Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, Roosevelt Skerrit, has announced government’s intention to eradicate pit latrines in Dominica.
The Prime Minister, who is also Parliamentary Representative for the Vieille Case Constituency (which includes Thibaud), called for a “war on pit latrines” at the 18th Inaugural Meeting of the Thibaud Village Council held on Friday October 4, 2013 at the Thibaud Playing Field.
The “war on pit latrines” is a continuation of government’s Home Renovation and Sanitation Programme.
Government will make funds available for the construction of modern washroom facilities for over 20 homes in Thibaud.
Since the introduction of the Home Renovation and Sanitation Programme government has spent over $20-million dollars on home renovations directly impacting the lives of over two-thousand people.
The programme has been implemented in almost every community across Dominica.
Housing is one of the key platforms of this Dominica Labour Party administration.
as i see it some people are thinking with there blue caps,red caps,green caps and yellow caps.i wonder if some people hear them self talk. can any body remember the blue people when they was going up and down the place singing we are doing a little all over and to them U.W.P. was working as a party and, but to my amazement now the red is in power every thing that the red people do is wrong and is party politics.as i see it people lets stop thinking with them colour caps
if a pit latrine is kept clean, and the people who use it are not elderly and/or disabled.. they are pretty nice
after reading this stupid comments I couldn’t believe we have so much fools in my country leaving still in this modern days u all they need to get rid of before the pit toilet thanks god I don’t poo-poo at people home because dare will not seat on that in this day and age so wise up Dominican fools
I have no program with these programs but I am surprise that budget was in July and none of these were mention ,or budgeted for.
The timing of these are so suspect that the only thing I can say is the high school drop out getting the PM to work.
Anyway Mr. pm hope this project will be done in a more effective and efficient manner than the housing non sense that going on. Make sure that does who cant afford is who receive and not party supporters. make sure that the entire project is cost properly and the source of financing identify. Ensure that the project follow the tendering process.
Also most individual that has pit toilet don’t have water. this is an additional cost that the government has to undertake.
Moreover ,most individual that has pit toilet is not able to afford better .that goes to person without water as well.
Again , it comes back to jobs .and good paying jobs. at the end of the day if we had created good sustainable jobs the there would be less pit toilet in dominica. we can run but cannot hide away from the issue of jobs.
lol caca revolution!!!
boy Dominician’s sort weh papa. U all have me laughing so much on the comments, that i even sharing the joke with my neighbor.
Interesting when he built homes for people, without toilets when he first came into power. he just realize the need for sanitation, and Roseau the city have homes with absolutely no toilet facilities at all. Pit toilets at least are sanitary.
i moss laff. me bahgai!!!
The party slogan has just been expanded:
– All shall eat!
– All shall kaka in comfort!
I must say that when I am in a bad mood and in need of cheering up I always come to DNO cause those comments from the different commenters that are here and abroad does get me rolling! I love each and everyone of you though we may disagree about certain issues!
Dominicans, do not be fooled by Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit. How could he declare war against his own self? During the 2000 elections, Mr. Skerrit distributed no less than $150K cash money to his supporters and group in Thibaud. In fact the then Thibaud Village Councilpresented him a list of persons in the community that desperately needed help for the so called ‘Housing Revolution’ and when the list was handed to the PM, he and a group of labourites, who are really haters of Thibaud as either they, their spouse or parent (s) are not from Thibaud, took their time to cross out every single person that was NOT A KNOWN DLP Supporter from the list, and added DLP sure voters even those who were financially stable on that list. That caused the then chairperson of the council who is a known laborite to resign immediately.
The strange thing about this is, although cash was given to persons in the name of housing revolution, they all used their money to do whatever they wanted and on top of that, they were given government slips to get building materials from M&R, whose owner is Bubbles. There is one family in particular 9a very close friend and supporters of the Pm) that received a cheque of $8,000.00 cash, plus that same gentleman that is now declaring war on pit latrine, used government truck to leave Roseau to come and drop a pit toilet frame to that family. Up to this day, their pit hole is dug but its a disgrace as they continue to dump their kaka and pesa in the Thibaud ravine. In fact to prove my point, another ker Skerrit supporter who even testified on his behalf during the Citizenship court battle of Mr. Skerrit, called the ministry of health on that family. But Skerrit, 4 years later is fighting war against pit latrine? Nonsense! It is his clever way of using tax payers money to run his political campaign.
True statement, what a joke by that Prime Minister . People just laugh at this man . He does not mean what he speaks . He is a Papa Dock (dictation) be on your guard Dominica.
We must not be afraid , the world is watching and waiting to help deliver us from this Evil.
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Yes my people while Skerrit is talking about war on pit toilet which is not a bad thing , but my people consider the bills that come with it, including using water to flush the toilet and when people haven’t got a job to pay the water bill, buying the disinfectant to keep the inside toilet clean you tell me which one is better to have in a time like now under this Gov’t, so I want to tell him befor he do that to please create jobs for the people in this country so we can maintain our inside toilet and our home whenever anyone come’s to visit, because it is a pain to watch the same people that he is giving inside toilet carrying water all the time to flush these toilet, also when you visit some of them homes because they have no water in their home cannot afford to pay the water bill is a shame to enter the house with the order coming from their home, so for this I will prefer a pit toilet until this Gov’t is remove from office , I thank you.
