Two resilient regional emergency shelters were recently commissioned in Jimmit and Castle Bruce. Five years after Hurricane Maria decimated Dominica, the Nature Isle’s successful and ongoing resilience journey has become an example and case study for the region and the world.
Caribbean countries are now very familiar with the ravages of climate change. Hurricanes batter shores yearly, floods wreak havoc, harvests are destroyed, and lives are lost. The pace of global warming seems to quicken with every passing season.
On the eve of the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Maria’s onslaught on Dominica on September 18, 2017, where 65 persons lost their lives and resulted in damage of approximately USD1.3 billion (226% of Dominica’s GDP); a different Dominica has emerged, a new Dominica is being built, a more developed Dominica now exists, and a dynamic Dominica is within reach.
What is painfully obvious is that increasingly unpredictable weather events mean that business as usual is not an option for the islands to survive. Scientific analysis shows that the climate of the Caribbean region is already changing in ways that seem to signal the emergence of a new climate regime. Hurricanes Irma and Maria fit this pattern all too well. At no point in the historical records dating back to the late 1800s have two category five storms made landfall in the small Caribbean Island chain of the Eastern Caribbean in a single year. Read More
Next month features the impact of CREAD projects and initiatives over the past five years.
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Shut up devils son (ds) everybody know what the person meant!
You don’t know because you cannot recognized a typing error!
You old, old, ole, ole,…….!
Well, baby Elizabeth, you know most of the time the fingers go crazy while the mind races on at a million miles per hour; hence, my errors I don;t see until my submissions are posted, and I read back on the forum.
I hate to admit it, but I am in a bad habit of not editing prior to posting!
Hope you are fine; guard yourself against the last days of summer heat.
I could have died yesterday from dehydration, I found out last night when my blood pressure began to drop rapidly. They say how I like to google, but it is a good thing I am a medical school droop-out, so I knew what to go and get from the pharmacy at 11:00 o’clock last night to save my life.
In California Death Valley; yesterday was 127 degrees, today in the Inland it is 107 degrees, tomorrow it will be hot too, so by 8:00 o’clock tonight I am heading to my other home in Los Angeles, where it is going to be cooler for the rest of the week.
And let me tell you I tired call your number; not getting any answer…
You could have done us no bigger favour, medical school drop-out. Enough now, mash Rex.
Look at you, you damn dog, you running out of names now!
You nasty hungry little puppy dog!
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!
You can crawl at my feet until you rollover and drop in that nasty pit hole you and your mother have behind your house filled with water mixed with you know what, is so it stink nu; I will not give you a ripe half rotten banana to save your nasty life!
I dislike you with a passion; cause you have no shame, the more I insult you; you just keep returning for more insults; never seen a dog like you in all of my long life of living!
You stinking dog mash!
Hahahaha, I knew my comment would make your blood pressure rise even higher. As I mentioned on so many occasions before, you are one of the biggest shysters I’ve ever come across. An attention seeker par excellence. For the last time, mash Rex! And by the way, who needs your rotten banana?
Sorry Dodds she left you for another. She is in love with this white man a bird chaser in Canada She dropped you like a hot potatoe old Dodds. The guy I saw her with was kind of. decent. You have enough to mind your business old REX….Maybe the PM will be able to breathe now…A break from old Blah Blah Blah…Liz said Mash tone!!!!!!!This Giraudel chick dump you.. sorry Son Fu Ma John. LET PM BREATHE NOW.
But you crazy eh!
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!
I doh know what you talking bout, okay, you not getting Son Fu Ma John in any kind of trouble, I doh want me mama start turning in here grave oui!
Have a nice day!
No one more crazy than YOU, Makak-Tods Etinne. The Giraudel chick finally saw the light of day. Skerrit maybe next to be dumped? Wishful thinking I’d suggest.
Hahahaha, we get you going all the time, Rex. We find you very amazing. It’s like trotting on a stinking dog tail. Mash nuh!
The senseless propaganda of the CM is getting bolder by the week. It appears he doesn’t take the people of DA serious anymore. It’s high noon that Dominica find it’s very own Che Guevara.
