Dear Editor,
I write in direct response to the deeply flawed and dangerously misguided letter titled “Skerrit DAM Hypocrite, Clean Up Your Backyard First,” which not only resorts to vile personal insults against the Prime Minister of Dominica but also wilfully ignores both Dominica’s proud humanitarian history and its role in the regional and global community.
To ask whether the Prime Minister “suffers from a disease of the mind” is not commentary it’s malicious, unproductive drivel, and it undermines the very values of decency and discourse we should be promoting as Caribbean people.
1. Dominica’s Humanitarian Legacy – Including Haitians
Let’s set the record straight. Dominica was the first island in the Eastern Caribbean to open its doors to Haitian nationals, granting them visa-free access and work permits going as far back as the 2000s. News articles from Dominica News Online and regional outlets document this, including reports of then-Prime Minister Skerrit publicly defending Haitians against xenophobic attacks across the region.
The writer’s claim that the government has “failed Haitians” is simply uninformed or dishonest. Dominica extended compassion long before others did, often at the expense of political popularity. It is only in recent years, due to increasing abuse of entry protocols and regional pressures, that additional controls were introduced. Even so, many Haitians continue to live, work, and raise families in Dominica.
2. We Were Once Recipients of Refuge and Still Are
The letter conveniently forgets that many Dominicans have lived and still live as economic migrants and, in some cases, refugees in places like Guadeloupe, Martinique, Antigua, St. Kitts, and even Canada and the UK. In fact, there are Dominicans today who have entered these countries illegally due to hardship (As they claim) at home. Should those countries now be condemned for offering them safe haven?
Our own experience with hardship should make us more compassionate, not less.
3. Hurricane Maria Taught Us the Value of Global Solidarity
Following the devastation of Hurricane Maria in 2017, Dominica received critical aid from nations around the world even some grappling with their own economic challenges. We were not asked, “Is your economy ready to receive this help?” The only question was: How can we help?
Today, in turn, when war and devastation threaten others, especially Palestinian families displaced from their homes, Dominica is doing what decent nations do: standing up for humanity, not hiding behind excuses.
4. False Equivalence Between Refugees and Domestic Challenges
No one denies that Dominica as every other Caribbean Island in the region has socio-economic issues. But nation-building and humanitarian outreach are not mutually exclusive. One can care for refugees and still invest in healthcare, education, and youth employment. To suggest otherwise is to promote isolationism cloaked in faux patriotism.
Moreover, refugee programs are often supported by international funding, not drawn from local social budgets. The idea that Palestinian families will come to Dominica and drain public resources is unfounded fear mongering.
5. Moral Leadership is Not Measured by Size
The world isn’t only watching what the big powers do. Moral leadership today is often found in small, principled nations that lead by example. In choosing to offer sanctuary, Dominica is showing courage, compassion, and maturity qualities sorely lacking in the writer’s letter.
6. Let’s Not Forget Our Roots
The ancestors of most Dominicans were taken from Africa and displaced to Kalinago lands, most of us are descendants of the world’s earliest refugees and enslaved peoples. The Kalinago themselves were nearly wiped out by European settlers who arrived as “refugees” fleeing religious and political persecution. If we forget this, we forget who we are.
This is not madness. This is what leadership looks like.
It’s easy to mock and condemn from the sidelines. It’s much harder to govern with vision and integrity. Prime Minister Skerrit has chosen the latter, and history will judge that decision far more kindly than anonymous internet rage.
Sincerely,
A Proud and Informed Dominican
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Dominica is not extending no hand, it is that Roosevelt skerrit I salivating at the biggest payout personally by Marco Rubio and the CIA, trump and netanyahu want the Palestinian off their lands, some has been forced on Egypt and now I see the first Caribbean marionette is exclaiming he want Palestinian in Dominica, and in antigua Gaston has smartly mask the pensioner beach sale to Arabs just in the waiting, chastising Antiguans to buy the pensioner beach front lands that Gaston know is financially impossible, the Arabs can get finance backing from hadeed. but Roosevelt skerrit will be able to retire a billionaire if he facilitate the USA scheme to remove the Palestinian from their lands to make real estate for Zionist racist netanyahu.
He will surely be judged!
It is sad that this Dominican is so proud of his/her nationality and the work of his/her government and refuses to be identified. If I was ever so proud of my country i would boldly print my name on any recomendation.
You seem highly offended with the writer for asking if the Prime Minister suffers from some disease of the mind. Please don’t be offended. The utterances of this man has clearly demonstrated that he has mental defects. Those defects he has used to masquerade his criminal acts against the poor people of Dominica.
He has embraced the Haitian populace because he is the epitome of the Duvaliers. He is following the hand book of Papa and Baby Doc to the letter.
1) At the time Dominica opened its borders to Haitian nationals it was not for humanitarian purposes. It was an economic decision which subquently became exposed. Unable to come up with meaningful and sustainable ways of growing the Dominican economy the Skerritt lead administration saw the vulnerable Haitians as a means of reenergising the economy.
