Last General Elections a farce – Ron Green

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Political leader of the United Worker’s Party (UWP) Ron Green has described the December 18, 2009 General Elections as a farce.

Green was speaking at a UWP press conference yesterday where he said he has evidence that the Dominica Labor Party bought votes and charted planes for Dominican living overseas to come home to cast their ballots.

“This is the heart of the matter. We can run, we can hide but we all know the truth, the December 18 General Elections were a farce,” Green said.

But according to Green the evidence of vote buying and charted planes never reached the courts. “So I say to Prime Minister Skerrit that you know, you know, you know that there were at least eight charters that arrived at the Melville Hall at a cost of $200,000 each. You know that 1,200 came off these charters and each was given pocket money totaling $1.2 million,” he stated.

Green said the Prime Minister knows who organized the entire enterprise and who the agents were. “You know where this was set up, you know where the money came from,” he said.

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61 Comments

  1. What?
    October 28, 2011

    This guy(Ron):Is NULL and Void.He surely is a POLITICAL PARRO.See what D man taking my Tax Money to do!

  2. Sout Man
    October 28, 2011

    Ron Green is revealing a few things.First of all, he always thinks that our election is a farce. That’s why he has contested elections for the past 20 years even if he knowingly pledges allegiance to a foreign power. Where is the respect, Mr Green? He absolves PM Skerrit of all responsibility for organizing the charters. He alleges that Skerrit knows who organized them. Is it a crime for nationals in the diaspora to return home to vote?

    Secondly, Mr Green claimed that there were 8 charters and 1200 people. That averages to 150 people per flight. When the crew is added we can safely assume that 737 jets landed safely at Melville Hall Airport. Each voter was allegedly given $1000.00; waw!!

    @ listen Well; That was a brilliant attempt at manipulating statistics. DLP got 22,235 votes while UWP got 12,660. The difference is 9,575. If you take away 1200 you are left with 8,375. But that’s beside the point. Someone would have to be a brilliant strategist to allocate the votes to each constituency based on your formula. Their names would also have to be on that constituency’s list. If not, you are choosing the wrong poll clerks to represent your party at the polling station on election day (hint- wink, wink).

    Lastly, Hon Justina Charles got 1350 votes in Grand Bay for the DLP. UWP’s Leanthia Pacquette Lewis got 119 , DFP’s Harian Henry got 19 and DPP’s Peter got 9, totalling 147. 1350 – 147 = 1253. Then 1253 – 1200 = 3. So Grand Bay alone has taken care of the alleged 1200 voters and Hon Justina still wins by 3 votes.

  3. Wait A Minute
    October 28, 2011

    SICK DUDE!!!!!!!!!!!! That’s all I can say!! The man has really lost it!!!!!

  4. Patat
    October 28, 2011

    Lol!!!!

    Next topic: UWP boycotting Independence Celebrations!!!! We know that already

  5. my love is u D/A
    October 27, 2011

    2years has gonne them man still crying, by the time they stop crying next election will be rigth there ,,with no plan to move this lovely country this guys have no idears ,no direction , no future nothing at all just the PM ,..these guys just plain out can’t face up to the PM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  6. tom tom
    October 27, 2011

    Ron, when are you going to do that to yourself.

  7. woyy
    October 27, 2011

    please call the PSYCHIATRIC UNIT!!!! RON GREEN NEED GREEN BEANS! awa lmao..hahaha

    All you not seeing they growing older and older and cannot remember! HE NOT EVEN REMEMBERING HE HAD DO THAT>> HAHAHA LOOK THE SECOND PAPI REACH OH! HAHAHAAHAHAHAAH.>> YOUNG PEOPLE START TO TAKE OVER UWP PLEASE BEFORE people cause of death have to be laughter! LOLLLLLLLLLLLLL

  8. Jespen
    October 27, 2011

    IF YOU HAD EVIDENCE, WHY THEN DID YOU NOT ALLOW IT TO BE EXAMINED BY THE COURTS. YOUR LACK OF BRINGING FORWARD THE REQUIRED EVIDENCE WAS THE VERY REASON FOR THE MATTERS HAVING BEEN THROWN OUT OF COURT.

    IT IS A DONE DEAL. YOU HAD THE CHANCE TO PRODUCE THE EVIDENCE AND YOU FAILED MISERABLY.

    PLEASE FIND ANOTHER MATTER TO TALK ABOUT MAN.

