy 28/15 to 68 and see.
And while that going on,construction workers diying in ?? China .?
Suriname develops novel means to export water to fight Caribbean drought
Published on November 25, 2016
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PARAMARIBO, Suriname — This week, a boat will tow a giant bag made from PVC-coated fabric with enough water to fill an Olympic-size swimming pool from Suriname to drought-stricken Barbados and Curacao.
It will be a test run for a technology Auke Piek, a 44-year-old Dutch engineer, said he wants to expand to other Caribbean islands, which are experiencing the worst drought in half a century, Bloomberg reported.
The Barbados Water Authority, which signed a memorandum of understanding for the test run but is not buying the initial shipment, said in a statement that the accord is part of its long-term plans to tackle the impact of global warming. The trip to Barbados was expected to take five or six days.
Piek’s company, Amazone Resources, has received the rights from Suriname’s government to pump water from the mouths of the Coppename and Suriname rivers, both of which meet World Health Organization standards, the company said.
If the test run is successful, the company will order bigger bags, costing more than $500,000 each and capable of holding 16 times more water. The bags, which can be tethered together and pulled behind a boat, float near the ocean’s surface due to the difference in density between fresh and salt water.
“Drought is hitting these countries more and more. In Barbados, some people only have water for a few hours a day,” said John Goedschalk, executive director of environmental group Conservation International’s Suriname office. “Is this the solution? I think we’d be a fool not to at least try it.”
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Although he declined to provide pricing and costs, Piek said it is cheaper than the desalination and water treatments plants that governments in the Caribbean are considering building.
The Suriname government, which is trying to diversify a $4.9 billion economy that is forecast to contract this year, according to the International Monetary Fund, would earn royalties off the water sales.
Question: Given the connection Dominica government has with B/dos; why couldn’t our government secure a contract to provide Bulk Water to B/dos?
Skerrit you are too blind see that the octopus is happy to get all of it tentacles wrapped around your head.
For twelve years as yo claim the Chines are giving hand outs to you, have you ever stop to think for a moment why they has not given you anything significant?
Just prior to the last Election, when Lennox said the UWP will build an international Airport if they were elected to run the country, you jumped and ran off to China lying to the people saying you were going to get the Chines to give you money to build Airport.
What they are giving you is nothing more than rabbit fed, they keep a dangling carrot in your face keeping you on a string like the puppet you are to support them in their evil doings when the annex Taiwan. You will never get an International Airport from China, because they had already given Edison James Money for the same purpose, you used it…
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What they are giving you is nothing more than rabbit fed, they keep a dangling carrot in your face keeping you on a string like the puppet you are to support them in their evil doings when the annex Taiwan.
You will never get an International Airport from China, because they had already given Edison James Money for the same purpose, you used it to create Douglas-Charles swamp!
We don’t care about China challenges that’s their business, okay, if they cannot afford to keep shelling out money to you to help you hang on to Dominica that is their problem, they will suffer the same fate as the former Soviet Union who thought they could use money to spread communism all over the world and prop it up. China might soon become another Venezuela what will you do then.
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“And we should say without that kind of assistance our country would not be able to finance those infrastructure,” he stated. “Where would we get the US$40-million to build the hospital, where would we get the US$21-million to build the road when most of my country people do not want to pay tax?”
All I can say is, my God! My God! My God! Where did Dominica get this double tongue evil leader? Last year after Erika destroyed us the man cancelled WCMF and the reason he gave was that he did not want friendly governments to see us partying with kubuli in each hand… and for them to take hard earned tax payers money to help us. But today the man telling the Chinese government, most of his country people don’t want to pay tax? So why should China give their tax payers money to people that do not want to pay tax? Skerrit that’s how you destroying us in our face? I don’t want to hear what you saying when we not there. You talk about trator, terrorist, and all dirty names u have called…
You mean they love us so much? A communist Country? Chah moosche
You would have to be dumb, blind and deaf, not to know who runs this Country. He is not able to create jobs and generate revenue. DOMINICA IS MADE IN CHINA
what about the pagua to pondcase road the chenises can not fun that project that road needs attention mr pm
One at a time my boy did you not hear that Pagua has a parl rep too?Let him try a ting nuh.
You sure you know what you talking about?????? Matthew caused some damage to some areas of that road but that road was improved far beyond what it was during the time of any previous administration!!!!!
I’ve said before that I wish we had closer relationships with democracies as our development partners, but to be fair I also understand that the Chinese didn’t really have to do this. It wasn’t in the original bargain, and it’s not like we’re in a position to go back and recognise Taiwan instead. Next time I see one of those engineers, I’ll tell them “shyeh shyeh”, meaning thank you.
What does forever mean? Was that said of the previous road? How has china been able to improve its engineering know how since Erika to make this road last forever? Is this simple political grand gesturing?
I was actually reading the comments waiting for something on that ‘forever’ word and said to myself that I’m sure that that’s going to be the most memorable part of the speech for many people lol. I don’t believe that this is simple grand gesturing because over the years China has made promises and have been fulfilling them and we are grateful. They are always one of the first to offer assistance in times of need and I truly believe that this is a friendship worth keeping because even in life you get to know who your real friends when you are in trouble. So all politics aside, thank you again China for your consistent support and great friendship.
Man roads and bridges wash way everytime there is major flooding in the United Sates.
The sad thing is for us in Dominica the only way we will be able to MITIGATE damages from such occurences is to learn from them when ever they occur.
THANK YOU, The Peoples Republic of China.
“Thank you?” So you think all what they are doing is for free? Hahaha You must be sleeping Mr. Volvry.
If you do not pull your weight, you will be sleeping,never to awake.
I remember you at school Cyril. You were a kees ess then. Sad to see things have not changed for you.
Are you not tired of kissing people’s behind because they have money?