New DLP team is “weakest one ever” says former government press secretary Sean Douglas

Sean Douglas

Sean Douglas, a former press secretary for the Roosevelt Skerrit administration, is taking aim at the freshly elected candidates of the Dominica Labour Party (DLP), calling them the weakest team the government has ever put forth.

Douglas, who spoke at the United Workers Party (UWP) convention rally this past Sunday, believes that many elected officials lack experience, which he claims is crucial for leading the country.

Last month, the Prime Minister announced the calling of a snap election, which was held on December 6, 2022, stating that such was triggered by the need for a “national reset.”

As part of the reforms, ten senior ministers were swapped out for “new faces,” whom Skerrit described as the “ideal team for these times.”

Contrarily, Douglas argues that “when you vote someone into parliament they have to have something which they offer to the table such as experience, and the team that Skerrit has for the most part…they haven’t got experience or the expertise needed to lead the country.”

He points out that despite having more seats in parliament, the prime minister is still at his weakest, and the DLP’s most recent election triumph of 19 to 2 was an “empty victory.”

Regardless of the short-to-medium-term repercussions, Douglas believes that the UWP made the correct choice in not contesting the snap election, on the basis that there was no electoral reform.

While he emphasized that the country needs to demand that the long-awaited election reform be implemented in the upcoming year, he also stressed the necessity of the need for campaign finance reform.

“I saw for myself first-hand in the 2005 and 2009 campaigns that bus drivers were given thousands of dollars…I saw what happened in 2005, we had a rally on the Bayfront and the DLP must have spent in excess of 250 thousand dollars bringing down Crossfire, paying Swinging Starz, and bringing persons from all over the country,” he said.

He stated that the country needs to understand the source of those finances, who is paying the DLP’s bills, and what those donors expect in return.

The businessman lamented the state of Dominica’s economy and contends that in 22 years in office, the current government has done little to improve the quality of life for residents.

“No airport, no geothermal plant. Where is the manufacturing, and where is the water export industry?”

He questioned. “All they have done is built homes with money from passport sales, even though most people can’t even afford to maintain the basic cost of living in those homes.”

In addition, he noted that the Citizenship by Investment (CBI) program’s revenues are not transparent or accountable, and that, in contrast to other nations, Dominicans are not receiving dividends from it.

“In 2000 I was part of the Labour Party team and we spoke about corruption. We said that UWP was corrupt, but if UWP was corrupt they had O levels in corruption, but this government has a Ph.D. in corruption,” he alleged.

Having worked closely with the prime minister as his press secretary in the past, Douglas voiced displeasure with the prime minister’s latter transformation and the difficulties he is said to have caused for Dominica.

However, he noted that “it is almost too late for him. Skerrit is on his way down, he has passed his peak and it can only get worse and worse from here.”

The businessman took use of the opportunity to urge all Dominicans to unite in the fight for free and fair elections to establish a democratic society.

He further declared that the UWP and Electoral Reform Coalition (ERC) cannot accomplish this goal on their own, therefore all citizens must decide to take the future of Dominica into their hands.

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41 Comments

  1. Jonathan Y St Jean
    December 16, 2022

    The pied Piper has put together a team of lightweights and Sean is correct. However this serves the objective which Skerritt outlined when he announced the election. He wants to be the next president of Dominica to shield him from criminal prosecution and a team of puppets which will gladly do everything that he wants is what the puppet master engineered. Over the past 20 years Skerritt has been the spokesperson for all ministries and ministers and by putting giddy inexperienced youth in place who will just be square pegs in round holes suits Skerritt and the puppet master can point to the puppets when he’s accused of being a dictator. However despite the fact that he’s going to get his way even with amending the Byron report to suit his ambitions and a bunch of puppets to facilitate him, the coming year and the looming worldwide recession needs experienced hands at the wheel and the country won’t be well served by this puppet master and his puppets.

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  2. Ibo France
    December 15, 2022

    This is a good team. But, it is a good for what? In my most honest opinion, this team is best to function/perform at a circus, comedy show, karaoke, carnival festival.

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    • Eagle-Eyed
      December 16, 2022

      Ibo, you are so jealous. Your party will never get into power and probably on its way to oblivion and irrelevant like the once powerful Freedom party. Skerrit selected these young people to get experience while the older ones sit in the background guiding them. Over the next few elections they will be a force to be reckoned with, ensuring your party stay out of power for good. Ha! Ha! ha! You have to admit Skerrit is a master tactician in the political arena in DA, that’s why he keeps outwitting the opposition and continues to win over and over again.

