Published 23 February 2018
Buckie Got It, St. Kitts and Nevis News Source
by: Media Source
DOMINICA PM RUBBISHES DR DOUGLAS’ POLITICAL COMMENT AS “POLITICAL MISCHIEF”
In a telephone call to PM Skerritt yesterday, Denzil Douglas reportedly blasted Hon Skerritt for openly admitting that “Dominica has no issue with St Kitts-Nevis reducing its CBI price”.
Douglas who is allegedly the owner of a 350 room hotel in Dominica has tied the profitability of the hotel with a potential successful CBI in Dominica of which he is a part. However, with the mass exodus of CBI investors in the SKN program, the 350 room hotel’s profitability is being threatened and is swiftly declining.
While speaking to the media after the recently concluded 90th Meeting of the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank Monetary Council at the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) Headquarters in St. Kitts on February 16, 2018, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerritt the Dominican Prime Minister has rubbished Dr. Douglas’ comments as political mischief.
Prime Minister Skerritt asserted, “We in Dominica have no issue with St. Kitts-Nevis reducing its (CBI) price. St. Kitts-Nevis has to deal with certain realities and as a government it has to take decisions in the interests of its citizens.”
Hon Skerritt was responding to the malicious comment made by Dr. Douglas on September 23, 2017 where Dr. Douglas said: “The Government of St. Kitts and Nevis led by Dr. Timothy Harris has sunk to the lowest low in a manner that is most unconscionable and calculated to undermine the desperate recovery efforts that are underway in Dominica and Antigua and Barbuda to restore those countries’ operations and the lives of their citizens to a state of normalcy as quickly as possible.”
PM Dr. Timothy Harris has revealed in a recent press conference that Dr Douglas has been disloyal for putting Dominica’s interest ahead of his own country St Kitts-Nevis.
This Monday, February 26, 2018, the Leader of the Opposition, the Right Hon. Dr. Denzil Douglas, will head to the High Court in Basseterre where he would answer questions regarding his eligibility to serve as a Member of Parliament while being the holder of a diplomatic passport of the Commonwealth of Dominica, which identifies his nationality as Dominican.
Dr. Douglas was issued a diplomatic passport, No: DP 0000462, by the Commonwealth of Dominica, which recorded him as being a citizen of the Commonwealth of Dominica