Doninica is yet to offer a genuine heart and hand of compassion to the Haitians. They do the same work as Dominicans and are paid less than Dominicans. They suffer xenophobic attacks from Dominicans daily. Simply put, they are seen as adulterous children of a married man.
May I remind you of the criminal plot that was uncovered in the ministry of labour. There, Haitians were charged upwards of three thousand US dollars for extension and work permits. When the plot was uncovered the prime minister transferred the mastermind and made her his wife’s personal aide.
Has anyone faced prosecution for the exploitation of the Haitians? No!!! Today they pay more for an extension of time than anyone else pays anywhere in the Caribbean.
2) Dominicans abroad are not living as refugees anywhere around the world. There is nothing except an economy comparable to Haiti’s which has forced Dominicans to migrate. There is no civil unrest. They’re is no political chaos. The only political persecution is melted by members of the opposition in the government’s bid to have a Duvalier style government.
The government lead by Rossevelt Skerritt is determined to kill democracy and as such political opponents are targeted. Again, a line from the Duvalier’s play book.
Dominicans have left and are continuing to leave Dominica freely and willingly because the economy is dead and not becaise of any other situation that would qualify them as refugees.
3) When will the load of blame become too heavy for the shoulders of Irma and Maria? Ten years after a hurricanes, Irma and Maria are still being blamed for Dominica’sstagnation.
Irma decimated the Island of Barbuda. Today, Barbuda is the bread basket of Antigua. Dominica received much aid from regional and international nations.
The impact of Irma and Maria should not have been so devastating on Dominica’s life had the government used it’s financial resources wisely. When all other islands have some reserve to fall back on Dominica has EIGHT BILLION dollars in the hands of a man which it doesn’t know where. That could have built a new Dominica since Irma and Maria.
Dominica is not targeting Palestinians for anything other than economic gains. Thats not humanitarian. Even if it was a decent thing to do how could a government accept refugees without proper infrastructure to better their conditions. The morally bankrupt government of Dominica cannot supply the most basic medical needs. it cannot handle its garbage disposal. It cannot deal with its poor roads. It cannot deal with its water distribution. It is therefore going to accept Palestinians to worsen their plight?
4) You have exposed your hands. Even the blind knew your motive however you spelt it out. Resources must first be in place before refugees can be accepted. International agencies dealing with refugees displacement first check to ensure that the refugees are going to have a better life than what they are fleeing from. Sadly, Dominica doesn’t care. All it sees is an opportunity to cash in. I can say that based on what you have written.
The failed government is seeking to maximize opportunities that can derive from a bad situation. If the government cannot provide schools for its native born where will if find such to accommodate refugees.
They are of a different culture. They are of a different language. They are of a different diet.
The Skerritt lead administration is looking ahead and seeing street paved with dollars. No. Thats not how it works. International funding for refugees resettlement doesn’t build a new nation. It improves and expand on what already obtains. In Dominica’s case what obtains and nothing are the same.
5) Moral leadership??? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! You have clearly spelt Dominica’s intention in this pursuit. Show me the morality and himanitarianism in it. It is purely economic for Dominca. If that money could be had without Dominica lifting a finger they would even force Dominicans out to join the Palestinians. You cannot do the right thing for the wrong purpose. That is not morality!!
6) You are so so misguided and wrong about your history. Please show up for class at the second perion every day. European settlers in the Caribbean were NEVER refugees. They came to the caribbean to change our way of life and rob us of our resources.
If this nonsensical belief is what you are seeing to use to justify Skerritt’s greed you are wrong and broke and hungry.
We are not descendants of refugees. We are descendants of an enslaved people. We didn’t run from Africa. Refugees run from bad situations. We had a goid life in Africa. Thats why our physique was the envy of the whites. We never ran away. We were KIDNAPPED and transported to the worst atrocities evern know to mankind. Your comparison is flawed and uneducated.
What you are equating to leadership is not. It is greed and desperation. It is moral bankruptcy. It is economic naivety cloaked in insanity.
Rosevelt Skerritt is a dream killer on a mission to save his political life. He has not managed to achieve his goal of no elections in Dominica. He has not achieved his hopes of no constitution. Hence he believes diluting the native and african population will accelerate his mission..
I have news for you. It may not be sweet to your ears though. If Skerritt want Dominica’s population to grow to spur economic growth he can incentivise Dominican women with proper paying jobs. He can begin the multiplication process with Gucci Mel. After all he only has two children with his wife to inherit all that he has stolen from the state. Advise him to have more children. They are not coming into misery and poverty. They are coming into state resources and a state treasury as they piggy bank.
Please go back to your old script. Correct the diatribe that you have written. This goes way outside of Dominica. Don’t show you stupidity. Do not give the rest of the world the impression that all Dominicans are as gullible as you.
