{"id":135997,"date":"2015-03-17T15:43:07","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T19:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=135997"},"modified":"2015-03-18T08:35:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T12:35:00","slug":"oppostion-protest-a-joke-douglas-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/news\/politics\/oppostion-protest-a-joke-douglas-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Opposition protest a joke Douglas says"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_135998\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-135998\" style=\"width: 642px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-135998\" src=\"http:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/protest-642x428.jpg\" alt=\"The protest was held on Monday \" width=\"642\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/protest.jpg 642w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/protest-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-135998\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The protest was held on Monday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Minister for Trade, Energy and Employment, Ian Douglas, has described a protest staged by the opposition United Workers Party (UWP) on Monday as \u201ca joke\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The peaceful protest was held outside the Financial Center in Roseau based on what UWP leader, Lennox Linton, described as the \u201cabuse of the public money in Dominica.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Linton said they were protesting the government\u2019s decision to hire what they described as \u201crejects\u201d of the last general election in jobs such as Director of the Economic Council, Liaison in the Ministry of Health, Liaison in Diaspora Affairs, Advisor to the Ministry of Agriculture and Analyst in Poverty Reduction.<\/p>\n<p>Linton claims that those defeated candidates are making, from the public purse, $80,000 a year, which is $50,000 more than they would have been receiving if they were in opposition.<\/p>\n<p>But Douglas believes that the demonstration was premature and there was no justification for it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe protest action is a joke,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are hardly 90 days out of the election period and the country has already settled down and have moved back into work mode. We are looking forward to a number of projects that the government has enunciated in its manifesto and during the elections and we are very focused on the implementation and the execution of those projects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Douglas the electorate spoke clearly during the election held in December 2014..<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe country has spoken,&#8221; Douglas noted. &#8220;The opposition laid its plans before the electorate during the campaign period and so did the government and the people had an extended period, that is the better part of four to five weeks, to make a decision who to choose and the people understood and identified with the direction of the government and the Dominica Labour Party.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Douglas said the UWP must change its strategy of &#8216;propaganda&#8217; and &#8216;sensation&#8217; since this has no impact on the Dominican electorate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe United Workers Party must recognize that the strategy that it has used for the last fifteen years that it has been in opposition, has not worked for them,\u201d he stated. \u201cPropaganda and sensation really doesn\u2019t move the Dominican electorate. The Dominican electorate is a very mature electorate who is convinced by facts and figures and hard physical evidence on the ground.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minister for Trade, Energy and Employment, Ian Douglas, has described a protest staged by the opposition United Workers Party (UWP) on Monday as \u201ca joke\u201d. 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