{"id":303854,"date":"2023-06-09T07:00:31","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=303854"},"modified":"2023-06-09T08:41:11","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T12:41:11","slug":"paul-says-parliamentary-opposition-in-support-of-international-airport-calls-from-more-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/paul-says-parliamentary-opposition-in-support-of-international-airport-calls-from-more-transparency\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul says parliamentary opposition in support of international airport, calls from more transparency"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_303855\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-303855\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-303855\" src=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Jesma-Paul-Victor-1-642x466.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"465\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-303855\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jesma Paul-Victor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Opposition Leader Jesma Paul-Victor said the parliamentary opposition is in support of the construction of the long-awaited international airport.<\/p>\n<p>She made the statement while speaking to State-Owned Radio DBS this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we do not want to mix politics into matters of the country,\u201d she said. \u201cWe are in support of the international airport that has been long-in- coming and right now, we are seeing that works are being done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to her, both the opposition and government must come together to work for the good of the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe we are one people, we are one Dominica and even if we are the opposition, we don\u2019t need to oppose&#8230; everything,\u201d Paul-Victor stated. \u201cWe need to come together because there are committees [where] the opposition and people in the government are in the same committees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, she said she believes that more information could be given on certain matters, \u201cso we just need some transparency&#8230;We believe that much more can be said and we expect more information from the government, which we are not getting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A one-billion-dollar contract between the Government of Dominica and Montreal Management Consultant Establishment (MMCE) has been signed, signaling the official commencement of the construction of the highly anticipated international airport.<\/p>\n<p>The contract signing which took place at the Windsor Park Sports Stadium on June 9, 2021, has been described as as &#8220;a long-awaited dream held in the hearts of citizens for over 50 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the time, the prime minister expressed gratitude to the people of Wesley, Woodford Hill, and Palm Tree who facilitated the construction of the airport in their communities and vowed to the citizens of Dominica, at home and abroad, that nothing and no one will stop his government from building the international airport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Opposition Leader Jesma Paul-Victor said the parliamentary opposition is in support of the construction of the long-awaited international airport. 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