  9. steupesssss
    October 27, 2011

    THAT WAS THE “EVIDENCE” the man claim to have mentioned at his press conference there nah?! Bonje oye… I not living a dream because i know for sure they brought that up against the DLP already! they said and even said they had copies of receipts! DIDN’T THEY.. .Somebody tell me I am NOT having DEJA VU! … SA KA FEH RON GREEN NAH???! THAT THEM MAN HOLDING BACK THE COUNTRY’S AFFAIRS!!! lol lol AHBEN AWA AWA AWA… THEY NEED TO DO SOMETHING WITH THESE PEOPLE BECAUSE I NOT IN THAT!!!

    • DANZIGER
      October 27, 2011

      SATAN CANT CORRECT SINS.

  10. cricket fan
    October 27, 2011

    MR Green you guys are all the same because i was on the flight from new jersey and half of the plane was UWP because your flight to antigua left early.

  11. Prophet2
    October 27, 2011

    It truly was, lost democracy.

  12. Glory be
    October 27, 2011

    If so many people can get into Dominica BY AIR in such a short space of time, WHY THE HELL DO WE NEED AN INTERNATONAL AIRPORT??

    • Anonymous
      October 28, 2011

      True!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • sansay
      October 28, 2011

      you are so right

  13. Princess
    October 27, 2011

    Dodo, go and sleep nah.

  14. real possie
    October 27, 2011

    One thing i want to know was it haitians that were flown in to vote or was it dominicans eddo did the same thing mamo did it to this has been going on in da for a long time so y cry is nothing better u all have to do.

  15. What?
    October 27, 2011

    Ron,you remind me of Humty Dumty.You sat on the UWP wall,which had no foundation,so it scrumbbled.Sorry for your great POLITICAL FALL!All your demonstrations and all the bias,negative,and malicious talks on Q95,can never ever bring you and the UWP back in power again.

  16. polosim
    October 27, 2011

    Green need to start working on his manifesto now and move on, the last election is long gone, move on you fool. DNO please don’t give this an avenue to spread this crap. I think Green is sounding more and more like PAPI. Get a job Green or better yet create some, Dominica needs it.

  17. Jbfox
    October 27, 2011

    Am 100 percent sure that many of the individuals who left the U S V I were uwp supporters so that wasn’t a one sided thing both parties benefeted from it.Ron u will cry till Ur tears dry out then u will cry blood.

    • DANZIGER
      October 27, 2011

      I think he will borrow tears to cry.

  18. Anonymous
    October 27, 2011

    If they giving tickets next election…Moi la I coming to vote….and eat some sharlup toutou yampei, and rum punch….I coming…

    TICKET PLUS GOOD FOOD… EQUALS MY DAMME BELLY FULL..AND I SEE MY MAMMA AND MY PAPPA..

    MY NAME IS ANONYMOUS AT-LARGE.

  19. Evil-skerrit
    October 27, 2011

    Oh now I understand why they not in parliament

  20. want to know
    October 27, 2011

    It seems to me that Ron green is suffering with a complex and there is not a doctor on Island that can cure him so he continue to spread that complex to others,thats why after 22 months since beaten 18-3 Ron green and his crew still cannot get over it.The reason Ron green giving for proving that the 2009 election is a farce is the very same thing his party dose before the 2000 general election but it did not work in their favor so they beleive that the same thing happen in 2009.But i want to remind R0n green that first time in the history of dominica’s election we have seen so many people observing the election and the result given by all of the observers is the elestion was rair and square.So stop behaving like little children and begin to accept the reality and begin to put your house in other hopping that come 2014 or 15 your party will become victorious, in the mean time i’ll travel the world just for me to get the kind of doctor suitable to get you heal from that complex your are suffering with,cause if not i’m seeing a 21-0 next time aroung.

    • sansay
      October 28, 2011

      political syndrome

    • Anonymous
      October 28, 2011

      Frankly…I don’t believe that you want to know….See,sadly,I’ve come to the conclusion that some Dominicans do not like truth, even when it is right before their very eyes…they refuse to see, or believe. Because it does not suit their political agenda . And this is a major problem here in this Country….We are too tribalistic….We ought to be more Patriotic….Country first.
      We need to be more thoughtful….Think more through issues, that will enable us to be more rational in our assessment,based upon facts…
      That way, we will be better informed and less prone to swallow the propaganda.

      Too much Party politics based on ignorance,
      misinformation, half truths and deception….And that tends to hinder our progress…..
      We need to move forward into this 21st century, better informed and equipped and educated in order to face our various challenges head on…..
      Educated Citizens, makes a better Country….
      Valid and accurate information based upon facts, is but one of many potent tools we ought to arm ourselves and fellow Citizens with, if we are to become a great Nation, as well as compete globally…..

