Witchcraft is alive in Dominica – Grandfather of Shanice Jemmot

The grandfather of 15-year-old Shannice Jemmot who was kidnapped and subsequently rescued after 40 days, says there was witchcraft involved in the disappearance of his granddaughter.

The Isaiah Thomas Secondary School student was first reported missing on February 17.

But her grandfather, Rawlins Jemmot, has a whole new perspective on the entire episode.

“There was a lot of witchcraft involved. That is why the police could not get through so easily. We know that there were people who we praying to keep that child in darkness. People said they saw her in Grandbay, Guadeloupe, everywhere, but that’s what the power of witchcraft does. We knew what they were doing. Witchcraft is alive in Dominica,” he said.

Shanice Jemmot, who was discovered on March 28, 2011 after 40 days of being reported missing, is back home.

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72 Comments

  1. the mystic one
    March 23, 2015

    Hello ppl am a Dominican living overseas and am trying to promote my country and these post are not helping me or the image of Dominica please let us be respectful.

  2. Hunter
    May 27, 2012

    you guys all sound like a bunch of crackheads, No wonder you’re reading DNO

    • Semion St Louis
      November 9, 2022

      I said the same thing when my mother use to tell me stories, i’ 50 yrs old and had my first encounter at 37, ball of fire do not move horizontal across roof tops.

  3. Dominican Abroard
    May 9, 2011

    Wow! Dominicans in the negative light again. So happy that God took me away from there when he did.

    I have been praying for you dear Dominica and I won’t stop. Those that will endure the race good for them. But those that judgement finds guilty, will be burnt. Its heart breaking how serious this situation is ‘everywhere in the world”. But when you see and here it from your own country it is even more disturbing.

    God will come in his time and that’s a day I look forward to, just for people like you.

    Sad story of ‘a people’.

    And you’d think ‘you all’ would be wiser (that doesn’t exclude the childish mentality the comments portray)

  4. Muslim_always
    May 8, 2011

    Pure paganism and superstition, May Allah guide the Dominican people to Islam. We believe in one God, only Him do we worship without an intermediary.

    Jesus peace be upon him submitted to Allah and we are waiting for his return to kill the anti-christ.

    • Lord!
      May 8, 2011

      For once I agree with ‘Muslim_Always. This man sound immature

      • Muslim_always
        May 9, 2011

        @ Lord!: I would tell you something you know…Only because of Allah I will restrict my tongue.

        I would tell you who I’m immature like you know but no.

    • 7.5 Agreed
      May 8, 2011

      oh shut up with ur Allah Nonsense….I cannot go in the name of allah wen i seeing the people that worship allah killing Christians everyday….May you see the light and give your life to the Lord Jesus Christ!

      • Muslim_always
        May 9, 2011

        @ 7.5 Agreed: Allah nonsense? You have condemned all your arab christian brethen who call the creator of the heavens and the earth Allah. Foolish!

        I cannot give my life to a white pagan blue eyed greco-roman god who died on a cross.

        You need to follow the real messiah, the African looking Jesus and one who worshipped God. I am not a pagan, I do not worship human beings.

  5. Ma gwa ca
    May 8, 2011

    I am ashamed I read this story- or should I say nonsense. Is there nothing better to say about this poor child that can give reassure me that she is functioning in the society again.

  6. well
    May 8, 2011

    why is DNO Posting this cr*p?

  7. Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
    May 8, 2011

    Amusing as the remarks in the following may seem, I am sort of ashamed that there are still people in our country in the twenty-first century, who still believe in such nonsense as witchcraft, or ” obeah” or voodoo as it is commonly referred to on some of the Caribbean islands.

    If I was ask to guess what I transpired, in that issue!

    I would simply say that a naive young girl slipped away with her boyfriend one day after class, missed-judge the time, probably fell asleep, and by the time she woke up, she got scared, and decided not to go home, thus avoiding having to answer to her parents, explaing her activities of the day.

    The longer she stayed away from going home, the more difficult it became for her to get out of it. I do not see where obeah can cause someone not to want to go home.

    And if obeah was involved, how come the obeah man was caught with the kid hiding under a tap.

    If obeah was involved as her grand father claimed, the obeah should cause them to be in the open, and no one should be able to see them.

    And how come the obeah did not prevent the police from finding their hiding place?

    It is time we in Dominica, completely shed our slavery, and peasant mentality!

