MISPLACED PRIORITIES AND DELIBERATE DECEPTION
Over the past few weeks the entire Roosevelt Skerrit cabinet
has been going around the island using the country’s resources to perpetuate
poverty and dependency. This practice of duplicity and deception is indeed the
hallmark of the Roosevelt Skerrit administration. They have mastered the art of
perpetuating poverty and maintaining economic slavery.
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| GARBAGE ALONG THE ROADWAY-SHAME |
For 13 years Roosevelt Skerrit has been dishing out money to
his party supporters, under the guise of supporting small businesses. Year after
year hundreds of thousand dollars are supposedly handed out to village councils
and party hacks for small businesses and yet there is no evidence of small
business growth and development. In fact the more Mr. Skerrit continues to funnel
the scarce public resources into this fake small business depot we see increasing
levels of unemployment, no economic development and an escalation in poverty.
1 BUSINESS FOR EVERY 10 VILLAGERS IN PAIX BOUCHE?
Many people are saddened and disappointed in the recent
statement by the Parliamentary Representative for the Paix Bouche constituency, Honorable
Roselyn Paul. A "bido leglise"- a woman who was considered descent
and god fearing. Last week the Honorable Roslyn Paul announced that she had
money for the guys on the block in Paix Bouche. She also declared that she
distributed over $300,000 to over a hundred small businesses in Paix Bouche. Really Roselyn-One
business for every 10 people in Paix Bouche?
Roselyn’s pronouncement is
definitely an indication that she has taken a plunge into the deep end and is now a
graduate from the Roosevelt Skerrit School of deception and "Clientelism."The
truth is, money was distributed in the village of Paix Bouche but not really for
small businesses at all. Some bus drivers received $7000, there were instances where
several members of the same family received checks of 5- 7 thousand dollars; even
school kids got $5,000 checks. One guy received money so he could go to Saint Martin to shop.
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| GARBAGE PILED UP INSIDE A BUS STOP IN MAHUAT |
If Roslyn Paul has the slightest bit of “bido leglise" conscience
left in her ,she must remove herself from this large scale corruption and go to
confession before the lent is over. The sacrament of penance should be free particularly
when it is alleged that money was also given for the ongoing construction of
the Catholic Church in Portsmouth. If so the priest may have every reason to
sing “Something Happening”
While Roosevelt Skerrit, Roselyn Paul and others are marauding
all over the island and busy pulling wool over the eyes of the impoverished
people, rats and cockroaches are having dance parties among piles of garbage all
over the Nature Island.” As we drove
from Roseau to the village of Paix Bouche via the Town Of Portsmouth, we were
startled by the intermittent piles of garbage along the road – we even saw
piles of garbage stored in and outside of bus stops. Roselyn Paul ought to have
seen the many piles of garbage between Portsmouth and Paix Bouche.
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NEP worker with slippers and shots picking up garbage
YES WE CARE?
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We must also report that since the government received a
donation of two garbage trucks the garbage situation has improved, somewhat.
However the situation on the ground demands that much more resources need to go
into garbage control and disposal, as oppose to corruptly doling out money to
undeserving entities and people under the guise of small business development. After all Dominica is promoted as the Nature
island of the Caribbean yet the Roosevelt Skerrit and his cabinet seem heedless
about the garbage and rat infestation problem on the island.
We take no pride in exposing our dirty laundry but we strongly believe that shame still has the ability to trigger meaningful changes and hopefully Paul Alexander, Hubert Volney ,Michael Davis et al will have no reason to ask for evidence.
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| Photo taken in Dosdane- Just For Roslyn Pauls |
We are always hearing that there just aren't enough trucks to pick up the garbage. Has anybody ever heard of a thing called a night shift? Those trucks that still work don't care if it's night or day ... they will run just the same. And if the men can't find the garbage they can just follow there noses to one of the mountains of garbage that litter the roads in the north east.
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