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House Speaker Alix Boyd-Knight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Speaker of the House, Alix Boyd-Knights, has come out swinging against her critics whom she said know nothing about her and have assumed ownership of her life.<\/p>\n

“Unfortunately in Dominica people who never knew me as a child, never knew me growing up, never got to know me until I came back to Dominica in 1990 has assumed ownership of my life, have assumed ownership of what they think I ought to to have done and what I ought not to have done,” she said on parliament on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Boyd-Knights was a government nominee for president of Dominica, which she initially accepted.<\/p>\n

However the nomination was greeted by severe criticism by many and earlier this week prime minister Roosevelt Skerrit announced that she was withdrawing the nomination through fear for the safety of her family.<\/p>\n

Some detractors had brushed aside Skerrit’s announcement suggesting that Boyd-Knights’ family was never in danger.<\/p>\n

However, she stated that “it is a disgraceful state of affair” when it was said that she should not be fearful for her family’s safety.<\/p>\n

“I take high umbrage,” she stated pointing to incidents where a white powder, in an envelope, was sent to her office and her car was stoned in Trafalgar.<\/p>\n

“So it is not a figment of my imagination for me to be fearful for my family, given the fact these people have gone around inciting violence, inciting people, making stories against me…” she said.<\/p>\n

Boyd-Knights said she is now forced to believe in reincarnation since many of the things she is being accused of by critics did not happen in her life. “I am forced now to believe in reincarnation,” she said.<\/p>\n

She also stated that she has been a victim of character assassination by “a new species of carnivores …who sit at their console …they kill your character, they cut it up in little pieces and they feed it to whoever will listen.”<\/p>\n

“That is a new form of cannibalism, they assassinate the character and feed it to to the listening public,” the speaker said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaker of the House, Alix Boyd-Knights, has come out swinging against her critics whom she said know nothing about her and have assumed ownership of her life. “Unfortunately in Dominica people who never knew me as a child, never knew…","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-interest"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nAlix Boyd-Knights hits back - Dominica News Online<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/human-interest\/alix-boyd-knights-hits-back\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Alix Boyd-Knights hits back - 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