Over $1-million from the island’s Citizenship by Investment Program, have been approved for road projects in the in the Petite Savanne Constituency.
On Thursday the monies, totaling EC$1, 212, 44, were presented to three village councils, namely Pichelin, Fond St. Jean and Bagatelle. The community of Bellevue Chopin also got funds.
Speaking at a presentation ceremony on Thursday morning, MP for the constituency, Dr. Kenneth Darroux described the funds as a “significant sum of money” for the area.
“This is quite a significant sum of money to be put into the hands of any local government, $1.2 million, within such a small space of time,” he said.
The Bagatelle Village Council received $211,008.00 to enhance the network road in the Stowe community; Fond St. Jean was given $154,310.00 to commence construction of a link road; Bellevue Chopain was presented with a cheque for $547, 123.00 to enhance the Grenville, Leswa, and Playing field roads while Pichelin was given $300,000.00 to improve their court.
Darroux said that he has confidence in the heads of the various village councils to use the funds as intended.
“I have worked with you guys for the past years, for quite a number of years now and I am very confident that these funds will be used in a diligent way. Of course accountable and transparent and of course with our new project officer who will be at you to make sure that the records are okay and everything is going fine,” Darroux said.
Darroux explained that these projects are necessary ,considering the impact that Ericka had on the country and the CBI program must be valued.
“While I think some people are trying to destroy this program, we have to appreciate and pray that this program continues to be as successful as it has been, because without this source of funding, as we speak, none of what we see happening now would be happening,” he said.
He said that all road enhancement projects going on in the country is a direct result of the CBI program, and the government makes “no apologies” for the program.
“We want to pray to God that He honestly continues to bless the CBI program. We as the government, and as a Minister of government, I have said before and I will say it again, that we make no apologies for this program. The idea that the CBI program is this under table program that ministers and other government officials are going around selling passports in brief cases, we need to dispel that notion,” he remarked.
Let me understand this clearly enhancing a court in Pichelin is more important than constructing a wall to protect the lives of the people in Marana that oh my! Smh Marana people you all are too labour. Stop putting party before safety..
so it leaves me to ask …………………. where will this money be spent? is it in the already declared disaster zone? or in the new proposed site for community?or will you spend it on the rehabilitation of the petite savanne to delices road. mr minister be clear. because now i suspect you are taking advantage of the ignorance of the people of that area. the new proposed site at belevue doesnt need this because money has already been allocated for that. so tell me sir where will you use this. i smell a big rat. money laundering
you need to read to understand.. Its Petite Savanne Constituency, not Petite Savanne community.. The constituency extends from Petite Savanne to Bellevue.. Stop making yourselves look like fools.. My God
Very soon, CBI money will repair roads in St. Lucia, St. Vincent and Antigua.
What about the maintenance of the existing road (Bagatelle-Petite Savanne) to facilitate the patriotic villagers who wisely chose not to move. Is the incumbent PARL-REP aware of the value of the Bay Oil industry to the Dominica economy.The fact that he does not own one Bay Leaf Tree in Petite Savanne does not mean he should abandon the Green-gold community and turn it into a Shooting Range to discharge his armoury of weapons recklessly.
Petite Savanne does is a fiction, but the bobol expertise of the current administration is not.
Folks, all these ‘news’ items are soundbites from the heads of Skerro’s spindoctors who he is paying a fortune from CBI funds to keep us in the dark and to fool those buying into CBI that the money is being spent on Dominica.
Skerro, you will burn in hell for your sins, you really will!
BuT wait ner .. I thought petite savanna community no longer exist. .. wasn’t that community moved?
Since when did government start giving money to village councils to fix roads? This is all dirty political maneuvering and has the potential for misappropreation.
And then we wonder why public works is dying
something is fishy, the self made engineer declared petite savanne not fit for anyone to live there and he made dowasco and domlec remove their services, I am assuming petite savanne is no more, so I must ask, why is there a million for their road?
darroux shame on you, educated idiot… I not voting you again sellout
Linton have Skeritt trembling. The snake is vomiting all the CBI money. Linton you have been doing a good job. SQUEEZING THE SNAKE BELLY..