    Such superstition, has caused well off people to be become broke because they spend all of their money paying obeah man, and woman to do things to people to kill them, and to make them get jobs also.

    I can understand the older literate generations, nonetheless, to read where some man believe that obeah was responsible for his grand daughter eloping with one who may well be her boyfriend, is utterly ridiculous!

    When I was little I heard about a obeah man in Goodwill, name Fireman, I do not know if he breath fire, or when he walked fire engulfs him, but he had a grocery store, he would leave the store, open cash register ( a draw ) in those days, and go to sleep, and people were so affraid of that obeah man, not one thief would go in to his shop and steal anything.

    Then there was Tom in the village of Vieille Case, they said he was the boss of all obeah men in Dominica, who could make all the teachers in Dominica who could not past their teachers examination pass it; if only they use a pen he would give to them to write the exam.

    Trouble is that when they use his pen they all would fail the exam.

    Money gone:

    Yet in the twenty-first century, the superstition prevails!

    All the obeah men and women in Dominica “doh” know what they doing if any body looking for some obeah, ” I is boss on that come see me oui!”

    Hahahahahahahahahahahah!

    When shall we clean our mind from all these backward, and superstitious beliefs?

    The kid ran away with her man, that’s all, so the grandfather embarrassed since she is fifteen years old.

    I can understand that, nonetheless this crap about obeah or witchcraft, is baloney!

    Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque

    • Setting the Record Straight!
      May 8, 2011

      “When I was little I heard about a obeah man in Goodwill, name Fireman, I do not know if he breath fire, or when he walked fire engulfs him, but he had a grocery store, he would leave the store, open cash register ( a draw ) in those days, and go to sleep, and people were so affraid of that obeah man, not one thief would go in to his shop and steal anything”

      1st of all F-T DODDS aka FETE you are a grown arse man so what when you were little you coming with? you are OLDER than all Fireman children! FACT!!!

      2ndly: where & When did he have the shop? aren’t you tired of tellig lies? he had a soap and oil making factory in Fond-Cole and would retail the products long before DCP at the market or drive around the country to sell it! FACT!!!!

      3rdly: When did the child go to school and stay by her man and just continued to do so? didn’t you hear and read like every other SANE person she left for school on the morning of her disappearance? You always pretend to know so much and to be so informed yet you sit at your computer casting aspertions and telling stories about people and their families
      Stop making up stories and stretching the truth. Shut your trap when you have nothing to say. You have all the stories wrong and twisted!

      • Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
        May 8, 2011

        That mean you are one of Fireman children, that mean you obeah money is responsible for your survival. How are you surviving now that fireman (doh making money from obeah to feed you).

        Shout your mouth, you daughter/son of Satan, what comes runs off the hill settles in the valley! What do you know about my age and fireman children, if you know when my umbilical cord was cut, that means you are older than I and all of fireman children.

        You imbecile!

        Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque

        • Setting the Record Straight!
          May 9, 2011

          That’s why you get banned from every website you ANIMAL! what I know about you? you would be amazed you sick pig. FIreman died years before my birth, but I know the story you are telling is a gigantic lie. All his kids are doing well you animal low life if you knew anything about that family, you would NEVER open that tube you call a mouth you sick, deranged, human garbage! I thought you had your own website after having been banned by so many other sites for passing out false information and acting up. Imbecile? you know yourself well you senile drunk, perverted beast of burden. I can clearly see why Wesley people detest you so much. Filthy pig!

  8. hy
    May 7, 2011

    This is not even a story worth putting on the internet. Yes evil is a reality. But it is time we stop making Dominca look backward and third world with stories like this.

  9. can't believe i am reading this!
    May 7, 2011

    I happen to know the family spent a lot of money (which they have little of) consulting “psychics/witchdoctors”. They were told Shanice was in Guadeloupe. Now they are saying that other witchdoctors “kept the truth in darkness”. Of course the witchdoctors will say this. They had no idea where Shanice was and went for the popular opinion that she was in Guadeloupe. To justify having given wrong information, and to make sure no one asks for a refund of fees, and to ensure future customers they have to come up with something.
    Think about it.
    Please stop giving these charlatans your hard earned money.