They Should be happy if they don’t want the toilet give them to people that want them.They too ignorant let them live and die in it.You vote for who you all want that don’t have anything to do with changing you all toilets. I need another one if they don’t want it. They should be thankful moving from one level what’s wrong with that.Politics in their head.
Really?
Well Well Wel I have never seen a bunch of idiots like you Dominicans. Those people with the latrine toilets that the PM is talking about should be greateful that the PM is trying to improve their lives, did any other PM or party helped the nation to move forward with the times. the answer is no.
Let me just say to you guys charity begins at home look into your own lifes first.
Imagine that you all have internet, computers big screen, tv’s and no flush toilet, i mean to say get your priorities right put allyou house in order first. the Gov should not be responsible for upgrading people’s home. big countries whre the money flows could not does not refurbish people’s homes but the PM of DA should take on every povmalawee and better their lives.
He does not have to it is not his responsibility.
he is responsible for the general public not people’s home. Grow up. Allyou can be vexed if allyou want get a bloody life, come of the computers sell them and pay for all you neighbours to have flush toilet. Leave Skerritt alone.
Bring in allyou new party where the money coming from to build and improve all of all you lives and environment
Grateful for what? you are the ediot? I hope you will sing the same song when he start slathering your family , in the name of red power.
Tell me why some people can’t accept change? Why would people be more open to accepting IPHONE over public phone/landlines? but see no need to prevent stench in around the island…I am no politician, but tell me this, if this suggestion/idea was made by a priest, a pastor, teacher, or by the youth community/group would it be condemn to such a level?…some of us too sot..getting toilet does not mean we should vote for Skeritt…Mr or Mrs Jack or toilet is not written on the ballot slip/paper…
Fire ….Fire are you thinking of your statement ? this PM has no good motive for anything he offers to do. We do want toilets we want voters id card ,we want free speech, we want champagne around the island saying no to drugs and guns and crime, we want our old Dominica back when we all could walk the streets with no fear, where you can tell the police buzz off and he would not want to shoot you , but rather give you a warning, . We want less parrows in Roseau , we want all to receive social services not just red supporters, we want education for the yout hand a place for the young people to learn a skill , so after school there is a job for them. We want a hospital , like in the70s 80s and 90s.We want the hospital to be a secure heaven not a death trap with only paracitamol for the main medication ,for whatever the diagnosis of the illness , this is what we the people of Dominica want ,
Why do you think the big shout all over Da is…change is a must not an option.
pit toilet
So who is going to pay the water bill when those flushable toilets are installed?
Where is the water to flush the toilet. People doh even have water in their homes. You mean people still have to go by the stand pipe to get the water to flush the toilet? Wake up. some people will always have pit toilet or else they have to go back to going by the bay. Pit toilet is better than the bay however.
Are you a Frenchman? Do you know the P.T. called Secko.
We will have to take de matta to de bishop once again and also to the courts. Once again the minority suffers. The president speech was all talk talk. I told all u so. But what is dat I hearing dere nuh? He patnering thru the easy door and behing back is a different story. I man going to sell him out and I man going to fire one ambassador, he too hypocrite.
`Skeritt was waging war on pitt toilets on sunday afternoon in Portsmouth.LPO’s were going like bullets from a machine gun.to the disgruntled Glanvilia and lagon People.Weh Weh Weh propaganda!
It have some in the government.
You sound so stupid.
hahaha
in Alaska most of the toilet are pit toilet. this antic. so people must have flushing toilet on there farm.
the pm should consider putting public toilet in roseau
Common Anonymous tell us what city or village in Alaska you saw the pit holes you mentioned!
Each time we tell a lie, the lie exposes itself. Alaska is covered with ice almost eight months per year, in some places in Alaska, the ground has been covered with ice from creation, so tell us how can some in eight months or so of winter go our doors to sit or bend over in winter and defecate in the dead of winter!
Have you ever spent a winter in Europe, or North America?
And even though, if there are pit holes in Alaska, are you suggesting that the status quo should be the same in Dominica?
You people are just miserable, and no matter what it is you are determine t live life under the worst of circumstance, well let me tell you in the dead of winter unless you have some heating element within your rectum, by the time the feces gets out of you, it would freeze rather than falling to the bottom of the pit hole.
Most of the time when people die in winter, their body’s are stored until spring, or summer when the ground is soft so that a hole can be dug to bury the dead.
Other than that the process is cremation!
Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
And that should read ” Come on Anonymous.”
I know as soon as I error, there is a little worm in Canada who like to talk about my grammar, and how I cannot spell, so I had to make that correction, so that she can keep her mouth shut.
And by the way Justice & Truth, it is not you I am reffering to; it is a real pest, a little yellow worm living in North York oui!
She claimed that we were friends, but I doh like her oui!
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahah!
People like her are devils child!
FET.
You obviously don’t know Roseau. There are public toilet facilities right on the bay front, next to the Museum (the old post office building). We could do with more though, properly manned and cleaned, charging a small fee for use.
We are in a new millennium. Can’t believe that pit latrines are still being used in Dominica. We are very much behind time. With so much water in D/ca, flush-able toilets should be in use long time ago.
It’s not easy to get a slab for a pit toilet here much less for flush….
I understand but you must understand too that not everybody has access to piped water in their home and it is not unusual for those who have it to be disconnected because they don’t or ca’t pay their water bill.
