In the words of Tyanni
Douglas, the son of former PM Rosie Douglas, the socioeconomic situation in
Portsmouth can be described as a” human
crisis.” Several weeks ago a team of MiTC reporters took a trip down to
Portsmouth where our team interacted with a number of residents. From our own
findings the pain and the depression in Portsmouth is indeed of great concern
and we now understand why the PM is now desperately conducting back to back Red
Clinics in the town of Portsmouth. The people of Portsmouth may not be as vocal
as they should but the burgeoning unemployment coupled with the flood of
Haitian refugees in Portsmouth is taking its toll.
Even while Ross University
was in full operation in the Portsmouth the economic insecurity has been a way
of life for the people for last 18 years. There was always a concern that Ross
had been the be-all and end-all in the Portsmouth area. The failure of the
Roosevelt Skerrit government to provide sustainable employment opportunities
outside of the Ross University economy is yet another compelling reason to
discard Roosevelt Skerrit and his clowns or as the calypsonian Cheko says –
Pull the Rotten “tief.” Wash shay Yo
In this moment of agony it
may seem graceless or insensitive to remind the people of Portsmouth of their
foolish loyalty to a gang of wolves who for 19 years have offered them nothing
but failed economic policies, unfulfilled promises and an overdose of
mendacity. In fact 8 out of 10 people in Portsmouth today will proudly declare
that their parliamentary representative Ian Douglas (Tu Ju Su) is a waste of time and through 3 election cycles a vote
for Ian Douglas had been a vote for Roosevelt Skerrit the parliamentary
Representative for the Vielle Case constituency. Since a vote for Ian meant a
vote for Skerrit are the people of Portsmouth willing to accept that the “human crisis “ now occurring in
Portsmouth is the handy work of Roosevelt Skerrit the con artist? Will the Portsmouth
people finally remove those convenient blinders and stop allowing themselves to
be used by a group of self-serving kleptocrats headed by a conniving imposter.
On our visit to Portsmouth
we decided to go visit the coffee factory and although we have visited the
coffee factory many times before this time was surreal. We were able to get
into the abandoned facility to take a number of photos and on our way out of
the facility we were engaged by a young man who was in the area attending to
his animals grazing in the vicinity. The
conversation with the young man began with an awkward misunderstanding. Here is
a snippet of the initial engagement
Young Man- Sharle (Shall)
that tie his cow inside their wee.
At the moment we thought
the young man was asking us for permission (Shall)
to tie his cow on the compound so our response was.
MiTC – Sir we are not
representatives from the government we can’t give you permission to tie your
cow on the compound.
Young Man- “No I am not
asking you to tie my cow inside there nuh, what I am telling you is that there
is a man by the name of Sharle, he is the one that ties his cow inside the
coffee factory.By the time we understood that “Sharle” was an individual it became clear to us that the young man wanted to exculpate himself from what he thought we had seen inside the abandoned coffee factory. The sad truth is we saw signs that cows were being sheltered inside the abandoned coffee factory. In addition to the disgraceful and unsightly abandonment of brand new and never used coffee processing equipment , broken doors, missing roof there was evident of cow down(cow poop) on various sections of the coffee factory building.
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The story of cow poop in the abandoned coffee factory at One Mile Portsmouth is again another example of
the total let down and the afflictive failure of the Roosevelt Skerrit
administration to provide economic security for the people of Portsmouth and surrounding.
The Coffee factory was a US $12 Million gift by President Hugo Chavez. This gift
was supposed to emulate the economic model of the famed Blue Mountain Coffee , one that
would sustain large scale employment and economic opportunities not just for
the people of Portsmouth but for coffee growers throughout the island.