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      • Ibo France
        December 17, 2022

        According to to you, Roosevelt is a master political tactician. The Serpent of Evil (Roosevelt) is a Master of Deception, Dishonesty, Darkness, Destruction, Disunity, Dunceness, Dumbness, Deadweight, Debt, Decadence, Decline, Defamation, Destitution, etc.

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  3. Ibo France
    December 15, 2022

    Most politicians are just bandits and thieves disguised in expensive suits and dresses.

    Whether you want to deny it for whatever reason, politicians today are the most divisive, dishonest, deplorable people in our society. They walk around wearing invisible masks to disguise their wicked and selfish intentions.

    The present crop of politicians that is set to govern Dominica for the next five (5) years is a concoction of inept neophytes and greedy, selfish, corrupt miscreants. Their interest is strictly self aggrandizement, it’s not commensurate with the plight of least among us.

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  4. December 15, 2022

    Sean Douglas it’s good to see that you have written an editorial on this forum. There are some who boast of being in the journalism business for decades but yet they cannot express a minute monologue of any topic neither have they written an editorial in their decade long as being a so-called journalist. These so-called journalists are no doubt afraid to say” Roosevelt Skerrit” or even worst to say, “Roosevelt Chichi Skerrit the notorious LIAR and DECEIVER”. In other words, according to some of the so-called journalist, “Let’s give him the benefit of the doubt”. Once again good job Sean Douglas and don’t give up. Keep the pressure on. You’ll be missed on “Talk on The Block’ as we welcome back “Talk to me”.

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  5. Sean supporter
    December 14, 2022

    I wonder what is Sean rational for saying that ” DLP is weakest ever”. This is the strongest showing in election in Dominica’s history. That is the FIRST time any party won 19 seats. So Sean needs to tell the Dominican public what formula or method did he use to arrive at his statement. Addionally, his explanation of the method he used should reference when the DLP got fewer seats in 2014 ( 15 seats), 2019 (18 seats), now 2022 (19 seats). So Sean if a cricket team scores 300 runs and another scores 600 runs, which team is in the WEAKEST position and why?
    To me i heard Sean studied economics!!!!
    SO i guess if country A GDP is $18 billion and country B GDP is $19 billion, he will advice country B to reduce its GDP from $19 billion to $18 billion, because at $19 billion it’s economy is WRAKER than country A’s GDP as $18 billion!!

    I guess is retrogressive or mirror economics Sean studied!!!

    I guess Sean will say 18 is a higher ( stronger) number than 19!!!!!

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    • Putin
      December 16, 2022

      Garsan, you are taking Sean seriously? A mean who is prone to histrionics and extremes and wild claims that he cannot substantiate? A man whose perception or right or wrong changes with the wind? Yesterday I heard Sean on Q95 crying about people “fleecing” the Treasury. I almost choked with laughter because we all heard Sean years ago in that secret recording bragging of his skill at milking the Treasury through his travels on government business. I wonder how is it that the archivists and rabble rousers have not yet pulled up this archived masterpiece to remind Sean.

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    • Galileo
      December 16, 2022

      What are you talking about? Is that what Sean is saying? I thought he was referring to the capabilities of the men and women who were put forward as candidates and who eventually prevailed.

    • Martin
      December 16, 2022

      You are talking utter nonsense and you know it. We understand what Sean is saying. Nobody buys your nonsensical rhetoric.

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    • MEME
      December 16, 2022

      @Sean Supporter
      You are obviously thinking back to front.. This Skerrit’s DLP team of the 2022 sham election, has been the weakest over the past 15 years. Are you unaware that Skerrit himself has lambasted many in the past as LAZY? He has exposed this current team on STAGE ,and threatened to kick them out, because he knows that they are a team of incompetent money grabbers.
      Stop trying to play with figures, when you are just exposing your ignorance in public.
      Sean is 100% correct. This team is the weakest that the country has ever seen…But what does one expect when they were purchased for 30 pieces of silver?

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  6. Man bite dogs
    December 14, 2022

    Douglas, That is what you think DLP is weak you just wait and see old man if you lucky enough to be around Pm Skerrit, is no fool you only angry like the rest because you didn’t get a slice of the cake, man go to HELL along with the rest of your blue monkeys friends.

