Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit has said it is possible that Dominica could be climate resilient in five years.
He was delivering a lecture on ‘Building Climate Resilient Countries” upon receiving an honorary degree from the Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on Tuesday.
He said Dominica has been affected by changing weather patterns and the international community has been inspired by his government’s goal of making Dominica the world’s first climate resilient country and the conviction of its leadership.
“It has so far been supportive of our efforts to deliver on this vision and the example that Dominica can potentially set for the world,” he remarked. “We believe that what has so far been pledged, if those pledges are honored within the timeframe set, in combination with our own limited national resources, it is possible for Dominica to be meaningfully climate resilient in five years.”
He stated that Dominica is small enough for climate resiliency to be achieved quickly.
“We are small enough that climate resiliency is within our reach in a relatively short period of time,” Skerrit said. “Larger countries would find this much harder to do. Yet, Dominica is also a sovereign democratic nation, with all the complications, advantages and challenges that brings. Re-arranging entire systems of education and health to support resiliency is complex.”
Skerrit stated that more and more experts are warning of the danger of losing the planet as weather patterns change and shift.
“Dominica has witnessed a dramatic escalation of storm damage in recent years,” he stated. “The recently released report by the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recorded that, ‘Climate-related risks to health, livelihoods, food security, water supply, human security, and economic growth are expected to increase with global warming (and that any such increase) is projected to affect human health, with primarily negative consequences.’”
The Prime Minister said Duquesne University has steadfastly shown its commitment to protecting “our fragile environment”, with its continued support of environmentally friendly initiatives, such as its innovative ice cooling systems which cool buildings and reduces peak energy demand; to identify other initiatives that protect the ozone layer and reducing the greenhouse effect.
“It pleases me that in recognizing this, the University is also giving high regard to environmental conservation through Duquesne’s Centre for Environmental Research Education (CERE), which offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in environmental science and management, along with the specialized MBA; with a focus on sustainability,” Skerrit noted.
I am of the honest opinion that some people are purposefully being negative in an effort to bring down our country’s reputation with hopes that it will make Skerrit look like a fool. They do not even realize that it is Dominicans that will look bad. I swear that these people think that Dominica is all about Roosevelt Skerrit and no one or nothing else. They make everything about HIM!! He is saying that DOMINICA (WE) can become a resilient nation. He is advocating this, that WE (DOMINICA) can champion this change. He advocates that together as a global community WE (THE WORLD) can adapt to the phenomena that are climate change. And he was awarded for this.
Is he lying on us?
Can WE (DOMINICA) not be a resilient nation if WE put OUR effort into it? Can OUR combined efforts and synergy not be a championing example for other nations? Is this not a challenge that WE the global community has to do together?!!
If WE as a people can! All honours to you sir for advocating the challenge.
I guess that you really don’t understand what the whole thing regarding ‘resiliency” and” climate change” is all about. If they achieve it, that will be the end of a whole lot of people.
Are you serious? Are you really serious? I need you to explain in your terms what is resiliency, and what is climate change. (Please spare me if you are going to preach on the conspiracy theories that you’ve spent hours watching on Youtube)
In the meanwhile let me brief you on what I understand on climate change from reading scholarly materials and the goals that the Prime Minister expressed that we can achieve.
Climate change i.e global warming is a change in weather patterns (mainly caused by environmentally unfriendly practices which pose a threat to the livelihoods of all living things.
We have to protect ourselves, adapt as well as fight it. Build climate resilient homes and infrastructure, crop preservation, environmentally conscious practices, energy efficiency, effective dissemination of information especially in education and media, mitigating health risk, effective and efficient disaster preparedness procedures etc.. how will these end many people? awaiting your…
Don2Fresh, check this statement, it has already happened. Where have you been. This is what you proclaim and it has happened with your failed, hopeless friend, the worse Pm that Domininca has ever had, and probably will ever have. “I am of the honest opinion that some people are purposefully being negative in an effort to bring down our country’s reputation with hopes that it will make Skerrit look like a fool.
