PM condemns Brussels terror attack; extends condolences to affected families

Scene at the Brussels airport moments after the attack. Photo: Ketevan Kardava/ Georgian Public Broadcaster via AP
Scene at the Brussels airport moments after the attack. Photo: Ketevan Kardava/ Georgian Public Broadcaster via AP

Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has extended condolences to the families and victims in the recent terror attack in Brussels, Belgium.

On his official Facebook page on Thursday (March 24), the Prime Minister said Dominica condemns all forms of terrorism.

“I extend condolences to the families of the victims and the Government in the Brussels, Dominica condemns the attacks and opposes all forms of terrorism,” Skerrit said.

His statement followed three explosions that ripped through the Belgian capital of Brussels on Tuesday (March 22) killing at least 31 people and wounded 270 more, according to Belgian media, and raised the reality of terror once again in the heart of Europe.

Belgium is presently observing three days of national mourning.

The so-called Islamic State (IS) has said it was behind the attacks.

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46 Comments

  1. Abdul Khans, PhD (Arabic Modern History), Cambridge
    March 27, 2016

    President Obama must stop arming ISIS immediately. He confirms he is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2NkjNvwuaU&feature=youtu.be

    See for yourself!

    Enough is enough – surely, they (ISIS) now have enough firepower to do the job in Europe as they were designed to do all along! Why keep on arming them?

    Think of it:-

    a) March 22nd 2016 (322)
    b) 322 is the motto of the CIA secret organisation (Skull & Bones Society)
    c) 3/22 is also the culmination of the three-day Satanic Feast of Pelusia, consisting of – “the invocation of Isis.”As the freemasonic Satanists invoke Isis (or ISIS) on 3/22, they also pay homage to another female deity: Ishtar, the “goddess of fertility, love, war, and sex.
    d) remember folks, Muslims are NOT pagans :) .

    Game, ‘set’, match – prepare for more staged ISIS attacks folks and keep burying your heads in the sand. Do nothing and things will get better :)

    • Face the Facts
      March 27, 2016

      God is patient! One day ISIS and their followers will regret their actions eternally. Some of them who were killed already are regretting their actions eternally.
      As it is stated in the Book of Revelation, “Let the good continue to do good and the bad continue to do bad.” You should know where the lot of these will be in eternity.
      God rewards the good and punishes the wicked.
      So for now, it appears that ISIS has the stronghold and is winning. It will not last forever when God decides to put a hand.
      In the interim, you should know that you must pray to God for world peace, to eradicate ISIS and their evil actions. It is worship, prayer, penance and sacrifice.
      St. Paul said, “God’s Kingdom is not made up of talk but of action.” Conduct yourself accordingly and ask others to do likewise.

  2. March 25, 2016

    Who in Brussels is really listening, reading or even know of this Skerrit man? But again one never know. Lots of monetary activities are taking place out there so one never knows. Where there is blood money there goes he. And who is writing the stories? Look and read at the last part of this story. “His statement followed……….”. Only in Dominica.

    • Face the Facts
      March 27, 2016

      If you are a sensible, happy and peaceful person who also generate it to others, you would not make this type of comment.
      When other people offer their condolence on Face Book and other Websites, also in the newspaper and on this Website, do the people in Brussels know us?
      Some of you make some out-of-the-way comments which make no sense. You also love to debase people. It appears there is more of that on this Website than encouragement. I feel sorry for people as you.

  3. UDOHREADYET
    March 24, 2016

    How much Aid did Dominica get from Belgium after Erika?

    • Face the Facts
      March 27, 2016

      What does it matter? People should look for nothing from others. Our duty is to offer our condolence to them. Consider there are Dominicans who reside in Belgium. Furthermore, it is part of Europe. Consider the Dominicans in other parts of Europe.
      Consider the Dominicans in the US, Canada and elsewhere. We are vulnerable to ISIS attacks. God help us.
      Who knows where this wicked ISIS will strike? Therefore, be kind in your words and pray that you too and relatives and friends wherever they reside will be spared.

  4. UDOHREADYET
    March 24, 2016

    2000 Nigerian villagers were burned to death this month by Boko Hamam islamic loosers… where’s the news reports about that?
    Belgians have been rapping and pillaging Congo for centuries. Where do you think white South Africans who invented apartheid to came from.. they were Dutch… Apartheid ended just in 1994!!

    • Face the Facts
      March 27, 2016

      This is not the point of this article. What is past is past and for some years. Belgium is not attacking anyone in those countries you mentioned. People were killed and injured in their vicious attacks. This is the issue. We have a right and reason to offer our condolence, commencing with the PM.
      How many times on this Website when we read of injuries, deaths and other incidents we offer our prayers, well-wishes and sympathy and we do not know the people and vice versa.
      I think your comment is an ignorant and inconsiderate one.

