Prime Minister Hon. Roosevelt Skerrit will fly out of Dominica today at the helm of a regional fact-finding mission bound for Haiti and The Bahamas; the two Caribbean countries hardest hit by Hurricane Matthew last week.
Mr. Skerrit is the current Chairman of CARICOM and, as such, leads the region’s first response effort to assess the level of damage and destruction wreaked on those sister member states of the regional integration and economic movement.
Prime Minister Skerrit will be accompanied from Dominica by Government’s Advisor on Disaster Management, Cecil Shillingford, and will be joined, en route to The Bahamas by CARICOM Secretary General, Irwin Laroque, Executive Director of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency—CDEMA Ronald Jackson, and other technical staff.
The Dominica Leader was the first to officially acknowledge the devastation and announced last Friday (October 07, 2016), in an address to the nation, the establishment of a National Hurricane Matthew Disaster Relief Effort, to be spearheaded in Dominica by the private sector.
Mr. Skerrit recalled that just over one year ago, Dominica was ravaged by the passage of Tropical Storm Erika and that it was CARCIOM member states and wider hemispheric partners that came to Dominica’s immediate assistance. He appealed to the private sector of Dominica to be proactive in lending support, suggesting that he wanted Dominica to be in a position to dispatch help to Haiti and The Bahamas by this weekend.
Since that address by the Prime Minister, the death toll in Haiti alone, has risen to close to 1 000, and it is feared that this number will continue to rise, given that several areas are still not accessible to rescue teams.
Bahamas on the other hand, suffered considerable damage to its road and housing infrastructure. The Dominica Leader also said in his address that he would be paying close attention to the impact of Hurricane Matthew on the United States of America.
Businesses and individuals in Dominica who want to contribute to the national appeal effort have been advised to liaise with the Office of Disaster Management, the Red Cross or other such agencies, and to make their initial pledge, followed by actual donations during the course of this week.
Prime Minister Skerrit is expected to update the nation and the wider region on his observations and interactions with his Haitian and Bahamian counterparts, on his return from the disaster stricken nations.
Most Dominicans who reside in Dominica are very ungrateful people . How many countries help you all during the flood destruction ? People went over and above to donate to Dominica . You all have been receiving assistance from many countries, but now your time to reciprocate the action , you all finding it too hard to do . Be careful that God punish you all with more floods .God loves a cheerful giver . when you give to the needy it is a Blessing . Stop being greedy , ungrateful. Real Dominicans are loving, caring, givers . STOP YOUR UNGRATEFULNESS IF NOT PREPARE FOR THE WRATH OF GOD. YOU think what is happening in the world right now is a mistake ? It is the work of God .
How the main stream media lie and mock us?
Look at the picture, is it from Haiti? Why could they not have shown us a recognizable place in Haiti that was damaged by the Hurricane?
They play with our minds constantly.
… do not donate to agencies as the Hatians will either never see the full amount, or only see a small part of it.
Let’s help Haiti, but lets do it by our direct contributions to the people affected. Do not let our leaders take our tax money to give to Haiti as the Hatians will NEVER see that money and guess who’s bank account it will end up in? Ask any RC priest and they will tell you
‘Aid’ to Haiti provides an excellent way for our leaders to launder money. This is how the scam works:-
1) the target country is damaged (via HAARP-made hurricanes, or airstrikes, etc.)
2) ‘aid’ is promised by via ‘donations’ to ageencies from unsuspecting ordinary people, or money is ‘donated’ from the tax revenue of the donor countries;
3) the donated money to the target country is never fully accounted for, or simply disappears and ends up in the offshore bank accounts of the donators’ executives (PM’s, etc.).
Think this is bull? Work out why after Erika and the millions given to Haiti for rebuilding, it still remained in a mess? Secondly, the UN-engineered cholera outbreak will lead to mass vaccinations which is one of the primary tools for its depopulation agenda.
