Leader of the Opposition, Lennox Linton, has called for a report from four specialist investigators in the area of public order from CARICOM who came to Dominica last year to investigate disturbances which took place in Roseau on the night of February 7th, 2017.
Speaking in Parliament on Tuesday evening, Linton said he wants the report to be made public. The government had said the events were a coup attempt.
“Where is their report?” he queried. “This is more than a year later. What did they find out about this allegation of a coup attempt against the Government of Dominica and why have we not heard anything further about it?”
On the night of February 7, 2017 violence engulfed Roseau following a meeting organized by opposition parties, mainly the United Workers Party (UWP) in Dominica, calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit.
The UWP distanced itself from the disturbances saying it took place hours after the meeting was over.
However, Skerrit later said it was part of a plot to overthrow the government, saying it was engineered by Linton and his followers. He also said based on intelligence, one of the intentions of the leadership of the UWP “was to have the police shoot somebody dead in Roseau.”
Following the disturbances, several members of the UWP were arrested, including MP for Roseau Central Joseph Isaac, who recently cut ties with the party to become an “independent” MP and was welcomed with great fanfare by the government. He was subsequently given a high profile ministerial post.
On February 24, 2017, National Security Minister, Rayburn Blackmoore, said there was a need for a “detailed, comprehensive, independent and transparent investigation” into the “riot,” adding it was “not normal.” He said a team, consisting of two police superintendents and two police sergeants, one of them being an Attorney-at-Law, was coming to the island to investigate the matter.
In Parliament on Tuesday evening, Linton said there were provisions in the current supplementary estimates of $88,500 to settle outstanding invoices for the accommodation of the four investigating officers under the Regional Investigative Management System (RIMS).
“I heard something said this morning, I am not satisfied with what I heard for the simple reason that all that has been in the public domain for public consumption is that there were some officers from the RIMS in Dominica on the 24th of February to investigate the events of February 7, 2017,” he stated.
He was referring to an exchange earlier in Parliament on Tuesday when MP for Salisbury, Hector John, queried about the same report.
Blackmoore then stood up on a point of order.
“Madam Speaker on a point of order, the matter is specific to financial investigation, money laundering, and the assessment that was done to combat money laundering,” he stated. “I am not sure what is the connection between an investigation of a criminal nature that is still before the court. So I think the member should stick to the fundamental issue before this Honorable House.”
Linton also asked whether charges brought by the police in the matter would be dropped but there were loud ‘nos’ from the government side.
“There are members on both sides who are implicated in that matter,” he replied. “So are you going to exonerate those on your side?”
How can the government present an invoice for payment of $88,000.00 for accommodation of 4 police investigators from Jamaica and to date the government cannot produce the report of the investigation. Release the report of the investigators.
Lennox Linton, is a joker and a liar or should i say a madman, this guy said he got a boat full of supplies for Marigot, people when someone asked him how comes no-one else new about it, Linton said his mama told him never boast about the things you do to help people, liar liar your head on fire Linton, gasor take my advice stop making a full of yourself and Go Go Go teeway!!!!!!
Yes bold face liar pants on fire. YOUR job is to serve the people of Marigot who elected you. I would like you to visit your constituent. The demogroy and rhetoric isn’t helping the Marigot people. When can we meet with you regarding our plight. We sent you to be our advocate instead you are walking out of Parliament. Give us the services we elected you for. HOW can you CALL the PM corrupt, when you are collecting a Check you have not worked for. That is also corruption and deceit.
My God, what hate and despicable language coming from someone calling himself “Love you More”? If your love your country, your focus suppose to be on issues of the state. Our Domininca is quickly being reduced to a failed state under this corrupt Labour government lead by a corrupt PM who has said to us in his own language “Go to Hell..Go to Hell…none of your damn business where Skerrit gets his money from…?” Is this statement true or false. I suspect that you and your colleagues are scared of Hon Linton and our UWP getting into office as the pages of Bobol and thievery activities will be exposed for you and we the people of Dominica to see. Be prepared for this,, whoever you are. Thievery is a sin and a crime especially when it is the poor and vulnerable who are being robbed. Thank God for Hon into who has exposed the Bin and the Fertilizer Bobol to the public. When it came out, you all shut your mouth in shame because you thought thievery would not be exposed. Skerrit must Go
LOOK another salt sucker liar with nothing much to say but lies ,lies, lies they all do and talk Rubbish.
You are so full of HATRED for persons speak the truth and expose corruption and wickedness. It will make you sick and eventually kill you bro. Please for God sake give peace and love a chance in your heart – it will do you well (physically, spiritually and emotionally. God’s throne is established on righteousness and justice. He word says : lying is an abomination unto Him”
stop defending and supporting corruption and evil – whatever you do today will fall on you, your children, and children’s children even unto 4 generations.
we are so tired of persons like you who continue to support and uphold evil and corruption in this country.
If there is a report, why not make it public, what’s there to hide??????
Yes bold face liar pants on fire. YOUR job is to serve the people of Marigot who elected you. I would like you to visit your constituent. The demogroy and rhetoric isn’t helping the Marigot people. When can we meet with you regarding our plight. We sent you to be our advocate instead you are walking out of Parliament. Give us the services we elected you for. HOW can you CALL the PM corrupt, when you are collecting a Check you have not worked for. That is also corruption and deceit.
