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Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has condemned the \u201cvicious attacks\u201d against Opposition Leader Jesma Paul-Victor by callers on a local radio station after her decision to revoke Senator Sean Douglas’s appointment as an opposition member of parliament.<\/p>\n
He was addressing Parliament on Friday.<\/p>\n
\u201cI really want to condemn the vicious attack that I heard on Q-95 [Radio] against the Leader of the Opposition\u2026,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I am calling on every member to condemn this vicious attack by the United Workers Party on the Leader of the Opposition.\u201d<\/p>\n
He continued, \u201cWe must have more civility in this country, that if you don\u2019t agree with somebody, doesn\u2019t mean you have to scandalize the person, but we must be consistent.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Prime Minister said the problem in Dominica is that people tend to ‘play politics’ with these things.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, we go around Roseau ringing bells, calling for the AG [Attorney General] to resign and the same people who are calling on the Attorney General to resign are the same people involved and cheerleading the vicious attack on the Leader of the Opposition,\u201d he remarked. \u201cAnd Dominicans must be aware of this and Leader of the Opposition you have to be aware of this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Skerrit added, \u201cLook for her constituency. And I am saying for the member of Marigot, because rest assured, they will eat you both, like snakes who eat up their offspring. They will use you\u2026the moment they believe they cannot use you they will mash you up.\u201d<\/p>\n
He went on to condemn all of the attacks on women in Dominica.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is wrong, it is distasteful,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Opposition Senator Delbert Paris also condemned the attacks on his leader.<\/p>\n \u201cI very seldom agree with the leader of the government, but on this one I would like to agree with him and condemn the vicious attacks that have been leveled on the leader of the opposition,\u201d he said. \u201cThe vicious attacks on the leader of the opposition, wherever they came from, is unacceptable, it\u2019s unnecessary.\u201d<\/p>\n Paris went on to state that the leader suffered those attacks for exercising her duties and rights.<\/p>\n \u201cShe was attacked by several people and groups of people without even having all the details, without having information.”<\/p>\n He continued, \u201cIt is something that we do in Dominica that is not right and it has to stop.\u201d<\/p>\n Paris further condemned the unacceptable behaviour of the country\u2019s Attorney General Levi Peter and the Minister of Education for the unacceptable things that they said, \u201c…On the same opposition leader and her candidate for president\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cWe don\u2019t have such a short memory; we remember,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n The opposition senator from Marigot added, \u201cAnd if we are talking about unity in a Creole country and we are talking about not trivializing issues and not politicizing all issues, when it comes to the issue of protecting our women and children, I think that is a place we can unite. I think that is a place where we can all condemn violence, abuse, and verbal attacks on our women.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has condemned the \u201cvicious attacks\u201d against Opposition Leader Jesma Paul-Victor by callers on a local radio station after her decision to revoke Senator Sean Douglas’s appointment as an opposition member of parliament. He was addressing Parliament…","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":311807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[262,286,77,235,9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gender","category-governance","category-homepage","category-homepage-carousel","category-news","category-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Delbert-Paris-addressing-Parliament-642x351.jpg\")