Therefore, we must: 1) Demand that our government strictly accounts for ALL money sent to Haiti
2) give donations PERSONALLY to those affected; 3) not donate to agencies direct as the Haiti will…
de man never fix de place after Ericka even after he have millions in passport money using but he want to play savior to a country where 99 percent of the people worshiping de devil…
Kamalla, why make this a P.R. exercise for Roosevelt again, for God’s sake. This is a Caricom initiative, not a Skerrit exclusive. People are dying there like flies.Stop this obscene pandering to the man’s ego before it explodes. Let’s concentrate on the poor victims!
He is the PM and Chairman of CARICOM. Therefore he cannot keep quiet and sit back. All D/cans should be proud and thankful that their leader, under the circumstances, has taken the initiative to visit those countries for the intended purpose.
While Dominicans are still homeless and living in guest houses,
since Erica.
Charity begins at home.
Ones house need to be order before they can go and organize some one own-
You are one of the greedy fools in Dominica , ungrateful .I hope when the next flood comes that you and your family get wash away , not dead because I want you alive to know who are you going to call upon for help. UNgrateful Pig
The once anti government specialist on the Freedom Voice and Q95 is now Skerrit ace advisor what a world we live in. His colleagues in the Freedom Party and also his moves to align himself with the UWP on risk management and disaster matters to the extent that he called the government as a waste of time and disaster management is not a priority for this inept government is now emboiled in the cabal to the amazement of many. In the beginning he said he was lending support to the disaster preparedness office for three months. After nine months he is now referred to governments chief advisor.The two party’s freedom and the uwp are still shell shocked at this guys convert move. Suffice it to say Let’s hope they can do good for Haiti and Cuba.
“The Dominica Leader was the first to officially acknowledge the devastation and announced last Friday (October 07, 2016),”
I suppose that means the first leader in Dominica to acknowledge; because we had minuet by minuet information as it happened, and Skerrit crapo voice was not heard! Remember Skerrit is only recognized by his red devils in Dominica.
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I hope he walk with some of his commission from the sale of our passports to donate to Haiti, and the Bahamas both better off in wealth than Dominica, even if some believe Haiti is so poor, in comparisons to Dominica, but be reminded there are less than seventy thousand people in Dominica, whereas there are several millions of people approximately in Haiti!
….and Haiti is the worlds leading supplier of vetiver which is used in ALL luxury perfumes of the world.
Haiti has 10.3 million people. We have only 70,000. Our prime minister is an
Blood has been shed for your Freedom to speak on Political and social issues, don’t waste it by being silent when our country is gasping for breath.
In Dominica everything have to be politics. That is one of the reason the country is in that state because everything is politics
As they harbor hatred, criticize and have nothing good to state, in their ignorance and wickedness, they should know they are the ones who cause the wrath of God on the country and themselves. Foolish people. It will be their downfall. This has nothing to do with the PM.
The only sensible statement so far , in a very long time . You may be one of the wise one with a little Dominican blood in your veins . I would agree fully with that statement you have written . What they should know is that there is life and death in the power of our tongue. When you keep pronouncing curse words over the nation , you are inviting and allowing evil to prevail over the country and its people .;so who is really destroying the growth of the country? It is you , those of you who constantly utter curse words on the nation . It is not the Prime Minister , it is all of you naysayers .
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OMG . thats concerning
The company publishing this negative information about Dominica operates from the domain http://www.healthgrove.com/
This domain is 100% private and is listed as a \’search engine\’.
As it is private (even ICANN won\’t give up any information on who owns it, you can work out that the CIA, or a similar agency is behind it.
To recap, they say that Dominica has:
a) around 800 deaths per annum
b) prevalent diseases – Cerebrovascular disease; Diabetes mellitus; Ischemic heart disease
c) life expectancy – 77 years
d) rating – one of the world\’s 10 most dangerous countries for health.
As the powers that be are on our case, there is ZERO that Tourism Ministry can do to stop the propaganda.