Thanks to KING ? Lennox Linton this man should be prime
Minister of Dominica the country would be more developed
Presently we only have actors in government hats off to u SIR
Job ? well done ?
For 17 long years this administration has neglected Rose Street and a number of other roads in Upper Goodwill until they have reached such a deplorable state that complete new roads are the only option. CBI money being given away like it is falling off the sky and yet the residents of Rose Street have to suffer on this bumpy pot hole filled street for all these years. Magwesa!
Everything is now “seemingly” coming down under CBI? So where was CBI all the time? Fools don’t know how to cover their tracks. Was the money sitting in the bank; or was it hiding in a chest somewhere? I’d so like to stumble upon this chest – But Mr. Linton will find it. He is a very wise man. Wiser that Scare-it and Toly Astaphan, combine.
http://sundominica.com/articles/standards-bureau-is-suffering-4222/
All that money to fix those little pieces of toad in Bellevue hmmmmmm interesting. Everybody is now a contractor. What has really happened to the tendering process.smh
With all these projects and money being handed out right left and centre.We need to import many accountants to keep track of this cash No more unemployment in Dominica with all this infrastructure building to be carried out.
well well well,
when i hear petite savanne i was already happy thinking we getting new road in petite savanne.
government please fix our road, bring back water and electricity.
give us a little of the cbi funds in our hands and send us back to our village.
most of us have gone back anyway
sell bellevue new residential to civil servants who need it more than us
fix our roads and please send us back. you cant change the map. you wont pay my mortgage. i wont get a house a beautiful as the one i have in petite savanne. please rebuild for the few people who lost thier homes in my village and set us up with cbi
i begging
Are you serious??? You people dont value your lives or what??? I visited Pt Savanne on Thursday for the first time after TS Erika and it’s heartbreaking to see all the damage that was caused by the landslides. Certain areas you can bearly pass, roads sinking and breaking off, precipiece right off the roads, gullies where if any heavy rainfall, it will just wash away any bridge with the amount of huge stones that are still there… and ya’ll want to go back there???
The rest of Dominica looked out for you guys for your safety…why go back to an unsafe zone to risk anything major disasters on ya’ll lives?? Send back water, lights and fix roads just to go back to square on again? C’mon man. It is not safe anymore. I see alot waiting to happen if another bad storm had to hit that area again.
The road from belve chopin to pte Michel is a viable road to maintain it has been neglected for a very long time some people in both villages are not even aware of it existence, one of skerro pal rep live in that area ,or I should say hiding in the area , that road could be use if there is a closer from grand bay and the other villages up in that area.
THANK YOU LENNOX LINTON. PRAISE GOD FOR YOU. After 17 years of stagnancy— since Lennox put an international spotlight on the cabal, de money bag shaking like rain these days. Imagine how many more good things Lennox would do as PM. SkerritMustGo!!!
So why are you so doggoe ungrateful?You should be effusive in your plaudits to honourable LLL,Leader Lennox Linton…Remember when you all were telling DLP FOOLS to call him TRAITOR?…He is forcing you to use the 3 WORDS of the Skerrits alphabet now Darroux “C”,”B”,”I”. Linton needs a minute on CNN,or BBC,or Al jazeera,or to contact the Washington Post…His 60seconds interview on CBS,was the best thing for Dominica in 2017….
SKERRIT MUST GO!
SKERRIT MUST GO!
SKERRIT MUST GO NOW!!
Is that in addition to the $100 million for the loubiere responsible to bagatelle road works?
Panda stop acting like a you know what!!!!!
So none of these projects can get a spot in De budget?
You should be ashamed of the way you abuse de illiterate and ignorant!
As a boy from de constituency see how low you dropping to buy your brother man for a vote!
Life and real love bigger than votes eh!!!!!!!
None for Marigot, Wesley and Salisbury…time will tell and Kondi Fidel Castro..”La Historia me absolvera”..History will absolve me..and also it will stand to incriminate some too…
Errr… Were the places you mentioned devastated by Erika like Petite Savanne was?
Were some of these even badly affected?
Was bellevue chopin village roads devastated by Erika The Darknesss?
Let me ask again, where was all that CBI MONEY?
HOW COME ALL OF A SUDDEN MONEY COMING OUT LIKE ANTS COMING OUT OF A NEST.
