Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has questioned the qualifications of Lennox Linton’s for the job of Dominica’s prime minister. Skerrit asked the people of Marigot constituency to evaluate the professional and educational qualications of Linton before attempting to vote him as their prime minister.
“I want each of you to leave here this evening and go and research the educational, professional and community service background of Mr. Lennox Linton,” Skerrit told Marigot voters at the launch of Gregory Riviere as DLP candidate on Sunday. “Check out his qualifications for the job he seeks.”
Skerrit tasked the people to confirm where Linton was weeks after Hurricane Maria struck. He asked them to evaluate what Linton did, if he ever did anything, to help the people of Marigot recover when he appeared several weeks after Maria.
“What are your views on the minimum eligibility requirements for the job Mr. Linton says he wants? You are Dominican. You are the employer of the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Dominica. What qualities would you like in a Prime Minister? What type of work experience would you like your Prime Minister to have? What do you think should be your Prime Minister’s minimum educational background?”
Meanwhile, Linton continues to question the government’s unaccounted $1 billion passport sales revenue. According to him, PricewatershouseCoopers’ (PwC) recent report commissioned by CS Global Partners Ltd failed to capture the loss of the $1 billion passport revenue in question. Linton said CS Global together with PwC knows nothing about Dominica’s CBI programme fund and their report praising the programme is biased.
“This report was commissioned by CS Global Partners Ltd, and it was commissioned to review the fiscal impacts of projects supported by Dominica’s CBI programme over the period of 2013/14 to 2018/19,” Linton said. “It was not commissioned to look at the accuracy or integrity of the reciepts of the CBI programme over that period. It was just commissioned at what money you had, what money you spent; they only looked at how much was spent from CBI. But they’ve given us no indication how much money was collected from the CBI over that period. But all they looked at was the spending that went to roads, housing, and public works generally.”
Linton accused CS Global of collecting hundreds of millions of dollars in commissions from the sales of Dominican passports, and it was not surprising they came out with a commissioned report that presented the government as clean and righteous.
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