Dominica rises from what? 20 years of corruption and false accounting? Surely not, last thing I heard the Man in Charge is still in charge.
Why you just write such thing and believe it is true, is this how it works, lol. Why don’t you read this before making such silly assumptions https://www.audit.gov.dm/images/documents/Report_of_the_Director_of_Audit_for_2021_fiscal_year_-_For_website-compressed.pdf
Shut up. Not interested in your waffle nor that of the ‘Director of Audit’. If you had an ounce of shame you wouldn’t even attempt to defend these lies with others from somebody that the same liar appointed. I don’t believe you a word this government says. Why don’t they appoint international independent auditors if they have nothing to hide? Why? Now Mash Mary!
Gray, stop pretending to be ignorant; it is one thing to support corruption!
Who knows what people like you benefits from Roosevelt Skerrit for supporting and upholding his corruption; but keep in mind as long as you all keep voting for him, his personal wealth grows.
In the meanwhile the country gets poorer because the people does not have any economic power, to build their country.
Here we are addressing this damn foolishness about resiliency and Dominica is a model to the region, and the rest of the world!
Can’t you learn to recognize decaying rubbish when you see it. I don’t know what is a resilient building, I don’t know of a resilient building technology, where and when scientists in Dominica develop this technology.
Who are the Dominica scientists and engineers involved; what hypothesis, and scientific method they used to arrive at their resilient theory? The world might be using your nonsensical garbage talk to laugh at the corrupted crook Roosevelt.
Well said Gary. LIARS believe their own lies and swear it is true. OLD FRANCISO. You speak nothing but poison. PM don’t give crap about you. You hate Dominica and can’t stand progress.. Go help Trump win another election or help the GOP midterm election. GO VOTE WHERE YOU PAY YOUR TAX DOLLARS if you ever paid any. You can help your Governor Newsome and stop Ttump junk. We don’t need your advise. GROW WHERE YOU ARE PLANTED YOUR criticism has no power and helps no one.
The CM of Dominica and his fanatic supporters are the best example for your theory.
Your comments are a true reflection of you. They are thoughtless, asinine, uninspiring, pedestrian, inconsequential, and so are you.
Against all odds, a different Dominica has emerged, a new Dominica is being built, a more developed Dominica now exists, and a dynamic Dominica is within reach. Hands up, who has ever heard more shameless BS?
Against all odds let me give you a few more of those world beating but unfinished projects in dynamic Dominica, to name but a few: coffee factory, abattoir, Moroccan hotel, Ainchi hotel, geothermal, new airport, Hampstead bridge… Mind you some of them will be resurrected in time for next election only to disappear again for another 5 years. Only Skerrit could survive this world beating incompetence, empty propaganda and ongoing lying. Dominicans, don’t listen to these mouthpieces that try to sell you non existing nonsense, just look at the facts.
Lin Clown, come back to Dominica to live, you preferred to be in the US undocumented than to be in Dominica. You came to Dominica for a few months in transition to Canada where you presently reside. My God!!!! Brother Dominica is so Great, So Prosperous, So Economically Stable, So Many Jobs. The Big Question, Brother why are you unable to stay there.
You just keep commenting and praising something you have no experience of existing in it. Every one who comments of their struggles in Dominica you keep insult them. Lin Clown go and spend 5 years in Dominica under your beloved Roosevelt Skerrit stop being so arrogant and ignorant towards people who a suffering. WHO IS IN THE KITCHEN FEELS THE HEAT BROTHER. SOME LABOR SUPPORTERS ARE JUST SILENT BUT THEY ARE SUFFERING.
I THINK I KNOW YOU WELL ENOUGH AND I KNOW YOU KNOW BETTER. STOP BEING A WANNA BE.
YOU TRYING TO BELONG AND YOU WILL NEVER BE.
ENJOY YOUR FAMILY AND LET THE PEOPLE SUFFERING IN DOMINICA BE.
I PRAY GOD HELP YOU
Don’t make sense. YOU said he is in hidding or illegal resident in thd USA then you said he traveled to CANADA. how was he able to travel back to the U SA being illegal. Make it make sense please.