  10. Card
    May 7, 2011

    witchcraft is alive every Grandpa. Where there is good there is evil. Your daughter claimed she did what she had to do to find her daughter did that involve witchcraft? You’ll need to start taking responsibilities for you’ll mistakes. Why don’t you’ll tell the whole story? I’m glad the child was found alive and well . Instead of blaming everything on witchcraft and other people why don’t you’ll raise that child to be a successful and strong young woman? I know some parents do their best and the kids still end up astray but some of us don’t do enough and we blame witchcraft.

  11. Crack ur nuts
    May 7, 2011

    and crackerjacks

  12. wow
    May 7, 2011

    First her mother say she do what she do to find out where her daughter was, and she find out the child in Guada. Police never take her on, find her right there in St. Joe, the girl was found, psych evaluation was done. everybody should be helping this girl heal and then here she is back in the media thanks to her grandfather. It is ridiculous that he is putting her in the public spotlight again. He should be happy to have her home and trying as much as possible to get her get back to a normal life.. but it seems like Rawlins Jemmot want publicicity so he sacrifice his own grandchild for it. I doe care what he believe, he should not drag this girl back into the media.

  13. pat
    May 7, 2011

    EVERY THING THAT HAPPEN S NOW IS WITCHCRAFT THE DEVIL IS A LIAR DON’T LET HIM
    FOOL YOU. THANKS GOD THE CHILD IS ALIVE. PLEASE THINK POSITIVE. GOD IS GOOD
    ALL THE TIME ALLTHE TIME GOD IS GOOD

  14. "changed man"
    May 7, 2011

    rawlings jemmot makes no sense wat so ever. witchcraft is in the mind of rawlings. lets just thank GOD that shanice was found and found alive. i guess rawlings fight back using his own witchcraft so that the police could find shanice. i hope this child does not read DNO news to see how dumb of a grand father she has.

  15. OH BOY....
    May 6, 2011

    Grandpappa, my advise to you is, let that alone, and let your daughter heal, don’t start digging kaka….for she is the one others will be calling names, GOOD or BAD..we should not ask God questions cause we might not like the answers……your grand daughter is safe, keep it that way..for today you and your family could be visiting her grave…

    Remember God is stronger than the devil…and maybe the devil is trying to FOOL you so don’t give him your soul..

  16. DESIE
    May 6, 2011

    If someone is a thief is witchcraft if someone die in an accident is witchcraft
    Now someone goes missing is witchcraft
    So it looks like everything should be perfect
    All dem people dat died and went missing in the recent earthquakes across the globe seems to be witchcraft

  17. GIRL
    May 6, 2011

    IF YOU BELIEVE IN WITH WITCHCRAFT EVERY THING THAT GOES WRONG IN YOU LIFE
    YOU’LL THINK IS WITCHCRAFT. PRAY PRAY AND PRAY. PRAYERS SOLVE PROBLEMS
    BELIEVE IN GOD AND THINGS WILL BE OK

  18. down wit wiitchcraft
    May 6, 2011

    why not keep the positive vibe nuh grandfather…notice that jesus was tempted 40 days and nights. did he remain in the wilderness. no. thanks to the almighty. so be grateful and thankful to the significant recovery of your grandchild and to god. stop the negativity. you doing so only gives the devil praise and in this day and age…he do need praise…but to be crushed. so yea

  19. tell them have it
    May 6, 2011

    D N O trust me you all got it going . No matter what you report on they will still talk. Thats we Dominicans for you, and cal Fawin i agree with you. Seriouly what you want them to comment on, do you want them to comment how much norn your man giving you, in your eyes in your ears in your nose, in your i wounldn,t say? Let DNO do their DAM job . watch your man.

    • d/can in uk
      May 7, 2011

      hahahahah..”i like tht prt,,”in ur wat i wouldnt say”..ur funny…

  20. rain
    May 6, 2011

    ONLY NOW YOU HAVE VOICE? YOU CAN ONLY SPEAK OF WHAT YOU KNOW , SO SIT AND PRAY WITH YOUR GRANDCHILD AND STOP TALK NONSENSE, THANK GOD FOR BRING HER BACK SAFE AND STOP GLORIFYING SATAN .STUPEEEEEEEES, EVERYTHING IS NOT EVIL DID YOU EVER ASK HER IF SHE WANTED TO BE WHERE SHE WAS? MAN GO REPENT AND GIVE GOD ALMIGHTY THE PRAISE AT YOUR AGE ? .

  21. just being me
    May 6, 2011

    Whichcraft is alive and well in D/A. Take that from me. If I had never gotten hit, I would comment like the rest of u. I never believed this could ever happen. Wait till it happens to you, but pray it never does.

