Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit said the Montreal Management Consultants Est. (MMCE) is a responsible construction company that has come to help develop Dominica. He said the company came into the country after Tropical Storm Erica and commenced on constructing housing projects around the island without any initial government motivation. He said critics mischievously mistake the mission of MMCE in Dominica.
Skerrit said this while responding to critics from within the opposition who said he has not been responsible in the manner he has been giving off contracts to MMCE. The prime minister however said the construction company began building houses to help people who were displaced following Erica and Maria long before the government was able to afford their services.
Skerrit said MMCE purchased 44 acres of land with their own pocket and began constructing houses long before any contract was signed between them and the government. He said the government was only able to reimburse the company with CBI funds one year after the organization commenced housing projects in the country.
United Workers Party Roseau South Constituency parliamentary representative, Honourable Joshua Francis, however said Dominicans are right to condemn the conditions under which MMCE is operating in the country as a foreign entity. He said PM Skerrit is a liar for alleging that Dominicans have no rights to question the operations of MMCE under the current administration.
Francis said Skerrit’s allegations are a cheap attempt to distract the people from questioning the over one billion dollars the government cannot account for over the sales of Dominica’s passports under the CBI programme. He noted that Skerrit’s admission that MMCE began to build houses in Dominica prior to the execution of a signed contract with the government smacks of irresponsible leadership.
According to the UWP representative, Skerrit has by his own admissions given the green light for his ousting, and he urged Dominicans home and abroad to vote out the DLP in the coming general elections. He wondered why visible development could be happening in other parts of the island without any commensurate development in Roseau South constituency, adding the Skerrit-led administration has failed the people multiple times over.
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