After forty years, the children of Roseau and surrounding areas could soon, once again, have their own playground.
A playground known as “The Merry Go Round” which was previously located on the site of the current DPSU building, was dismantled more than forty years ago in 1981. Roseau Central has been without a children’s playground since.
The proposed playground which, according to Parliamentary Representative for the Roseau Central Constituency, Melissa Poponne-Skerrit, is being funded by the People’s Republic of China, will be located at the southern end of the forecourt of the Windsor Park Sports Stadium.
“I am happy to report that at a meeting with the ambassador of the People’s Republic of China, His Excellency Lin Xianjiang on Friday, February 4th I received word from the Ambassador that China will fund the construction of a children’s playground in Roseau Central,” Poponne- Skerrit stated. “This follows my request to the Government of China through the Ambassador for support in this venture which will provide the children in Roseau and surrounding communities with a facility for play and socializing .”
According to the Roseau MP, during the 2019 election campaign one of the concerns brought to the fore by the parents of the Roseau Central Constituency related to the lack of a playground for children to engage in physical activities or play in a safe and conducive setting.
She said further that her vision is that this facility will provide children with the opportunity to practice and improve their social and physical skills
Poponne- Skerrit said the playground will be opened to children of all ages.
Allyou have to be making Joke!!!
All dat and the Public Library still there to fix???
How about a program to bring Public Libraries to various Communities!!!
What Playground dat nuh!!!
People don’t go on the Beach and river no more man that wi children used to do for fun!!!
Allyou coming with Playground???
What is the return on that investment Mister Minister of Finance???
Why allyou doh focus on enlightening the future generation instead of turning dem Doltish playing Béh-Bell!!!
Why allyou doh tell dem ChinaMan dem allyou want Dominican Children to excel just like his ChinaMan Children dem with avenues of enlightenment and Learning facilities, you going and Skin-up your face for dem for Playground???
Skerrit not doing his Job man giving you some Serious W00I) to give you some serious things to think about
This Chinese donation has made the headlines on DNO. Of course, unsurprising as Melissa Skerrit is part of the narrative.
Brian Linton, the brother of Lennox Linton, was unceremoniously taken from his home by a Gestapo -like Force, taken to police headquarters, carried in front a judge, and charged with TREASON. WICKEDNESS!
DNO has raised not even an eyebrow or a finger in condemning this wilful and relentless harassment, persecution, victimization, injustice and tyranny.
When the news media of any country remains mum, uncaring and indifferent, bad governance prevails. DNO, you are certainly not part of the solution. By remaining apathetic, you’re inadvertently giving Skerrit and his buffoons tacit approval in wrong-doing.
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Not only that Eagle,they closed the Layou 5 star hotel in Clarkehall to sell passport to Anthony Skase and All Massari under the REENGINEERED citizen programme.Those UWP supporters say nothing is happening,now they are saying everything the do they boasting.As for election DLP in never going to lose election with the likes of Francisco-DOG as supporters.
Francisco live in the US and cannot say when was the last time he visited DA to see for himself all the progress that have been made since Skerrit came into power. He is what you call a loud talker like many others who come on DNO and never have anything good to say about our beautiful island. The good thing is, a lot of these loud talkers are just talkers and not voters. At the end of the day it is the real voters that have the final say on who they elect to govern. That’s why UWP and their supporters don’t stand a chance of winning another election especially with Linton as Leader.
What progress are you referring to…? Skerrits Villa payed for by CBI money? Or perhaps the shameless corruption all over DA? Or maybe all those free flats for Labour supporters or politicians girl friends? Of course financed by CBI money which belongs to all of us. ‘Progress’ in your opinion? Why am I not surprised?
The Chinese government has gifted a children’s playground to Dominica and the entire news media is in a frenzy about it. Then, the ghost parliamentarian, Melissa ‘Brain Frozen’ Poponne-Skerrit, hogging most of the credit.
About Melissa Skerrit who gets a handsome government pay-cheque every month for doing no substantive work.On a certain website the ministers’ academic achievements were published. Beside Melissa’s name was completely blank. Is the goodly lady being paid to decorate the Bay Front; to beg the Chinese; and to read from a script occasionally?
I want this regime to boast about near full employment, livable wages, equality and equity, best electoral practices, empowerment of every citizen, most modern healthcare system, an education system second to none in the region, et cetera. Stop the big Song and Dance about trivialities.