Living in a suburban environmnet you may not be aware of it but even the most powerful nation on this planet, the U.S.A. has issues with sanitation.
The latest reort (26 Feb.,2013) on “Water & Poverty in the United States” (The Encyclopedia of the Earth), makes sobering reading;”the vast majority of poor households in the U.S. now have indoor plumbing but not 100%”. Particular communities higlighted in this report are “colonias”, migrant workers’ homes and reservations. On the globasl Water Poverty index the U.S.A. scores only 65 out of 100, putting it in 31st. position amongst 147 countries. There is a distinct link between poor szanitation and poverty and it is the latter we must address also. Providing indoor plumbing with flush toilets alone is not going to be the solution if at the same time we do not raise people’s overall standard of living.
Just wait until you read this!
Antigua is a more develop place than Dominica, however, in the City of St. Johns, the night-soil men from CBH (central board of health) still pick up tubs of feces nightly from out door toilets. St. John’s is below sea level, thus it is almost impossible to dig at a depth of five feet, and deeper to facilitate septic tanks, without encountering see water.
That is understandable, however, there is absolutely no reason why in the twenty-first century anybody in Dominica should be still bending over a pit-hole relieving their bowels. Tow things can be blamed for that, poverty, or a lack of ambition.
I however, believe poverty is the cause, there are people who wish they could afford to utilized septic tank, but does not have the money to buy the necessary to facilitate such comfort. In the past, I have helped certain members of my family to buy the equipment to eliminate the pit-hole from their backyard.
Another thing is in Dominica I understand a toilet bowl that people sit on in some cases cost more than a thousand dollars East Caribbean currency; that is approximately $370.37 U.S. I think that is too much money for a toilet bowl; considering that California is perhaps the most expensive State to living in, however; even a Kohler brand toilet, the best on the market can be purchased for less than a hundred dollars.
Such necessities should be allowed to enter the country duty free so that they can be sold at a more reasonable price in order to maker them cheaper for everybody who wish to purchase one can do so. The importer should only be allowed to recover the CIF value on such items.
Although there would be no profit made on such items, it would be good for the entire nation, because it would cause us to eliminate the pit-hole completely!
Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
Point taken Francisco. I wonder if there is import duty on toilet bowls. That would be terrible and very hypocritical. Import duty and vat so people can relieve themselves in decency.Malgraysa!
Flushing toilet for every home by the year 2014. Come on people instead of complaining “Adopt a family to get rid of this pit toilets” . We all live in a community and we have the less fortunate, We can adopt a family to buy and assist in this venture. Flush toilet for all. Stop this negative talk. This is necessary!
Eh Las .. time to stop that negativity! Everything and anything you people complain. You have been so negative that you donot even know what is development. If the PM had not said anything about pit latrines, I am sure you all the complaining persons would attack him for not eliminating those pit latrines.
Anyway who can please a complainer? No one can.. they complain about everything even when they benefit. Get this complaining out of your system now or you won’t be never happy. Complainers are never happy of joyful! Take note!
let me ask you a question,Is Your comment a complaint?is it ok because it is pro your party?
The PM should start in his own backyard first. Growing up as a young child and visiting Vielle Case ,that’s the place i first saw pit toilets and not just one but almost every home had one.
I’m really trying to get the point of your comment…
uwp supporters step out of the darkness and come into the light. You all are too blind and some of you are like parrots just repeating what you hear other people say.
what a nice pit toilet…Skerro u doing good, i saw one with cushion and flat screen tv!!!
Oh, that must be Austrie’s own.
Wherr day get d picture,,dat not a dominica pit at all.
Skerrit,dont take my pit away.u can put who u want for president,hav wat pasport u want,but dont take my pit away.some like daimond sum like gold but I like my pit..but not wen it hav mud in d par laport nuh..
i think what the pm is trying to say is that those who have pit toilets will be upgraded with flushing toilets… is that a problem people?. this is no way discriminating any one.
Myself I have a toilet there I suspect I will have to declare a war on it too wii.. I have to flush that fing all ban 3 times, man. Stupes.
LOL thanks for the laugh
Ay, ay, what happening to Skerrit? Does he live in Dominica. He said that there was a housing revolution and that he would give people houses. The man give people sheds for houses – WITHOUT TOILET FACILITIES. Planning Division self worse.
In order to build a house anybody else they make sure that the basics are there – yes, that includes flush toilets, yet Skerrit say he building houses for people WITHOUT FLUSH TOILET. Now he declaring ‘war on pit latrines’ !!!! Stop fooling people Skerrit. Compare those houses you built during the revolution (is it still on?) with those that UWP built for the people of Layou, those that Labour under Mr. Patrick John(our first Prime Minister) built at Bath Estate and elsewhere, and those built by the Freedom Party. The sheds that you call houses cannot come close to those comfortable houses – with flush toilets – that former Prime Ministers built.
DOMINICA is a country that depends on AGRICULTURE.
With AGRICULTURE on the down low, not jobs, I would like to know who is going to pay for all the labor, materials, water etc, that comes with getting rid of these pit toilets. I personally I’m for development and change in the 20th century, but we also have to be real. If someone have not income, or have little income, and to buy the basics in life like food, soap, clothes etc, how are they going to pay for all these mordern necessities.
