{"id":128522,"date":"2014-11-28T08:42:55","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T12:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=128522"},"modified":"2014-11-28T13:49:58","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T17:49:58","slug":"skerrit-and-linton-spar-on-foreign-policy-citizenship-by-investment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/politics\/skerrit-and-linton-spar-on-foreign-policy-citizenship-by-investment\/","title":{"rendered":"Skerrit and Linton spar on foreign policy, citizenship by investment"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_128523\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-128523\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-128523\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/linton-skerrit-300x154.jpg\" alt=\"Linton (left) was challenged by Skerrit to make his position clear on foreign policy\" width=\"300\" height=\"154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/linton-skerrit-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/linton-skerrit.jpg 488w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-128523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Linton (left) was challenged by Skerrit to make his position clear on foreign policy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Leader of the Dominica Labour Party, prime minister Roosevelt Skerrit and leader of the United Workers Party (UWP), Lennox Linton, have exchange salvos on their respective party&#8217;s stance on foreign policy and citizenship by investment.<\/p>\n<p>At a DLP meeting held in Fond Cole on Tuesday night Skerrit had challenged Linton to make known his position in relation to several countries including China, Venezuela, Morocco, and Cuba.<\/p>\n<p>Linton quickly responded, telling privately owned Q95 on Wednesday morning that Skerrit is simply &#8220;playing games.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is trying to push the people of Dominica into a position where they feel there is doubt about what our foreign policy is going to be,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>At the Fond Cole meeting Skerrit called on Linton to make known his position on the One China policy, the citizen by investment program, Venezuela, and countries Dominica has friendly relations with.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nobody is telling you as a leader the UWP which to choose but you have to choose,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You are either with Taiwan or you recognizing PRC (Peoples Republic of China) as the one and only China. Tonight, again, I ask Lennox Linton, where do you stand on the issue of China and the One China Policy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the same goes for other countries such as &#8220;Venezuela, Morocco, Cuba, Italy and all other countries from which Dominica has benefited tangibly over the last 14 years, and which have been denounced and repudiated by Lennox Linton.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to hear whether you shall be consistent or whether there shall be an about turn on the part of the UWP with respect to its foreign policy,&#8221; Skerrit said.<\/p>\n<p>He accused Linton of constantly attacking friendly nations and questioned whether they would want to do business with him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do we know that China would want to do business with a man who at every turn has vilified and demonized its citizens and their government?\u201d Skerrit queried.<\/p>\n<p>But Linton said the UWP has already clearly made its position known on China.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have said clearly on the record that we have no intentions of switching diplomatic relations,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But of course we are going to be a new administration, we have a duty to sit down and talk with the Chinese about what&#8217;s going on, what&#8217;s happening, what&#8217;s up, what&#8217;s ahead. We cannot sit back and say what was happening under Roosevelt Skerrit with the Chinese is good enough for us. We have to sit down and engage with them. We have to talk to them about the Dominica we see going forward, the Dominica we want to become the best place to live, the best place work and the best place to enjoy life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He stated that the UWP&#8217;s foreign policy will not be based on what he described as &#8220;the obsession with aid&#8221; which he said has been pursued by the Skerrit administration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want trade,&#8221; Linton pointed out. &#8220;We want to build our capacity for productive engagements with the international community. And that involves building our capacity to put goods and services in world markets that will allow us to earn our keep in the international community&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He stated that the UWP&#8217;s foriegn policy will be guided by &#8220;the highest moral principles and not short term economic considerations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our policy is one of enlightened responsible global citizenship and I am confirming that it will move away from a 15-year obsession with aid to a very tight focus on trade that will build our productive capacity and world market competitiveness,&#8221; he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Linton noted that Dominica will need aid and aid will be received but he argued that &#8220;we are concerned about building our capacity to trade.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That is how we become indepedenct, that is how we become our own people,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Not just sitting back relying on hand outs that will come from here and there and boasting about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Skerrit also wanted to know whether Linton would curtail the Citizenship by Investment Program (CBI) which he said has been demonized and vilified.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have denounced the CBI, even though your campaign is being financed by Henley and Partners. I want Lennox Linton to say to this country whether he will abolish the Citizenship By Investment Program,\u201d Skerrit said.<\/p>\n<p>Pointing to the failed Layou River Hotel project, Linton noted that there is on &#8220;the record an example of a CBI Program which emerged in the 1990&#8217;s that did not serve us well, that did not accomplish the objective for which it was set up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So what do we do? Do we just sit back and allow citizenshp by investment to put money in the pockets of overseas people while Dominicans wait for the delivery of the promises made to them under these programs?,&#8221; he asked.<\/p>\n<p>He said the CBI should be serving the needs of the people of Dominica &#8220;and not putting millions of dollar in the pocket of overseas operatives and their friends in government who don&#8217;t seems to care whether or not any Dominican benefit from that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He argued that there are many citizens under the program but very few investments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The contributions of these economic citizens are limited to the fee they pay for for their passport,&#8221; Linton stated. &#8220;Where are the investments? Where is the economic activity that they have driven in Dominica?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Linton is on the record saying the program will be revamped by the UWP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leader of the Dominica Labour Party, prime minister Roosevelt Skerrit and leader of the United Workers Party (UWP), Lennox Linton, have exchange salvos on their respective party&#8217;s stance on foreign policy and citizenship by investment. 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