As supplies of crude from its old ally Venezuela dwindled last year, Cuba began turning out the lights in government offices and shuttering oil refineries.
Then, Havana turned to an old friend for help: Russia. In early May the Kremlin sent a tanker full of fuel across the Atlantic as part of a deal to keep the communist island running for three months. It was the first such shipment Cuba had received in years from its former benefactor, but it wasn’t the only sign Russia has returned to a region it had all but abandoned after the Cold War.
Moscow is building a satellite-tracking station in Managua and considering reopening Soviet-era military bases in the region, as well as expanding economic ties and doling out aid in countries across Central America and the Caribbean. President Vladimir Putin has even offered to restore the Capitol building in Havana, which bears a striking resemblance to the one in Washington.
I hope we realise these countries don`t abide to international laws. We have seen what happened and currently happening in Ukraine. They annex Crimea. Bombed a civilian jet liner and killing hundred of people.
Is this what we are looking to bring in our backyard? SMH. I hope we have taken note of these critical issues.
Skerritt has come out and shown his true communist colours.I mean even if Dominica wants to have diplomatic ties with Russia, Skerritt doesn’t have to denigrate our longtime close partner the USA.The decisions of Donald Trump on climate change, which is being criticized by his GOP colleagues,Democrats,big business etc, can’t be a the rationale for Skerritt to want to be the up front leader to stick his fingers in the eyes of the USA, because he wants closer ties with Russia.I have said that Dominica is free to have diplomatic ties with Russia,but Skerritt wants to be the champion for Russian causes in Caricom.I Do believe that Skerritt was speaking for some of his Caricom colleagues when he met with Lavrov recently, however the USA is much more than climate change.Dominica has diplomatic relations with many other countries but doesn’t seek to be the champion those countries in our hemisphere.Skerritt let me remind you of Noriaga of Panama and his demise,also of NG Lap Seng trial
America is the greatest empire on earth, Donald Trump is one of the greatest president in our time, i pray America will prevail as we are decedants of of Israel, Love Live America, down with Communism the work of Devils.
Donald Trump is a dangerous imbecile, and watching him match wits with Putin is like watching an overweight toddler play one-on-one against LeBron James.
Ok Troll. you made your point. Sarcasm at its best. So, which Israel are you speaking about> the 12 tribes of Israel or the State of Israel? I long for the fall of America (America the established corporation; i dont wish Americans any harm). Like Rome it is corrupt and like a festering wound/cancer on the rest of the world.
Wayyyy skerit was in Russia, Trump will bomb Dominica
Welcome the Russian mafia!
The Russian Mafia? Have you forgotten the many Russians that were in Dominica during the time of the Edison James/UWP regime.
You people need to do some research and stop belching bubbles! Alas, allu don’t have any common sense, then? Your friend does not have to be mine, nor does your enemy have to be my enemy. Learn some stuff instead of regurgitating like uneducated people you make yourselves to be. Wake up people!
America you must fall, you went against god will with your sodom and gomaru thing and jah going to destroy you. Nations are rising up against you. Babylon your thrown going down. North Korea will sink you to the dept of hell. Fire burn
Whatever you put in your system is clouding your ability to understand the Dynamics of issues happening around you.When it leaves your body you will once again become sober and talk sense
Your hatred for your fellow man shines like an beacon of evil.
posing as a god and killing people with anti aircraft weapon is of GOD. are you that foolish. you condemn one and think the others are good.
Both these countries seem much more willing to give foreign aid than the US. I mean, the US have the world’s greatest deficit, most of which is owed to China. And American aid in the region has effectively dwindled to nothing (last thing they did was to burn weed…and then they decriminalize it)..
It is a wise thing that the region forge new partnerships, not necessarily forgetting the old ones. But at the moment they are not willing to help us, and it is this gap these superpowers see. We have actually benefited more from China and Venezuela than any.other, whom we have no historical ties to
@ KaliBud. You are “little tommy talker.” Keep singing.
foreign aid and intelligence gathering on was to destroy Americans. how many Dominicans or Caribbean people live in Russia.
Dominicans are really that ignorant. do you this Russia is a democratic state?.
Well we can chat some rubbish sometimes?!!
Dominica is somehow strategically located in the Caribbean basin,to be used by both Russia and China.Dont believe that the USA does not know what is going on.Wonder which other Caribbean leader attended,other than this inept,visionless one whose DLP has killed agriculture,destroyed tourism,killed all our institutions,and walks about with a begging bowl..He is by far the most incapable of all Caribbean PM…Thats why Putin et al will use him and his other clowns in the DLP,to confront the USA!