And is not just having things, what about maintainance. It is a lot to ask a poor person. I hope the government, if they really want these people to get these mordern necessities, I hope the government is going to help them. Not short term but long term. These people in Government have everthing made. Even though most of them were born poor, they forget what it is for those that cannot afford. The poor you will have always, so we have to not only talk about helping, but we want action. That is why the Bible said, it is easier for a carmel to go throug the eye of a needle, than a rich man to go to heaven. TALK, TALK, TALK, BUT PLEASE HELP THE MOST UNFORTUATE. FOR “GOD’S sake!.
I think it’s a good idea but it will take a long time to complete and plenty money. For one you need sewer treatment facilities and a lot of underground pipes with our houses so far apart. But can you imagine you take a dump then try to flush and Dowesco take water
Yes. I agree that there must be a change in this style of living. Pit Latrines should be a thing of the past. Its time for this change to happen. I commend the PM for seeing it fit for this change. Its just a pity that all through the housing revolution campaign it was never a need for persons to have this facility. However, it is a great observation. We cant always be critical about everything.
We need change, and it is a must!
Cute topic/ Discussion. That’s a good thing. Toilet facility improvement is a must. Thanks to the government , Prime minister Skerrit and others Leaders and citizens seeing the need for these crucial change in our communities and Dominica as a whole. No matter what time of the year this is taking place it should we welcome. A lot of people may want to pull down this move when themselves never even been close to a Pit Toilet in decades …Those people should just Shu… I mean Cross their lips like Preschoolers
tell pm to get a life thibaud people na fool
Be real people if you have a pit toilet would you not like a modern one, if it rains is the PM if we have rough sea is the PM if we are sick is the PM, if you knock your toe and fall is the PM come on, let us build Dominica and not tear it to pieces, LOVE ONE ANOTHER AS GOD LOVES US, LET US TRY SOMTIMES TO SEE THE GOOD IN OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS
OK SO WHEN D PM SAY HE GO MASH DEM UP. I SUPPOSE HE LOVING EVERYBODY.
hey people election is nearing and mister has to find a way to gain back the popularity that he loosing there so he will do anything and say anything to fool the people and wants to get his vote back so that is a scam . now mister ready to give people things for vote weee. skerro you to late you done you done you done finito. you cannot fool all the people. dominicans are not so stupid.
dominicans are a set of messed up individuals.. i mean you’ll so backward it shows in you’ll comments.. if we continue thinking like this we shall never grown up and always remain the laughing stock of the caribbean.. change is a must but you’ll got the wrong messenger…geeesss
I sat down for many years upon years thinking real hard as to why we have a parrot on our flag. We Dominicans can talk and the truth is that’s all we do…talk, talk talk. I think during the slavery days they sent all the docile, no action but very talkative slaves to our beautiful green island and thus there we have it…..a very talkative no action lets expect results people. 90% of the people I talk to hate the Labour Party and Roosevelt Skerrit yet when election comes they win close to that percentage of the constituencies, my conclusion is that Dominicans say one thing and do another its high time that we stop fooling ourselves.
@ Domiican / Canadian , please do not lied to the Dominican people ….Canada has pit toilets there… Not because you hold a Canadian passport you gonna show off , you commit a crime and see is first flight straight to dominca…I love my pit toilet !
Am very proud of my Canadian passport, I know u wish u had one to get out of your misery in Dominica. u call me a lier so tell me where in Canada u saw a pit toilet. With only about 4 months of warm weather and 8 months of winter weather where did u see one. I forgive u as u do not know any better.Stay with your pit toilets as u say u love it Proper sanitation is not for Dominica
Almost every person got $10,000 for housing renovation and I there catching my A#@ to get a mortgage from Scotia Bank to build my house. Yes papa. Only in Dominica my tax money can be used so
Day by day, Skeritt really amazes me. The man has been Prime Minister for thirteen years and it is only now, because a man by the name of Lennox Linton has him on the ropes, he realizes that Pit Toilets should eradicated. No action as regards to the jobs he promised, geothermal is at a stand still, the next big move is to break ground for the new hospital or give public servants a huge increase of salaries. Believe me when I tell you the man wants to stay in power at all cost.
@jay, what do u know about social security in Canada? Is that what your family is using to maintain u in Dominica? or do u wish u could get your hand on some. I am fully employed and own my own house here and am paying for my daughters university education. I do not need a free ticket to come to Dominica to cast votes. before u sit and criticise what u have no knowledge of, go earn a descent living and stop blaming the government for everything. Do something to self employ yourself or go plant garden or vegetables to bring back agriculture. Remember u all had uwp and u voted them out. I did not play any part of it .
DNO I dont know if its my name you doh like but you always delete my comments.i dont know why!
How about a war on corrupt government instead.
If I can get the job of receptionist or time keeper in one of those toilets, I’ll take it because that’s how the government can create sustainable jobs for us.
Roosevelt should have made much more improvements throughout VIEILLE CASE, his home, and ALL the neighboring Villages, including Thibaud from the very beginning of his tenure in office. Yes, he tried to share the pie everywhere, but I think he should have started in one end, the worst end wherever that is, and continue from there. I also think that MORE work would be done and the people would be MORE APPRECIATIVE.
What do you think Roosie?
who first declared war on pit toilets nuh,reggie,
black diamond or skerrit?when reggie sent mr alleyene to go hide himself in a toilet i hope he was not referring to those toliets that the pm has declared war on..
