Last Wednesday, the opposition United Workers Party (UWP) of Dominica indicated that their [thus far unidentified] plans for housing development in Dominica “will be different from what is being offered” by the Dominica Labour Party (DLP) under the leadership of Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit, leading to much derision from the deputy prime minister and a well-known local attorney, as well as by commentators on social media.
Presenting the unidentified housing plan, UWP Senator Isaac Baptiste, who is an urban planner by training, said, “We will provide housing not based on what they think the people want, but what the people need to improve their housing quality.”
In response to the UWP’s “unidentified fictional plans”, Deputy Prime Minister Reginald Austrie said:
“Even a cursory view of Dominica’s housing revolution, which is providing thousands of affordable houses for all Dominicans, contradicts Baptiste’s visual aptitude, urban planning and construction knowledge to comprehend what the government, investors, donor agencies and the people of Dominica have achieved in building sustainable homes that can withstand extreme weather events, meant to improve the lives of our people and economic advance of Dominica.”
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