Let me tell you; you are very correct about the suffering of many of the labor supporters of that crook Roosevelt Skerrit. They complain in silent, a few weeks ago I spoke to one of them, who admitted that since Roosevelt; Dominica is in worst shape in the history of our nation, dating back to the colonial days!
I suggest to the person, that if (they) and I say they simply to avoid genda, to evade Roosevelt spies such as that crooked Lin Clown, but anyway I suggest the person speak about it in the open; the person told me they have to remain silent because they are waiting on a house!
So, here lies the poor people of Dominica’s problem.
The only jobs existing in Dominica are in the civil service, and a few none-established government works; outside of that more than ninety (90%) percent of those residing in Dominica are unemployed.
Had it not be for some of us in the diaspora, with kind hearts helping some at home, there might be overwhelming starvation in the country!
If there is a an organization in Dominica called creed or what; I suggest they are a bunch if ignorant, or indeed SOB’s who believes Dominicans are stupid or dumb!
In the first place to talk about Dominica is used as a model to the rest of the world, in their crap is pure garbage!
Nonsense!
Anything new must derived from R&D, and I wish these stupid lying people and the corrupted rat Roosevelt Skerrit understand the term R&D means “Research & Development.” So, I want to know where in Dominica are they conducting research and development, on their so called resilient homes bridges, and roads, so that when the learns from the region, and the rest of the world delegation goes to Dominica Roosevelt can demonstrate with with wind power against his resilient buildings, he should also have a bridge built; put under pressure with hydraulics pressure while he floods the foundations.
Everyone who reads DNO or listens Radio & TV in Dominica are not idiots; I hope!
These crab people, are into fart talk okay; it is all election propaganda its like the same piece of crap from a Castle Bruce goat when that liar said he shipped a million pounds of fish from Dominica, to the United States of America, of all places; and millions more to the rest of the Caribbean.
Not one of Roosevelt supporters took the time to ask him how he manage that when people can’t get fish to buy in Dominica.
You know I worked for Wyle Environmental Laboratories where we test objects, anything that goes into space. Aircraft’s parts and even motor vehicles parts ruining in the street, we even test them against wind and dust, and submerge into water.
I don’t see anybody from the region, and the rest of the going to Dominica for squat, Roosevelt and these none-credible scoundrels does not have any shame.
You all are Roosevelt lap dogs, and yard fouls. Change your name from Creed t lap dogs, and yard fouls. You damn puppets where are your wind tunnels, used in building…
Francisco, Dominica is really used as a model for the rest of the world as ‘What NOT to do’ and ‘What NOT to become’.
The country is in the cellar position in everything: economic, infrastructural, sporting, health development. It’s a glaring lesson as to how corruption ravages a nation.
Our people lbo, are a special kind; many of us don’t think before we talk about what does not make sense!
I mean after the hurricane that left Roosevelt roof blown left him in his wet underwear, the clown said the next day “we are invincible!”
The following day England Prince Charles said in a complimentary way “the Dominican people are a “resilient people” by the time Roosevelt heard that he picked it up not actually know the definition, came up with this crap that Dominica is going to be the first resilient country in the world.
It is okay to make stupid comments; but in a case like this thing that the rest of the world is patronizing Dominica resilient building as a model, when you do not have any science which you can present on the subject is just stupid!
Against all odds; when they damn well know they are lying. Roosevelt stands in front of what appear to be a box of concrete with rod iron sticking out; that might be what engineers and scientist will use as a model!
Telemaque, the word is not “creed” it is “CREAD” meaning: “Climate Resilience Execution Agency”.
Read the Headline from DNO above, it says: “NEWS FROM CREAD: Against all odds: Dominica rises!” And the report is not speaking about the APOSTLE’S CREED.
You are right to say that: “Everyone who reads DNO or listens Radio & TV in Dominica are not idiots”. Good thing that I am not accessible to Radio & TV there, but thanks to DNO.
But I have to tell you that those who read your comments and give you the positive thumbs rating are “definitely idiots”, because neither you nor them understands what is written or being said.
You people are like the blind leading the blind; or the deaf asking the blind, “do you hear what I see”. This is so unfortunate, but as the headline said: Dominica is rising.