  5. SHADOWS AND DUST
    March 24, 2016

    Dady b ISIS is a creation of the CIA, UN, world governments and the “OCCULT ELITE” They also created AL-Qaeda in order to carry out 911 and the war on terror. When they accomplish their goal we will no longer hear the name ISIS.

    • Face the Facts
      March 27, 2016

      ISIS has done much harm to Christians and non-Christians.
      What type of words are these, “When they accomplish their goal . . .”
      Some of you have strange views about these people. They are haters and murderers. They are also stealing all the money in those countries and the property of others. They will not stop until all of them are dead. Their end and transition from life to death will not be a happy and peaceful one.
      God help and protect us all in the world against this world enemy.

  6. March 24, 2016

    Mr. P M, Please you need to keep your mouth shut you shouldn’t interfere what is going on other there you like attention most of us already condemned terrorism,It will be better if these terrorist dont know about Dominica

    • Face the Facts
      March 24, 2016

      Most democratic governments condemned the terrorists and their evil acts. The PM did it also on behalf of every D/can near and far. Consider how many D/cans reside in Europe of all.
      All governments should condemn them. One day this evil act could be right on the doorsteps of even the small islands. Do not think it could not occur someday in D/ca. These evil people deserve to be downright condemned, not only by governments but by all nationals who want freedom and peace which they should strive for.

    • UDOHREADYET
      March 25, 2016

      i think you meant that comment for yourself. Its exactly what the PM should be telling people like you… unless you think you the PM!

  7. dady b
    March 24, 2016

    that is why america is gettung arttack by isis they like to put thier self in people martters don.t go in that u have alout to do for DA stop that thing now be carefull

    • Jack Daniels
      March 25, 2016

      Your name talks for itself. your writing and spelling is just like that of my great grand daddy

  8. Taiwo Williams
    March 24, 2016

    So, what about the attacks on African soil? Or are our lives not import a t, Mr Skerrit?
    He should also look at the brutal history of Belgium and the Congo.

  9. UDOHREADYET
    March 24, 2016

    Belgium King Leopold less than 200 years ago killed raped maimed and cut off hands of black men, women and children if they did not for for Belgians for free. they did this to over 20 million Congolese people! Black people, they had black children in zoos in Belgium and you feeling sorry for them? you condemning Dominica prime minister for Belgians. He is absolutely right allu are a bunch of traitors. the stupidity is beyond comprehension.

    • huh
      March 24, 2016

      NOT JUST 200 YEARS AGO! Who was behind Mobutu and all the warlords wrecking havoc in that land? The Belgians have zero resources of their own and have continued to keep the congo in crisis to keep stealing their resources. The PM could care less for his own people much less the congolese…he gotta place nice to the Europeans to keep his passport sales going!

    • AAGabriel
      March 24, 2016

      You are one sick puppy and you know jackshit! What is DA to do with individuals like this?

    • MR Dominica
      March 24, 2016

      UDOHREADYET
      You sound like an idiot ,you are a little too black in your thoughts we live in a civlize society .how would you like to be at astaphan or at an airport and someone starts shooting or has a bomb in his bag leaving you not dead but missing both hands and no feet ? please wise up

      • UDOHREADYET
        March 24, 2016

        @Mr Dominica… I’m talking sense you talking nonsense!!
        I’m speaking facts of millions of people who have died and suffered by these people… you talking about hypothetical situations and your feelings! Its not racial its factual!

    • Brussels is Another Zika
      March 24, 2016

      Skerritt is a puppet agent of the NWO – no doubt about that. My advice, just ignore everything that man says.

      The truth of the matter is that Brussels was a false flag attack by the same people who gave us: Paris, 77 London, 911 US. If not, why would ISIS, a ‘radical muslim organisation’ , supported and armed by Barack Obama (his words here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toIPvS9Pwgg mount a ‘terror’ attack on a major satanic feast time-line =3/22 (which is also the emblem of the CIA Freemason Organisation – ‘Skull & Bones’ society) and the culmination of the three-day Satanic Feast of Pelusia, consisting of – get this – “the invocation of Isis.” See: http://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/03/22/322/ .

      May these evil people behind these killings rot in the hell of their master.

      Trust in God, despise evil, promote justice and honour the sabbath – love and peace!

    • Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
      March 24, 2016

      I like your submission, you cause me to research something I did not know about: It was Leopold II. Just to be accurate.
      The Butcher of Congo: King Leopold II of Belgium.

