Dominica’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vince Henderson has told the 68th Session of the United Nations General Assembly General Debate in New York this week, that Dominica has made significant progress towards the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal (MDGs).
Thirteen years ago, Dominica joined other world countries and committed itself to meet the needs of the poorest within the society.
Since then Dominica, according to Ambassador Henderson, has been able to bring about significant improvements to the lives of its citizens and has attained all the MDGs within the country’s limitations.
He said despite the challenges brought about by an increasingly hostile global environment, Dominica has in fact made meaningful progress towards the achievement of the MDGs.
“We have reduced poverty and hunger by more than half; Our children, boys and girls, now have universal access to both primary and secondary education as well as expanded access to post-secondary education and training; Our girls and women are not only being treated as equals to our boys and men, but have received tremendous support to advance their conditions of living; And our elderly and children enjoy free access to public healthcare” he noted
Henderson said the Government of Dominica has accepted that it is by the development to the island’s human resource that it will be able to truly attain development that is inclusive and sustainable.
He said as a result, the government of Dominica “has kept its people at the centre of development.”
He stressed however that while we have made some progress globally, we are still far from full realization of our targets.
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are eight international development goals that were established following the Millennium Summit of the United Nations in 2000, following the adoption of the United Nations Millennium Declaration.
All 189 United Nations member states and at least 23 international organizations committed to help achieve these goals by the year 2015.
The goals are eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education, promoting gender equality and empowering women, reducing child mortality rates, improving maternal health, combating HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases, ensuring environmental sustainability, and developing a global partnership for development.
The time to say Wow. l thought l heard before. Wow.
All these Guys do is just tell a bunch of lies so they will look GOOD
Vince while your Boss is getting problems in getting a candidate for your constituency which you represented, I believe you should come down and represent the constituency again instead of you EDUCATING yourself up there and we in the constituency getting poorer & poorer. Why don’t you take one of your month salary and send it down for us in the constituency. Shame to see what you delivered at the UN you believe is what that’s on Victoria st. talking to your compadres.
The gains are true but they are due to many years of accumulative investment from previous governments mainly …little of it has to do with the investment of the recent administration. There are gaps or weakness especially in health care that this government should fix. Such as i. reduce spread of non-communicable disease etc. ii. anemia prevalence among women and children; the new baby mortality issue at the PMH.
Vince thinks that he is fooling the UN,but he lie.These people know exactly what is going on and they know that he told a lie.He is just fooling himself and those in Da who do not use their brain.
Vince tell that to StJoe people your party declare st joe as the poorest village in dominica why a u lying to the world shame on u, come to the getto and find out.
I support you 100%, we now have 50 % poverty around the country my child is 30 years old and is unable to find a job even with university qualification, my partner doing security with a bachelors degree in account, how do you call that Mr. Vince Henderson.
All feeder roads around the country bad, all community roads bad, Agriculture down to its lowest, tourism we cannot say we have when we are on the list of 25 least visited countries in the world. health centers no medicines, nurses go on leave no replacement, and the list goes on and on.
Vince just trying to make his partner Skerrit look good.
G jump in the Grand Rapids.
u will and up there, u fool,u’ll see.
Birds of a feather flock together
Oh my, Vince needs a reality check. He is probably referring to The Dominican Republic, not Waitukubuli. This government has become a seriuos boo boo in our flesh and like parasites, has been eating up our lives by the chunk. Vince and I are from the same village but, he does not represent me with this mess!
How could Vince Henderson stand up at the UN and say that the Govt of D’ica have reduced poverty and hunger and what development he is speaking about and to say the Govt have kept it’s people in the centre of developement what a bunch of crap who is he trying to sell his idea too, by the way who wrote his speech for him
Dominica need better representation at the UN Vince is not it at all
Where did Mr. Henderson get those stats from. My brother when you are talking in that kind of forum you have to come with your facts and figures from statistics. When and how did we reduce poverty by half. What did the poverty assessment revealed. Jesus Mary and Joseph, what is wrong with these people. Why do you want to tell untruths to those situations. My brother look around Dominica, within the households and tell me how and when did poverty decreased. Ah Magway sar.
They put the right man in the job; plenty of Blah, blah, blah and got him away from being a threat to the young man.
We leave all begging for uwp..I remember during uwp I working on cruise ship an all island people laughing an telling me all they hearing is dominica begging an cant pay civil servants .now people in those same countries saying bigtings going on in ur country,I hear all u hav good smart pm.now all tourist sayingita amazing to see how dominica hav evolved so fast an so beautiful.d world is amazed by our yes we care.
when workers was in office for just 4&1/2 years there was no V A T in place to suck the country like the cow describe by skerrit.
stay in ur little box of a brain and don’t open ur eyes.time wiil tell.
how quickly some of our people forget. or is just wicked some of them just wicked. am not saying that the PM is perfect but we have come a long way since UWP rule
Look who is telling us Dominica is on track in achieving millennum development goals a man who started the poverty levels in St. Joseph a community where he was Parliamentary Representative. Your success story yesterday as Parl Rep and Today as Ambassdor is a dissmal failure and Dominica should not expect much from you now
“Thirteen years ago, Dominica joined other world countries and committed itself to meet the needs of the poorest within the society.” (Henderson).
You, seems to specialize in using the term society, and international community; in this you latest episode, I found you exaggerating again!
For you to make the claims that Dominica joined other countries and committed itself to meet the needs of the poorest within some society, is indeed again an over statement, and simply another form of your exaggeration. Indeed in Dominica some people are receiving help, we can identify such poor people as diehard Labor Party Supporters.
Those who are uniformly dressed up in red everyday, or are forced to dressed in red whenever the need for help arises , and many times they are ignored unless some party insider bestowed their blessing on them by acknowledging them as a party solider.
However, what happens to the supporters of the other political party’s on the island, and that is in reference to Dominica. You see it is always alright to talk crap to impress people, but plenty of us knows the truth, because we know who ask for help and did not get it, and such people are the poor of the poorest!
How about that?
Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
The Skerrit Labor Government had a great opportunity to receive some assistance for Dominica, in my opinion Vince made a mess of things. At such a forum, Vince should have been trying to explain that as a small underdeveloped country which is affected by the world economy, Dominica would benefit from any kind of assistance from the more developed countries. But instead, the man chose to impress the world that all is well in Dominica. I wonder what was going through the minds of the Cubans, Venezuelans and Chinese who have their own economical problems are using their money to assist Dominica and to hear things are so great that Dominica can afford to give its people free medical care, reduction of hunger by fifty percent etc. Vince cannot be serious. For months Skeritt has been blaming the world economy for the disaster Dominica has found itself in, Vince is now telling the world, regardless to what you may have heard about Dominica, we are going fine..
All I hear is QQing… (crying)