Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has announced that the staging of the 22nd Edition of the World Creole Music Festival (WCMF) is a clear message to the world that “we are back.”
He made the announcement while speaking to the media at the Windsor Park Sports Stadium on Monday morning.
“Clearly we are coming out of a hurricane, the pandemic for about three years and we wanted to send a clear message not only to our citizens here in Dominica, but the international community, the Caribbean of our commitment to the creole culture, our commitment to the festival and to indicate to the world we are back and we are back in a big way,” he said.
According to the Prime Minister, this is not a Dominican festival, “really, it’s truly the World Creole Music Festival.”
“It now belongs to the world and so we are very grateful for this and we want to send a very clear message that we are serious about the creole music festival and we have invested tremendously in this festival,” he stated.
He continued, “We have taken it to a level that we don’t intend to go down from, so next year we are going to be even bigger so get ready from 2023.”
African Giant, ‘.Burna Boy’ who was set to perform on Saturday night was unable to do so due to unforeseen circumstances. This left hundreds of fans who came to see him disappointed.
Patrice Roberts brought the curtains down with what was described as a spectacular performance.
Skerrit thanked the Caribbean brothers and sisters from Jamaica, the United States Virgin Islands (USVI) Suriname, Canada, Europe, and the USA to name a few, who have turned out in large numbers to support the WCMF this year.
The three nights of ‘pulsating rhythms’ took place from October 28 to 30.
They continue to bemoan how they are suffering in Dominica under a repressive regime yet they eat, dress, fete and generally live better than their relatives and friends in “more developed” countries where they toil on overnight shifts for next to minimum wages while scarecly being able to save a penny.
They frown and scoff at the content of the barrels of goods which require a good amount of financial sacrifice to be shipped from far away lands, often lamenting the absence of designner items when the senders only wear knock off brands thenselves.
Oh by the way, did you see them swaying in the rain with their expensive outfits and iphones in hand at the WCMF? That is not a desperate and suffering people. What they are is an ungrateful and wicked multitude.
All those voters who backed Skerrit in the the recent elections now claiming shock of his shortcomings are jokers, a man whose sole qualification for the post appeared to be “looks a bit like a male model with his dimples”.
Dominicans are a strange breed, they totally ignore the shortcomings of their CM, a man whose sole qualification for the post appeared to be “looks a bit like a male model with his dimples”. To top it all, he robbed them blind but they still love DIMPLES. This is utterly unique!
At least Mr Skerrit can dance.
Happy independence day Sir.
You are trying your best.
According to assa bantan “tell us the truth and nothing but the truth” skerrit . Come clean and tell us about the saga of burna boy, how much money was actually paid to him and by whom, and did the money came from the treasury??. Was the DFC aware of this so called contract.. Even Patrice was pissed off and venting…. and her performance was the shortest after reyo’s ok boom…
The truth is you are a neyga. What else do you want to hear?
I was wondering if your name is dam sort (ds)…
Do you have a smeared conscience, ds??. Are you in support of roosevelt giving a man, I don’t care who he is, 3 million dollars and Dominicans are hungry because they can’t find a job to feed themselves and their families …
Look at Chichi. I wonder how happy Chichi feels about himself whenever he looks at the mirror (if he ever does). He looks so dry and cold. No wonder his opposite # is always so DRY.
Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit did not mince his words to say that Nigerian Afrobeat star Burna Boy breached his contract after failing to appear on Saturday night for the World Creole Music Festival (WCMF).
Burna boy failed to arrive in Dominica as per his contract to perform for thousands who braved the inclement weather that evening.
Skerrit told media on Sunday night at Windsor Park Stadium that what transpired on Saturday had nothing to do with the Discover Dominica Authority (DDA) or anyone in Dominica.
“Our airport was open, there was no bad weather, and all our staff was in place, so this has absolutely nothing to do with the World Creole Music Festivals organizers and the government and people of Dominica.
So, the whole episode can be read in the Trinidad Express!
Dominica’s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit did not mince his words to say that Nigerian Afrobeat star Burna Boy breached his contract after failing to appear on Saturday night for the World Creole Music Festival (WCMF).
Burna boy failed to arrive in Dominica as per his contract to perform for thousands who braved the inclement weather that evening.
