Prime minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, is to deliver the feature address at the open session of St. Lucia Labour Party (SLP) delegates conference this Sunday.
The conference will be held at Reunion, Choiseul.
It will also be addressed by political leader of the SLP, Dr. Kenny Anthony.
The conference begins with the closed session at 9.30 a.m. for delegates only.
The closed session will deal with the internal business of the party, which includes presentation and discussion of reports and resolutions, along with the election of officers to the National Executive.
Several items of entertainment by local artiste have been included in the Open Session to add an element of fun to the program.
DNO why do you always have my comments awaiting moderation I see worst and read ridiculous comments even indecent comments on your site and they were never awaiting moderation all you too bias you don’t have to post my comments
You LIE. DNO he in Venezuela for chavez anniversary while ordinary Venezuelans protesting in the streets for a better life skerro next to maduro oppressing them, and no media house reporting it. Why is Dominica siding with Maduro against innocent protesters?
What has our country become?
You are stupid and that is the most dangerous thing.
You are stup and that is the most dangerous thing. :
Do you have evidence of that get your facts straight before you talk or post things that you know nothing about
Dumblu!! If you are told on Wednesday 5th March the man is going to do something “this Sunday,” “the conference will be addressed…..” how do you work out that this Sunday was LAST Sunday? All of allu blues suffering from intellectual dyslexia, that is why your bluelords can befuddle you all so easily.
The Workers party is terrified of Skerrit that’s why they are trying their utmost to discredit him but who Jah bless no one curse envy breeds jealousy. Our PM is first among equals that’s the reason why he is so loved so you doom and gloom merchants take a hike
It’s a shame that we could talk about our own PM in that manner this man is a true son of the soil he is one of us the whole world is reading what we are saying and all you could talk down all own PM that’s doing his best for our country tell me who all you wouldn’t talk down
@Students. This tells you the type of person he is.He must be a terrible leader.
DNO, am I supposed to be impressed?
Look jokes, go Skerro go….hahahaha
So Skerrit is telling dominicans where he is going to now? I thought it was “””Mot None Of Our Dam Business We”””.
You can see that his his high horse is badly wounded and will soon die.
I CAN’T WAIT TO VOTE AGAINST THAT lABOUR CANDIDATE WHO WILL BE REPRESENTING SKERRITS LABOUR PARTY. The gang of greedies.
Mr. PM you are now in second place for the worse PM Dominican has ever had. The first place is now held by P.J who was also a Laborrat, but don’t be too complacent in second place because you can still regain first place at the end of your tenure.
How can you utilize a man who’s ship is sinking to help yours stay afloat. That’s pure desperation. lol
mmmmm you going and address st lucia confrence you dont know a catch rat you day shall come . change is a must.
espua mal papai!!!
what the hell was that?
What is amazing is that the P M is always criticized for doing something by people who are doing nothing and are offering no alternatives.
All I can see is a young man on the move who wants to bring success to his country. His policy seem to be based on an idea to improve the living standard of his people. All the false allegations do not even indicates mistakes made by his administration. This Labour Party has a perfect record. The PM and the Labour party win all the court cases brought against them by its enemies.
Are you on drugs or still drunk from yesterday???
You are the one that’s drunk
you are a dreamer. dream on, fool!
@Emile Zapatos. Wake up from your dream and explain to me how the RED CLINIC improves the living standard for people. A politically driven program that forces people to be dependent upon the Gov’t for sustenance.
Wickedddddddddddddd!!!
@eMILE ZAPATOS You really need to check you mental status. You are not only drunk, but you could well be one of the greedy ones who are taking what the poor amongst us should get.
This Prime Minister does not care a heck about Dominica, thats why people like you are so poor and begging. THANKS GOD DOMINICANS WILL BE SENDING HIM OUT SOON.
HE HAS BADLY FAILED THE COUNTRY.
Emile, you are another hapless pro-labour mouth piece. However, I do agree with the idea that we are sometimes overly critical of the Prime Minister. The man is doing well for himself and for the most part I’m glad when a fellow Dominican does well or succeeds. I just wish our people were not so eager to condone corruption for their own selfish means.
The people will get a chance to speak via their vote as they have in the past. In that way the Dominican voice seems to have approved greatly of this current administration.
If we as a people are ready for change then we will see a new administration if not then this government will remain in power. I believe its that simple.
