Dominica Labour Party candidate for the Castle Bruce constituency Johnson Drigo has emerged victorious over United Workers Party candidate Bernard Wiltshire. Drigo received 849 votes while Wiltshire got 681.
Independent candidate Jacqueline Laurent Theodore got 7.
Drigo has replaced Laureen Bannis-Roberts who stepped out of the political arena
just weeks ago.
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FATHER , JUST DO YOUR TING/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
God bless u man.Remember God is the one put u there not man ,put God number 1 in your life, and every thing will workout, am going to do what every i can to help in the development of Castle Bruce.
I have a few project in mind to help my people in Castle Bruce , so take it one day at a time, we need to take Castle Bruce to it right standing in Dominica,and am asking Castle Bruce people were every u are do something to help develop our Village because we can do better thanks
December 23, 2009
Mr. Steven Griner
Chief of Mission
OAS Election Observer Mission
Dear Sir:
Your preliminary report on the Dominica Election of December 18th, 2009 has necessitated this response on the basis of concerns raised with you and members of your team by us – the Citizens Forum for Good Governance – on December 15th, 2009.
While we agree that the process was civil and without major incident, we do not agree that the election was deserving of the clean bill of health that you so hurriedly and generously conferred on it for the following reasons:
1. Bribery of Overseas Nationals to Vote
The election result was substantially altered by the votes of large numbers of Dominicans living overseas who were bribed with the “valuable consideration” of transportation costs to cast ballots and return immediately thereafter to their foreign residences. In our meeting with you we pointed out that this is in contravention of anti-bribery provisions of the House of Assembly Elections Act.
You confirmed in that meeting that you had already received from the Dominica Freedom Party various lists including names of the persons living overseas who the DLP planned to bribe into voting for its re-election. You also confirmed receiving information on charters that had been booked by the DLP for that purpose along with evidence of the involvement of Dominica’s Consul General in New York illegally using the state’s resources to organize the logistics of bribery by air and sea transportation.
By your own admission, you received numerous calls on Election Day advising that plane loads and boat loads of people were arriving to vote. It would appear that you ignored these alerts only to advise in your preliminary report that the “allegations” of these acts of bribery should be investigated further.
“While the mission cannot verify the veracity of these claims, it encourages the parties presenting the allegations to provide evidence to the appropriate authorities of Dominica for further investigation”.
What investigation of this most important irregularity did the OAS Mission do Mr. Griner? And if it did no investigation or insufficient investigation, how then was it able to give the December 18th election a clean bill of health?
There is also the issue of the eligibility of the bribed voters some of whom have been living outside of Dominica, have not returned home for more than five years, and were therefore not qualified to cast ballots on December 18th, 2009.
The OAS Mission is aware of a press statement issued by two members of the Electoral Commission on the morning of the election, which purported to give the green light to the illegality of voting even if you are disqualified to vote. We find it truly mind boggling that the OAS Mission could have avoided such a clear indication that operatives on the Electoral Commission were actively championing the cause of the government’s obvious plan to steal the election
2. Bloated Voter’s List, No Voter Identification
The OAS Mission recommends that “providing cards to registered voters in Dominica will allow for the complete revision of the voter registry, which by almost any measure is bloated”. We are sure that in making this recommendation, the OAS Mission understands that the voter registry can only be “bloated” by the inclusion of names of persons that by law are no longer electors. Yet, there is no indication that the OAS Mission was at all concerned with a corrupted election result based on the fact that ballots were cast for dead or disqualified voters whose names are still on the list.
The plan to steal the election did not emerge without your knowledge in the dead of night on the eve of December 18th, 2009.
We brought to your attention Sir, the fact that one high profile advisor to the Prime Minister, Senior Counsel Anthony Astaphan in email correspondence dated March 27, 2008 (more than one year and eight months before the election) advised against cleaning up the voter register and using ID cards:
“…There is madness going on at the Commission… These guys are talking about reforms to include ID cards and complete re-registration! Such reforms will undermine your re-election legacy as the opposition will say look, the Commission agreed with us; reform was required because of widespread fraud!”