DNO, let us get a few things right here: First of all, it would make more sense to call this one “Skerrit’s final war on Thibaud people”. DNO, do you know that the playing field on which Mr. Skerrit is delivering his speech, no longer belongs to Thibaud? It was ours until 2008 when Skerrit, Matther Walter and the DLP, took it from Thibaus and now gave it to Paix-Bouche. FYI, under Skerrits eyes, Thibaud ends on the bridge he built which means, the field, health Center, School and Beach though named under Thibaud, somehow belongs to Paix Bouche.
Another thing: Skerrit I gusess was taking the sent of poupou when delivering his speech and just concluded that in ‘pit latrine that was causing that. However, the truth is, the school Skerrit took from us got handed to some paros from Thibaud and Villecase and those boys poupouing on the step, in the yard, class room of the school so the scent was bothering Skerrit and he had to blame it on lack of toilet facility in Thibaud. Thibaud does not have 20 homes that have got toilet and if so, all of them are his supporters. So he must stop fighting Thibaud, the village he has destroyed.
I always hated those damn pit toilet it gave
Me the creepd
So where people going an throw therr children now..lol
dont sit on it just bend down take a magazine read to the coroaches and you will be fine And recently i saw one in Amber Vielle case
This is definitely a political strategy to buy votes. If this must be done it should be on a community level and not individually. The PM should construct a Community facility that houses bathrooms and laundry. The way it is currently planned is clearly in an effort to sway voters to the DLP.
I dont see why someone’s toilet has to be an issue for government to deal with or better said the PM’s issue. This is a personal responsibility..Why take my tax money to play draft?????
If you knew about the history of public conveniences in Dominica you would probably not want to make that suggestion.
It is better to provide individual households with a facility than to build public conveniences that are subject to misuse and very costly when it comes to maintenance.
Remember as well that septic tanks come with their share of problems. In order for pit ltreines to be eradicated, firstly all homes must be provided with running water to accommodate septic tanks.
I think this is a good idea but before any action be taken, I would suggest a community (needs) assessment be conducted to determine which households can and cannot receive septic tanks, because we may have a situation where everybody has septic tanks but then there is not place for the septic effluents and then we end up witha “developed slum” like what exists in Picard- big houses but a sewage mess.
There is already a public convenience in the village
Are you serious? Community bathroom? Are we living in the 60s? Who wants to use bathrooms that other people use? They had those in mahaut, the sea consumed one and another is still there and it is of absolutely no use. It’s just mash up and, from what I hear it was just a nasty mess. What is wrong with making toilets available for Dominicans? What is wrong with making housing available even? When you all go to French countries, you all are the same people who sit and have child after child to collect hard tax paying people money. Now I am not saying that dca should ever be like this, but if it is a good cause and to help citizens and bring them to the 21 century then I am for it. All public toilets should be demolished because no one will ever use them for long. I do not believe in sweetening people for votes either so I am all for an independent body to help impliment the distribution. However community toilet is a pathetic idea. Utter Rubbish
The modern age, here we come
@ zor toe sot, first of all in response to your sarcastic note I am not hiding in Canada as I have not commited any crime. unlike u who may not be able to leave dominica, I have an international Canadian and a Dominican passport and I can and do travel anywhere I want to with no restrictions.
On the political front if u know so much about what is going on in the political issues in Dominica why are u hiding behind a fake name . Instead run for election , win some votes and be a parliamentary rep for Thibaud and do better than Skerrit. Why is it that u are only coming out now. Wouldn,t it be better if u challenge Skerrit on a political forum with these issues.
Secondly, u said u are not from Thibaud but know so much. I wonder if u are one of the paros that is conveniently making use of the school as your domain.Wouldn’t surprise me one bit.
How dear u insult Thibaud people and the children. If u were smart u would be a tacher and u would educate them wisely so people would want to be among them and be proud of them.
When u say all these insulting things about a village and its people’ u are the last one to give advice to them.
I wonder where are u from and if your village or town is better, and what have u done to improve it, for ask not what your country has done for u but what u have done for your country.
If u cared so much about Thibaud people u would not be sarcastically putting the village down and also the children. Or is it that u envy Thibaud people and the village as Skerrit is the best parl rep they ever had and is looking out for them.
Keep your nose out of Thibaud people business, in due time they will get their school.
If u want to talk about shame, only thing that a government uwp do for a village is a public convenience, that’s the shame.
@Dominica/ Canadian, I will not waste time with you because u don’t leave in Thibaud or Dominica to know the facts. In fact the last time you were in Thibaud during the reunion in 2008, you went to leave with friends.
I did not insult Thibaud or Thibaud children but only spoke the truth. Thibaud children are no longer attending school in the building where you were schooled; it is a fact based on recent common entrance results that Thibaud students did not do very well as no one got a scholarship; It is a fact that under Skerrit, what was known as the Thibaud School is now closed and being used by paros from Thibaud and Vielle-case. So I am not insulting Thibaud since my parent is from Thibaud. It is you and Skerrit that insulting Thibaud people by talking about pit latrine, as if Thibaud is worse than his village.
I wonder where u get the information from to tell me that I was in Dominica in 2008 and went by friends during reunion. And to even say that I was educated in the Thibaud school. For someone who claim to be authentic, u have no idea who I am and u pretend to be so sure about my where about and where I stay which I don’t even know what u are talking about, u smart one. If I was in Dominica, u should have invited me to your home so I would take in the whole show .You started talking about me with make up lies that the rest of your story continue as lies u smart one.