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  7. Juanita
    December 14, 2022

    Take a group of recycled and disgruntled politicians who are bankrupt of new ideas, add then to a kindergarten class of politicians who are excessively willing to please; task the recycled politicians with the job of “teaching” the kindergarten politicians – that is – socialize them in the ways of evil including maypuis giving and hatred for others of a different mindset, all stirred on a red hot flame. The undeniable result will be a recipe for disaster that will enhance the vicious cycle status of continuing to be the “last caca rat in the Caribbean.”

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    • Lawyer
      December 16, 2022

      Skerrit doesn’t mind that. Whats important to him right now is that nobody stands in his way when he squeezes the last drop of blood out of Ma Dominique.

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  8. mine
    December 14, 2022

    If you see a place of employment is corrupt and stayed working there you are also corrupt. Everything was sweet when you get fired or did not asked for your boss s was corrupted. The UWP should not trust you because you will do the same to them. That’s what you call a con man.

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    • MEME
      December 16, 2022

      @mine
      Sean is free spirited, and this is commendable. People like you will see the wrong, stay MOO MOO and support it..
      This is what i call wickedness and satanic. It’s not all about money, but doing and saying what you know is the truth.

  9. Ibo France
    December 14, 2022

    You judge a person or a team by the effectiveness and efficiency of their performance. Roosevelt and his differently abled teams of deplorables have brought nothing but havoc, pain and misery to Dominica.

    There are deadly economic, environmental and social storm clouds gathering impetus around the globe. Inflation, joblessness, environmental degradation, rare diseases, political and social divisions are adversely impacting our lives like never before. Are these the most qualified and best people that Dominica has to offer to bring relief and prosperity to the nation?

    The future seems very arduous and precarious with such woefully unprepared and eminently unqualified narcissists at the apex of government in Dominicans.

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    • December 16, 2022

      And he is still voted in. Well, well, well, Dominicans are stupid, according to IBO FRANCE in capital letters. Nobody listens to you, Ibo. Chill out for the next 5 years.

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      • Ibo France
        December 17, 2022

        I will chill out when plenty jobs and livable wages become available. Victimization, persecution, pauparization, and political disunity no longer so prevalent in this land. Got it?

    • elizabethlxavier
      December 16, 2022

      Ibo France, with PM Skerrit and his governing body getting a 19-2 election victory, it seems more like it is you and your fellow counterparts, who are in “havoc, pain, and misery”.

      And that effect of you all was inflicted by the rulership of PM Skerrit, but by the sword of jealousy and envy which you and yours have pierced in you all’s own heart.

      Now go and seek healing for you and yours, and leave our satisfied fellow Dominicans out of you all’s miserable discomfort.

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      • Martin of Wesley
        December 17, 2022

        19-2 isn’t the telling figure. 28% of voters participation is the telling figure and your Hero knows it. Now get out of here hypocritical old goat. MASH!

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        • Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
          December 19, 2022

          Try and not insult the lady, Elizabeth is simply on the wrong side of the political equation, she does not mean any harm.

          Even if I come to her defense, she is going to return with a sledgehammer and hit me with it upside my head.

          It would be a miracle if she did not!

          I made a bad mistake the day I was in her house eating her food and drinking her beer, and introduced her to Dominica politics, and that boy Roosevelt.

          Since then, all she does is chop up any body including me who refuse to support Roosevelt.

          She is not a bad person, but a seriously politically misguided woman.

  10. Time-X
    December 14, 2022

    Skerrit made his cabinet to look like a kindergarten boys and girls (toddlers) school to be used as an escape ramp; scapegoating these innocent and underdeveloped potatoes. So when shit hits the fan he could wash his hands like Pilate did. This con man is crucifying these inexperienced flock of sheep. But sheep have a tendency to stray. So let’s see how far they’ll go. O Dominica, where are you? “I’m in the Jaws of a black king who is a Nig….R.” A downright dirty Nig…Er. I call on these newly “selected” parliamentarians in the labor party to resign. Else, you may regret it. You were “selected” by the dictator whose plan it is to use you and abuse you. Go back and listen to a speech he gave in his village. He sent out warnings to you all, using this warning as a covering for himself; knowing that you all aren’t up to the challenge. What a con man, ehh!!

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  11. Dedits
    December 14, 2022

    Skerritt knows he peaked that’s why he is going to do the handover properly,who knows maybe the hand over started long time lol.think about that,he’s 3 to 4 moves ahead of the game.he’s on another level.Truth is that’s what is upsetting to the haters lol

  12. dissident
    December 14, 2022

    Great work Sean…… you were in the bowels of de whale…… you know what you talking about!!!!
    Skerrit is obviously desperate…..1 seat extra!!
    Dat cabinet is broken… can’t deliver what de lazy bunch of de dynamic team couldn’t!!!!