De opposition made an appeal for the Venezuelan people and was ridiculed by you and your cabinet!
You want a lollipop?
just a showcase this leader brings nothing positive to any aspects….
a weak leaders who resorts to selling his island’s passports for a few pieces of gold and sliver is not someone who can be of help….you call that a cheap leader….
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with folks like this CARICOM and other regional institutions will be re-colonized, as they have know foundation, the world is laughing at how foolish the citizens of dominica are.
Passport sales is the ONLY thing that Dominica has going for it. The ONLY thing.
Nothing else comes close to bringing in the kind of money that our passport sales can do. For example, 100 passports sold will bring in more than USD20M into someone’s bank account. It is possible to sell more than 100 passports in 4 months as rich people like the benefit they can get from a passport that gives them zero tax on their worldwide income and visa-free travel to 100 countries.
Do you know of any other commodity in Dominica that can bring in that kind of money?
What we as citizens should be doing is, instead of complaining, to be trying to get a piece of that fat pie. Let’s petition our government to change the law so that if a Dominican marries a foreigner, their spouse is immediately entitled to a full citizenship. This means that every adult in Dominica could marry a foreigner for money and get USD200,000 which is big money for all Dominicans.
What a BIG joke! Help with what? Does Dominica own a helicopter? A military plane or vessel to transport supplies or food stuffs? A active defence force? A fleet of skilled engineers/builders to assist with rebuilding? Dominican builders can not even secure Government contracts to erect bridges in their own country! All of the infrastructure in Dominica built over the last 16 years have been built by Chinese…Skerrit has absolutely nothing to offer these people, but a photo op to glorify himself…
You see you all do not understand how the Donation system works , so instead of blaa, blaaa, blaa find out the facts . Let me explain one project for example so you can get an understanding. Lets say Dominica needs a back wall from Roseau to Colihaut , Dominica does not have that kind of money to build it so PM goes out to China to get aid , China agrees on conditions , yes I will build the wall but my men will work because Dominica cannot pay back the large sum of money that China is prepared to spend , What did Dominica need ? a wall from Roseau to Colihaut . so if China sends her men to build the wall , what is the force ? Dominica gets the wall built , China men get paid and Dominica has no debt to China , What is so hard that you all cant understand?
Never too poor to help. God will bless our efforts.
Talk about Christians who go to church with their bible to hear the word of God. Those who criticize deny themselves God’s blessing for He knows their hearts lack love and compassion.
…and never too rich either!
He won’t if our efforts are to help the wicked rip off the people they have intentionally wronged.
Matthew was an engineered hurricane (see HAARP/ weather warfare technology) designed to create destruction so that ‘aid’ money can be laundered back into the bank accounts of the doners.
Do not be tricked. Do not give money to any aid agencies, do not allow Skerro to give our tax money to Haiti. If you want to help Haitians, do it directly. Get in touch with an affected Haitian and give them money DIRECTLY. Only then will they get anything near its value.
He won’t. Skerritt and his friends will!
good job!
What about Dominica? we still need help to rebuild the county after Erica. God save Haiti still.
What about Dominica? Whatever we have to give we still have to give.
Give to whom? To 10.3 million people?? Do you think that the Haitans will get any of the money we give them? If you do, ask yourself where the money for rebuilding Dominica after Erika has gone.
How can you be so insensitive?
This is the PERFECT EXAMPLE of how some people will only think about themselves. Not nice of you to think that way at all.
There has already been money donated to help rebuild after Erika. Sadly we will only see a bare proportion of that money. You can guess why
Good Job PM skerrit Setting leading and taking initiative is what a good leader does, but we’re to poor to help. Sorry
but they are the ones that impoverish the nature Isles, they and their 23,000 voters mischievous DOMINICANS
We too poor to help???? Creole fest coming up..watch how money gonna miraculously drop from the sky so people can afford a brand new outfit for each day. Dig deep and give what you can please.
And stop calling bad things on yourself…we ARE NOT poor.