Skerrit told media on Sunday night at Windsor Park Stadium that what transpired on Saturday had nothing to do with the Discover Dominica Authority (DDA) or anyone in Dominica.
“Our airport was open, there was no bad weather, and all our staff was in place, so this has absolutely nothing to do with the World Creole Music Festivals organizers and the government and people of Dominica.
“There is a contract, and it should have been respected. I would have kept the airport open to having the aircraft land, we were prepared to charter LIAT and had the PM of Antigua and Barbados keep their airports open to facilitate the gentleman,”…
Cont:
Yes, Roosevelt you are really back; however, in backwardness, this man was supposed to have traveled from Africa, on an international flight, there are no International Airports in Dominica to accommodate such flights, he should sue you for getting bumped off somewhere between Africa and some other Caribbean Island where there are no connecting flights on a commuter aircraft to Dominica.
“Our airport was open?”
Then Roosevelt contends Gaston Brown would have kept V. C. Bird International airport open to accommodate Roosevelt and his crap, because this god Roosevelt had an entertainer flying through to his mess in Dominica.
If Gaston agreed with that Dominica clown on that, he once again made a fool out of Roosevelt, because he knows to allow an International Airport to remain open without collecting a substantial amount of revenue, cost perhaps millions, that would not be in the interest of the government and people of Antigua!
Once again Roosevelt you were fooled!
Back from where, Skerrit??? Apart from you and your Mamselle nobody has been away. Been to Dubai again and worship the Sheikhs or had you been invited to attend the party congress of the communist party of China. Get lost, man! Stupid talk you talking!!!!!!
What a historic failure of a government. You’ve been in power for decades and have only served one cross-section of society. Your supporters, they are pleased with the scraps they get and the lies they’re told.
Sir, under your watch dominica has become drug and crime ridden. Do us a favor and resign immediately, take your cronies with you.
People a shooting at a hospital is the red line..the police also gets blame here too.
Talking about back, what about the parrots that were secretly sent to Germany, when will they be back? The country hasn’t received any status report from any authority on what’s going on with the parrots. Skerritt, your turn to say something to the nation about the parrots.
Agreed! But when the cut-copy-and paste media remains defending my silent, shows callous indifference to pertinent issues, Roosevelt will continue his all out assault to stymie what little is left of our democracy.
Well well here we go again.A Donald Trump of Dominica. Please mr.Ske-Trump stop fooling yourself. God has to remove you because the people of Dominica is too weak to move you.The devil you have as your father he can’t never be stronger than the God I serving. So go ahead. Pharoah,Hitler and so many evil leader used to think that they are untouchable and where are they now.God almighty has the answer so go on PM fly your kite you and all your enables.Time will tell.
Con:
Clown, be honest, take a closer look at all the rest of the 🏝 islands in the Caribbean: their economy and infrastructures.
Review foreign investment, and job opportunities on the islands from as far as Bermuda in the North to Jamaica, and every island between, to Guyana 🇬🇾 in the South, as simple as that tell me on how many of those islands you found without traffic lights controlling traffic, without postal service, and no International Airport.
Tell me the dog, how many of those islands PM gave free money to thieves in the millions for keeps, while giving them money to build 🏩 hotels which remains empty year round.
Are you not ashamed at Dominica’s disposition in comparison to even Montserrat, which returned like a phenix from the ashes of the volcano which destroyed the island less than thirty years ago.
Roosevelt has made idiot’s, puppies and puppets out many Dominicans, especially those of you who prefer 🖐 handouts than working for a living!
Spending US$500K to bring Burna Boy to Dominica is not considered a good investment if we do not realize a net positive return on that investment. There is no way Skerrit can show that this was money well spent.
We are back to what? The creole cultural backbone of the country is now relegated to 45 minutes in the main cultural festival in the country and now foreign music and artists are given the humongous share of the festival and we are back!? back to what? The same way that the policies of the current Labour Party allowed agriculture to decline before now talking about trying to resuscitate it is the same way that culture will be treated. It pains me that the double doctorate dude chooses to allow good things about Dominca to disintegrate so he can claim his brilliance in trying to resuscitate them. This statement is nothing but lipstick on a pig. Dominca I’m sorry.