  13. Lawyer
    December 14, 2022

    Well, there we go. Direct from the horses mouth. Mr. Douglas was at the time in the front line. Nothing has changed since, it might be even worse nowadays. I keep on saying it, this country isn’t so much run by a competent PM but rather by a gangster. I mean who would steal election, or steal from one’s own country. As a politician one can’t get much lower!

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    • Putin
      December 16, 2022

      Yea, he was “in the front line” fattening himself until he was kicked out of the line when his dorty ways and malintent were discovered.

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  14. Lin clown
    December 14, 2022

    SEAN DOUGLAS is on a UWP political platform admitting he is one of those who helped remove UWP from office in 2000,because of CORRUPTION.Dominicans know Sean was recorded boasting about living in very expensive hotels and making BIG money when he travelled on government(corruption).The recording was taken to Skerrit and Skerrit fired Sean.Sean campaign with Urban Baron on a UWP ticket,he lost,he campaigned with Samuel Raphael on an independent ticket,he lost.He campaigned with Handbag on an independent ticket he lost.How is it that Sean Douglas could get UWP kicked out of office after 4-1/2 years,and after belching corruption for 20 years he cannot get DLP out?

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  15. December 14, 2022

    I hear you Sean. That is what the fox said when he could not get to the grapes on the tree. Poor fox, he ended up dying of hunger and thirst.

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    • me
      December 14, 2022

      @ds
      Garbage, utter rubbish from you!!
      Try to come up with something productive!!!.
      Sean is spot on with his analysis. The last Skerrit cabinet was already very weak, now it is at the weakest that it has ever been…
      It does not take anyone with a degree to see and to know that.

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    • Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
      December 14, 2022

      ds, I said my days of political debate was over; nevertheless, it very difficult for me to read your comments and not drop my opinion; I think with my experiences in the hospital and all, my comments may not be as incendiary as usual, perhaps I will no longer call Roosevelt a corrupted crook, I leave him to a high power, a high authority.

      In Sean comments I don’t see where he missed any of the Fox grapes, they all benefited from Roosevelt grapes. However, I think it’s going to take people such as Sean to help educate the nation that Roosevelt is a total waste of time who has reached his peak, tired, and ran out of lying political ideas!

      Notice Sean is specific by pointing out two of Roosevelt tools; mainly the International Airport, and some Geothermal Electricity generating plant he used for years to get the votes of those even educated, rendering themselves illiterate, falling for empty promises.
      You ds, are under Roosevelt delusions, there is no for you!

      Hahahahahahahah!

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      • elizabethlxavier
        December 16, 2022

        Telemaque, well there you are, for a little while, I thought you had kicked the bucket, you see!

        Good to know that those two fingers of yours are still working on the computer keyboard; but perhaps you should take your laptop to the hospital, so to use it while you are there.

        That way, perhaps you would have advised your Party UWP to contest the election, and not run away like cowards, because they cannot deal with any more defeat.

        You speak about not calling PM Skerrit corrupt crook, leaving him to the “high power and authority”. Did your constant back and forth hospital movement made you realize that not only your physical heart is half dead, but your spiritual heart is in complete darkness; so it is not your place to judge no one, and especially not a man whom the “High Authority” chose to lead the Nation of Dominica?

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        • elizabethlxavier
          December 16, 2022

          Continuing to Telemaque

          So your fight with “ds” is meaningless. If you agree with the foolishness that, that “Sean Douglas” person is speaking about, just speak directly to his report in agreement.

          Or else, you should be more concerned about calling out loud, to the “Highest Authority” that you spoke about, asking Him for complete healing, physically, mentally, and emotionally, before your time has come to leave that perishing state of yours.

          Love is what your soul must be filled with before you leave your body, which is the “Light of Life”. Unless you are heading into the place of darkness in the Spirit World.

          I guarantee that PM Skerrit is walking with that same concern for his family, himself, and the majority of Dominicans who love him.

          Now think about that!