Ever little thg this government does…is like they are shouting loud let everybody hear….what are they votted to do? Oh lazy set of ppl….a bridge was replaced is like Jesus is on earth walking 🚶♀️ 🙄…oh my lets get real….we need money…not a playground…oh my….our ppl need employment to earn a living…stop this foolishness
Jealousy is Evil… put that in your head and meditate on it, disappointed.
You don’t want to work, that’s why you don’t have money and you are lazy that’s why you are not employed. God helps only those that help themselves.
After making billions in selling passport this last 20 years, the Gov’t and people of Dominica not ashamed to receive a playground as a gift from a foreign country?
Takes a special kinda electorate to continue to vote “yes”, we want more of this. Jah Knows!!!
Way to go Melissa! For those of us who were privileged enough to enjoy the original Merry-go-round as youngsters, we will be happy to see a reincarnation of such a facility for youngsters in Roseau and other communities around DA. It use to keep us out of mischief while enjoying the rides and swings and slide and at the same time socialising with our friends. I do hope that once this facility is constructed it is well appreciated and maintained and not maliciously desecrated or destroyed by the haters. It should be a facility that all children and young people in Roseau should be able to enjoy in safety.
Finally, a place for Molly and Meddard to play behhbell and hoop-skyway when the sun goes down and the moon is out. This will give us all a chance to watch them grow up.
is goodwill part or Roseau central ? if it is then there is a playground opposite the Pentecostal church ( i dont know if that is part of Roseau central)
No. Goodwill is Roseau North. They’re the ones who keep voting for Danny Lugay and not getting nothing in return. Danny luggay had nothing to do with the construction of the new China friendship hospital, nor the playground you refer to and he is opposing plans to build the new five star hotel which would provide employment opportunities for goodwill residents.
the same 5 star hotel they want to build on oil and diesel polluted soil next to a noisy always gridlocked main road across from a port with 2 big slums behind it and hardware stores to the south of it. not to mention the prison up the road an old rubbish dump and an in use rubbish dump that always seem to be on fire . the government did the hospital its not an accomplishment its there JOB to do that. all those things they claiming as accomplishments is actually there job to do. when they do something above and beyond ill clap them. oh and the hospital and the playground were built under the tutelage of Danny luggay. he is the parl rep and they voting for him because even if the labour party biased as to who they help, his constituency still getting infrastructure built . so despite labour party pressing the man they still forced to do stuff for his constituent members i say good on him. sit back and let them fix ur place for you even if they hate you.
So you are at least acknowledging that this government is working and doing the things that they were elected to do then. I don’t care if Danny luggay, Spraggs or Lennox Linton take credit for projects built in their constituencies by the government (although they fight tooth and nail to stop these projects becoming a reality), but what irks me is when people come on DNO and other social media and say government not doing nothing for Dominicans when we can see with our own eyes all the projects that have been undertaken since this government has been in charge, that’s why I think that I should defend this government’s record, and point out the fact that all the previous administrations combined had not accomplished near as much as this current administration accomplished so far, especially with plans fo the construction of the ROOSVELT SKERRIT INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT well on the way.
In a country where a certain man and his wife reside in a house that is costing the taxpayers of that country $32,000 per month in rent……
……the funding for a CHILDREN PLAYGROUND……(I repeat) A CHILDREN PLAYGROUND in the Roseau Central Constituency of that country is coming from a foreign nation.
Ummmmm……….
So what really is Windsorpark? Can someone please tell me if it is a Cricket Stadium, Netball Stadium, a Covid 19 drive through test center, a Carnival Jumpup facility or a childrens playground ? Man I am confused. This thing is as confusing as a man with so many fathers and doesn’t know who is his real father. Every damn thing in Dominica today is confusing
This idea is as foolish as announcing you going to build a children’s play ground next to a zoo. Does anyone think? Do they plan long term? Where is planning division in all of this nonsense? I mean the government behaving as if they have tons of money to dump and they don’t know where to dump it. If all you have money why not sit together with the proper authorities and engineers and come up with a good plan to rebuild Roseau? It’s a CBI hotel here and there, residential apartments and commercial apartments together, sports stadium and childrens playground together, not sure which street to make one way or two way traffic, sidewalks and drains together etc, Man so much nonsense in this country as Skerrit continues to look for political hideout rather than true development. Pure crap! More Trouble I see
Why Melissa Poponne -Skerrit? If she is not very proud of her husband’s last name since that’s optional and subject to change, why not just go as Melissa Poponne? If her marriage name is just for style then why not use the last name of her first husband in New York before she met Roosevelt? After all Melissa knows me in New York and she knows I know what last name was on her first New York ID card. So if is a long name she likes then why not just go by Melissa Poponne……..Skerrit?