I will break down where we are from your observation, truth to light. Here goes:
1. that it will make Skerrit look like a fool. Response: Skerrit is already there, a big political fool, we don’t have to help, he has done it with the help of people like you. Are you satisfied now and proud of yourself?
2. People are purposefully being negative in an effort to bring down: It is not only purposeful, but it real, so real.
3. Skerrit is already a fool, he does not need our help, but your input brought it out, which is what you have just done. Thanks for the observation.
Your comment proves my point. You have not seen anything else past Skerrit name. You are completely fixated on the man. Got a crush love? You claim that he looks like a fool but is getting honourary recognition, the numbers of our diplomatic friends continue to grow (also do you know how many visa restriction travels we now hold?), more foreign investment is coming in (you wouldn’t know all the project ongoing I guess cause you are not so good as being obsessive with the man; stalk his page why don’t you). Research seems to fail you and I guess you don’t own a dictionary because if that is the type of fool this man is making us and we are making him, then WOW.
If people were to follow people like YOU and your comments, it’s like everything about Dominica is the pits of hell and all should stay away. I bet you live abroad or you aspire to do so.
But you being so real I’ve never seen you commented anything positive on your country.
Fool, we do not need a PM that talks about things all the time but doesn’t deliver a thing. Furthermore, we don’t need a PM that is corrupt and you ncompetent. Ask you PM to explain to the country what happened to the 100 million that Venezuela had to write off. Ask you PM to deliver audited accounts of the CBI program and ask him to tell us exactly why Ross left…!
Let’s address your claims 1 by 1.
– A PM that talk all the time: Last I heard, you all get so angry when RS let other ministers speak and/ or when you all don’t hear him for some time. LL is ALWAYS getting on about everything.
– A PM that doesn’t deliver a thing – You want me to start of the road habilitation programmes, housing projects, education, employment, agriculture and more over the years that you all swear is “his job to do but he isn’t working” Yet LL is never around at our worst only there to criticize.
-A PM that is corrupt and incompetent – RS is being recognized internationally, speaks positively for the people to engage in whereas LL spews stories for you to speak. like the CBI and Venezuelan loan write off.
Question,
In your own words and not the views expressed on Q, what do you understand by the write-off? Do you know that government accounts are audited and reported during the annual budget?
PS spare me if you’re going to say the same things…
WHO DID HE PAY TO GET THIS,PURE BS.
The craven for notoriety goes on… and on… an on. Only insecurity in persons like PM Skerrit results in such brhaviours.
I think he been celebrating Canada new recreational drug. Cause what he saying is b.s..
Build a retractable geodesic dome over Dominica. That’ll solve the hurricane and storm problems
For people that don’t, the controllers are equating the word ‘resilience’ genocide. How else do you achieve zero CO2 emmissions. This whole climate thing is a sham under Agenda 21.
I am surprised that a university that offers programs in environmental science appears to accept the notion of climate resilience as outlined in the Prime Minister’s address.
Perhaps the university’s students should do their field studies in Dominica so as to gain first hand knowledge of the difficulties we are up against.
Keep giving him PhD’s looks and sounds like bad medication for a delusional, wanna-be, self destructing, can’t get anything done right dictator.
Skerrit is tired of collecting money. He now collects honorary degrees?
This tired of collecting money…? Never! That one greedy, he can’t get enough. These doctorates are to massage his ego.
Correction Zandoli, it is Dishonourable Degrees. It is more than 96 degrees in the shade. That has affected our resilience in Domininca to move ahead. Just BS talk and Bobol intervention from waste of tie Skerrit.
Skerrit must Go…we have lost all resilience of this comical political behaviour.
Skerrit must Go. Our resilience to accommodate this man is now minus 90 degrees.
Goodbye…its adious
I remind all of this very important excerpt from Honorable Lennox Linton’s 2018 New Year message:
“For make absolutely no mistake about it, there will be no climate resilient Dominica in the absence of government of the people, by the people, for the people that is resilient to the destructive forces of corruption and incompetence.”
Remainder of the message – https://dominicanewsonline.com/news/homepage/news/general/new-years-message-opposition-leader-lennox-linton/
LMAO Medard! Real loud at that!