      Profound peace ….and….All the best .

  21. BA YO BWA
    October 27, 2011

    Mr. Green, I have a problem; do so never like so. You speak about the plane loads of people coming in to vote like the UWP never did the same thing. It worked in their favour so what? Satan cannot correct sin. I would like you to forget the last election. It is in the PAST. Kindly focus on the FUTURE and give us an alternative to the bull crap going on in this country. LET THE ELECTION GO!!!! Forward ever. Concentrate on representing the people who still had confidence in you and try to get some more to come on board.

  22. Malatete
    October 27, 2011

    I believe mr. Green but that makes it even more important to represent their voters inside parliament.

  23. concerned
    October 27, 2011

    I can’t believe election was 2 years ago and them man who are supposed to represent us are still holding a grudge over an election result. How do they expect people to try to have confidence in them. come on as supposingly high educated people GROW UP and show that you can do better than that

  24. C/bean Genius
    October 27, 2011

    All i can say is i was in a particular caribbean island and a friend told me to go see a particular person to get a ticket to go dominica for election…

    I didnt…

    Enough said…

    • C/bean Genius
      October 28, 2011

      I am getting the thumbs down because i didnt take the election ticket? Or because labour supporters dont like hearing the truth???

      I support only the development of Dominica, and whoever i see doing the right thing will get my praise.. Doesnt matter who in power. So take the senseless thumbs down and shove it…

  25. sugar
    October 27, 2011

    PLEASE RON GIVE IT UP! SO WHAT IT WAS NOT ONLY LABOUR PARTY SUPORTERS THAN CAME DOWN ON THE FLIGHT, UWP ALSO HAD SUPORTERS ON BOARD THE FLIGHT. JUST MOVE ON WITH YOUR LIFE NOTHING IS FOREVER U HAD YOUR TIME TO SHINE NOW IS SKERIT TIME UNTIL HIS TIME IS UP MAN GIVE IT A BRAKE TAKE YOUR FAMILY ON A VACATION OUR SOMETHING IS NOT WHAT YOU KNOW BUT WHAT U CAN PROVE IN COURT YOU HAD ALL THE TIME TO COME UP WITH EVIDENCE WHILE U ALL TOOK LABOUR PARTY TO COURT WHY DO U WANT TO START A COURT CASE UP AGAIN TAKE A CHILL PILL MAN A ME SAY SO!!!

  26. Listen Well
    October 27, 2011

    To the person talking about 1200 caused 18-3 and what if more came, get your calculator out.

    Wesley was won by the DLP by only 75 votes

    Castle Bruce was won by the DLP by 155 votes

    Laplaine was won by the DLP by only 2 votes

    Morne Juane was won by the DLP by only 8 votes

    Roseau North was won by the DLP by just 117 votes

    The total margin for these 5 seats is 357 votes

    Subtract that from the 1200 figure stated, this leaves you with 843

    Then go to St. Joe for example, a win by 350

    Roseau Valley, a win by 270

    Must I go on?

    And then you couple that with all the double voting, plus votes on dead people’s name.

    See, the problem with some of you. You come here on DNO and speak on subject matters that you guys really not informed about.
    The DLP knows the truth. This 18-3 is just a farce and does not and did not reflect to true feeling on the ground from the people who have lived in Dominica from 2005-2009.

    This is why they always on edge, always afraid, always in defense mode, they on kairi all week defending themselves, because they know…the 18-3 is a farce…make belief.

    A true and honest winner of 18 seats would relax with his legs crossed and just do his work.

    Time will tell.

    • sugar
      October 27, 2011

      SO STOP FRIGIN CRYING AND WAIT FOR TIME YOU GUYS JUST DON’T GET IT YESTERDAY HAS GONE AND BURY IS NOTHING ALL U SAY OUR TRY TO DO WILL CHANGE THINGS STOP WISHING FOR THE MAN TO FALL WHAT U WISH FOR SOME ONE WILL COME BACK AT U LET IT GO ALL OF ALL SEEMS SO DESPERATE AND GREEDY FOR POWER WHAT A SHAME

      • Anonymous
        October 28, 2011

        Please, d change your name to vinegar…you are an a&&.
        You should always make assessments based upon facts…..and those are the facts……

    • WIKILEAKS
      October 27, 2011

      You speak too fast..slow down. You will get indegestion. You are no statitician, the math does not add up.

