Today the populace will beautify and cleanup their communities for National Community Day of Service instead of undertaking the custom of road rehabilitation and infrastructural projects.
The Ministry of Community Development through its Local Government Department has provided annually to village councils and registered community-based organizations/groups/committees steel, cement and tarish at their request to execute projects within their communities.
However, based on a policy decision taken by the Cabinet, this form of assistance will not be delivered for three years.
An estimated budget of $250,000 was allocated yearly towards Community Day of Service projects.
Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit had announced in September that no one was authorized to use money to purchase materials, therefore communities should not wait for them.
The Dame Eugenia Charles administration in 1981 set aside the day to instill the practice of volunteerism among Dominicans, and allow them to participate in community work.
@T-DOT: oh shot up jealus
It really is a big THUMBS DOWN for this MAD men in Government !
Our roads are in a deplorable (for want of a better word ) condition and the government refused to give cement and sand–
Do any of the ministers drive up to the State college ? I mean the road to that instuitution is just full of deep holes.
Indeed it is a Big Shame how our government has just neglected its citezens ! !
All the cements were used to build the villas, so there was non left to give out. Papa bat.
LOL take what all you get
we can beautify our island year round; I am sure we have been doing that
Mr. PM you too dam rude … is not what you say but how you say it. You need to
be more humble than that.
And by the way I agree that we can do work on this day without government, but HELLO!!! IS OUR
TAX MONEY THAT PAYING FOR IT EH!!! NOT MR. SKERRIT OWN!!!!
remember $250,000.00 was already budgeted for community day of service and they had to refund the treasury much more than that, so ppl open you all ears for next year’s budget……….see if there will be a requirement asking for another lump sum for 2011 community day of service…………….next level again.
for the monies that were paid back to the treasury re “bin bobol”, skerro said no cement, no steel, go and beautify and plant flowers……….and that is for the next 2 or so years, so d man making back his money on them……….psychcology to the next level.
@ ANNOYED Take care you get heart attack….. i will not be able to help….
when will the people of my beloved country stop stretching their hands for hand outs? im pretty sure that there are projects that Dominicans can undertake without any G overnment assistance.lets stop behaving like leeches ,wake our lazy behinds and do something for the good of the land.its a poverty mentality thats affecting the populace thats why they keep on waiting on assistanc from Government. No money doesnt necessarily mean no projects what happen to creativity? plant a tree, paint a wall, go assist the elderly and those who are physically handicapped .thats what community service is all about. thank you and God bless BEAUTIFUL DOMINICA
@Anonymous: stop acting like idiots people
I have never seen a nov 4th without cement and roads being fixed, Am not in DA and its hard to imagine. However I encourage everyone to plant the flowers, take pics and send them to DNO
@saddam hussein: i am cracking up
@T-DOT: too funny…………really this is sad but so funny
Community day of service is a day the people from the community should come together and contribute. Dont depend on the gov’t to do that… U guys should be able to raise funds to do different things, be it planting flowers, painting a church or public place, cleaning up the community etc. That is COMMUNITY SERVICE. WHY DUM-INI-CANS like to blame the gov’t and most importantly skerrit for every thing that goes wrong. Stop acting like leaches and be self dependent. There is nooo reason for the gov’t to be providing materials on CDS day, the people in the communities should be raising funds year round to go towards some kind of project today. Why we have that slavey mentality still i don’t know…
Why would the Skerrit adminstration seek to implement a policy that will decrease the enthusiasm and volunteerism of well meaning citizens to contribute in community development?
i cannot believe that there is no comunity day of service i have always know that day to be so all you do seeing them people taking the morney to fatten them selves they look like fat pigs — booo pm
this is just the start. next we will be hearing no money to pay salaries!!!!!
EVERY TIME I TRAVEL TO DOMINICA THE ROADS ARE SO BAD. THAT WHEN I DEPART THE TURBULENCE ACTUALLY RELAX ME & PUT ME TO SLEEP LOL. BCUZ OF MY FREQUENT TRIPS TO DOMINICA. I AM NO LONGER AFRAID OF TURBULENCE I ACTUALLY LOOK FORWARD TO BEING ROCKED TO SLEEP.
THANK YOU SKERIT
Things are changing. Sorry taxpayers, brace yourselves for the worst.
Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country. Get up and go out and do something for Dominica…it’s our country to build…God bless us all…God bless DOMINICA
I agree with the PM! At least it will not end here. There is going to be a CLEANEST/PRETTIEST community competition where the winner will benefit greatly! Lets all play our parts Dominicans!
WE SHOULD BE PLANTING FLOWERS AND BEAUTIFYING DOMINICA ALL YEAR ROUND. COMMUNITY DAY OF SERVICE SHOULD BE FOR SAND, CEMENT, STEEL AND COUDE MAIN WITHOUT ANY SURCHARGING OF PUBLIC OFFICERS. CABINET OR SOMEBODY HAS CLEARLY LOST IT. LET US ADMIT THAT! I CALL FOR A STATEMENT TO BE MADE BY DOMINICANS ON THE FARCE AND SELL OUT!
all that is part and parcel of the next level!take it like a man is the young man all you wanted to give a chance so let him send allu and plant flowers.next year he will send allu to srub the financial centre and wash his car and the following year he will ask allu to stay and clean u alls home!the next level means wat one man say goes.alibaba for sure
keep loading ur pocket skerro,who cares about those that put u their.no PM will never get my vote,cause they don’t bring change in the country but a change in their lifestyle.take the tarish and build a road to ur mansion.
What happen Venezuela say we can not spend 250,000 so now no one can get it? We don’t even have money that’s our own in Dominica.
BOO TO SKERIT