    • Anonymous
      May 8, 2011

      u need Jesus

  22. hmm
    May 6, 2011

    whats wrong with you people are you losing your sense of humor? admin post what you want is your sight we have to option to ignore. btw some people happy for the laughs so go buy a sense of humor i hear bin laden’s own is up for auction.

  23. The truth
    May 6, 2011

    Witchcraft my a.. Dominicans too superstitious. Everything in Dominica that is unsolved is some cr*p like that they jumping on. Personally I don’t believe in it. I know people do But I think you make your own way by living a clean and holy life.

    • shut up
      May 6, 2011

      wen u have an experience you will different except if you are one yourself
      i learned one ting every one that says there are no witchcraft is usually a colprit
      if you are GOD WILL DEAL WITH YOU
      BY THE WAY I AM A BORN AGAIN CHILD OF GOD AND I HAD MANY EXPIRIENCES LIKE THIS
      witches all work together and they hate when people learn aboiut them and their exsistance :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :lol:

      • The truth
        May 7, 2011

        Yep! I guess you caught me there. Guilty! Jack A@&

    • Anonymous
      May 8, 2011

      You notice they either blame witchcraft or the opposition or prime minister. Everybody need a scapegoat. Stop that ppl.

      But Dominica need Jesus in every square inch.
      I plead the blood of Jesus over Dominica.

  24. funnyface27
    May 6, 2011

    Admin….I like you style …. I don’t understand why people keep blasting DNO…news to me is anything the public would be interested in. Just because one man finds something ridiculous doesn’t mean the rest of us do…you’ve got to see the funny side of this article though…witchcraft indeed…lol

  25. Playboy
    May 6, 2011

    Whether or not witchcraft was involved in the abduction, we may never know. But for any Dominican or anyone who knows Dominica to deny that it is alive and well here is just downright damned ignorant or hypocritical or both.

    And what is so outrageous about the man’s statement anyway? Those of us who are ready to admit their existence know there is almost nothing these people can’t do.

    People, know your history, that this thing came with our black forefathers from the Motherlaand, Africa.

    Happy thing is that the power of our Creator will always triumph over their devilish deeds.

    • sweet pum pum
      May 6, 2011

      Witchcraft does exists and its called soucouyan, loogawoo, obeah, pyai, sorcery, lajablesse unless I’m making up those names and it is alive everywhere ! and a lot of us feel by pretending it does not exist we will appear intelligent, worldly and sophisticated :lol:

    • me
      May 6, 2011

      u got it wrong, the witchcraft which came to the caribbean, including dominica was brought by the europeans.

  26. Pauly Castalano
    May 6, 2011

    That article is irrelevant

  27. HUNGRY
    May 6, 2011

    WITCHCRAFT IS COMMUNICATION WITH THE DEAD. A RELIGIOUS CULT HERE ADMIT TO DOING THAT

    • READER
      May 6, 2011

      I READ THAT IN WATCHTOWER MAGAZINES

  28. Like it is
    May 6, 2011

    who introduced Jemmot to coke? It is rather unfortunate he’s begining to sniff at an advance age.
    What ever went in to rawlins’s brain? rawlins please give up the crack pipe.
    After a time is another wee papa! this was a man who was in forefraont of stuggle and trade union now he speaking witchcraft! he must have new neighbours over the last 5 yrs or so up in the bushes. lolLMAO No wonder Da is what it has become.All black power fellers NMD just jumping around from party to party and then in their old age thinking and believing in black magic? Lord help us. No wonder people who practicing what he now beleives in and others slowly taking over the country.

    • equilibrium
      May 6, 2011

      stop being a donkey u must be an evil doer if not you go by a gadiere already
      you think you can fool people and let them think it does not exsist and you riding them all night and you spoiling their children and you keeping them in darkness so that they will not see the truth
      GOD WILL DEAL WITH YOU
      who that in the pot that feels the hit
      WICKED

    • hymm
      May 6, 2011

      bull bull jemot bull, this was no evil and you know it. no wonder you treat your workers that way

  29. I LOVE DOMINICA?
    May 6, 2011

    cant these people go back to the gutter from which they came out? What witchcraft. I wonder how that child is going to heal surrounded by these losers.