    • want to know
      October 27, 2011

      LISTEN WELL i beleive you when you say time will tell.Lets just sit and relax to see how time will tell cause if Ron green continue to behave in the manner he does there’s no doubt but 21-0 next time aroung. I REALLY AGREE WITH YOU time will tell.

    • Look it
      October 27, 2011

      That attitude get you know where that’s why it was 18-3 uwp relaxed crossed there legs and got a whipping

    • A Liberated Libyan
      October 27, 2011

      @ Listen Well Master piece analysis!! But don’t expect people like BUWO to understand stuff like that.. This election was a strategic steal and they know it! Who cares about statistics like the one you so brilliantly presented in Dominica. Time well tell one or the other!

    • ??????
      October 27, 2011

      So where are the UWP supporters today? Why don’t they show up at meetings? They should be rallying behind their party but are nowhere to be found. You guys are really in denial!

    • Anonymous
      October 28, 2011

      Boy, that is very interesting indeed…..quite alarming and very disturbing….Frankly, reasons for concern…

    • Curious
      October 28, 2011

      I’m sure that i can count – 843 -350 = 493 – 250 = 223.

      Based on your calculations, I got 6 wins so far; leaving 12 more electoral district wins not yet accounted for.

      So you are saying that the 223 remaining votes were spread out over the 12 remaining electoral districts? And then “all the double voting, plus votes on dead people’s name” allowed the DLP to drastically win the elections?

      Ok… your logic defies me…so i’ll let you continue in your new mathematical school of thought

      Then you say”A true and honest winner of 18 seats would relax with his legs crossed and just do his work” …am i missing something here? Isn’t Skerritt pretty much IGNORING the UWP… what i have been reading recently is about PROGESS…news road,s bridges, schools…etc… that is not sitting and not doing anything.

      Some may say it’s small…but they can’t deny that things are happening. May not be on a grand scale..but look around…look to the articles where Dominica has been getting so many praises…top Caribbean island to invest in a business….

  27. CC
    October 27, 2011

    As long as that red clinic is in place, Dominicans who are recipients will not complain at all.

  28. Arab
    October 27, 2011

    we need to make comments as politicians with evidence to back it up.

  29. D'can By Marriage
    October 27, 2011

    Mr Ronald Green and your piont is??????
    Do you remember when Sugar Aloes say he beat Sparrow although Cro-Cro was 1st runner up and he Aloes 2nnd runner up he say he beat the King.. Hint he had to first beat Cro-Cro to get to Sparrow…My Piont here is UWP loss the election 18 to 3 not 18 to 17 Mr Green. Do us a favor and please stay out the limelight ok

  30. Anonymous
    October 27, 2011

    Ron try going forward, and not backward….Run means going faster than the ones who walk…..

    NEXT CHARTER PLEASE….YESTERDAY IS GONE TOMORROW IS OUT OF SIGHT..AND DON’T GO BACK TO THE COURT WASTING TAX PAYERS MONEY..OVER WHAT HAS GONE ON WITH OTHER POLITICAL PARTIES..

    TIME FOR A FAMILY CRUISE, YOUR FAMILY ARE THE ONES YOU SHOULD TRY TO SHOW SOME LOVING..THEY ARE SUFFERING…IN SILENCE..ESPECIALLY MRS GREEN….

  31. justice to be served
    October 27, 2011

    Mr. Green, here are the facts, you were unprepared. Plain and simple, your cousin Palestrina ask the PM to call the election, he did, you ask for foreign observers, you got it, they said election was fair. You lost. You been going to court since spending all the little money all you had to spend instead of using it to rejuvenate the party and get prepared for the next election. Basically you have just proven that you have no leadership skills,good leaders are skill in strategic thinking, and you are not.You have been out maneuvered and out smarted at every turn. So now do yourself a favour and go and write your memoirs on the things u must not do when in politics.

    • C/bean Genius
      October 27, 2011

      I am not any party supporter, but i think the dominican populace on a hold was outsmarted not just Ron.

      Not seeing the real economic drivers that i thought a young leader full of new ideas would implement. We getting same old ideas but with a younger face.

  32. We he People
    October 27, 2011

    Mr. Green, knowing that and understanding the corruption that is inherent in that action, do you pledge, if you form the next government to make such actions illegal?

    That is my biggest beef with these parties. They whine and cry in opposition, but you never hear them saying they will outlaw the very things they complain about.