MiTC has done several
articles on the coffee factory. We have exposed the corruption and money
laundering that took place during the construction of the facility. There was
high day disappearance of over a hundred thousand dollars’ worth of building
material from the construction project and there were a number of letters and
inquirieson this matter within the ministry of agriculture and the PM’s office
and Dr. Toussaint as DLP operative and main Liaison for the VENIDOM Corporation
is yet to explain how the material disappeared. We also reported on the
movement of cash in and out of the airport by some of the Venezuelans who were
connected to VENIDOM and the construction of the Coffee factory. We know that
Custom and Port security at the time were programmed to “Walk with their Eyes close” as the Venezuelans moved briefcases of
cash in and out of Dominica.
The VENIDOM Corporation is
a body made up of Labor Party cronies and corrupt accomplices of the Maduro
cabal. The corporation was set up to manage and operate the coffee factory. From
what we have seen in all our investigations the VENIDOM Corporation is nothing
more than another setup for these corrupt and selfish operatives to enrich
themselves using the Petro Caribe program as the conduit to launder cash. What we
have also noticed is that the VENIDOM Corporation is inextricably tied to Reginald
Austrie’s proverbial tattoo, the Petro Caribe operations in Dominica. We know
for a fact that it was Venezuelans wearing Petro Caribe uniform who came to
Portsmouth to ask the Samaritan Purse to vacate the coffee factory building
after the Samaritan Purse was given permission to store hurricane relief
material inside the coffee factory.
After 8 years, US $12
Million in construction funding and over $5 Million in imported coffee beans, not
one coffee bean has been processed at the facility in Portsmouth. According to
the DLP apologists the coffee factory was supposed to bring considerable economic
relief to the area. In fact at a 2013 debate at the Dominica State College, the
former Ambassador to Venezuela Dr. Philbert Aaron argued that the geothermal
plant and the coffee factory would be the only way forward for the Dominican
economy. Needless to say both the coffee factory and the geothermal plant have
been absolute failures.
The Making of A Good Red
ClinicA good Doctor and patient relationship should include open discussion on causative issues and the preventative measures. As the people of Portsmouth are being set up for the one day fixes at Skerrit’s Red Clinic, they should be prepared to ask the Red Clinic doctor to explain why it is that after seven years, the Coffee factory has not processed one grain of coffee and has not provided the economic health benefits that were promised – not even one of the 300 jobs promised.
Mr. Skerrit, the Red Clinic
Doctor and medicine dispenser should also be asked to explain why after 11
years the Morocco hotel in Portsmouth is yet to be completed. It would also be
quite appropriate to ask Mr. Skerrit to explain how he was able to complete 8
Villas in Savane Pailles and one mansion in Vielle Case within a five year
period whereas his government cannot complete an 80 Room hotel in 11 years. The
Red Clinic doctor should also explain how in just a few months he was able to
bring in all his marble and some other architectural finishes for his private
dwelling house all the way from Morocco whereas it is now more than 5 years
since Ian Douglas told us that the Moroccans left Dominica to get the
architectural finishes for the Morocco Hotel project.
It would be great if the
young people would ask the Red Clinic Doctor to also explain how it is that for
almost 20 years of a DLP administration, the Cabrits Cruise Ship facility sat
as a white elephant in the town of Portsmouth-the most loyal Labor Party constituency. The Red Clinic doctor
should explain why there were no improvements let alone expansion of the
facility so the people in Portsmouth and it’s environ could enjoy the fruits of
a vibrant and healthy cruise tourism sector. Today the cruise ship facility is in a dilapidated
state with a leaky roof and unkempt condition. It is quite disheartening and
shameful to say the least.
The Portsmouth people have
also been told that 4 other Universities have expressed interest in the Ross
University campus. It is quite interesting that while the people of Portsmouth have
been promised 4 other Universities, the 8 Villas allegedly owned by the Red
Clinic doctor and which served as residence for Ross University professors and
other administrative personnel have allegedly been sold to a mysterious buyer. If
the police would let me in to see the Red Clinic doctor I would ask him why he
sold the villas while other rental owners in Portsmouth are suffering; god
forbid some on the brink of suicide.
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