Mr. Astaphan’s advice and the Prime Minister’s corrupt intentions prevailed over the recommendations of the political opposition and the will of the people. We ask of you Mr. Griner, how in heaven’s name could the OAS Observer Mission give a clean bill of health to this blatantly fraudulent election?
3. Media Access
The OAS Mission notes that access to the media – the state-owned Dominica Broadcasting Corporation and the privately-owned Kairi FM radio station – was a bone of contention for opposition parties during the campaign.
In this regard you said Sir: “Again, the current legislation in Dominica does not provide any benchmarks for access to the media. The legislation could require that media outlets provide political parties the same opportunity to purchase primetime advertising at the same cost or it could stipulate a certain amount of free advertising”.
The Mission was in Dominica long enough to establish the denial of media access complained of as fact. This denial of airplay for the message of the opposition parties had a telling effect on the outcome of the election grave enough to vitiate the entire voting exercise in a competent court of law.
Yet you gloss over it with a gratuitous recommendation in your inexplicable rush to tell the world: “our general impressions of the electoral process in Dominica were extremely positive”.
We fully expect that in the true spirit of independence, truth, righteousness and justice, your final report will deal with the illegalities and irregularities that have made the December 18th, 2009 election the most fraudulent in our history.
Sincerely,
CITIZENS FORUM FOR GOOD GOVERNANCE
ATHERTON MARTIN SEVERIN MCKENZIE
CC: All Media Organizations
All Political Parties in Dominica
All Civil Society Organizations in Dominica
Human Rights Watch
Transparency International
CARICOM Governments
OECS Governments
US Embassy
Venezuelan Embassy
Chinese Embassy
Organization of American States
United Nations
European Union
World Bank
IMF
ECCB
Congratulations Johno! You are a great person with great humble character- I am confident that you will continue to be who you are and give great representation to Castle Bruce Constituency.
Be wise and God gives wisdom to all who ask
Marian Jno-Finn
[email protected]
JOHNNO YOU WIN…CONGRATS..NO GO FIX MY ROAD AND MY COLVERT…I AM SURE YOU KNOW WHO I AM
CONGRATULATIONS ONCE AGAIN TO THE LABOUR PARTY FOR WINING SO SO SO SO BIG,,,
………………………………………….CONGRATULATION………………………………………………………………..
………………………………….THE PEOPLE HAS SPOKEN……………………………………………………
NUFF SAID
it’s not surprising after wiltshire said he wanted castle bruce to have its own currency…….how idiotic he even get too many votes for my part
Bouche cabrit, did you study Georgraphy at school? Do you remember learning that Dominica is the most mountainous island in the Caribbean. While this is good for our rivers and waterfalls, this also contributes to our inability to growl and “develop” like the flatter islands. St. Lucia’s population is over 100 thousand and if I recall clearly, Dominica’s has bever been that high. Go figure!
The most important thing is that the two men have decided to work together. That’s all that matters right now.
According to our PM, those who did not win be gracious in your defeat!!!
Labour members who did not win are not crying!! We are still supporting and congratulating them for their efforts. Well done!!!!! I suggest the opposition supporters do the same for their parl reps…
OHHHH I must commend workers supporters because after that manifesto bobol you are still die-hard supporters. Keep up the spirits but channel it in a good way…
Dominica is going to move to the next level so drop all anger, anguish, hatred and slow, non-progressive thoughts aside. A new year is dawning………… we are going to have a fresh start. Christmas is here so concentrate on God, family and friends. Put a smile on your face…
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!!!!!!! love you all
voting a doctor/lawyer doesnt mean you going to get geood representation….for christ sake the man does bogar,that as well doent impede his perfomance but you have to think of these things….jono is a community man i am not from castle bruce but i deal closely with the council and he is very involved so i knew he would have won
they can say all they want.all those who are sayin he has no cxc are the ones who
will be beggin his bottom soon.those greedy foools.keep on talking but u will not
remove him.