    • TeteMorne I from...
      May 11, 2011

      Which gutter are you sending people back to? I agree that grandpa should shut the duck up, but you sending people back to de gutter are no different than grandpa. Why don’t YOu go back to your gutter?

  30. American Dominican
    May 6, 2011

    Can DNO tell m what value there is in this ridiculous strory? What is the point of publishing that? Is there anything that DNO won’t publish except people’s comments?

    • Ask the editor/owner
      May 7, 2011

      In JA they call it science.

  31. joop jop
    May 6, 2011

    denying witchcrath exist is saying the devil does not exist

    • Jamisom
      May 6, 2011

      There is psychology and there is witchcraft, it’s offspring. But the Devil is the most absurd excuse for malicious human behavior. How can good(God) create evil(Devil)? You are providing the perp with an excuse for kidnap because the Devil is responsible. Absolute hogwash!

  32. Crackerjack
    May 6, 2011

    Witchcraft? Good grief ! Are they some who still live in fear of this nonsense? Sounds like the middle ages what this simple minded relative is on about. Does he want to go burning witches now?
    Stop looking for excuses. This girl was abducted by a child molester and sexually deranged criminal. Let the law take care of this thug and stop making up stupid tales.

    • hy
      May 7, 2011

      lets not go casting judgment… the public never really has the full story…

  33. In the Union and MND days
    May 6, 2011

    Rawlins Jemmot! I thought you were more au current and in the vanguard back in our MND,trade union and our girling days.In retrospect am taken aback by your antiquated thought process. Are you on some medication causing your hallucination etc or just the aging process accelerated in you or your sins of the pass? What ever it is i am dissappointed in what you have degenerated into. shame if you are not going senile.

    • simple mind
      May 6, 2011

      I always see mr. as an idiot,but Lord forgive him,by the way howmany members has his union.

  34. tiny
    May 6, 2011

    poor man……..living in te dark ages………wonder if he has a high school education or if he even finished primary school.

    i am so happy the white man took us out of africa……….we would have been worst off.

    • Mr Sout City
      May 6, 2011

      Okay Uncle Ruckus

    • van
      May 6, 2011

      Are you serious, or just brainwashed?

    • OH BOY....
      May 6, 2011

      @ tiny, please stop with your foolishness……and don’t condemn Africans for they are by far more educated than you..

      And don’t pretend because you can spell your name that you are educated….because I describing onesself is capitalized……and “IF” by chance you don’t live in Dominica! we all know that you’re not living in PARADIZE….vaaaa….ta sot..

    • wow
      May 7, 2011

      BTW do we know that this man headed (not sure if he still does) one of our unions for years? i am just disappointed that he would have made himself look like such a bafoon publicly.

    • Huge
      May 7, 2011

      Tiny with that attitude and lack of knowledge re: your history no wonder you are called tiny.Your brain is Tiny my the Gods help sh*t heads like you.

    • 1+1=2
      May 9, 2011

      You are such a fool,

  35. Sprinter
    May 6, 2011

    I thought this story had been exhausted. If there is nothing to report, why report?

    • Crackerjack
      May 6, 2011

      hear, hear dominicanewsonline………………words of wisdom from Sprinter.

    • Pat
      May 6, 2011

      Tipical of DNO.

      Admin: and you love it because you actually took time to write a comment. lol

      • Seriously
        May 6, 2011

        shamne on DNO to make that comment to Pat..shame shame shame… u shpuld be more professional. NOW GO AHAED AND DONT POST CAUSE I DONT GIVE A RAT’S A**

        • Cal Fawin
          May 6, 2011

          @Seriously,Pat & Crackerjack…

          Don’t make yourselves look like the idiots you actually are, in public by making stupid comments like that… If you thought it was a nuisance then why would you take the time to read it and even make a comment…? That says a lot tbh.. Sakway sotts lol :lol: :lol:

        • UR Right
          May 6, 2011

          @Cal Fawin are you seriou you just read and commented on the same thing you chastising pat crackerjack and seriously about damn!!!!!!!!!!

        • Huge
          May 7, 2011

          Tiny (s) everywhere in the broadest spectrum of the word.

    • crackerjack
      May 6, 2011

      It’s one thing for an old grandpa to go gibbering on about witches and the likes on the island. But the island’s media picking up on this nonsense and spreading abroad will have outsiders thinking Dominica is a lunatic asylum, inhabited by fools and nutcases.

    • UR Right
      May 6, 2011

      YOU SAID IT BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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