      King Leopold II of Belgium was responsible for the deaths and mutilation of 10 million Congolese Africans during the late 1800’s. The spoils of modern day Belgium owes much to the people of the Congo River Basin.
      In a testament to the hideous brutality of the European colonial era and imperialism in its finest form, during the 1880s, when Europe was busy dividing up the continent of Africa like a vast chocolate cake, King Leopold II of Belgium laid personal claim to the largely uncharted Congo Free State. The 905,000 square miles (76 times larger than Belgium) of African rainforest held a vast fortune in rubber plantations, a commodity in high demand in late 19th century industrial Europe.
      Dark hearted Leopold II

      Read more: http://m.digitaljournal.com/blog/11297#ixzz43shDoATq

    • Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
      March 24, 2016

      I understand you frustration, the memory of such atrocities should ache our hearts as African descendants. Nonetheless, we need to remember that took place 216 years ago, a much shorter period than when our African ancestors sold our forefathers into slavery.

      For four hundred years our forefathers suffered at the hands of the British, French and Portuguese. Now we are suffering at the hands of our own black oppressors like the same Dr. of nothing who is condemning the incident in Belgium. Whereas all atrocity’s are demonic, and wrong, we cannot hate the modern day Belgium people, thought prejudice of blacks exist in Belge.

      I experience a bit of that from one person in Liege;nevertheless, I was treated kindly by others. We must realize everybody is not the same. Looking at those photographs makes me want to cry, as I wonder what sort of human could have done that to another human!

    • Estate of mind
      March 25, 2016

      Preach King…. I can`t believe that people are given this thumbs down. Coons are indeed universal.

    • Face the Facts
      March 27, 2016

      Consider how many years this occurred and you bring it up. You appear to be living in the past. There are blacks residing in Belgium.
      Are you not a Christian? Do I need to inform you what Our Lord Jesus Christ told us about not forgiving and from the heart? Go and study the Holy Bible.

  10. Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
    March 24, 2016

    Mr. Mountain Chicken Crapo (Carpaud) Mentality Dr. of Nothing, may kid Francisco you Almost Nearly Cousin, remind you that you small chicken voice in only heard in Dominica, by the idiots who supports you!

    Your voice is not heard internationally, you can condemned what happened in Belgium as loud as you wish, your bellowing remains on your little hole in the building in which you sit everyday deciding how many more passports you will sell before your departure which is in the near future. What business is it of yours to pretend you are a big man in world affairs, when you are just a simply nobody who buys votes to keep you in power; where all you do is ruin the country!

    What happened in Belgium could be avoid if only the government of Belgium listened, because they warned that those people were terrorist, connected to ISIS, the government claimed they were just people with criminal background, and not terrorist!

    Did you know that Roosevelt? You are forcing your little round…

    • Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
      March 24, 2016

      Did you know that Roosevelt? You are forcing your little round head into a square hole where you do not belong, waste you time on the business of our country, and mind you business!

      You are trying to create an impression in Dominica that you are a popular leader in the world, nobody knows you Skerrit, except the ones, the corrupted one who now pleading guilty in the courts of the United States, for taking and paying bribes, you had better hope by the time the investigations, and precautions of the crooks are over it does not implicate you or any other Dominica poor soul!

      Boy if you are in any way involved, I feel sorry for you!

  11. UHURU
    March 24, 2016

    The problem is not the sale of Dominican passport.
    The issue at hand is the so called screening process !

  12. Referee
    March 24, 2016

    Mr. Skerrit’s expression of condolences is commendable and is in keeping with the norms of international decency.
    Yet I cannot help recalling that Mr, Skerrit was conspicuously silent when an act of domestic terrorism was committed on a retired magistrate. We cannot forget that fateful day when an attempt was made on the life of a senior citizen and the prime minister refused to condemn the heinous crime. But somehow he has found the moral courage to condemn another act of terrorism, albeit of a higher level of magnitude.
    But terrorism is terrorism, and the firebombing of the house of a retired magistrate and his wife in the early hours of a Christmas morning was serious enough for the prime minister to condemn, but he failed this primary test of executive decency.
    Charity, as they say, begins at home.

