The United Workers Party views with grave concern the recent appointment of 23 members of the Cabinet of Ministers and the additional appointment of three special advisors/consultants to Cabinet, bringing the total number of Cabinet level functionaries to 26 in a population of less than 70 thousand. A Cabinet level functionary for every two thousand seven hundred (2,700) people, in the smallest economy among independent Caribbean countries, is an outrageous and untenable abuse of public resources.
Dominicans from all walks of life are suffering, victims of unemployment and the inability to earn enough money in an economy condemned to decline by Dominica Labour Party mismanagement and corruption. And while the people are suffering, Prime Minister Skerrit and his chosen few are relentlessly tricking and deceiving the people in order to help themselves to huge salaries and other benefits for bogus jobs, which in most cases they cannot do.
The Prime Minister lied to the President and the Nation when he called a snap election two and a half years ahead of the constitutional due date claiming that he wanted a reset of his parliamentary team to deal with the challenges of national development. Of the 11 DLP members of Parliament after the 2019 elections who did not contest the sham election of 2022 to facilitate the “reset”, 9 of them (82% of the discarded old guard) are in the new “reset” team.
So, this was never about any “reset”. That much is clear now from the parade of square pegs in wrong holes and the alarming number of new recruits without the skills and competencies for full ministerial responsibility. It was always about PM Roosevelt Skerrit protecting his “reelection legacy” with the theft of another election using the tainted electoral process in dire need of fit-for-purpose reform which he dictatorially prevented.
The Cabinet, composed of the recycled old guard, is an abominable imposition of a totally unnecessary multi-million-dollar cost burden on the public purse. This is simply for the benefit of those who aided and abetted Skerrit in his manipulation and abuse of public office for his private gain. decisive, This extremely serious issue of utterly corrupt governance conduct requires corrective action on the part of the President of Dominica in the public interest. In that regard, the United Workers Party calls upon President Charles Savarin to exercise the executive authority of his office and immediately revoke the appointment of the entire Cabinet of Ministers. Further that the president requires the formation of a new Cabinet with no more than 12 members in the best interest of the country. This corrective action is important in preserving the countries scare financial resources, and preventing further public outrage, which could well escalate into civil disobedience and threaten public safety.
Every Dominican who is not a JAH KASS,know the population of Dominica is more than 72,000.According to the traffic department there is over 37,000 registered vehicles in Dominica.60,000 is the number ugly Lenny used at the height of COVID-19 when he wanted the disease to destroy Dominica.
When was the last time you paid a visit to a psychiatrist? Your comments are getting more incoherent and absurd than ever before. Visit your doctor now before you reach a place of no return.
We have a j—k–s running this country whose only qualification was “handsome, and have dimples”; for 22 years he plundered the countries financial resources to the benefit of his DLP “mouton batallie ” supporters and enablers, not once did any of them caution, discipline or admonish this “modern day jim jones” yet they find it appropriate to run their mouth and criticize Dr Thompson Fountain who holds a real degree in finance; and who by the way has advised other world leaders on how to manage their country economically. My advise to those nonentities, is shut the hell up and stay in your dumb irrelevant lanes.
Yes Mr Desmond Benjamin,the Clown did not even think of that.How can a new thing be a recycled thing?I have always said UWP supporters are buried up to their eyebrows in SHIT.With that comment by Mr Desmond Benjamin,I realize they are completely buried in shit.
Twenty I three (23) members of Cabinet with a population of just a little over sixty thousand (60 000). RIDICULOUS!!
Jamaica has a population of 2 948 279 with 21 members of Cabinet; Antigua a population of 99 623 with 13 members of Cabinet. What’s up with this over bloated, go-for-nothing regime in Dominica?
This is just a very generous but ill-conceived disbursement of the country’s revenue to his most faithful worshippers.
Recently, Roosevelt has been stating his numerous priorities for the country. Roosevelt, stop telling us what your priorities are. Show us where you have spent the country’s money for the last twenty years and I will tell you what they are.
After years being a neutral, it’s time for change. Dca is not closer to being developed today than twenty years ago. Maintenance of infrastructure is not development, it is justbmaintenance. Crime is sky high, the hospital facilities and life expectancy/ quality of life for the sick is bad. To show the lack of progress we can look at something as simple as the way we do transactions. We still use cash as our main source of transactions. That in itself causes an increase in crime because carrying cash makes you ripe for robberies. The banking system is in shambles. Petrol/ gas/ fuel on the island is a joke. The main supplier left after exhausting their efforts to find solutions for their loss making. Work on the airport has stopped and we are one of the most debt laden nations on earth. We have no visibility of the country’s P&L, balance sheet or cash flow. Dominica is looking bankrupt. We can’t even pay university scholarships. Universities refuse govt scholarships from Dca…
Thompson
You need to start from scratch
Education from scratch. Truthful, patience & transform your supporters whole mentality & thinking. Speak the truth, empower them. Even in opposition, start at the pre school level. The persons who follow like sheep, you have influence on. First emancipate you from hatred slavery. Stop the war against the PM. Teach them to love others. We are all Dominicans. If you & the others stop talk about “Skerrit” show some love towards him , they will do so too because you using hatred & the PM to keep them supporting you.Then work on educating with the truth, the whole truth & empower by teaching skill etc. You all can work in the various communities involving them in whatever you do in the comunities instead of encouraging war, strife, walks. Have anything your party done created anything positive? None just parler sort, marcher avec majee.