Climate resilience possible in five years – PM Skerrit
WHAT ABOUT RE PHRASING THE AFOREMETIONED?
SKERRIT JAILED POSIBLY IN 5 MONTHS-OPPOSITION LEADER ET AL
SAQWAY JOKER BLUFFER MONUMENTAL LIAR/ FIBER/TEASER.
You mean to tell me no one attending that lecture asked the Lecturer to define ”climate resilient Country ” and how that ( his definition of ) can be achieved in five years ?
within five years he can grow the many saman trees, different palm trees , etc etc , to replenish the forests after a hurricane . where does he have the young plants and seeds already stored then . Will he get back our Parrots to reproduce within five years .
I jus dont like people talking Bu.. sh.. when they should actually know better .
Hopefully it will not take five years to build climate resilient sea wall to protect the village of Scott’s Head . I waiting to see , one year gone .
This man middle name must be “”lie”””.How can climate resilient be possible in five years when the entire nation is not on board?..Is this man sane?Skerrit you marginalised the opposition who had more than 40% of the voting electorate in 2014? Remember your caretakers were in opposition held constituencies sharing food for votes?.How can we have climate resilience in five years,when many opposition citizens had to build their own little shacks,because they were cast aside? What have you done to include all of us??Lazy and divisive leader !You thing your resilience buzz words is just about Hurricane..Lazy! As a leader try to unite your people.
Skerrit Must Go
Skerrit Must Go
LAZY Skerrit Must Go Now
The opposition needs to find out who you are and disassociate themselves with you. Your bitterness, venom and outright hate for the primeminister put you at a dangerous level. I am afraid, this bitterness affects your ability to thing rationally.
@ Galileo,the petulant Labourite
I do not represent anyone but myself.I want to make it pellucidly clear to DLP scatterbrsins and simpletons like you.When the UWP soon replaces this corrupt regime, I will do just the same, if they are deceptive, lazy,, insultive and incompetent like this DLP led by Skerrit,the worst PM Dominica has seen,and will ever see
Skerrit Must Go
Skerrit Must Go
LAZY Skerrit Must Go Now
Galileo, Skerrit brought this upon himself. A young immature, knows nothing of politics and good governance. Pierre Charles was harassed, poor fella died in office because others wanted him out as he was not thinking like them. Hon Pierre Charles was a decent man from Grand Bay. Compare that with this current immature ridiculous PM. This makes the real labourites sick and terrified of Skerrit’s leadership. Pierro was a decent man and would not tolerate bobol in office of states funds, now we have an immature clown running our office collecting trophy’s which has no value for him and for Dominica but is parading in carnival like custom that which makes him nice like a little boy tasting popsicle for the first time. This man has crippled Domininca and also as a professional within the service is not a role model. He neither is intellectual nor a role model to drive our youths upwards, but drives Domininca downwards with weird accomplices like some Asstaphans and others who are…
Pure unadulterated horse manure! Not unsurprisingly so, though.
“Marginalized the opposition?” While Dominicans were bawling for water, tarpaulin, food, and building materials in the immediate aftermath of Maria, the Opposition was absent! Silent! When it showed and it spoke, its only contribution to the national effort was negativity. Then, when the Govt invited it to sit with all the key actors in shaping CREAD, it made a public effort to absent itself from that very critical gathering, denying itself the opportunity to shape the resilience agenda. No, it is the Opposition that has marginalized itself! What a waste-of-time party!
And DAT is what you want to replace the DLP? You gotta be kidding me.
Boss, you will be screaming “Skerrit must go” for another eternity. Get your laryngitis tablets!
Your comment is replete with distortions and blatant lies. Sheep-like , blind, inveterate supporters as you who are bent on making false assertions help to perpetuate the wrongdoings and suffering of the masses in the country. This regime shuns consultations, is ultra secretive, only talk to itself and harbors a demonic hatred for the members of the Opposition. It uses its operatives to distribute hurricane relief materials in the Opposition constituencies. Peeping Tom, it’s time to stop the spying and open hour eyes wide to the daily corrupt practices, immorality and malfeasance of this kakistocratic government.