SKERRIT MUST GO!
SKERRIT MUST GO!
SKERRIT MUST GO NOW!!
We voting Labor
And so is your neighbor
%, Put that in your pipe and smoke it
SKERRIT MUST GO ON!
Rosie you don’t want to invite the Russians/ Cubans to move in you fool. I thought had some sense of Caribbean History. All in the name of wallet thickening
GA fellow nationals. I would like to say alittle on the current & extended topic after listen to talk on the block. The range of ideas real, imagined and or already at play made the discuss interesting. It served as dessert post lunch.
It takes us back to 1979 when our first group of students left for Cuba.Going to Cuba was like one of the cardinal sins of that epoch. Funny it was the DFP under Mamo who produced all the propaganda.can those of us who were on point in that era relive the situation? Think back in time. today 38 yrs later it’s the former DFP-ites/ the current gang of 4 still DFP-ites posing as DLP-ites .These Neo -DLP are doing what mamo opposed then. I just cannot figure out what the heck is going on in DA is it roti or Riot! Medard cannot function has no brain and plan on how to develop a 6th world country.
So it’s deja vu all over again.. This time more originally poorer guys plying DLP. See who is president.
Remember Abramoff, the lawyer ,Lobbist,felon.
He spent a few yrs in the joint for his corrupt practices. Now we have another big guy lawyer who is the Russian lobbists for some time now. Someone said the Russians are here long time( on Talk on the block. Yes our local Abramoff has been their laison some yrs now. Abramoff ours was part of the first to go to Cuba now he help make decisions. I was surprise the dawning of the Russian talk happen to fall on our local Abramoff’s birthday today I was just informed. This is no laughing matter too serious to ignor.
Open for venting with responses.
Good job Blessings Louis et Al
Skerrit run in front and strenghten ties with Russia. Seeing that Russia and America are so call friends now, I hope there is something for us.
Skeritt seems to be audioning to win the hearts of Russia and China, two communist countries. Desperate times calls for desperate action.
You ALL are the ONES making the times desperate with your course of actions in the country- Salisbury actions, burning down of Roseau, Stoning Police, breaking down Parliament, blocking and setting fire to Government roads, destroying PEOPLE’S property and the list goes on. Don’t you think those things call for desperation?
China has been communist in name only for decades, and Russia not even that since 1991. I don’t love these regimes either, but if the U.S. Congress won’t fund USAID enough even to keep friends in their own back yard, then it’s reasonable for economically developing countries to look elsewhere.
If the girl you like won’t dance with you, she can’t complain if eventually you dance with someone else.
Well I will warn Putin to stay clear of Skerro because; first he went to Libya (ghadafi died and his regime tumbled) then he went to Venezuela (what is Maduro up against and its only getting worst)…..Putin, don’t say we didn’t warn you.
On a more serious note; the only thing Dominica’s government seems good at is getting in the good books of nations trying to take over the region and benefiting from the free-ness they dish out.
Skerro, try and create country that is self sufficient – we cannot leave on handouts from wanna be “super powers” forever. Venezuela is down the pan, China has a lot of economic problems…now comes Russia – with an agenda!
This country is surviving like a “bum”….from one house to another and the head of the household maintaining us till we can be maintained no more!
I love your comment. Hilarious but true. These countries looking for influence in the region to beat thier chest and get under America skin. The US does the same thing. If you so concerned about the welfare of Cuba why the weapons. To gain influence they will give anything and skerrit thinks going on world stage and shout we love the one China policy is expert negotiations. This folks already will do anything in the West for one reason only. That is to establish intelligence I. US backyard. Chavez bankrupted Venezuela just to gain influence. We are seeing the results of that now. If yellow became the prime Minister today she could go to Russia and get all our roads fixed. The US does the same thing with eastern Europe and China and the placement of rockets in Russia and China backyard. The world hunger and poverty problem could be solved in probably one year if humans stop producing weapons to kill each other. Check out price of f16s and aircraft carriers.
I just hope that we get a jet airport out of it this time around. The last time, the Grenadians got theirs and we didn’t. What’s next? Russian missiles stationed on the island of Dominica? We’ve got China, Venezuela, and now Russia. They better be careful. After Skerrit finish suck the life out of them, not even toilet tissue they will have left. We received so much help from Venezuela and when things fell apart, not even two swamp dasheen and a hand of fig we sent to the starving people in Venezuela. Skerrit built while the supporters received a few sheets of plywood and galvanize.