LABOUR ALL THE WAY
TO THE FOOL WHO SAID THAT THE PEOPLE VOTED DRIGO OVER A DOCTOR…………
JUST TO LET YOU KNOW THAT BEING A DOCTOR DOESN’T MEAN THAT YOU ARE WELL EDUCATED………
NUFF SAID
congrats to you.labour all the way who vex lost
Thank goodness
TO ALL THE UWP SUPPORTERS KEEP YOUR HEADS UP HIGH… GOD IS NOT DEAD HE’S STILL ALIVE, HE SEES AND KNOWS ALL THINGS, BE STRONG, BE BRAVE, BE COURAGEOUS YOU MEN OF VALOR…
congratulations to the dominica labour party and all those talking about our democracy is at stake, please venezuela is a place i see people with most freedom. if the people dont like something they will vote against it. and everyone depends on one another to survive we need the help of our fellow humans.
labour labour…….well thank you lol…we love our labour ha hai we hold dem
WHat does lawyer/doctor have to do with being a good representative. How the heck do you expect CB to have their own currency. That can never work in DOminica. Well one dollar EC would be equivalent to 100000000 CB dollars man. Look story. Well because he is lawyer drink his tablet nah idiots. Boy Da still has too many illiterates eh. Skerro please address that problem for me. Castle and its CB dollar we boy. I can’t stop laughing. And I am still waiting for the manifesto online. I went on all the sites workers said it wuld be. LMFAO Haha new way to launch my a…..
to bouche cabwit
You really do have bouche cabwit… Yeah, Drigo was voted over a doctor/lawyer who is so freaking educated that all he does these days is …. and talk bull….
Good the people have spoken labour POWER!!!!!!!
Labour was is and will always be the best government for Dominica. Blessings to Hon. Roosevelt Skerrit. and his team. They deserve this position. 17 seats…wow!! Truly
Eben ada moun workers pa feb.I cannot believe the so called people that looking at themselves as smart people making such comments.ouvere yeux zor,.,to bouche cabrit i really think u are going mad.Lord i pray for some peeps of the opposition cause i have a feeling some might go to madhouse to night.If the uwp was good they would be back in office,.i think u should go to bed.or if not go to Portsmouth to celebrate with the victorious party.jajajajajajajaja 2015 there will be no more workers party.To Mr Drigo congratulations,u really scrape them out.no CB currency for casltbruce.how a man they saying is so intelligent,a doctor could make such a stupid statement like that to castlebruce people and they would believe.that.,T-buay se mwen ces’t te Ron green mwen te ke foutay on tap a tete ou.
charlie, next year you will still be hungry and crediting food what difference is this win to you, cry cry no money things hard , i will hear you oh! no you will run to gwada.
BOUCHECABRIT U MAKE NO SENCE,TAKE THE BLOWS AND GO REST YOURSELF.YOU ARE IN THE MINORITY.GUESS U NEED TO GO TO CUBA TO GET YOUR EYES OPEN AS TO WHAT IS TAKING PLACE IN DOMINICA.STOP PLAYING POLITICS AND NARROW MINDED.TAKE THE BEATING AND EAT YOUR HEART OUT
i wander whats next for dominica and dominican
eh ben dominichen sorte, all u voting a dotish against a doctor/lawyer? way papa, skeritt get a retard for him to push around… he will continue to lie, teef and cheat, and all u will continue to kiss his ass and take crumbs from him while all u country going by its ass.. all u doh see all de other islands leaving all u behind even little st kitts way ahead of all u, doh talk about lucia and anguilla, all u were drunk man from de sero last night
Congrats Jono, I hope you are remembering what you promise to do for us when you win, don’t make them fool you. Always remember to share with everyone and not some when they give you things. Be focus and try to settle down as soon as possible. We need to develop Castle Bruce to the village it was before, let us be serious and forget the colors right now. You and Mr. Bernard Wiltshire have agreed to work together regardless who win the election. I love Castle Bruce and so do you, let us all work together to develop this village / constituency to a level of dignity it once held.
I guess tht means no CB for Castle Bruce. Way Papa!! Something Good is Happenin’
papa look stuffed ballot boxes!