Thanks for the negative thumbs rating.
Of course, you feel obliged to add your 2 penny’s worth. Let me put it this way, it might be easier for you to digest, CREAD = GREED.
Thinking is the bridge between ignorance and frivolous comments, you make, when will you start thinking and stop writing nonsense. https://www.news.gov.dm/index.php/news/4547-canada-undp-supporting-establishment-of-cread https:// blog.bluebeam.com/dominica-climate-resilience-building/ Sitting behind your computer and making such comment means nothing it only shows how silly you are and how much you cannot express an informed opinion as it regards the development of Dominica, so long for your perpetual silliness.
Look, once you manage to get a source that is NOT connected to the government of Dominica, come again. Otherwise stay out of here which means we’ll never hear from you again. Disgusting!
Lol, I wonder if you really read and understand before making your comment, it is sad. The link I gave, is this about getting a source not connected to The Government. Here you have an agency from The Canadian Government making a commitment to our Government with financial assistance to CREAD, and you’re telling me I’m disgusting for acknowledging and pointing this out, no wonder facts are stubborn, and will not disappear on account of your ignorance and political partisan beliefs, oh, and not hearing from me is not going to erase the facts and neither is it going to stop the Government with their vision, so long.
So long, sucker!
Gary, I think that you are often inebriated before to post your ridiculously senseless hogwash.
You know Gary, as they always say, everybody is entitled to be an idiot just like Ibo and Francisco and Jonathan.
There are many new buildings here and there, yes. Most are not functional. This is shameless propaganda. Just blaming everything on climate change is a cop-out. CREAD has lost CRED.
Right on, some famous examples: abattoir, coffee factory, Moroccan hotel…
Imagine the amount of income this could generate for state and citizens. But, alas, the CM prefers to let them rot but instead he sets up this nonsense Greed which only costs money but will never ever contribute to our GDP. THE MAN IS CLUELESS…
One question… which village in Dominica does “Karen Mahy” hail from?? Is she a citizen of Dominica. By “investment” or birth?? Did she grow up in Dominica? How long has she lived in Dominica??
She is from Barbados Tyrone. I recall she worked for Ross as a communications person, so if you think this sounds more like GIS speak you not far wrong. She specialises in bringing good news, in other words propaganda. She should be in advertising.
You are right. However, she is a member of GREED already. Hope I spelled this correctly. Skerrit would go out of his way to find like minded people to give high paying jobs to in our country, and our people are starving.Makes sense, doesn’t it? If you are a Labour supporter.
With that type of comment, do you think that is what we need as Dominicans to develop our Nation, lol. Look at what has been achieved in planning for future disasters, who benefits from such initiatives, is it not Dominicans. There is a type of mental atmosphere sweeping through our country, so pathetic, such type of mental atmosphere will never help in moving our Country forward for the future generation, so long be content with your loathsome comment.
Yes we do. But what we certainly DON’T need is people like YOU.
Another BIG lie on a different day
What is the big lie, in the above press release, do you know what a lie is; I would like you to point out the lie to your fellow Dominicans. Do you think sitting behind your computer saying such a thing is a lie makes it a lie. Keep on deceiving yourself.
Stop responding to these people. They yearn for Lennox Linton to be PM of Dominica but, it will not happen, not on this earth, not on the next one. I pay these guys no mind anymore. All I do is to suck them comedies. That is all they are worth. I would sooner spend my precious time making love to my wife than listening to these old, useless, washed out men who need to check their ED.
Creed is the face and oats of Roosevelt Skerrit and everything Skerrit is part of or has his hand on is corrupt and propaganda. Creed or greed is nothing more than Skerrit’s propaganda machine and therefore I don’t pay any mind to their lies
The same set of crooks and traitors,who rejoiced when hurricane Maria destroyed Dominica.IBO,Lawyer,Francisco-DOG,Same old,Still red andJuanita.Crooked traitors and parasites living on the blood,sweat and tears of Skerrit and Labourites.Braying for more than 20 years.Lazy,always swearing and complaining,a group of losers and rejects buried up to their eyebrows in cow dung.