Partner humble and seek God for wisdom. Diable la to kill, steal destroy. Don’t be used by our common…
Awa Awa Thompson.
Now it is observed that you guys have no interest in people.
As an economist, and having travelled , you as a leader should firstly educate your supporters. They seem to be like persons who cannot think for themselves. You say to them do not vote and they are like sheep. The same old story! You guys gave up your seats. Fooling your supporters so you can continue to keep them ignorant and more ignorant. Teach them what is democracy and civics etc. You are only creating monsters for your own selves if and ever you win which I doubt. You keep them so ignorant that anyone who do not agree with your policies, they see them as skeritites because you guys are so arrogant that you do not listen to advice. Only majee you people doing. What do you want to be in government for? To line your pockets, keep people ignorant. Ignorant breeds poverty. You have no answers for the Dominican public. Advice begin the education process. Kill arogancy
Humble seek God for…
This so-called reset Cabinet is more like a reject Cabinet.
If one freshly shower then put on the same dirty, sweat-soaked, smelly clothes that he wore just before the bath, it would not make much of a difference.Likewise, having a most exceptionally lying, ultra-selfish, oafish mooncalf at the head of Cabinet, things in the country are only going to exacerbate.
Dominica will be chained to poverty, mass unemployment, fierce political disunity, astounding indebtedness, and to the derriere position of the sub Caribbean region.
Man you have kilos and TOUPAY. Oh la ou thé yeah, batte corp.
Good job done and well said Doctor thompson fountain, you will continue to inform us about the state of affairs in Dominica without fear or favour, because you were given the mandate by the people to lead the opposition and that’s what we know you will do, because you are well qualified and the only person right now that can help us from this gloom and I dare say doom we have found ourselves in.
In Dr. Fontaine’s remarks above, he called on President Charles Saverin to revoke the appointment of the entire Cabinet and reappoint not more that 12 minister, consultants/advisors. I would like the Dr to tell the public, where the PM contravened any law/ constitution in the Cabinet’s appointments. Secondly, the Dr needs to tell us, whether under the West Minister System of government, under which Dominica operates, there is a limit on Cabinet appointments?
You seem to have lost your commonsense or you never had any. You even looking for credence by your name but everybody know you are one of skerrit dummies. So because there is no law that limits the amount of rubbish you can talk that gives you reason to talk rubbish all day? SMH
Fontaine, you have entered with the same old song as the previous leader of your Party.
Why didn’t you and your party not contest the Election; for without doing that you have failed your supporters.
You all’s constant attack against the Prime Minister and your empty command to him, goes out of your mouth into thin air; no one cares about what you all have to say–especially this time.
The Dominicans whom you claimed are suffering, this, that, and the other thing, is nothing but a “Foolish Loud Exaggeration”, which is the “Motto” of your party. When will you and yours come to terms with the fact that it is not working?
Dominicans are the people choosing PM Skerrit and his Governing body at every General Election, how can they be suffering?
Show the people that you can serve them to your best ability. You all’s continuous hitting against the Prime Minister and his works is useless to them.
@ Elizabeth, why don’t you come to live in DA and you will know if they suffering or not. In the mean time, keep your bias comments to yourself.
Same old foolishness from the pretend christian. Lady a new year is coming buy some common sense.
There is no point that you come on here and speel bad air. When you had de only chance was to go to the poll.
Let’s see how that work.
Thomson your fool hardy decision not to contest the election has made your party irrelevant since your party have no representation in Parliament. All your huffing and puffing is just going in in one ear and coming out of the other. You can only change things to suit you if you are in Parliament, so you blues can just take your blows and do what you do best (walk and talk) for the next five years. The ruling party have the power to govern as it wishes as long as there’s no breach of the constitution or illegality. You can go crying to the president as much as you like, you are just making a bigger fool of yourself than ugly Lenny did.