My family in Dominica all have indoor plumbing so I know indoor plumbing since in Dominica
Whoever want to say to me thank god for Canada, yes thank god for Canada for I don’t think like most of u
What are you taking about? Thibaud! When last have you been to Thibaud to see the condition of the roads from Blenhiem to Thibaud and up Morne Savon. The Thibaud School was built in the 1970’s and we are in 2013, so do the math. We dont have to wait for a school, we need it now. Our children are as important just as the school children from Salybia, where he diverted the money to build their school. I guess Thibaud children can be used as a political football. Why would the person envy Thibaud people, they have not received any thing as a community from Skerrit. We have the best public park among the three villages he is representing but after 14 years, it cannot be lit so we can use it after sunset. Thibaud is like a ghost town now, no opportunity for employment and advancement for the youth. Only one set that is enjoying and benefiting from Skerrit representation. Let me give you one example, why is someone from Dos Dane cleaning the Credit Union building in Thibaud? Couldn’t they get someone from Thibaud to do it. Now that election is near, Skerrit will start some projects to fool the voters, that’s all. I dont see why anyone can and is jealous of Thibaud.
@nature spice, So very well said. They need to visit Thibaud or stay there for at list one week to see how Skerrit has totally destroyed the village. I took time to identified jobs done by the UWP in 4.5 yrs. In like manner, I asked and still begging anyone to identify at list one project Skerrit done in the village during his 13 year reign, and up to this time no one has been able to come forward. In fact he closed down the school 5 yrs ago and has the children in a cage up to this day. As a matter of fact, it is the closure of the school and the cage where the children are in that literally forced the former Principle, who is a very strong DLP supporter, and is from Vielle case like Skerrit, to resign. So tell Canada/ Dominica to be real and those that claim to be from Thibaud and even had the guts to say that Skerrit is the best parl rep we have had, is nothing but shame and disgraceful to say the list.
Pit toilet create jobs. Ask checko and black diamond.
yessa.look how low mister stooping.look at the people he targeting- the least fortunate among us!
Election is near and mister working on the psyche of the downtrodden and getto people.during the four yrs he never know if the existing you know and all of a sudden he feels for them..he wants to change their lives around by providing a flushing toilet..they will vote for him .he will forget them for four and a half years and then come back for the vote they owe him..this is disgraceful,outrageous,ludicrous and downright distasteful…skerro should be a shame of himself!!!
Really that’s what looking like Thibaud people after all these years?Well d PM sending them to ******in style
:lol:.Wow!!!!!
Can someone tell me why is the government so erratic in its planning?
At this rate, I suspect anytime soon, we will be told that the government will be investing in building an underground highway from Possy to Roseau and that we will be shipping water for aliens in space!
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petite savanne beauty! hahaha you have me rolling!!!! Best comment for the year!
Only when elections is close they know all dat I cannot believe it a vote for a toilet
It’s unbelievable that people are posting negative comments on something which is a necessity in these moder days.Good work Mr.PM don’t be distracted by nay Sayers everyone on the island should have flushing toilet.
True but is only now he know people have pit toilet and would like a modern one.
This is a personal responsibility, not one for the government to deal with..If so a public facility should be built.. When my septic tank needs maintenance I will ask for a tax refund cause I wont be going to any color clinic..
What do you expect. It is just a smear campaign that is going on by the opposition. No ideas, no vision. Then they have the guts to say that they fighting for Dominica, even mentioning the names of people like Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela. Look guts papa.
mr. PM,you attacking the man;i expect a lawsuit like how checko got,since you want to declear war on the man’s funhouse.is there trouble in De camp?
When I saw the headlines I wondered for a minute what pit latrines were guilty of why war had to declared on them.
people stop complaining about everything, if the government do you all say he not doing if he trying to better u all leaving situation you all complaining, you all complaining on everything let the PM do what is necessary for the country of Dominica. that why we will always stay backward and never move forward. you all sound like nagging teenager that their brain is not fully develop, and think they knows all but don’t know anything. Grow up people and let the government do what they have to do.am tied of reading negative comments
u no undastand. de fing is, is always when election close de padner remembering us we when he in power he don know us. u no undastand
@just be true, How can the PM spend government money on people’s private property and you want us to accept that as development. When government money is spent on a project it become the property of the state. Is that the case with those toilets in Thibaud? Can you go and s on them when you want?
This is Skerrit’s way of paying his boys to help him win an election ok. Stop pretending to be naïve. In 2009 he spent $150K in Thibaus under the name of housing development. Take a trip to Thibaud and tell me how many people used their money to develop their house. So don’t talk about what you do not know about unless you know the truth but you trying to mislead the public.