I see you are disguising yourself with names of no substance, but of your hypocrisy. Lol,,lol, first it is “Love your More” and now “Good News?” Are you a chameleon?
Well, for the sake of your illiteracy you will read my message twice…..Country Nice Boy..
lennox have guts eh? wicked
If Linton wicked I want to know how would you describe Dr evil? I meant skeritt? Our nurses leaving in droves and is being replaced with feline communist but Linton that wicked. Sometimes I does wonder if all you have a conscience or if all just some sort of programed robot behind a computer
It takes a robot to know another robot.
you sound just like the Trumptards in america. emails emails emails to seek to distract people from the real issue at hand. but your derogatory description of the Cuban Nurses who are coming here tells me that it makes no sense arguing with someone with such a limited capacity for understanding. Feline Communists description of the cuban nurses does not deserve moderating huh DNO? smh but I digress Lennox is wicked because he and his party insighted rioting in Dominica now he calling for reports? That is the heightr of wickedness and no foolish attempt to denigrate the Cuban nurses who are coming here will not take the light off of that fact. the nurses have NOTHING to do with the incompetence of the UWP.
When Mr. Skerrit took over the leadership of the country, I embraced his ascension to the apex of government as a relatively young man. To my disappointment, he became insanely intoxicated with power. It is often said that if you want to see a man’s true character give him power. Reluctantly I came to the realization that Mr. Skerrit is a compulsive liar, supremely arrogant, possesses autocratic tendencies and is intellectually shallow. The hyperbole about the attempted coup by the opposition was the final nail in the coffin for me. This specific fabrication could have caused complete anarchy in the country. Not satisfied with this most dangerous lie, he proceeded in using the military might of the State to hound and persecute innocent people. My genuine conviction is, as long as Mr. Skerrit and the present DLP construct remain in power, the majority of Dominicans will be stuck in abject poverty like a fly in molasses.
LL boy, don’t be worried about them. Truth crushed to the ground will always rise like the sphinx. Some patience please.
ABRIGADO!
Pathetic you idiots need comforting throughout your pitiful sadness.
I hope the record shows that you were present at the scene.
Those subtle tricks that are being hatched for use against the opposition will eventually become ‘boomerangs’ and come right back at those who hatched them.
That famous COUPbyTRUCK. Aye Joseph Isaac, let’s see how your ‘new comrades’ handle you.
“O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!”
LINTON, What is your problem?Boy you idiot know dam well you were trying desperately to destroy Roseau, don’t play innocent you getting away with murder all the time, you should have been tried and sentenced for espionage against your country minimum of 30years, and if you don’t have any work to do at the moment how about cutting grass on the road side to Marigot.
I doeno why u not goin and bite all those stray dog in roseau…. u dirty dog bitter. .. I sure u haven’t finish high school your tehbe
Filip, you giving the man who barbeques and consumed dog meat too much credit. I’m very much convinced from his cribbed postings that he left school in Kindergarten. He has never sat in a high-school. Any primary school child of average ability expresses himself/herself much better than this miserably inadequate creature. Every adjective he uses to describe people perfectly characterized him.
These are a few of his repetitive words: 1) idiotic lots. 2) foolish. 3) dumb. 4) stupid. 5) liar.
6) madman
His words match him like a tailor-made suit.
@ Filip, what’s doeno and tehbe are they New words or what?
So investigators came to in investigate money laundering not criminal activity but yet no one ask to show a report on the money laundering investigation. If $88500 spent on four investigators where is the report.
Isn’t this some of the question the speaker of the house should be asking. Should not take the leader of the opposition parties to ask that information should have been available prior to house seating.
Great question Sir we the people is listening.
This is pure comedey. The labour party reminds me of those republicans in the boonducks that think obama is a Muslim. Willfully ignorant and malicious. Thats a very good question. Wif you sont plan on dropping the case what will be the decision on Joseph issac and why would he be given a ministerial post knowing he too has charges pending. Why can’t a regular citizen take the goverment to court for obstruction of justice, interference with the just system. The courts and legal system zhould never and must never be subjected to politival manipulation lime i have seen. Ot is a failure to the country and people it is compelled to serve.
Shake, reread before you post to correct typos. Brilliant as usual.
Thanks for reminder. Instinctively type and post.
All of this back and forth is soooo unproductive when that time can be better spent on progressive items… total waste of taxpayer resources! The exact reason why all politicians belong in the same dumpster; all self serving and all trying to take from what they perceive is available for the taking.
It might seem unproductive but the nation needs answers from the regime not only on this particular issue but also on the Petro Caribe affair, the diplomatic passport affair, Skerrits unexplained wealth, MOU with China and so on and so on. Thousand questions but not a single answer! Why are we incapable of holding this man and his Ministers accountable???
Indeed Skerrit your government needs to thrown
Out of OFFICE to guys to DAM corrupt and wicked
Skerrit must goooooooo
Skerrit must goooooooo
Skerrit must goooooooo
Skerrit must goooooooo
Labour must goooooooo In the name of JESUS CHRIST AMEN
I rebuke this in the name of Jesus name amen.