@ Emile Zapatos Who are those people who are doing nothing and offering no alternatives? Have you listened to the alternative offered by Team Dominica? These are the things which have me excited and encouraged that soon this country will be on a drive to correct the MESS that Skerrit will soon leave it in. Jobs, an international airport, functional institurtions, revamping of agriculture, tourism, essential oil, housing programme, bettering those programmes that are there but are badly managed by Skerrit and the gang, etc etc,.
Guess you need to clean the wax from your ears, and listen to what Team Dominica has to offer.
I LOVE LINTON AND TEAM DOMINICA.
It is easy to fool the the poor.we are the poorest.
Skerrit is a good man with bad friends but, at the end, it is his name that will be associated with these times.
Blind them with the truth!!!!
that not our business we want to know when he is going china and dubai not St LUcia. Only some places he is reporting that he is going; we want to know everywhere he is going once it is on the nation business. That is a personal thing, friendship, they going to plot together to remain in power.
When Euginia Charles use to go overseas we never knew about it things useto go on right here in this country and we never knew leave the man alone he’s doing a great job
And what is your point. That does not make it right. We have grown up and it is time politicians account to the people. Mamo was wrong if she did and we were wrong to let her get away with it. Skerrit is wrong and we the people should not repeat the mistakes of the past. Your name says student. Its about time you learn. We should strive for improvement. I hope Dominicans are wiser tgan the days of mamo
@Student IT’S TIME FOR CHANGE.
PEOPLES MINDS ARE ALREADY MADE UP!
Although our Prime Minister invited Skerrit on our Island, WE DO NOT WANT HIM HERE.
Could”nt you find a better speaker?way papa.Skerrit is such a poor speaker.
who could think of having him as a featured speaker?
Even that you mauding? Weh papa allu will get malkadi over my dimpled PM though. When first did anyone ask Lennox to speak anywhere?
St Lucians hate Skerrit and Estaphane to the max,they are both eye sores. Read St.Lucia new on line you all will be amase at what Lucians think about them too idiots.
Well I Doh Like Kenny and King either so who cares who they damn like?? All u Dominicans tooo inferior boss!!!!
Dominicans need PM Skerrit to address the nation and answer questions on issues such as: 1. Who is the true owner od Blair Court? 2. He needs to address on where he took loan to build his mansion at Vielle case, those Villas and land purchase since his salary and investment don’t agree 3. He needs to tell us where he built the children hospital and who are the doctors employed by him? 4. He needs to address the unemployment sector he put together and the way forward 5. We need him to address the pit latrine issue he introduced so we could have a good understanding on how they will be maintained 6. We need him to tell us why he and his government are not putting more effort in trying to resolve the Christmas day Fire bombing of GON Emmanuel 4 years ago 7. He needs to tell us why ST. Lucia and other windward island countries have made so much more progress Dominica particularly since he became our PM 8. In like manner, he needs to tell us how is that he as an individual has gotton richer than the PM’s of St. Lucia, Grenada, and St. Vincent put together while the people of citizens of those same islands are better off than us here.
Please Mr. Skerrit, do not curse us; just simply answer our questions.
1. Already adressed, uwp lost court case and failed to prove property belong to Skerrit.
2. This sounds personal but if you have allegations of wrongdoing in that department bring it out so we can know.
3. The PM never spoke about a children hospital maybe the person who spoke about it was planning to build one.
4.What do you want to know about the unemployment sector. Your question is too vague.
5. He addressed the pit latrine issue. He is seeking to eradicate pit latrines by assisting persons with pit latrines by building them modern latrines.
6.This investigation is ongoing by the Dominica Police Force.
7.Totally false. The other islands were always ahead of us until now. We have actually caught up with them ( see IMF and World Bank reports )
8. Can you tell me how rich are the other PM’s? Can you tell me how rich is Skerritt? You need more facts to back up your claims.
Uwp claim to be the moral authority on accountability, good governance and transparency but they cannot answer simple questions about their future minister of finance. We have the facts, we have the e-mails, we have the financial reports and the recorded voices of Mr. Fontaine and Shillingford. These are not hearsay these are facts. I’m sure you know where to read the e-mails and listen to the voice recordings.
I think that is a good thing….his public speaking skills will be available for scrutiny…advice to the p.m. cram your speech,practice a lot and try to cut down on the “baygayyay”….
he can practice all he wants,he is just a poor speaker.