DNO, did you moderate and publish this comment? What does , I would say, one’s personal life has to do with the subject on hand?
Kid you talking bull. The person in question is a public figure and only in Dominica she would run for public office without telling us if she was married before she met Roosevelt and if her previous husband is dead, or if she is divorced . The Dominican people have a right to this information especially now that she is the elected parlrep foe Roseau. The fact that only now some Dominicans are getting to know about her speaks of the weak media we have. Because of the US media the whole world knows how many times Donald Trump has been married.
De Chinese setting up Melissa for de next election campaign.
By de way de people dat vote for you still unemployed and hungry…… depending on $150 and $300 a month.
There are other playground in Dominica……no parliamentary rep took credit for it from the donors
Another too show too flam election project with no discussion or consensus from the public. A children’s playground next to an international cricket stadium? How do they complement each other Skerrit? Is this confirmation that you agree you have killed cricket in Dominica and therefore Windsorpark sports stadium is on its way out ? I got that impression when everything that was destroyed by Maria in 2017 has been rebuilt but we can’t get an electronic scoreboard replaced so the world could see more test cricket live from Dominica. I mean even hotels that weren’t in the pipeline have been built since Maria. Now Melissa is happy to build her chest about a Chinese childrens playground next to Windsorpark. Really Sports Minister Roselyn Paul? Really health minister? Really national security minister? No one could tell the Skerrit’s to find another location? I would understand an indoor basketball court, a pool, or even an entertainment center. Childrens playground? Awa all you foo
Whilst not in Roseau, up to nine years Brizee’s Mart had an excellent children’s playground complete with ice cream stand. It was O.D Brisbane and Sons private venture. Politics had no hand in its creation but its foreclosure was a different story.
The guy took a risky stance and not a business decision to shut down. Yes there was political pressure, I don’t like the gov’t either but UWP supporters, 40 – 50% of the electorate would patronize and not let it close down. He was not the first business that’s anti this government that Charli didn’t like but they didn’t close.
The Roseau Mp behaving like a pretty woman that is not sure she is loved or like a wife that is not sure she is the one. I pity her because she really behaves funny. So just let her feel loved by you sir. I did not say she is but rather she behaving. But a children’s playground next to an international cricket venue? Not even a pool or something to boose up tourism? Seems like Skerrit has changed his mind about Windsor Park as an international sports stadium and instead he has decided to make it a permanent covid 19 drive through testing site man. Boy you see what all you do to Dominica with that Ahab and Jezebel style of leadership
Did u read what you wrote? Assumption alone and talking about pretty. At least she has an idea for something required. Now hear all the rhetoric all not making sense about the drive-through etc. Zort pas feb always hating and showing envy, jealousy, hatred. Whilst I can agree that u do not like them but not so much that you are blinded and cannot assess. Fine, you do not like neither man nor “pretty woman” Who behaves funny. What is about her behaving funny? Do you know about Ahab and Jezebel’s story? Go back to the bible. Analyze – Isn’t a children’s playground a good thing? Are you living with them in their bedroom that you know she is not loved? All of this is assumption. You have no facts whatsoever.
Start to love people … God first then you will others.
What is your suggestions? I see you said a pool? Where, what kind of pool? Do you know we have hot spas which the tourists love? Stop looking at & dimples and see what u can contribute.
I wont respond because I suspect you would do good in the zoo
You all folks are just jealous and envious of the Skerrits. The Skerrits are doing great for Dominica and I personally appreciate it. Soon, it will be building the Marina at the Cabrits. Stay tuned. And somehow we will soon see the reincarnation of the Castaways Hotel in Mero and the Layou River Hotel in Layou. Stay tuned. Jealous man.
YOU are too easy to please. Furthermore you haven’t got any standards. It’s a common denominator amongst Dominicas Labourites and Cabalists.
Stupes tan. So that is news? New only for those that never left Dominca
Are you news? you creating all those wild fires in America. Are you news?