by Negre Mawon Cometh The savagery meted out to unarmed Dominicans by Dominica police at the direction of Roosevelt Skerrit on Monday April 12, 2021 will long be remembered. This was the day policemen lost the respect of the people when they kicked, cuffed and stamped on protestors supporting a bus strike. The striking bus […]
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The Prime Minister of Dominica, Hon. Roosevelt Skerrit once declared that “No law, No Constitution” will stop him from being nominated as a candidate for election. The same prime minister is on record frequently calling for reform – legislative and/or constitutional reform whenever he believes that the proposed reform will be of personal benefit to […]
Follow the Money !!! Early last week we heard of the seizure of a very large sum of money in the region of US $ 500,000 by police chief Corbette The logical questions for the police and the people of Dominica are: 1. Whose money is it ? 2. Where did it come from ? […]
Since the imposition of the Dominican Monarchy on a fast asleep citizenry, the wealth of Waitikubuli has been “gravitating outwards” from the national treasury, a new phrase ironically coined by her majesty Melissa, and placed into the coffers of carefully hand picked mercenaries The famous Panama papers unravelled dozens of shell Companies deceitfully created in […]
In PART I[1] of this series of articles on the Citizenship-b-Investment(CBI) Ponzi-like and potentially international money laundering and terrorist funding scheme, we examined the elements of the program that may be facilitating more corruption in our national governance than legitimately promoting investment geared towards the growth of our economy to the benefit of the citizens […]
Over the last few years, we have heard the accusations in and out of our parliament that billions of dollars are unaccounted for under our Citizenship by Investment program (CBI) in the Consolidated Fund of Dominica. The argument is advanced, particularly by opposition parties, that all revenues generated from the sale of our citizenship must […]
In March 2021 the Minister of Education of Dominica Octavia Alfred told a gathering of students that they would have to “shake their pampalam” to get additional funding for their studies. In the Dominican vernacular “pampalam” refers to private parts of the female as in the vagina or butt. The commonly accepted inference is that […]
By Barrister Shillings not Pence The Caribbean Court of Justice delivers a blow against the corruption of our society and judiciary In a judgment released on March 9, 2021 , the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) dismissed the appeal in the matter of Roosevelt Skerrit & Ors v Antoine Defoe & Ors [2021] CCJ 4 […]
While the family, friends and well-wishers were at the funeral service of Mr. Antoine Defoe, one of the three Respondents in the CCJ Civil Appeal No DMCV2020/001 with Mr. Mervin John Baptiste and Edingcot St. Valle, the CCJ was in the process of delivering its decision in an excessively delayed matter before it that emanated from […]
The Prime Minister of Dominica was a French citizen at the time of his nomination as a candidate in the 2009 general elections, The matter was challenged in court and the Prime Minister reportedly vowed in a tone of arrogance that “no law, no constitution” would prevent him from being nominated to contest the said […]