  13. March 24, 2016

    ON Facebook, this is so unprofessional. World lead ed rs who are condeming this barbaric are coming out openly, where their nationals can listen to them. Why is it that the so called DOCTOR SKERRIT HAVE TO GO ON SOCIAL MEDIA to condemn the brutal attack inflicted on the nation of Brussels by the Pig Heart wicked Terrorists is beyond comprehension. Skerrit need tomdo away with his I, I, I, me, me, me, mentality, posting his so call condemnation on his Facebook Page is just hogwash talk PERIOD. If he was serious and meant what he posted he would go on National Radio where those who do not have access to Internet/FACEBOOK where everyone of us can hear him, the same way we are hearimg of the other world leaders. Wondering if their is a reason why he is not coming out publicly to condemn the attack, maybe he is fear that doing so in public he will not be able to go and do his salesman work in Asia and the Middle East, since the sale of our Passport is hot bread in the Middle East

    • UDOHREADYET
      March 24, 2016

      Seriously, what is your problem? why are people like you so ignorant and foolish? Do you even understand what you’re saying?

    • Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
      March 24, 2016

      He thinks he is some kind of big man with a powerful military which supercedes the power of the United States; but he can go ahead talking crap, condemning ISIS until they turn their attention to Dominica.

      I wonder how many leaders in the Caribbean Skerrit heard or see making the stupid comments he is making, only to be heard.

      Skerrit is the least among the rest; yet he bellows hot air the most!

      • Goodwill
        March 25, 2016

        Your last line is more applicable to yourself, FET !!!

      • Face the Facts
        March 27, 2016

        If you cannot say something good, why bother to say anything? It is time for you to change your debasing words into something better and uplifting.
        Did it occur to you that one day when you face God your words will make you unhappy forever?

  14. eat em
    March 24, 2016

    Scary is seeking recognition and Aid? :lol: :lol: Play your game boy – Seem like you are getting better each day. :lol: :lol:

  15. MR Dominica
    March 24, 2016

    I think every one should agree and condem this act and I agree that the leader of every country must do so but this and those before like what happened in paris calls for MR Skeritt to think of the way he sells passports including deplomatic to people no one in Dominica has met or know anything about .As one who went from getting a green card to becoming an american citizen I know that a person should be investigated and prooved to be honest , trustworthy and that they are who they claim to be, and that the passport is not intended for some one to use in a crime pretending to from Dominica

  16. enough is enough
    March 24, 2016

    dear Pm, you better do ! I hope the police will never find a Dominican passport on one of those guys…

  17. dissident
    March 24, 2016

    what do you mean official facebook page?
    Is this a personal page or is it a government page?
    This statement didn’t some from a government office.
    What is wrong with an official statement from de office of de Prime Minister?

  18. Doc. Love
    March 24, 2016

    Great job Mr. Arthie Martin. Had you not come out boldly and criticize the Government for not extending condolences on behalf of the people of Dominica, Skeritt would not have mentioned his new form of dissemination Government information on behalf of the people of Dominica .” I extend condolences to the families of the victims and Government in the Brussel attack.” Not the people of Dominica, Skeritt. I wondered how it would have been said , had Venezuela, China, Cuba or even Macau suffered a similar disaster. These days, that is how condolences are officially sent to Governments in times of disasters, way, pa, pa.

  19. Hide and seek
    March 24, 2016

    If Skerrit is serious about what he said why does he have to go and hide behind his personal Facebook page, when he is using the name of Dominica? Doesn’t the government have their own website to post their release or, DNO? Why should we have to go on his personal Facebook page to read his propaganda, just because Arthur called him out yesterday? DNO and Q95 should not have gone on his FBP to announce his communist propaganda

  20. Marcus Hill
    March 24, 2016

    Thanks to Athie Martin, Skerrit has found his tongue!!

  21. dady b
    March 24, 2016

    skerrit you start doing like de americans now puting. DA in rhem people thing leave them peiple thing aloun for they will start on DA stop your thing now

  22. dady b
    March 24, 2016

    leave them people thing aloun skerrit you are doing like de americans now stop that thing befour they artack da.

    • J
      March 24, 2016

      How the hell he is doing like The American when he is out there selling Dominica, Dominicans, Dominica Passport and giving away Dominica’s land to terrorists, criminals, thieves and those who are involve in all sorts of criminal activitives all over the Middle East. SKERRIT do not have the balls and CANNOT GO PUBLIC to condemn the terrorists, because he knows that if he attempt to do so his behind will be toast in Malaysia and the other Muslim countries, they will consider him to be a traitor. Like America or not, this is the country that will save Dominicans when the Chinese Mafias, the Middle Eastern Mafais and the others come looking for him, the same America you are saying that he is following and asking him to stay away from people thing, this is where he will ran and hide, some of us Dominican hate vines yet we love to drink the wine, time will tell

  23. Marcus Hill
    March 24, 2016

    It is only a matter of time before one of these terrorist end up with a Dominican passport.

    STOP THE SALE OF DOMINICAN PASSPORTS NOW!!!!

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