    It is not good enough to complain. You must pledge to do something about that which you think is not in the country’s best interest.

  33. Curious
    October 27, 2011

    It was a FARCE…so by right, the UWP’s 3 seats… were not FAIRLY gained.

    Yet, I have heard not one mention that these 3 seats were part of the corruption

    If all the elections was rigged, then no results should be counted as legit!
    They should have just not participated in the FARCE.

    And the measly 1200 which came off those air crafts created that 18-3 victory.

    Imagine, if more people had come?

    Damn… that’s a shame that 1200 ppl altered and election to such proportions.

    Having said that… if the evidence was so tantamount, it should have been presented to the high body and have the results declared null and void. But alas…only bi-elections went out and these bi-elections in a sense validated the Main elections, because the UWP accepted the bi-elections

  34. Time will tell
    October 27, 2011

    Keep crying Green one Day you will stop next election freedom party will be in opposition.

  35. Way Out There
    October 27, 2011

    Is there a way to know for sure how each person voted after leaving the box? Were these non Dominicans coming of the planes? If they were in fact born Dominican citizens, has their right to vote been taken away, because they live abroad?

    • politbureau
      October 28, 2011

      the hard raw fact is that as long as your name is on the list when the final writ is issued then you do have the right to vote.The prelimminary list of electors have recently been published along with invitations to lodge objections to the list. I wonder how many objections has Mr. Green and his party lodged. Yet they are wasting time and money quarrelling about past elections and voters list while Roosevelt Skerrit is alraedy preparing for the next one.that why he will keep beating them.

  36. SANCTUS
    October 27, 2011

    :oops:

  37. Anonymous
    October 27, 2011

    It never reached the courts????

    You are reminded that you were on a fishing expedition Mr. Green. The Judge that said so.

    It is high time Skerrit charge all you for all you foolishness.

    You sound angry that the court matter has not gone in your favor.

    You sound angry that your very own lawyer recommends that you and Peter face off in another election since he could not plead equity on your behalf; your hands were tainted with the very same allegations – you had a foreign passport as well.

    That is what is killing you. You have to pay the lawyer!!!.

    Don’t blame Skerrit. D man thinking of his future as a Chief Justice and must appear to be impartial for politicians have a long memory!!!

    All returning Dominicans are very satisfied to see the progress being made in Dominica to date; never mine households cannot paint their homes for the Independence and have National decorations all over as prior years; they not mal as all you tried to make them believe on Q.

    A lot of all your friends came down to make their eyes boil their peas, but man oh man were they in for a shock or what!!!

    Take that.

  38. SANCTUS
    October 27, 2011

    AYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE HEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEEHE RON GREENE STILL THERE CRYING OVER SPILLED MILK POOR GUY :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: HE NEEDS SOME BREAST MILK PLEASE GOT MILK? HEHEHEHEHEHE

  39. justice to be served
    October 27, 2011

    Alas poor petit, stop crying, mummy kiss it better for you. Look it is call politicks or politricks, Eddison did the same,all u lose get over it. move on.
    Help the young man Hector to rejuvenate the party, start a membership campaign. Get Hector to go to the house so he can learn parliamentary procedure,on how to debate effectively.
    There is work to be done for democracy in Dominica, and you three blind mice are not helping the process or the development of Dominica.
    Start reading and studying the constitution.,

  40. rollingstone
    October 27, 2011

    This is exactly why they don’t want to clean up the voting list. The evidence is in the voting list and the numbers will reveal the ugly reality.

  41. Buwo
    October 27, 2011

    Poor petite, you still haven’t gotten over the traumatic experience of such a major loss in 2009.

    If I were you I would concentrate on putting my team together for the next general elections. Crying over the last one isn’t going to help.

    You really look troubled. You need help Mr Green.

    Hahahahahaha

    • SANCTUS
      October 27, 2011

      HEHEHEHEHHE :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: HE WAS TOO BUSY HATING HE FORGOT TO LAUNCH THE MANIFESTO LOL POOOOOR LITTLE TURTLE.

    • DANZIGER
      October 27, 2011

      Buwo you killing me look jokes.Ron has a GP by all means he wants to be the prime minister of Dominica. I think there are four different moon. to each moon he has a problem with the DLP. New moon the PM this, first quarter 2009 general election was unfair,full moon PM has dural citizen last quarter PM PAY plane for DOMINICANS LIVING OVERS TO COME HOME TO VOTE FOR LABOUR. THAT GP WILL NEVER CURE RON.

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