Some of us as son as we see the name Skerrit our brain begin to think negative. All i am saying is that we all have two sides to us.
Don’t you think ten years is enough for him to show us his other side…if he has one?
@Toosense Well this is enough to tell you that he has something very wrong and negative about him. Who cares where he goes? I think by now what most people want is for him to be kicked out of office by the electorate.
Pssst skero, pssst skerro, its Dice – again, again, again, again, again and…again TAKE DAT!
Is that the same Mr. Skerrit, who at the Heads of Govt. meeting in St. Kitts (30 June-4 July, 2011) voiced his unequivocal support for Muammar Gaddafi and expressed the full solidarity of the Government and the people of Dominica with Muammar Gadaffi and said:
“We are ready to offer all assistance which you need to support the Lybian people…and I myself am proud of the relationship I have with the leader Muammar Gadafi”.
Muammar Gadaffi met an ignominious end barely three months later on 20 Oct. and was exposed for the unbalanced ogre the whole world knew he was.
At the same meeting Roosevelt Skerrit also expressed his support for the African Initiative only to turn around and renege on the African people of the Western Sahara when he signed his deal with Morocco
Today that same P.M. is still backing the regime of President Maduro, which has all the signs of equally being destined for a short live.
Is he betting on the wrong horse again this time? I surely hope not. People of St. Lucia beware!
A lesson on a most defining principle for establishing international relations: “There are no permanent friends, just permanent interets.”
jay what is your point? England and many other nations has diplomatic ties and trade with Tripoli and even after it was alleged ghadafi shot down that airplane. Beware of a PM invited to address a Labour conference he is not running for office in St Lucia ok he has already secured 18 seats in Dominica and will meet the 20 mark next election.
Jen Workers ka tofay man… Everytime Skerrit appears on DNO, thats a national crime…
Wickedness will continue to dwell in your hearts and will keep you in the duldrums…
Allyou forget Lennox go and campaign in the same St.\lucia, Antigua, St.Kitts..flipfloping as usual?
Workers allyou go lose again. Wrong strategy of spreading hatred…..
You a so sad it’s sickening because if you beleive that having a public debate so we can all try to understand the issues and which one would be best equip to bring about the changes we are all calling for is a bad thing then you and your PM need help ..
The dream team UWP will win the election regardless of what you say you must know when wrong is wrong so it’s time you wake up for your family sake.
Brilliant! The PM is one of the most popular Leader in the Caribbean, therefore, the SLU will benefit immensely. Our Leader has aided tremendously in poverty alleviation. He has an excellent performance record. He has earned the right to address the gathering in St. Lucia, he will be greatly appreciated and come election day he will be given the mandate by the people of Dominica to continue to steer the ship to the safe journey that it is heading to. We expect hurdles, however, we will persevere. Keep focused PM. Dominicans, remember to keep your eyes on the prize!
you must be retarded.
Oh my PM, while you are in St. Lucia remember to call on other Caribbean leaders including St. Lucia, to come up with a plan to address corruption as per this report below:
Political leaders in the Eastern Caribbean (EC) have “largely failed” to address concerns of official corruption, according to a report released by the United States State Department.
It said the seven Eastern Caribbean countries – Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines – host abundant transshipment points for illicit narcotics primarily from Colombia and Venezuela destined for North American, European and domestic Caribbean markets.
SMDH. Are you serious? Shows how much you understand about the construction and relationship between politics, governance, international crime syndicates, the international trade in narcotics, along with a basic understanding of capitalism’s most important principle of supply and demand. And do you know what percentage of members of Congress who become (and are indeed) millionaires by the time they serve their first term? And trust me, there is yawning gap between their lawful earnings and wealth by the time they serve just two years. Try using another measuring stick/country to substantiate your point. The US, never mind its bellyaching, is NO example when it comes to clean government. Beats me that so many of us what to hold up the US as the beacon of laudable virtues.
I doubt you understand the article.
@lABOUR POWER A CALL TO address corruption?. You will die one million times before you see that.
You all were the same people that had so much to say every time DPF made a large drug bust, especially the ganja smokers. Now you all singing a different tune.
Read the complete article. Dominica was praised in two categories. I know you don’t want to see that.
United we stand divided we fall. People of Dominica please get it together and change this mess you are in. God is good all the time!
