{"id":269882,"date":"2021-06-27T14:15:35","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T18:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=269882"},"modified":"2021-06-27T14:15:35","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T18:15:35","slug":"commentary-catalytic-statement-has-doomed-dominica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/commentary-catalytic-statement-has-doomed-dominica\/","title":{"rendered":"COMMENTARY: Catalytic statement has doomed Dominica"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It widely believed that the catalyst for The Commonwealth of Dominica remaining and continuing to be embroiled in international criminal intrigue is mainly because the Country\u2019s Prime Minister Roosevelt said to its populace in 2009 that \u201cNo Law No Constitution Will Prevent Roosevelt Skerrit from being nominated as a Candidate\u201d<\/em><\/strong> in the 2009 General Election. This statement was preceded by the Anthony Astaphan, Senior Counsel, email of 2008 which led to the derailing of efforts by Dominica\u2019s Electoral Commission\u2019s efforts to Reform Dominica\u2019s Electoral System. Following this catalytic statement Roosevelt Skerrit proceeded to have himself nominated despite his writing a letter in November 2009 to the French Ambassador to the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) inclusive of Dominica, based in St. Lucia,\u00a0 requesting of the Ambassador the revocation of his (Skerrit\u2019s) French Citizenship.<\/p>\n

It is a disqualifying vice for anyone to be nominated or elected as a Representative in the House of Parliament in the Commonwealth of Dominica if that person holds citizenship of or bears allegiance to any Foreign State (Section 15, Form 13 of the House of Assembly Act 2:01 of the Laws of Dominica).<\/p>\n

The election of Roosevelt Skerrit in 2009 and his victory at Court from a challenge to his legitimacy as a legally elected Representative has seemingly emboldened him. This emboldenment has led to a style of unaccountable and non-transparent governance that continues to plague Dominica and severely erodes every vestige of democracy in the Nature Isle of the Caribbean.<\/p>\n

That emboldenment is now manifesting itself in International criminal intrigue stories that are beyond the wildest comprehension of an unsuspecting populace. Dominica now finds itself seeking to navigate in The Cases of the Missing Billions<\/u><\/em><\/strong>. That is to say Mr. Mehul Choksi, Antiguan Citizen of Indian extraction from India is now embroiled in legal controversies in Dominica due to his alleged fraudulent act in the disappearance of US$2 billion dollars<\/em><\/strong> from India<\/a>.\u00a0 Just prior to the Mehul Choksi Affair, Iranian born Ambassador Alireza Monfared, Appointed as Dominica\u2019s Ambassador by the Roosevelt Skerrit Administration under the Citizenship by Investment Programme (CBI) and who was residing in Dominica, was allegedly kidnapped in the Dominican Republic, hours after flying out of the Commonwealth of Dominica to visit that country almost two years ago; Monfared is now serving a sentence of twenty years in an Iranian Prison for having swindled in excess of US$2 billion dollars<\/em><\/strong> from the Iranian Government ( http:\/\/curacaochronicle.com\/region\/dominica-diplomat-arrested-in-billion-dollar-embezzlement-scheme\/)\u00a0\u00a0 (http:\/\/sundominica.com\/articles\/government-defends-again-4106\/ ). Ambassador Diezani K. Alison-Madueke, appointed by the Roosevelt Skerrit Administration as one of Dominica\u2019s Ambassadors, is now fighting extradition from England to face charges in a Nigerian Court of Law for allegedly embezzling in excess of US$2 billion dollars<\/em><\/strong> from Nigeria when she served as a Minister in the Nigerian Government<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fast forward to Dominica where the island\u2019s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has refused to transparently account to the people the whereabouts in excess of<\/em><\/strong> two billion dollars<\/em><\/strong> raised through the sale of Dominican Citizenship and Passports. Despite questions in Parliament Dominica\u2019s Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has not sufficiently and transparently accounted for funds raised under the \u201cHousing Option\u201d of the Island\u2019s Citizenship By Investment (CBI) Programme within which Dominican Citizenship and Passports are sold to \u201cpotential investors\u201d at varying prices, sometimes in excess of US$100,000.00 per Passport. The Dominican Constitution stipulates at Section 76 that \u201call revenues or other moneys raised or received by Dominica (not being revenues or other moneys that are payable, by or under any law for the time being in force in Dominica, into some other fund established for a specific purpose) shall be paid into and form a Consolidated Fund\u201d.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Constitutional provision clearly stipulates that any Funds held in Dominica\u2019s name may only be so held outside of the Country\u2019s Consolidated Funds by or under any law for the time being in force in Dominica, into some other fund established for a specific purpose. <\/em><\/strong>This stipulation mandates that Dominica\u2019s Finances must be controlled, managed and administered under Laws that are in force in the Country. The Constitution also provide that the Director of Audit shall audit every Account in which public funds are placed. The Roosevelt Skerrit Administration continues to defy the Country\u2019s Constitution by failing to account for funds raised in the Country\u2019s name.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday 9th<\/sup> June, 2021 shall be recorded in\u00a0 Dominica\u2019s history as the day when Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Roosevelt Skerrit institutionalized his defiance to the People and its Parliament by inviting one Anthony Haiden to Dominica, where he formally signed a Contract to build Dominica\u2019s International Airport without Parliamentary approval or oversight. By that singular act Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit dealt a near fatal blow to Dominica\u2019s fledgling democracy, which is now a patient at the Country\u2019s Dominica-China Friendship Hospital. It is hoped that the Judicial Officers of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court will develop and in a timely fashion administer a Democracy Saving Vaccine that will reinject life into Dominica\u2019s Democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It widely believed that the catalyst for The Commonwealth of Dominica remaining and continuing to be embroiled in international criminal intrigue is mainly because the Country\u2019s Prime Minister Roosevelt said to its populace in 2009 that \u201cNo Law No Constitution…","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":239282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,77,235,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-commentary","category-homepage","category-homepage-carousel","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nCOMMENTARY: Catalytic statement has doomed Dominica - 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