After 13 long years of lies, corruption, and failure, the failed PM is finally maypweesaying Thibaud people right in their face. Please ask Skerrit for me to name his accomplishments in Thibaud. Yes he has rained down undocumented monies to his supporters and gave them Ham and Turkey, but what has he done for the village? After 13 years he is not ashamed to talk about your toilets. After all Thibaud people, when UWP was in power, your school was always mentained, you got a brand new health center, you got backwalls built on both sides of the river to protect the same playing field Skerrit now standing on; you also got walls on both side of the Back street Ravine, you got a brand new village council office/ post office, you now have a medical doctor who was sent to Cuba by Mr. James, your young people were all working, shops were making money and Thibaud was a united, developing village. Sine Skerrit came in power, please tell me his accomplishments? Let me give you a head start here and please add to the list: You lost your school building and community center, agriculture is gone, cricket is gone, unemployment is escalating by the seconds, the THibaud beach is gone as it is now claimed by a private person, the village is all but gone as they are now saying that your boundry ends by the bridge, the village is torn and divided; 9 out of 10 young boys (I am very generous here)there are either on drugs or introduced to homo… just to eat a piece of bread and drink a juicy; he continued on Bleheim Penville road started by the UWP, but skipped Thibaud and ended it is Vielle-case; he sent two of your young students to study in China, one had to run back home because of leaving conditions in China, while the other one fought until the end but is now sitting in Thibaud for 3 years now and cannot get a job; he sent two to study in three to study in the US but 2 of them will never return as they were so advised by the sender and the other one graduated and got her degree but could not get a job in 3 yrs until she was finally sent to teach at Grand Bay; shops are empty although some are sponsored by the man himself. You talk about political disgrace! It’s all in Thibaus after 13 years of Skerrit as parlrep and PM. So yes, Mr. Skerrit has successfully accomplished his assault on Thibaud and now is time for him to expose your untidiness.
i hear the say a doctor contesting against him in the Vieille Case constituency- Good news for the people of Thibaud, you will be delivered.
Change is a must and it is coming fast!!!
so as my auntie have her pit toilet so well kept if u do not know u will not know it is a pit toilet so he giving her a flushing toilet and water well if is so i doh mind noh once she doh have to go and boom boom fly nobody and she getting it easy so well fine. is time we that collecting **** stop alas so long i know she keeping her pit toilet in proper order but imagine u shitting on **** all de time really alas skerro i hope we don’t have to boom boom fly u to get a decent toilet. whether is for vote u want it is not my business i know who i voting for u are the p.m of the country and it is your responsibility to look into these things. and please continue doing all thru not just when election is around the corner. is not during that time we have needs. okay and do not let us come and boom boom fly u because i really fed up.. lol my auntie so happy as i tell her so do not disappoint her.
Stop being a parrot!
All I did was hear about this… No cases has been surveyed or implemented in my community…. The fortunate ones are the ones benefiting financial from this… Prior to the prime minsters speech at thibaud I’ve been told so but haven’t seen any actions taken in grand bay ! Change is a must not an option
“Roosevelt Skerrit, has announced government’s intention to eradicate pit latrines in Dominica.”
Yes, very good thought indeed; however, what’s the difference, in a pit-hole, and a storage tank for feces; better known as a septic tank in the ground of a backyard, and a soak-away to accommodate the polluted, infested water which is compelled to be deposited in the natural ground water on the island?
The only way we can eradicate the effects of the pit-hole or (pit latrines toilets) in the country is to establish a sewer system throughout the entire island. No one should be allowed to build a residential property where there are no sewer system.
When a house is built, the sewer lines should be in place; toilet, and bathroom lines from the house should be connected to the sewer system, thus eliminating the need for the septic tank, and the pit-hole! I hear the cry already “sewer will be too expensive, we doh have de money!”
If we are to have a sewer system nation wide, we have to think of planed development, we have to be selective of where we build our houses, scattered, and random building of homes all over the place must become a thing of the past;if it means building new villages, and a new city simply to combat and eliminate the pit hole; so be it!
Truly, this should be a concern for all, since the pit-holes, and septic’s without the knowledge of many is indeed a hazard to human health!
Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
You are absolutely right on this one.
Mr Telemaque .
Hello and good morning. Well yes Pit Toilets should be a thing of the pass but we can used a septic system. Many homes in St Thomas used the septic system and every six months they pump the feces. Dominica do not have a nation wide sewer system and its very difficult to build because the villages are scattered. Now even in many parts of Long Island New York they used septic system.
Omg !! What else Mr Skerrit? you are getting to be big time funny. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? TAKE YOUR TOILET AND ——-.. LABOUR MUST GO !
Another desperate move on the part of the government to fool poor people with money which they seem to have pouring out of their ears!!! My gosh, what a disgrace! Talk about desperate!! Hmmmmm
Would you be okay with indoor plumbing before election? I think that is a good idea.
Garson get something better to do with our tax payers money eh! What war on pit latrines that? We have have aids, non-communicable diseases, Plus we need supplies at PMH and right equipment so what you talking about? STOP fooling th gullible with poopoo gifts and get serious.
Assertive, NOT Agressive!
Yeah, we did a lot of ****** wherever others would not see us, but sanitation is part of healthy living. I say, why not include the indoor plumbing while building or rebuilding the homes? Gullible or not, it really is PAST TIME to get RID of the sheds. I think the people are smart enough to not BUY that STORY prior to election.
agreed that sanitation is key but the pit toilets is an indication of the state of our economy… i dont want the government to give me a toilet, i should be able to work and earn enough so that i can build or install my own toilet of choice. so this speaks volumes that in dominica in 2013 that pit toilets are so widely used that we have to declare war on that?? you see why we need a change in management approach in our homeland?
He don’t want pit latrines but he giving people plywood house without toilets. What madness is that?
You can have a plywood house with indoor plumbing. The money should be spent wisely.
