Since Dominica reopened its borders on July 15, several airlines have been providing services to the country.
Deputy Coordinator for the reopening of borders and Tourism Director Colin Piper said so while addressing a press briefing on Monday.
“Effective August 11th, the following airlines will operate into Dominica with scheduled service. We have Silver Airways on Thursday and Saturday from San Juan; we have Air Antilles daily from Barbados with connection from St Lucia to Dominica; we have Air Antilles from Point-a-Pitre to Dominica,” he revealed. “However we know that the borders of Guadeloupe are not yet opened.”
Piper stated that InterCaribbean is also coming in daily from Barbados to Dominica as well as Winair on Monday and Thursday direct from St Maarten to Dominica and Winair from Thursday and Saturday from St Maarten via Antigua to Dominica.
Meantime, the Tourism Director said 13 properties have received COVID-19 certification.
“Thirteen properties have been issued Covid-19 certificate of approval and these certified properties are Cabrits Resorts & Spa Kempinski, Banana Lama Eco Villas and Cottages, Atlantique View Resort & Spa, Hotel The Champs, Mango Garden Cottages, Riverside Hotel, Rosalie Bay Resort, Tamarind Tree Hotel, Seaworld Guest House, Picard Beach Cottages, Portsmouth Beach Hotel, Secret Bay and Fort Young Hotel,” he noted.
This, he said, translates to 415 Covid certified rooms on island.
Piper further stated that a total of 28 properties have in fact submitted action plans to get COVID-19 certified and 17 of those action plans have been approved at present.
“We have thirteen (13) properties that are COVID certified, so four (4) more need to pass the assessment and another 11 need to have their plans approved,” he said.
More Fake News from the Tourism Propagandist for the DLP Administration, Colin Piper… Continue to fool the people with Fake News.
A wicked government and its acolytes will fall and be destroyed. But a foolish and gullible people will perish.
Dominicans stop being foolish and gullible. Wake up from your slumber and open your eyes to see
Hello and good afternoon my people. Okay that’s good the airlines are coming but what’s the weight limit for our suitcases. Last year when I came home I took Jet Blue from New York to St Lucia with a connecting flight next day on InterCaribbean, but the limit for my suitcases were forty pounds per suitcase which ended up costing me money for excess weight. Mr Piper can you tell us the weight limit for our suitcases .
Flying on the Twin Otter with the Pratt and Whitney DH-600 Piston Engines is a nightmare. I did it in my early teens and my head was ready to explode. The noisy engines is no fun whatsoever, plus it has limited luggage space, hence the thievery of our bags in Antigua. This government makes it really difficult for natives to come home on holiday.
Is that suppose to be good news?
Where the tourists coming from? China?
China and Haiti…
It would be nice to have phone numbers for these various airlines, wouldn’t it?
So what justification can there be for the government to invest one red cent to resuscitate LIAT? Certainly to feed Gaston Brown’s ego cannot be a good enough reason.
I am certain Tony Astaphan is Brown’s conduit to Skerrit, but if our island is being adequately served by the other airlines, I cannot see a reason to inject more of our hard earned funds into that airline. Notice I did not say invest, because that is a losing cause from the get go.
Well, that sounds good enough for me, and I pray that it will improved by the time I am ready to go home.
But where are the loud negative voices about that piece, has the positive note quieted them? I hope they will remain so
We all know it doesn’t take much to please you. Otherwise you wouldn’t be a supporter of Skerrit!
Only in Backward Dominica; one could expect someone to talk such rubbish!
“Thirteen properties have been issued Covid-19 certificate of approval and these certified properties are Cabrits Resorts & Spa Kempinski, Banana Lama Eco Villas and Cottages, Atlantique View Resort & Spa, Hotel The Champs, Mango Garden Cottages, Riverside Hotel, Rosalie Bay Resort, Tamarind Tree Hotel, Seaworld Guest House, Picard Beach Cottages, Portsmouth Beach Hotel, Secret Bay and Fort Young Hotel,” he noted.”
Piper is ignorant: talking fart!
Even a fool laughs at such garbage which makes no sense.
Is that clown trying to say that he or somebody has issued certificates proving these so called properties does not have COVID-19?
Every fool on the planet by now knows buildings are not carriers of the virus; people are!
A single person with the virus can check into a hotel, or building, and infect everyone registered at that property.
Such rubbish!
I think that those are the approved properties where people can be quarantined at their own expense.
The funny thing is that not one of these plane photos is on the ground in Dominica. Boy you all good with your propaganda! Call me when they start to land in Dominica.
Oh my, very good observation!
If the late Ray Charles were to come back alive and he look at the picture; the first thing he would notice as you have is the fleet of Aircraft’s the liar Piper said is serving Dominica, are either in the sky, or on the ground (not in Dominica) anyway.
But what can be expected from a man who told Dominicans he was going to Nevis, to get help in providing flights into and out of Dominica.
That man is so up side down, he does not even know that Nevis is a dependence of the St. Kitts, just as Barbuda is to Antigua.
Now, there are no actual Aircraft’s serving the Caribbean based in Nevis, nor St. Kitts; the man babbles nonsense each time he opens his beak!
I wonder if he is trying to impress people that coming to Dominica, and staying in one of the properties, they are protected from COVID-19.
Plenty of them in Dominica are mad you see!