I would agree with you if I believed that you know what CHANGE means. What is uwp trying to change. It cannot be government policy, or maybe they want to change from better to worse. They are proving to be more corrupt than the labour party. Ask for development, their development plan is far inferior to that of the DLP so i’m asking again, what kind of change they are talking about?
My PM, during your address to the SLP to don’t hesitate to highlight the following:
1. Your personal secret for success after ten years in power. Tell them how you could not even afford a bicycle in 2000 when you first got into the cabinet and how I manage to become the richest Caribbean Prime Minister 10 years later.
2. Be sure to tell them that good and effectively leadership is doing everything to ensure the people are unemployed, the country is getting poorer and poorer each day, nationals have to depend on the red clinic to feed their families and yes, the crime rate is increasing everyday.
3. Don’t forget to encourage them to declare war on pit latrine even if they have to use pash cocoa (cocoanut fiber) and stones to wipe their bottom because they cannot afford to pay water bill.
5. Tell them how they need to forget about hospital and spend $27 Million on a state palace instead even if it is finished but the developers are not letting you in.
6. Tell them how you successfully built a children’s hospital somewhere in the sky where no one can get to.
So yes my PM, you have a lot to brag about and we laborites, especially those of us on the team, still wondering how to correct our political mistake.
Wow, Dominica is building a Palace? wow. rotflmao.
What for ?
That’s a first in the OECS.
An island that performs so badly economically, with nothing going for itself at this time, is building a Palace. lol.
And to be honest, Dominica has so much potential.
And we in (SLU,) are to open our brand new sophisticated National Hospital (hopefully,) this month.
Vote him out!
He also needs to tell them how much money the people who went to the Olympics in Sochi as Dominicans gave him.
Where do you people find the time?
I don’t know!
Even that you people jealous of?
Skerrit just have to get the hell out thats all I have to say!!!
Who died and made you god?
But you think skerrit is God , you are forgetting man
I don’t understand this. A leader who refuses to go in debate with his own opposition advising a foreign govt. how things should be done?? I wonder who write his speech, not himself I’ am sure.
this is all lip service. You don’t really want a debate. this talk about debate is just like the bs from Fontaine stating that he will show his bank statements only if the PM shows his. He knows that he was not about to show any statements. Too many skeletons in his closet. Linton! You and you future Minister of finance, have some class and show your supporters some transparency and accountability,since this is what you were preaching, or have you decided to abandon this campaign policy?
Why dont you read the St.Lucia news paper to hear what they are saying about your PM them make your comments even you see their are no hope for labour in DA at this time.
dot ou toe sort
@ .You seem to write the same comment each timesometning is said about Mr Skeritt. You need to move on you sound like a broken record.
This Thomson Fountaine issue was solved at the Rally last week.Enough already.
lennox I not a member of parliament and we don’t have any obligation to debate him ok. he is only leader of uwp he is not representing any constituency. stupes
I thought he was missing in action. The young man seems to be hiding, does not want his people to ask him questions.
Why is a P.M. afraid of his people to the extent that he is literally hiding?
You know, that struck me so forcibly. Even Vladimir Putin gave a press conference, where he alone addressed the reporters and answered any questions freely on the Ukraine drama. Why can’t Skerrit speak? Does he no have the answers or does he perhaps deem him self superior to the citizens he wants to rule?
Once I read your comments stating that you were not political. My God, you guys here are political rats.
Hello wicked PM Advisor,
Stop spreading untruths about this blessed land o Dominica. I choose to refuse to challenge you on other things you said but please, we all know that children do not paid $5.00 for food at schools. They are expected to make a $1.00 contribution which you know very well, cannot buy a hot lunch for any child, not in Canada, America, England or Dominica. Many students are still exempted from paying that $1.00. Some schools have taken it on their own to charge more $2.00 or $3.00)so that the school will employ a cook instead of parents getting up from watching Young and Restless and go help prepare the meals. Those parents choose and agreed to take that route on THEIR OWN. Any child eating at school and have to pay $5.00 for lunch is because the school operates its own canteen and that school sells lunch to raise funds for whatever reason.
Be guided, and give thanks for your many blessings.