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        • Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
          December 17, 2022

          Elizabeth, what I experience from November, 9th, and through out the month of November, and into December, I need no conviction from anyone that God Almighty is alive and well, and with his love and healing power, I am still breathing his oxygen

          For many days all I could see is people walking out walls:
          Hahahahahahahahahahahahah! The nurses and my girl Rendy would be in my room: I’d be seeing millions of different color of lights filled the room; I saw things which occurred in the civil war in America more than a hundred years before I was born. If I had ten computers I’d not be able to write; I had a procedure where I am now bionic like you; but two days after the procedure, I suffered a mild stroke!
          So, all of what I saw was produced by my right Cerebral Cortex which is responsible for higher level processes of the human brain, including language, memory, reasoning, thought, learning, decision-making, emotion, intelligence, and personalty.
          So, you see “I ain’t crazy.”

          • Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
            December 17, 2022

            So, let me get back into the politics briefly, I see a few of you very excited about Roosevelt winning some kind of election nobody won anything!
            The only people who voted are the red devils labor people: Be reminded a Caribbean Court ruled that there should not be any political election in Dominica, until electoral reform is implemented.
            How about that Elizabeth?
            If is one thing I will agree with you on is that even under Roosevelt crooked, and unethical behavior, I think the UWP and any, and all of the major opposing parties made a serious error when they decided not to contest. I am sure if they did even without faces as Lennox, they would have won the Election, and Roosevelt would become history!
            Instead we have a culprit for another five years.
            Elizabeth, that’s not even a shallow victory, the election was boycott by people who acted on the ruling of the court.
            Once again Roosevelt is not the legitimate prime minister of Dominica!

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      • December 16, 2022

        Your days of political debate came to an end on December 6th 2022. Nobody listens to you, Francisco. The DLP is back in business. Find yourself a new tune, Francisco. You need to resign yourself to the fact that Skerrit is unbeatable. He is a true champion.

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        • elizabethlxavier
          December 18, 2022

          ds, no! Don’t believe Telemacque, because if his days of political debate against PM Skerrit were over, he would not contend against your response to that “Sean Douglas” person, in that Sean Douglas is speaking against PM Skerrit.

          But he is a coward, and now he is afraid that his constant hospitalization with a bad heart is because of his harsh attitude towards PM Skerrit, who has done him no wrong, since him and people–ex-wife, common law wife; children, and grandchildren– are all living in the United States.

          I guaranty that he thinks his illness is a punishment from the “Higher or Divine Authority” that he spoke about.

          He knows that UWP will never go back into Power over Dominicans.

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          • Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
            December 20, 2022

            In Wesley, when we find someone talking a bunch of baloney, which makes no sense, we simply ask them ” but how you fool so nuh?”

            You will support Roosevelt to the day you die; you will never be able to see the damage this man has done to Dominica!
            Right at this moment, there should be rioting in, overthrowing Roosevelt. There is a horrible shortage of petroleum products on the island existing long before election, yet you labor clowns went took Roosevelt money and voted for him.

            Yesterday, while people standing in line to get five gallons of Gasline, two police went and ordered the service station closed.
            Roosevelt has billions to buy votes, and people like you Elizabeth, but he has no money to pay the people for petroleum products.
            And be reminded Elizabeth, to pick the mort out of your eye before you attempt to remove mine, because Healthwise you are in worst shape than I am!
            And thank God, I have the resources taking care of me, you will never here I beg Roosevelt for…

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        • Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque
          December 19, 2022

          Boy, if you love corruption, thievery and all in that category so much that you prefer to uphold such conduct rather than condemning the evils which plagues the country; I suggest you are out of your mind.
          You profess that Dominica is in the best shape economically, and Roosevelt is the cause.

          You had better acknowledge that under Roosevelt the country is doomed!
          Ask yourself: ‘how come I, me, ds, whosoever I am’ love Dominica and Roosevelt so much, nevertheless, I am somewhere on the plant talking crap helping Roosevelt to fleece the country, becoming a billionaire, while all I have is simply talk.

          So, tell boy how much have you contributed to the development of the country in recent years?

          Don’t ask me the same question, because I built a house in Dominica, employing quite a few people in the process including all the materials for the construction.

          Just as you are a no name so is Roosevelt, know now that Skerrit is his mother maiden name eh!
          Does Roosevelt have a…

    • LifeandDeath
      December 14, 2022

      The problem with Party politics is that it’s easy to get blinded and see or even hear the truth. Just think about how the Ministries were allocated. It’s clear the options were quite slim given that Cassani is Minister for Health and McIntyre Minister for Finance.

  16. Roy
    December 14, 2022

    National reset???
    The man is a delusional idiot for treating the voting population as idiots.

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