{"id":7665,"date":"2017-09-29T11:31:42","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T15:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=7665"},"modified":"2017-09-29T14:53:40","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T18:53:40","slug":"why-prime-minister-roosevelt-skerrit-is-pissed-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/why-prime-minister-roosevelt-skerrit-is-pissed-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit is “pissed off”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Caribbean News Service)<\/strong> A deeply disturbed Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit on Friday said he is \u201creally, really pissed off\u201d with certain elements in the country who are seeking to undermine the future of the Dominican people.<\/p>

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At his daily media briefing the Prime Minister called on those who are using social media and other methods to spread false information to stop it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis talk about food supplies and partisanship with food supplies and politicians are the ones dealing with the delivery of food supplies \u2013 this is total nonsense,\u201d a visibly upset Skerrit said at the briefing which was carried live on social media.<\/p>

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\u201cAs the Prime Minister of this country, I sleep on the floor. As the Prime Minister of this country I bathe this morning from a bucket of water. I don\u2019t need corned beef, I don\u2019t need sardines, so where the hell am I going to put corned beef or stock up sardines at my home or anywhere else.\u201d<\/p>

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Skerrit explained that while supplies are coming in, there are limitations in terms of places to store the supplies in communities because every single home got damaged in the country.<\/p>\n

He further outlined that the distribution of supplies is being managed by the international aid agencies in the country.<\/p>

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\u201cPeople who are seeking to undermine the government\u2019s effort of bringing relief and bring aid and bringing restoration of services to our country need to stop it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can\u2019t be going out there on social media, on the radio and elsewhere and making these unfounded, baseless, malicious allegations. It\u2019s not going to hurt me and this thing must stop. Because it\u2019s really pissing me off that there are people out there talking a bunch of nonsense about food supplies \u2026 which all of these attempts are geared to undermine our efforts. This damn country has been destroyed. It\u2019s been devastated. Schools are destroyed and people are out there talking a bunch of nonsense about food supplies and political interference.\u201d<\/p>

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The Prime Minister said his mandate is to ensure that this country has adequate supplies to get to every single home and every single individual in Dominica.<\/p>

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\u201cThis is really, really pissing me off and I am very upset about what some people are doing in this country. We have to stop it. There are people \u2018bussing\u2019 their asses out there seeking to bring a better way of life for our people,\u201d he said, adding that \u201cthe only people who will be affected by this are the most vulnerable in our country, the people whose homes have been destroyed, who do not know where they will be sleeping tonight, the people who do not know whether when Monday comes if they will have a job, who do not know how they are going to pay their mortgages.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am telling you I am really pissed off and I have not gotten pissed off since the hurricane but this nonsense must stop. What the hell, we have to stop it. Do we want to wake up one morning and have no government in place to run this country?\u201d<\/p>\n

Skerrit said he will address the nation tonight to give a full update on the relief efforts thus far.<\/p>\n

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