When will you stop being a “JACKA..”because all you ever do is BRAY whenever under stress about PM Skerrit and Labourites but never DOMINICA.
Why don’t you instead educate the likes of me by telling us DOMINICA’S current economic performance – its achievement of economic policy objectives. What are the GOALS set by PM Skerrit gov’t to improve the economic situation of DOMINICA. I’m particularly referring to GROWTH, LOW UNEMPLOYMENT, LOW & STABLE INFLATION, AND A SATISFACTORY BALANCE OF PAYMENT.
Guy, you crazy like hell talking out of your mind; I was not in Dominica when Hurricane Maria damaged the country; I wish it had blown you and corrupted Roosevelt away rather than my late sister house, to which I built here a replacement house shortly before she died; its now locked up in the village of Wesley.
I resided in Los Angeles then, where I still resides, so how could I be a traitor parasite living off anything the corrupted crook Roosevelt has?
Listen, I a am not a crook, I am not a thief!
I do not want anything from any thief eh!
Hahahahahahahahahahah!
If what I receive is not from God, kid Francisco don’t want it, Roosevelt hands are not clean, therefore I don’t want anything from him!
As for you that liar claim to be in US military, when we found out you are a bit of scumbag living in Canada on welfare!
When Lennox become Prime Minister he will not fly around in sky thieving people thing like a certain prime minister I know eh!
Damn thief:…
What’s the name of this government organisation, CREAD or is it actually GREED? The later is the more feasible one.
Ok Margaret Thatcher, we got it. Next time always proof read what you write. The word you are looking for is latter not later. Unless you want to say, later for the UWP cabal.
Not all of us as clever as you D ip S tick. Hahahaha
@ds, not only that, these people do not know the heck what they are talking about. This Margaret person concludes that her term CREED is the feasible one. Does she know what she is saying?
The term creed means:
1: a brief authoritative formula of religious belief, such as the Nicene Creed
2: a set of fundamental beliefs
also : a guiding principle Never settle for mediocrity is his creed.
However the term CREAD has it definition which is: “Climate Resilience Execution Agency”. Those people have no idea what they are yapping about, they need to remain quiet.
Liz, Elizabeth, I am not going to try and debate you on this because I know you will win the debate.
Nevertheless; I simply would like you or someone to please explain to me and the rest of the world who are going to use Dominica’s CREAD ” Dominica organization of Climate Resilience Execution Agency technology to build houses in America, Canada, France England, all of the Middle East, Africa, and Timbuktu and all the forgotten places.
In cold countries and in the Saharan desert North and south pole too.
I am exaggerating that but simply to expose the stupidity of the idiots called CREAD!
Liz, if there could be resilient buildings, don’t you think there would be some technology used in the United States, and the more developed countries with money to accomplish that; the strong wealthy and mighty nations putt people into space, and now contemplating landing on Mars, would have a resilient technology?
Con:
Indeed nothing is impossible; nevertheless, to accomplish such goals plenty of research has to go into something like that.
Keep in mind one simple definition of the term resilient is: able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions: secondly the term can be define as ” a substance or object able to recoil or spring back into shape after bending, stretching, or being compressed!
So, it would appear that what these stupid people and Roosevelt are suggesting is that they are building houses in Dominica that can bend, stretch, compressed, and recoil when hit by a hurricane, fire and flood.
Have you seen what floods has done in the United States recently, and in the past, flood waters has risen over the roof tops of homes, i’m not even mentioning fire; there is absolutely no resiliency against the elements with which we coexists. The Dominica notion is absolutely nonsense, talking crap: show me the resilient house science since it only exists in Dominica!
Cread = the creed of greed.
Aren’t you a clever Dick? You are definitely a candidate for the new ministry of black and blue affairs. Austrie declined it, so it’s yours to loose, Mr. D ip S tick.
If global warming is a significant factor in climate change; cruise ships, aircraft and vehicles – in that order – are the biggest offenders.
That said, Dominica along with the rest of the region, welcomes an increase in all three.
So let’s see, you suggest banning all three to our shores until tourists take to more climate friendly alternatives en masse, right? (Yea, i thought so.)
