GEORGETOWN, Guyana, Feb 17 2017 – Dominica’s Opposition Leader Lennox Linton has repeated his call for the resignation of Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit and called on President Chares Savarin to name a new person to the post.
Linton is leading a three-member delegation here, hoping to hold talks with Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders on the “situation in Dominica” for which he has blamed Skerrit and his administration.
The regional leaders are meeting for their 28th Inter-sessional summit that wraps up later on Friday.
“We are here because we believe the time has come for the CARICOM heads of governments to intervene and do what is right on behalf of the citizens of CARICOM in so far as the conduct of the Dominica government is concerned,” Linton told a news conference.
Linton said that his party’s wants regional leaders “to act urgently in the best interest of the people of CARICOM to resolve what we consider to be very disturbing developments in Dominica”.
Linton said that the Skerrit government had used the controversial Citizenship by Investment Programme (CBI) to grant diplomatic status to corrupt individuals “who are involved in corrupt activates around the world.
“Our demand for the resignation of the prime minister which is gaining currency across Dominica from people of all walks of life is because of…number one, Dominica has now been plunged into a near crisis of confidence …and since 2004 Mr. Skerrit has presided over a corrupt Citizenship by Investment Programme…”.
During the news conference, Linton said he was “stoutly denying” that his party had any involvement in a supposed coup to unseat the government following the disturbances that followed a public meeting of the main opposition United Workers Party and the Dominica Freedom party (DFP) on February 7.
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