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Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has referenced the $214,772,689.41 in remittances sent out of Dominica through MoneyGram and Western Union as evidence of the existence of jobs here on island.<\/p>\n
The information from the report, according to the Prime Minister, who addressed a news conference yesterday, shows that these monies came from foreign nationals who are working in Dominica, particularly in the construction and agriculture fields.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo when people say where is the work, Dominica doh have work, this money didn’t come from America. It is coming from Dominica going out of Dominica,\u201d Skerrit declared.<\/p>\n
An employee at one of these institutions who spoke to Dominica News Online (DNO) estimates that over half of this amount was sent out by Haitians.<\/p>\n
The individuals claimed, “On any given week we can add up the amount that is transferred to Haiti in excess of 100,000 dollars, and that’s just at our company.\u201d<\/p>\n
Similar declarations were made by the prime minister in May 2021 when he said that despite the COVID-19-related economic crisis, the economy was showing indications of recovery as millions of dollars were sent abroad by Haitians living in Dominica during the previous two years.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo also say to the Dominican public when we complain that there is no money in the economy or there are no jobs, the record shows that just Haitian nationals sent out 22 million dollars in 2020 via money gram and western union,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n
\u201c22 million dollars in COVID-19 period\u2026and in 2019 they sent out 23 million dollars. So I wanted to put this important piece of fact so that people appreciate that we may not be where we want but there are opportunities for us as Dominicans to do so,\u201d Skerrit added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has referenced the $214,772,689.41 in remittances sent out of Dominica through MoneyGram and Western Union as evidence of the existence of jobs here on island. The information from the report, according to the Prime Minister, who…","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":295705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,286,77,235,9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy-development","category-governance","category-homepage","category-homepage-carousel","category-news","category-regional"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n