As I said before. History has a nasty way of repeating itself. We are again plunging to the cold war days very quickly. Europeans at it seeing who have bigger balls. Now China. Nationalism was a thing for medieval times where Kings rule. Today we see political elites who make billions from the sale of machines of war. These white men continue to grab wealth and power while the masses cycle into poverty. In dominica we have a leader who for 17 years revel in the poverty and ignorance of the population. Greed and thirst for more power create dangerous bed fellows. Like in the late 70’s we have an evolved communist system where those in power become filthy rich while the common man continue to beg and be brain washed to believe others is the cause of thier suffering. Russia and China only want two things. Spread of thier ideology and work domination. War and conflict is good business and our people are nothing but chips in the game. It never ends.
Who is the least thought of people on this planet?, the Black Race. Every other people on this planet believe they are above us and whats sad is, we happily fall into their systems of politics, religions and every other nonsense they feed us.
Most black people, specifically the so called West Indians and Afro Americans are today so wrapped up in the confederations world order, that they are unaware of a most significant, biblical event taking place, an awakening and coming into knowledge of who we are, The Most High’s Heritage, The True Hebrew Israelites.
For too long we have been and most are still praying to their false Gods and religions ( Christianity and Islam) when the Most High warned us against this. We read our history book ( The Bible) and throw up all manner of praises to the Most High and kid ourselves that he is listening, while refusing to do as he asked us, to do his Laws, Statutes and commandments.
The most High is in control of everything, even Skeritt.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge, when the knowledge is in the same book they use in their churches every Sunday.
If you read the book as it tells you, precept upon precept, line by line a little here a little there, you will discover the knowledge of to set you free.
Deuteronomy 28:1
And it shall come to pass, if thou shall hearken diligently unto the voice of the lord thy God, to observe and to do all his Commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high ABOVE ALL NATIONS of the Earth.
Our ancestors failed and kept not the commandments hence:
But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken onto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which i command thee this day, that all these curses shall come upon thee and over take thee.
And the Lord shall bring thee into Egypt (bondage) again with ships (slave ships) and ye shall be sold to your enemies for bond men and bond women…
In case u didn’t know, he was not referring to any black soul. It was the Jews he spoke to. Yes the God u worship is racially inclined
Leaving christianity and islam to go back to the fetid pit from whence those two came (judaism) is the very definition of insanity. These three religions are literally the axes of evil in the world right now (the west, the muslim world and israel/globalist jews). We don’t even know what the religion of our ancestors was because it has been whitewashed. And no it’s not this black israelites Hotep crap – that’s another lie that they’re spreading to keep you in submission.
There’s only one way for the black race to rise up. – Stop worshipping foreign gods. Reject degeneracy (porn, promiscuity, drugs, alcohol). Take responsibility for our lives and the lives of our people and stop blaming everything on the (((white man))). If you can do that and encourage others to do so we can rise up as a people but basing your world view on the same scriptures that were used to enslave us is not the way.
hmmmmmmm…. those idiots they call Diasporas, they will be responsible for what will happen in dominica
And we should add here that the tiny island of Dominica serves as that bridge needed, thanks to Roosevelt Skerrit, whose two children was born in the US. If we cannot hear we will feel and if we cannot learn we will pay. Not Barbados, not Antigua, not Trinidad, not St. Lucia, not Grenada, not St. Vincent, not Jamaica, but Dominica, to serve as bridge between Russia & China to cross the US. DOMINICA, take warning because ur sons and daughters will surely pay for what u all have Skerrit doing
Why idiots like you don’t go crawl into a hole somewhere?
That’s because you are an a..hole and I don’t wonder if that’s where idiots like me should crawl
It’s not like America checking us irie… They only care about themselves at the moment…
So… Russia huh?
well russia never drop a nuke on anybody twice! people still feeling the effect of the fallout from the nukes to this day btw
so why dont you go to the USSR on holidays
@kek, stallin murdered over 23 million people, that is not nothing compared to what the bombs on japan killed.
u should read more.
Skerrit best friend,Putin is attempting to take over,and here we are with our leader looking to get Russians into DOMINICA.Keep an eye out people.
Boy , You see what happening there, something in it. Putin smarter than Trump. DA is me Home.
And he is ten times smarter tha Skerrit, Kid!
Me, How about you? How many times is he smarter than you and Lennox together?
Skerrit not a factor on a global scale, to them big man is like a poor man coming to the table to grab a piece of mastiff