@ Eldead
Despite your highly speculative and malicious conclusions, i join your call in rejecting PM Skerrit’s offer to welcome Middle Eastern refugees to be our neighbors, particularly at this time. Already, here in Antigua and increasingly so in the neighboring islands, this group continues to dominate and control economic activity. Their sphere of domination has shifted only slightly to the Old Parham Road; they monopolize the ever-growing fast-foods activity peddling greasy fried chicken and fried potatoes, substandard pizzas, and unhealthy schwarma,; they almost exclusively control the importation and sale of new and used tires/tyres and own most, if not all, of the tire/Tyre repair shops; they control our aggregates and other building supplies, to name a few. Yes we hear week after week the growing and glowing admiration of the current PM fir this group of settlers while decrying what to him is the laziness, backwardness and ignorance of local nationals for a seeming unwillingness to join the investing sharks club by shelling out ” say….five to ten million…..” for investment in Pensioners’Beach initiatives, for example. We heareven his lackeys and court jesters extol the so-called virtues of their strong work ethics blah, blah blah.
NO! We.do not want or need refugee Middle Eastern camps anywhere near here. Let Asia or Russia absorb them! We have enough serious problems of our own.
https://t.me/s/massacre7ofoctober?before=203Who are the Palestinian? There’s no such people. The word ‘Palestinian’ literally means ‘foriegner’ The Philistines were seafaring foriegn people from the northern mediterránea but they were wiped out thousands of years ago by the babilonians
This is simple: there are various fallen angels (baal, prince of persia, kabal, belzebob, satan, al lah, krishna…)who dwell in certain regions and aim to possess whom ever lives there, who unlike humans are imortal.
Jesus spoke of “where satan dwells” “Where satan’s seat is in turkey.
Their misión is to prevent the “Seed” (Yeshua)of Eve returning to “crush his(the serpant’s) head.”
https://t.me/s/massacre7ofoctober?before=203Bismulah= in the name of the moon god ‘lah’
Hezbullah =party of lah
Alhamdulilah = al praise to lah
🤣🤣99% of muslims are so decieved by the greatest of deceivers aka ‘lah’ that despite chanting these several times a day they will tell themselves they are saying allah.Being a muslim means you surrender to the teachings of islam and the beliefs of mohammed. If you are not proud of mohammed’s actions OF CHILD SACRIFICING, BATHING in water where DEAD DOGS, mentraul rags and GARBAGE is thrown, SODOMY, KIDNAPPING, BEASTIALITY, NECROPHILIA, ZOONOPHILIA, PEDOPHILIA, RAPE, MURDER, MUTA, SLAVERY, LYING, taking YOUR STEP SON”S”s WIFE…and if you are not willing to do them then CONGRATULATIONS YOU HAVE LEFT ISLAM 👏https://t.me/massacre7ofoctober
https://t.me/s/massacre7ofoctober?before=203
SEE WHAT THEY FILMED THEMSELVES DOING ON OCTOBER 7 2023.
IS DOMINICA ABLE TO CONTROL PEOPLE TRAINED IN EXTREME TERRORISM FROM CHILDHOOD?
IS DOMINICA POLICE FORCE ABLE TO CONTROL WHAT NON OF THE ARAB STATES ARMIES ARE ABLE TO CONTROL???
NON OF THE ARAB NATIONS ARE WILLING TO TAKE THEM BECAUSE OF THE EXTREME TERRORISM THEY HAVE EXPERIENCED FROM THE REFUGEES THEY TOOK IN FROM GAZA , JUDEA AND SUMARIA
Bismulah= in the name of the moon god ‘lah’
Hezbullah =party of lah
Alhamdulilah = al praise to lah
🤣🤣99% of muslims are so decieved by the greatest of deceivers aka ‘lah’ that despite chanting these several times a day they will tell themselves they are saying allah
Who are the Palestinian? There’s no such people. The word ‘Palestinian’ literally means ‘foriegner’ The Philistines were seafaring foriegn people from the northern mediterránea but they were wiped out thousands of years ago by the babilonians
This is simple: there are various fallen angels (baal, prince of persia, kabal, belzebob, satan, al lah, krishna…)who dwell in certain regions and aim to possess whom ever lives there, who unlike humans are imortal.
Jesus spoke of “where satan dwells” “Where satan’s seat is in turkey.
Their misión is to prevent the “Seed” (Yeshua)of Eve returning to “crush his(the serpant’s) head.”
The 1st place the word ‘Hamas’ is found in the Holy Bible is in Genesis. God saw that the world was filled with HAMAS (violence)…so he sent the Global flood.
.Being a muslim means you surrender to the teachings of islam and the beliefs of mohammed. If you are not proud of mohammed’s actions OF CHILD SACRIFICING, BATHING in water where DEAD DOGS, mentraul rags and GARBAGE is thrown, SODOMY, KIDNAPPING, BEASTIALITY, NECROPHILIA, ZOONOPHILIA, PEDOPHILIA, RAPE, MURDER, MUTA, SLAVERY, LYING, taking YOUR STEP SON”S”s WIFE…and if you are not willing to do them then CONGRATULATIONS YOU HAVE LEFT ISLAM 👏https://t.me/massacre7ofoctober