By Gavin the Constant Gardener I just came back from Dominica. It broke my heart, with the darkness I saw in the land. Young men, listless, sitting down smoking weed. Doing nothing. They are broken men and women in Grand Bay and around the country after 15 years of Skerrit. The handout heaven created by […]
Category Archives: Editorials
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by Ben Dover A Police Officer told me today he was so embarrassed last night at Melissa Skerrit launching. He said there was an area which was blocked off by the Police and which they were given instructions not to allow any vehicular traffic through. He said the boys who hang out on the block […]
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By Luke Skywalker For those who don’t know, Dominica is not some inert land mass devoid of a soul. As a born Dominican, not a fake ambassador, I have always felt Dominica to be special and deeply spiritual place suffused with a haunting beauty. So , when plunderers have pillaged her riches, Dominica feels it. […]
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At last it’s here, the grand finale of the Roosevelt’s Family Party launching. As the saying goes they left their best for last. According to the advertisement flyer, my buddy Tarrus Riley will be the guest artist, will he be singing my song “She is Royal” for Dominica’s royal lady? Look for it, I bet! […]
09
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By Josh Shaw In the run-up to Dominica”s day of decision, 6th December 2019, the stooges of Roosevelt Skerrit are in overdrive. Their servile bleatings, hosannas to their idol doctor know no bounds. This moment teaches us that in the past 40 years of Independence our educators have done a poor job in imparting the […]
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Artherly Jones called a DLP operative named Donna .Allegedly, it appears she is responsible for coordinating the registration of illegal voters to come down to Dominica to steal the general elections for the DLP. Listen to the phone conversation here: https://youtu.be/vcGosU8uj5s
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by Letricia Cadette-Trimble He pulls his boots off to a corner and puts his cutlass behind it, he checks his dehnding knife. As he runs his fingers over the slightly darkened blade, I watched in amazement wondering why it didn’t cut him like the time I tried to peal a grapefruit and slit my […]
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I have had occasion to see a post by one Gordon Henderson. I am not sure it is my friend and Brother, the national icon of our Creole culture, the great Gordon Henderson. If it is he, then I hope and trust that he has not allowed closeness to power and his well deserved place […]
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Chinese Embassy Officials said “That’s another lie Roosevelt!
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We all remember that other great lie of Roosevelt Skerrit, when he told us in December 2013 that he had gotten a loan of $300 M from China. Skerrit was accompanied to China to sign the deal by Hartley Henry, who was referred to as a ‘political advisor’ to Dominica, and Martin Charles (Chairman of […]
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I sit and often wonder about this word, “neutral”. What exactly does it mean? Why do we engage in this thing called neutrality? Is it right to be neutral? Is it wrong to be neutral? Why does one stay neutral in the face of evil? If we claim to be neutral, is there even such […]