I AGREE THAT INDOOR PLUMBING SHOULD BE A MUST IN EVERY NEW OR REMODELLED HOME.
the man giving us house allu still want indoor plumbing garcon go behind the bush eh and burst a p*****! LMAO
Positive move PM.
I dont support politics but anything for improvement of people lives , i will support.
And those who are complaining about water bill.Thats the cheapest bill.And if you dont have a job wake up you all lazy selves and do some farming.Is onething i know Dominicans can find means and ways to make money so stop blaming government for Everthing…
Leh E Bor D e Bor !
Farm on what. Not everybody have land to farm. Can I come and squat on your land. Cuz years now my family trying to get some land legally from Govt to do some farming.
And don’t sit your lazy self down and assume like all other business that farming doesn’t require start up capital too.
Plant on the land allu squatting,it will get you all out of there !
So is the PM going to call in the army to destroy those pesky pit latrines? I just hope he does not WMD to accomplish his goals. We would not want innocent people getting hurt.
The PM also needs to declare war on Lies and corruption.
I am happy I am not from Thibaud because only Thibaud people Skerrit can FOOL these days. In the 2005 elections the man close down the government school there and came on national Radio and announce he got $1 million for a brand new school in Thibaud. When he did his survey and realized he did not need them to win his seat, he took the said money and used it in SanSovere to win the Castle Bruce seat. Up to this day, he packed those Thibaud children in a little cage like goats without any room to breathe. The school was not only for education but also a hurricane shelter, community events like the meeting held on the field and things of this sort. No doubt, Skerrit would not have done this to people from Vielle-case or Penville. But because he knows his key supporters do not have children going to school he did that to them.
In the 2009 elections the same PM spent $500,000 on the constituency of which he through his agents distributed $150K cash, not including the thousads dollars worth of material issued to be received at M & R, on his 55 supporters in Thibaud, under the name of “housing revolution. Up to this day 95% of villagers did not spent a dollar on toilet or house and some even sold the materials recied. Government never conducted an investigation.
Now election is coming he talking about war on pit toilet. Shame on Skerrit and Thibaud people for letting a politician destroy there once beautiful and united village into nothing more than a politically devastated village.
Very good initiative and I hope they do the same for Portsmouth, especially Lagon. That town badly needs a sewage disposal system because a lot of property is sitting so low that when they dig the septic tank or sewer is below sea level and there is not enough pressure for pipes to stay unblocked.
Even in Picard one can often smell raw sewage. The people there need a pumping station and a big & long outfall line deep into the sea.
Seriously. lol what happen to the ones that cannot afford to pay water bill or even worst do not have water in their community. It seems like going down by the bay will be there next option. lol
Do u want to continue to leave in the old age and blame the government for no improvements? Isn’t there a public convenience in the village? I also recall people who had no running water had huge water tanks and plumbing connected to it to flush their toilets and to bathe with the use of rain water and had no water bills to pay. Stop being pessimistic and instead welcome improvements.
@Dominica/ Canadian, the only reason you talking your crap is because you leave in Canada and DO NOT KNOW anything about real life in Dominica. What public convenience u talking about? The one and only one built by the UWP? If you want to talk about leaving in the old age then you need to go back to Thibaud and see what the PM did to you all’s Up 2 story school building built just before EO Leblanc retired from politics. The same person that is talking improvement closed down that school over 5 yrs. ago and it is now being used by a set of Paros from Thibaud and Viellecase, while children are schooled in a goat pen. No wonder Thibaud children are so behind in their education and neibouring villagers don’t even want their children to hang out with Thibaud children. You hide yourself inCanada nad refer to this as improvement? What a shame!
Come doswn to earth my friend and see (…and smell) reality. It must be getting cold up there in Canada as your brain shows signs of atrophying. Maybe you ar one of those souls looking for a free ticket to come and cast your vote in the sun to condemn those of us living here to five more years of wanton dictatorship and misery, whilst you return to the comfort of social security provided by the Canadian government. People like that eat from both sides, they truly have their cake and eat it, at the expense of others. What side are they really on but their own?
Omg! I love just pressing that botton in to flush after each use here in T-dot and I to hold both the Canadian and Dominican passport. Say thanks for the improvement and stop ull damn noise!! It’s just toilets Galeee!! Oh well cah plz all anyways
Do not flush after every peepee. Use rain water to flush on occasion.
Pit latrines are really out-dated.
There is no expiry date on pit latrines. They can be used anytime and you do not have to wait for rain or pipe water to flush them.When they are full, you simply dig another hole and..brand you.
Good job prime minister SKerrit. I always hated to use thus and could never sit confortable on them.
Come back to Thibaud and you will tell me about that s*** you talking about. Sacway sort! Maychastay!
Well I was not comfortable on them either…I always feared that one of those white cockroaches would bite me on my sugar-stick.
Are you kidding me? How uncomfortable were you, and where did you go for comfort?
I guess you can say “thank God for Canada”.
I have two latrine armpits all i really need is funding for deodorant….
Garcon, just don’t sit next to me on the bus!I have enough tears in my eyes already without that.
LMAO…!!.
YOU D/CANS WILL KILL ME WITH LAUGHTER..
LMAO…!!!
Ha Ha Ha Ha!
This is the best laughter I’ve had in a long time. I’m on the floor rolling……
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