A few months ago we informed our readers of the
situation at the defunct coffee plant at One Mile in Portsmouth.
We provided detailed information regarding the possible danger due to
the improper storage of coffee beans and we have provided credible evidence of
the rotting beans stored in the One Mile facility. We were also reliably
informed that the facility was declared a danger zone after air quality testing
results showed high level of toxins at the plant.
The government of Dominica is yet to deny or dispel
our report on the hazardous condition of the coffee plant nor have they denied
the millions of dollars spent on coffee beans that are now rotted inside the
facility. But the people of Dominica
have been fooled and bamboozled for so long that they tend to reject any evidence of blatant
bamboozle.
Mahatma Gandhi is quoted as saying - “I will not let anyone walk through my
mind with their dirty feet”, and so we will continue to expose the “ dorty
foot” government of Roosevelt Skerrit. Why it is that the “dorty foot”
government is yet to inform the people of Dominica of what appears to be the
attempted arson at the Coffee plant? Did someone try to burn down the plant and
for what reason?
Here is what we know.
There was an electrical
system overload at the coffee plant that resulted in a small electrical fire.
The overload ultimately impacted and damaged DOMLEC equipment. Upon
investigation, DOMLEC technicians confirmed in a report that their equipment was damaged as a result of the electrical malfunction
within the plant. We have also been reliably informed that DOMLEC is asking for
an external investigation and that they are seeking redress for over $100,000 in transformer repair
or replacement. We were also informed that the automated system at the coffee
factory was also destroyed as a result of the circuit overload.
We informed the public of the rotting coffee beans and the potential
health hazard and the floundering media is yet to follow up on our report. All
we are asking for this time is for the media to take a drive up to One Mile
Portsmouth – the residue from the smoke is quite visible beneath the zinc façade. We also hope that it
is not too much for the media to ask DOMLEC about their damaged equipment and
whether or not DOMLEC provided a report
of the same incident at the One Mile Coffee factory.
So far the government authorities have remained
tight lipped on this matter even when all the signs seem to point to an
attempted sabotage. Why the police and fire department was never called in to
investigate the matter is yet another conundrum in Dominica.
Can the government explain to us why it is that the
inoperable coffee plant was running
electricity so much so that there were overloading circuits. It simply does not
make sense unless someone tampered with the electrical system or that the
coffee factory was secretly producing coffee.
Something very disturbing also caught our
attention. Up to the day DOMLEC came in for the investigation the building windows and doors were secured
and untouched however a few days after DOMLEC produced their report suddenly we noticed that a window at the
coffee plant was tampered with. We are not arson investigators by any means but
from the photo of the damaged window, it appears that (1) someone push out the window from inside; (2) there are no visible damages to the window frame that would indicate that
someone pried open the window from the outside; (3) someone attempting to force
open the window from the outside would most likely need a ladder or platform to
do so and, (4) why would someone choose a window facing the main thruway - why
not a window or door that is away from the public eye?
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| Coffee Plant with suspect window in view (at left) before DOMLEC investigation. |
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| Coffee Plant with suspect window in view after DOMLEC investigation. |
It seems obvious that a crime may have been committed
at the
plant
and the police should have been called in to investigate. It is rather strange
and interesting that the people who are responsible for the coffee plant have
not made a report to the police.
We know for a fact that PM Skerrit appointed Dr. John
Toussaint the VENEDOM liaison and steward of the coffee plant operation. We
also know for a fact that Dr. Toussaint is
in possession of keys to the facility. It is only logical that all persons with access
to the facility should have reported evidence of suspicious activity, including what appears to be a break
in, either staged or deliberate, at the coffee plant to law enforcement authorities
and should make themselves available for questioning. But then again, if the suppression of
crime and corruption were of importance to Roosevelt Skerrit, somebody would
have been prosecuted
and jailed for the disappearance of close to $100,000.00 worth of construction
material during the construction of the very same coffee factory. We are 100%
certain that the PS and others at the ministry of agriculture are fully aware
of the report on the missing material and that the culprit is an untouchable
former candidate of the Dominica Labour Party.