Every damn thing isPolitics.stop your foolishness
Politics affects every aspect of life not only in Dominica but in every country. Jobs, our national and financial security, healthcare system, quality of our living standard, environment, education, peacefulness of the country, social services, the roads and bridges we drive and walk on, our working conditions, sporting facilities or lack thereof, our lifespan, I literally mean every thing.
So when one says every thing is politics sarcastically, that person is right and doesn’t even realise he is right.
@D/can to f bone, yes everything has it’s politics. Welcome to the real world. Who invited or forced you to read my submissions? Similarly,everything has a financial cost to it even if actual cash was not exchanged but it can be calculated. Your ignorance and hypocrisy is glaring.
No pal, not even sorry you didn’t make it, this was big, huge. He may be wrong and he has been wrong before, but as WCMF stands ..’we are back!
We, I am back to take all your money in 2023 disguised as the C B I program.
Skerrit there us nothing to brag about… the stadium vendors couldn’t provide enough food for the amount of people who were at the festival sunday night, so people had money in their pocket and they was hungry… if you had not barricaded the entrances and surroundings of the stadium and had allowed Dominicans to sell their little bakes and chicken as they used to….. well maybe….
What a fool 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁
Skerrit we a back from what ? that guy have no shame. The few hundreds you see in Dominica they begin to leave, hundred has gone back and did not stay for the 3rd . Next week about the same time Dominica will be back as usual, alots will be left behind to do like cleaning and thinking. The thousand you gave the ticket for free they will leave dominica to clean as they normarlly do , come down and vote and go back the next day and leave it for the you know what to clean up. Skerrit dominicans see right through you, you are a bam!!!!!!!! joker. What Dominicans waiting for i don’t know.
All he is spewing are all garbage!
How can Roosevelt send a message to the world that because he provided all the tickets to his supporters to attend a show, that means Dominica is back!
Back from where or what?
So, I reside in the State of California, and although I don’t know many other Dominicans residents here, I never once heard a single American born mention the name Dominica and going there specifically because of Creole Festival.
Roosevelt, I know you are delusional, believing your very own lies, you need to find a way to step out of the corrupted universe you created for you and your dunce wife, and return to the natural world around you.
Look carefully, you might your lies, and the damage they have done to the life’s of the majority of our people and country.
Dominica isn’t back from anywhere, it’s the same old thing, the spewing of your political propaganda while Dominica linger in poverty, whereas you cannot account for billions of dollars.
Roosevelt thinks that the FreeTime Festival is the panacea of Dominica’s multiplicity of problems. He has never once failed to amuse me with his superficial thoughts and asinine statements.
This is a hoarder who has extinguished the dreams of the young, reduced the adult population to beggars, while feathering his nest. He and his uncultured, unschooled wife have saddled the poor tax payers with monthly rent and salaries of approximately $84K.
P.S. DNO, Roosevelt promised to relieve the tax payers of this financial monthly burden by exiting the palatial mansion. Can you please remind the country of the date? Isn’t it this month?
Dominica is back? How can Dominica be back when MURDERS are at their highest count? UNEMPLOYMENT is at its highest level. POVERTY is exploding like a nuclear bomb. The DEATH RATE is alarmingly mind-boggling.
The country will be back when PEACE and TRANQUILITY reigns again. When AGRICULTURE reclaims its prominent position. When the resident DOMINICAN doesn’t have to beg to survive. When the ECONOMY is raised from its comatose state. When rampant government CORRUPTION is lowered to negligible levels.
Finally, Dominica will be back when the scandal-scarred tenure of this current maladministration is permanently ended.
They came and they saw.Not what the fake news,propagandist,crooks,traitors and liars say about Dominica.They came and the saw NOT the thousands of homeless,not the thousands of beggers,not the thousands of unemployed and surely not the thousands of hungry and poor people,Bwa-Banday,Ibo France and Francisco-DOG want the world to believe exists in Dominica.They came by the thousands and they saw,they saw a lazy cavalage of blue snakes,backstabbing and eating their own.
You nasty delusion clown, haven’t you heard that corrupted crook Roosevelt paid for the whole affair?