I can see why South Sudan got no where during your years of employment in that empoverished and wartorn country. If you can start your innings so far on the back foot as telling such a blatant lie in the faces of thousands of Dominica Labour Party supportes who just resoundingly defeated their opponents in 19 of the 21 constituencies. Even candidates in Roseau south, Roseau central, Roseau valley, Castle Bruce, and Grand Fond are practically new comers in the relm of politics. Yet Portsmouth, Mahaut, Petite Savanne, Colihaut, Laplaine, Paix Bouche, Cottage, Roseau North etc are all first time candidates. How does that make them recycled???? Are you sure you’re looking in the right direction with this comment?? But then again, guess who we are talking about here, Thompson Fountains a man with a wrap sheet that sucks and stinks and riddled with tarnished images in our minds. You must be very gullible to take on that position. Look in the mirror and see who is truly recycled.
This is a Cabinet that will be very productive on noise and falsehoods, and nothing much on substance.
The main objective of these ministers is to upend democracy so as to keep their grimy fingers on the country’s purse. Power and self-enrichment is their singular goal. They are all self-serving parasites.
No ‘Honourable’ in front of the names of these rascals. That word would only give them a false sense of significance. They are all a Cabinet of mobsters in well-made suits and dresses.
Dr. Ponzi does not like the reset. He wants to have his own reset. Maybe he thinks we are DAAS. UWP just does not seem to attract the right person in a leadership position. That is a big shame. Five years of more horse manure from the UWP.
I cannot understand how you say that politics is not your forte, yet, you have an answer and a solution for everything politics. You really amaze me. You really sound like a barking dog and your master just won’t open the door to let you in. Keep barking for another 5 years, brother; just do not bark up the wrong tree or the wrong door. You call us rascals, yet, you are aligned with a Ponzi scheme leader. Another Allen Stanford. Another carbon copy of ugly Lenny.
Stop curse the good gentleman. He is a person of impeccable integrity unlike your unschooled, despicable, scandalous deity (Roosevelt)
I share your viewa, but this is not going to happen. Severin Will never give I, no one says no to Skeritt and this is a shame. One day Skerrit Will meet his match.
According to Mr. Fontaine “In that regard, the United Workers Party calls upon President Charles Savarin to exercise the executive authority of his office and immediately revoke the appointment of the entire Cabinet of Ministers.”
I thought Mr. Linton was STUPID but Mr. Fontaine seems to be an educated FOOL.
The statement just seems to be a rhetorical one. The political needle will not move until the opposition parties can galvanize the support of the masses to rein in the prime despot and his pliable apostles.
“I thought Mr. Linton was STUPID but Mr. Fontaine seems to be an educated FOOL”.
Hahahahahaha! Zara, you made me laugh, but frankly speaking, your observation is quite concerning pertaining to the reputation of our Nation and her people.
These guys of the United Workers Party do not realizing that they are giving Dominica very poor marks as far as the outside World is concerned, through their foolish staging as political leaders.
However, it is a good thing that our people are rejecting them miserably, because we are proud of our Country, and we will not allow these senseless men to sow their shamefulness on her grounds. Never!
Skerrit has always been a liar, and a deceptive and morally bankrupt conman. Dominica, despite being the smallest economy among the Caribbean independent states, has also been plunged into a debt crisis by the ethically depraved prime minister, according to the Caribbean Policy Development Centre (CPDC)..This is what you call lazy and inept leadership, by an accomplished and corrupt MISLEADER, posing as a messiah!!
My best guess for him rehiring the ministers he publicly disgraced and called lazy, is because he wants them to keep silent about the corruption of the past 22years, but it’s just a matter of time!
Dr. Fontaine needs to do a reset himself. Change up the approach. “Call an audible.”
Instead of expending all efforts telling us what is wrong with the DLP government, he needs to more importantly start selling himself and a possible UWP administration.
He needs to get us to the point where we start to think of, even romanticize, him as Prime Minister and the possibilities that come with it. That’s the next level he needs to take this to. Only then he will begin to give Roosevelt Skerrit and the DLP fit.
Preaching how bad is the DLP administration is not good enough. Selling and energizing the masses about the alternative is even more import.
The Dame did it and Edison James did it.
Both selling his attributes as a possible prime minister and pinpointing the character flaw of Roosevelt are not mutual!y exclusive. The two should be done simultaneously. Roosevelt’s indiscretions and outrageous excesses should not be glossed over or ignored.
Here goes the recycled Leader of the UWP Party. He is both a recycled leader and a ponzi Leader. Ask him what did he achieve for Sudan in his four years. Nothing but more civil war in this country. Their economy is still in tatters. Lots of refugees and impoverished people in Sudan. These so-called economists must have gotten their Phd from a Landfill University somewhere out there in the ghettos of America. Ibo France it is incumbent on you now to do some investigations in Sudan.
So Silent Majority, the tief is there taking and taking, and no one has to say anything….
So the Workers Party just have to hush their mouth and come up with their own scheme…
Who will guard the tief???