Here is what
the Government of Dominica
doesn’t want us to know and why they are tight lipped.
In our previous article “Upside Down Inside Out
Government” we informed our readers of the VENEDOM Corporation, a joint venture
between the Venezuela and Dominica governments set up
specifically to
operate and manage the coffee factory. A distinct part of the VENEDOM
arrangement is that the revenues that would have been generated from coffee production
would be distributed 49% to Dominica
and 51% to Venezuela
as loan repayment. As earlier noted, Dr. John Toussaint heads Dominica’s interest in the VENEDOM
Corporation - the same Dr. John Toussaint who was assigned over one million
dollars to head and operate an agriculture small business operation and while under his
leadership, he has
reported a 98%
delinquency rate in
loan payments. Who did he give loans to? But that is for another day of
revelation.
The government also does not want us to know that
the Venezuelans have been asking questions about the coffee factory and rightly
so, as Venezuela
is seeking to rake in every dollar wherever it is owed to them. Within the
VENEDOM arrangements, the government of Dominica was
provided with a 3 year grace period that began after the completion of the
facility. Based on very credible information, the grace period terminates in
November of this year, 2016. Essentially, after
two years of construction + 3 years post construction (grace period), it
was expected that the farmers in Dominica would be in a position to supply the
coffee factory with the required coffee beans – enough for full fledged
operation.
No coffee beans, no factory operation and no money
to pay Venezuela
come December - Boy oh boy!! Is that
suspected sabotage a timely phenomenon or what?
After all that we have seen regarding the
suspicious sabotage at the coffee factory, it is only fitting that we ask the
Minister of National Security Mr. Rayburn Blackmoore, please follow up on this serious matter. In
genuine concern we offer to Mr. Blackmoore the following cliff notes.
- Why was the
coffee plant running electricity when the coffee plant is really a white
elephant-dead?
- Why the window
was damaged days after DOMLEC provided their report?
- Did someone get
so frazzled after the DOMLEC report that it became necessary to create the
semblance of a forced entry?
- Who else has
key access to the coffee Plant besides Dr John Toussaint?
- Did someone try
to burn down the entire house just to get rid of one rat?
- Is it a
coincidence that two months before Venezuela is due to start
collecting from proceeds of a nonfunctional coffee factory that there is a
suspected electrical system malfunction /sabotage at the factory?
It is also critical that Mr. Blackmoore and Dr. Toussaint take immediate action to restore the
damaged window as the dangerous toxins emitted by the rotted coffee beans may
very well be escaping through the gaping hole. Certainly Dr. John Toussaint would not want to be known as
the “Kaka Couchon” polluter and still the one responsible for infecting people with
mycotoxins.
There is no denying that what we have seen at the
coffee plant is peculiar but we are also fully aware that
the Roosevelt Skerrit administration is capable of chicaneries of all sorts
therefore we make no apologies for our paranoia. Just in case Tony Astaphan
starts spinning lies here is some food for thought: History has shown us that arson is a method
employed by despotic and authoritarian governments and their lackeys to instill
fear on the people and as a means of controlling information. During the old Soviet Union
, Stalin would often use fire to control the population, among other things, like
the language and all information. The Nazis tried to burn the evidence of their concentration camps during the
last days of World War II. The Maldives
government hatched out a plan to burn down the office of the accountant general
once the accountant general began to sniff out official misconduct. For whatever
it is worth - Denny Shillingford stated that Earl "Siko Seko" Grant
instructed him to “Just burn everything.”- burn the evidence and hope that the
Steven Isidore and Skerrit malfeasance becomes blown away in ashes. Who can
forget the fire at Melville Hall airport; a deliberate effort to suppress any
demonstration against illegal voters in the 2014 election. The people are still
waiting on PM Skerrit, who publically declared that he had the
intelligence on the identity of the person who placed the fire at the Melville
Hall airport, to be
interrogated by the police.