IN WHOSE ACCOUNT OR POCKETWAS THIS MO EY BEING STORED.
Dominicans,open your eyes.
WHICH PETITE SAVANNE IS THt money going to.
IS THERE ANOTHER PETITE SAVANNE ON THE ISLAND
I THOUGHT THE PEOPLE WERE BEING RELOCATED.
Wait your turn
Oh, and I forgot……Isn’t UWP your party leader in Marigot, Wesley ? Salisbuy….I’m not sure of whom they voted for. Make them give you. Labor treating those who voted them in
You comments show that the DLP does not represent all Dominicans, something you will probably deny in the very next breath. Dont blink in case you lose your line outside the red clinic
I self sure Soufrierre and Scotts Head dow have village council again ein
or is it, those in charge up there cannot and should not be trusted with any CBI money?
De PM knows who he can trust with significant sums , Zor toe sot .
You have taken the words from my mouth. I was going to say something similar as I never ever see the terms ‘CBI money’ ‘Wesley’ ‘Marigot’ ‘Salisbury’ in the same sentence with this Government.
Skerritt is the epitomy of all the bad practices of colonialism. When the Europeans defeated Africans they let the chiefs continue to rule and become wealthier as long as they collected the taxes on their behalf. In exchange the chief kissed the white mans boot and asked for no modernization to influence his people which could weaken his leadership. This picture hasnt changed in centuries with the rise of African oligarchs amongst the leaders and the enduring spread of poverty throughout Africa. Africa’s wealth is increasingly being sold to Chinese, Arab, American and European interests who benefit far more than than the native populations while their leaders live in luxury.
Many Dominicans are simply to blind and naive to recognise this pattern of behaviour.
https://www…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJ1uo5jvpe8
Skerritt’s behaviour is no different to many of the corrupt African leaders that DLP supporters like to criticize
‘In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king’
Before January 1, 2017 ‘CBI’ according to them meant Citizenship by Investment but we heard of citizens, but no investment. Since after CBS 60 Minutes exposed them we now see and understand ‘CBI’ to mean Criminal Banks Investigation. As a result every dollar that was in holes hiding is quickly transferred to the communities. Thank you Linton and CBS. Linton needs to appear on CNN
And, your point is? Ask Linton this question….. What have the countries he runs to like a puppy dog have done for Dominica?
What CNN they will go on there? These guys cannot face Q95 or those local toys that can’t ask questions is on CNN they will go where they know they will be drilled with questions not matter the host? Only if by CNN you referring to Criminal News Network
In time to come Skerritt and co will be on CNN themselves. Wait and see, I bet Astaphan will do a deal with the Americans to save his own ***.
CBI bank is now wide open giving large sums of passport monies all over. I wonder where was CBI hiding before all the time before January 1, 2017 expose of CBS 60 minutes? Was it located in Vielle Case? If yes, how is that it was not used to develop the village of Vielle Case except for less than a handful of friends of Skerrit?
The various projects taking place all over the Island, with the aid of CBI Funds — well deserved to some of the constituencies — but in retrospect, please be mindful of the other villages which could benefit as well – (Villages where Agricultural Farm Road Rehabilitation lacked there off) —
For example — (Salisbury) — a village with endless Agricultural potential – which can generate revenues across the board – not only for their families & communities – but to the benefit of our lovely Country — Dominica……
I don’t mean to be rude, but where is Petite Savanne Constituency located now? Have the constituency boundaries been changed?
I am also curious on the same point.
I would applaud the repair of roads that give access to Petite Savanne in order to compliment some measure of rehabilitation. The same goes for restoring electricity, water and reopening the school for the children of those who have returned or wish to return.
Erasmus B. Black, you must really be dumb!!! The COMMUNITY of Petite Savanne was relocated however the CONSTITUENCY consists of other then neighboring villages, which are still existent and are also in need of improvement like every other community in Dominica, so what’s your stress? Your brains not your “rass” must be black!!
@ Straight up; Great attempt at spinning the fact asked in the question. However you sound like a complete “rass” yourself or may I say like a Volkswagon Bug built in the 60’s. Yeah the brain/ engine was actually located in its derriere.
Assertive like the rod of Moses!
Good observation