FED UP
Prime Minister in your address to the St Lucia Labour Party tell them how well the Dominican economy is performing and how Dominica is now more advanced than St Lucia because:
1. You upgrading from pit latrine to flush toilets but the beneficiaries can’t use it since they have no septic tank and pipe borne water
2. You feeding children in school, only that parents must pay $5.00 a day for the children to get the food
3. You are employing the unemployed through a $8,000,000.00 grant from the Venezuelan Government… Your unemployed programme is called the National Employment Program (NEP) and you placing those employed in the private sector, but especially businesses supporting the DLP… you not sure what will happen after the funding ends
4. The air port is now upgraded with night landing but no new airlines since we still don’t have an international airport and even though we invested $8,000,000.00 n LIAT this has not made a difference in arrivals into Dominica
5. You building a coffee factory to bag coffee produced in Venezuela
6. That Chinese national have now taken over 60 percent of the general merchandize trade in Roseau, and Roseau’s commercial landscape now resembles China town with a lot of junk products, sub standard quality, and over priced goods…
7. Tell them why you afraid to call the early elections you promised
PM Advisor that’s all you people can do “CRITICIZE” What have you done for Dominica recently??
And just for your information the move from Pit to Flushing toilets does include Septic tanks and suck-away.. The government is actually building a whole new section on the beneficiary house, costing over $7k per house.
And also for your information 95% of Dominica has pipe borne water and by July this year Dominica will be the first island in the Caribbean to achieve 100% pipe born water…. So put that in your pipe and smoke it…. FWS – (WICKED SOUL)
I must laugh Joe about your suck-away. Eh ben, who does the sucking Joe? We have plenty of suckers Joe?
PS. I try to put pipe-born water in my pipe and smoke it but everytime it refuse to catch fire, malgraysa!
you mean soak-away you bonehead. Get some education before you open your mouth.
Well, some of us have our flushing toilets so what do we care about those who have to use pit latrines.
Do they refuse any of the children in school lunch if their parents do not have the $5.
This NEP is a new program. According to World Bank and IMF unemployment and poverty in Dominica was already greatly reduced.
American Airlines left Winair and Seabourne replaced them.
The coffee factory will create significant employment for Dominica. It will only get better when we are able to produce our own coffee.
Roseau does not look like China Town to me. Chinese have taken over 60% of general merchandise trade? Where did you get that figure? Do you know how many Chinese are there in Dominica? And why do you continue to patronize them instead of your local businesses?
We already know why you all want elections to call early. It will be called when the time is right.
Please ask your party leader why is he promoting a man who as the treasurer of a private organization transferred the organization’s funds into his private account, cannot give account in his records for said transaction and now we are learning that lands which were willed to the organization cannot be accounted for and that the said treasurer coincidentally, recently registered a portion of land in his name in the same area that some of the aforementioned land was supposed to be, with no recorded transaction of purchase for said land and that the treasurer in question during the period of when all this occurred defaulted on several credit card payments and his house was in foreclosure. Why is he promoting this man as his future minister of Finance? A lot of questions need to be answered here, don’t you think?
Who asked you? Copawayzon!! Even that you jealous??
Good comments but coffee will be coming from Nicaragua, not Venezuela, which does not produce enough itself at the moment as many of its farmers refuse to grow it because of the low intervention price their Govt. pays them for their crop.
Ah yes, a successful national leader who is recognised regionally and internationally as having something of substance to say. Whoop, whoop!!
Yes indeed. Successful at fattening his pocket and creating an an atmosphere of dependence. Successful at insulting the people and doing what he please with no accountability to Dominicans. SUCCESSFULL INDEED at disregard to the constitution and exposing the ccj as a joke in there ability to clarify the constitution of member states. Successful at destroying the manufacturing and agri industry. I think he is admired for his ability to be prime minister for this long after treating his country with such disrespect.
Pray tell us of this substance the world is missing out on from your god. Maybe they would welcome news on how to successfully rob their counties.
Your future minister of finance wrote the book on that.
So, you admitting the future finance minister will not be Skerrit??
@Bogoroy You are so darn correct. He has been very or extremely successful.However it is for self. He has caused you to be a beggar, having to grovel to him to buy bread or biscuit if you want to eat. He has made you his slave and paro, so that whenever you get a $20.00 from him at the Red Clinic you will see him as God.
HOWEVER HE WILL SOON BE BOOTED OUT AT THE NEXT ELECTION, and his wicked, vicious, evil and dictatorial reign over our island will come to an end.