Ladies and gentlemen, this “for CREAD” performance evaluation summary of CREAD, is being brought to you by CREAD. ‘Tis the season for CREAD! No one can deny that “a different Dominica has emerged, a new Dominica is being built.” Stay tuned for more CREAD!
Our reporters need to do a better job. How many people can it house? What are the amenities if any? When not in hurricane season how will they be used? How much was spent on them to be constructed? Who constructed them (contractors). Tell us information about our two new hurricane shelters.
You have hit the nail on the head. This is one of the saddest reverlations in Dominica, the intellectually lazy, collusive, copy- cut-paste journalism.
They attend these ‘lie’ sessions put on by the lackeys of the despotic administration. They ask no probing questions to get at the facts. Then feed the public with false assertions directly from the lips of these notorious liars.
The quality of the media and the quality of our democracy are deeply entwined. In Dominica the word MEDIA should be replaced with MEDIOCRITY.
More and more every day, in Dominica, the people in the media tend to look, sound, and act like our corrupt, elected officials.
Presently, anyone can become a journalist in Dominica. The bar is set so low that even a man off the streets can easily scale the bar.
‘The nature isle’s successful and ongoing resilience journey has become an example and case study for the region and the world’. Here we go again, our daily and shameless dose of propaganda. Today is different, they even feel it necessary to bombard us with a second dose: ‘on September 18, 2017, where 65 persons lost their lives and resulted in damage of approximately USD1.3 billion (226% of Dominica’s GDP); a different Dominica has emerged, a new Dominica is being built, a more developed Dominica now exists, and a dynamic Dominica is within reach. Damage of approx. USD1.3billion? May I ask who calculated this, how did you arrive at this figure? Let us see the magic formula! Another world beating performance, a different Dominica has emerged, a more developed DA does exist and a dynamic DA is within reach! Utterly empty words again, if not lies. How is Dominica more developed since Maria or even more dynamic! The only major change: even more corruption and more crime.
The highly paid, and pampered soldiers of Roosevelt, spew their unadulterated falsehoods on this forum without being questioned.
Here, look at the Himalayan lies they propagate without restraint or compunction. Most of these statements are not even remotely true, but, they are given clearance to grow feet by media outlets sympathetic to the totalitarian plutocracy.
And here we go again with your nonsense. Man, appreciate what is happening around and stop making an a.shole of yourself.
I for one never accepted mediocrity. I know your standards are considerably lower. The odd envelope containing a few dollar and a free flight every 5 years are reason enough for you to view your birth country through heavily tinted spectacles. You are as your name suggests a Dunce Soul.
ds, can’t you see you are the “a.shole, what is do you see to appreciate. All you do is sit and talk fart, supporting Roosevelt in the fleecing and ripoff of the country; making corrupted billions while your behind in America paying rent; in some damn ghetto!
I am not fighting lbo or the war of anyone else, but if you had any commonsense, you would ask the question who owns Montreal Management, where in the universe this company hales from.
All idiots by now knows Roosevelt is Montreal Management, and everything that this shell company possesses in Dominica is Roosevelt, so all of what this non-existing company owns in Dominica, to whom you believe they belong?
I say they belong to the one man government!
ds, ask yourself how can someone out of a village poor like a church muse in five years without any investment, even after twenty years in politics, in the poorest nation on earth accumulate wealth in the billions of dollars on government pay?
Such a person is a damn thief!
“the nature isle’s successful and ongoing resilience journey has become an example and case study for the region and the world.”
Anybody, who believes that hogwash need to have their head taken off open and replace their brain with a crab brain!
” study for the region and the world.”
I know Roosevelt Skerrit is an uneducated madman, but anybody who entertain that concept and ideology is an idiot!
Has anyone in Dominica seen anybody from the region, North America, and Europe go to Dominica to study Roosevelt so called resilient buildings?
In as much as some prime minister like to make an idiot of himself in the event a delegation would undertake such venture, the carpaud would have them on DNO and all over the place showing off.
I challenge, or will pay any Dominican who can present a speck or floor plan, of a Dominica resilient building, along with the science behind it, show us the scientific method developed to arrive at this resilient technology!
Damn lie!