Haven’t you heard that some people whom they gave free tickets to go and make belief that they were paid participants were in the streets begging people to buy the tickets so that they can get some food to eat?
If you saw Dominicans from overseas return for that show, ask who paid for their flight tickets home, especially the ones who got there the day prior to the party, and left the day after the party.
Clown, there are more hungry people in Dominica than any island in the Caribbean with the exception of Haiti!
Clown, mouth talk doesn’t change a very bad situation such as poverty, unemployment thievery, murder and every imaginary crime in the country simply because of Roosevelt lies, about Dominica is back.
Back from where?
When the visitors go home they will tell their friends there are no traffic lights, nor postal services in the country that’s back from nowhere.
Con:
Clown, be honest, take a closer look at all the rest of the 🏝 islands in the Caribbean: their economy and infrastructures.
Review foreign investment, and job opportunities on the islands from as far as Bermuda in the North to Jamaica, and every island between, to Guyana 🇬🇾 in the South, as simple as that tell me on how many of those islands you found without traffic lights controlling traffic, without postal service, and no International Airport.
Tell me the dog, how many of those islands PM gave free money to thieves in the millions for keeps, while giving them money to build 🏩 hotels which remains empty year round.
Are you not ashamed at Dominica’s disposition in comparison to even Montserrat, which returned like a phenix from the ashes of the volcano which destroyed the island less than thirty years ago.
Roosevelt has made idiot’s, puppies and puppets out many Dominicans, especially those of you who prefer 🖐 handouts than working for a living!
We are back in the limelight again, all the doors that were once closed will open up again, superman. Where have you been? Spending time in Wonderland with Alice? Not a very good idea, superman.
You ds, are the one in wonderland with Roosevelt, and not in any limelight; nevertheless in lies and lime darkness!
ds, here is how deep Roosevelt is in darkness: I doubt that Gaston can simply order the Antigua Airport manager to keep it open simple to accommodate Roosevelt.
Roosevelt is everything in Dominica, that’s not how it is in Antigua. It cost thousands of dollars per hour to keep an International Airport open.
Landing lights burns plenty of current, then fire trucks and fire fighters must be on duty too, there is plenty of money involved to keep it open waiting on a single flight.
The airport manager has the power to decide when the airport remains open or close in Antigua, not Gaston Brown, and that’s how it works!
There are not many political puppets in Antigua, as we have in Dominica.
Well said. DKMINICA is in a better state than it has never been. Plenty of food. Well dressed citizens. Beautiful roads for awhile I thought I was in Scotland. The nasty haters don’t care anything about the country and scaring visitors away. MR PM you have changed Dominica and it is Lovely……
Sure he has! But please put a bit of meat on the bone. Right now, you sound like an utter fool!!
P.S.: tell us who paid for you flight. Was it Uncle?
If it wasn’t so sad, I would laugh.
Where is Piper bondieu!? Must Skerrit always hug all the attention in the commonwealth?
Anyhow, Congratulations to everyone who worked hard on making this year’s WCMF a success. Including the PM, DFC,DDA,the CBI and the ordinary nationals and visitors who attended in peace to just enjoy.
The WCMF is fast becoing an international brand frfr..let’s push the positives. This may well be one of the things that all Dominicans can be proud of.
What about Dominica’s, old time generation bands? Have they been forgotten!?!
I agree. It’s called World CREOLE Music Festival. Burna Boy is Nigerian…what the f**k does he have to do with Creole culture? Where’s all the cadence-lypso, zouk etc singers/bands? The festival is supposed to be celebrating OUR culture, not others. And the sad thing is the West Indian artists don’t even get paid 1% of what Burna Boy got paid. We’re supposed to be supporting OUR OWN people, not outsiders. It went from the ‘Creole Festival’ to the ‘Skerrit Show’ unfortunately.
I don’t agree with our very own being sidelined in favor of others when they can do the same or similar. However, in terms of creole, Burna-Boy comes from a country -Nigeria- with its own creole. Yes, its called Pinying or Pegion English very similar from what they speak in Marigot and Wesly (Koroy?). So consider yourself educated on this portion of your post!
Oh Please, you don’t support your own people, I’ve read your comments. Get out of here with your crazy crap.
For the carnival.