​Opposition Leader Lennox Linton is of the view that Parliament was assassinated on Thursday 29th July following the National Budget address and during the ensuing debate, and is now essentially dead.  He was speaking at this morning’s UWP press briefing.
 
Mr Linton Calls on the voices of Moral Consciousness in Dominica and abroad, targeting the church leaders and the bishops and those who claim to be of Moral compass within our society, on what’s presently taking place right before their very eyes.
 
Mr. Linton says we can no longer claim to have a parliament in Dominica, and if anything, Parliament was fatally assassinated on Thursday.

​Leader of the Opposition Lennox Linton.

​CREAD Fosters Collaboration Among Agro-Processing Stakeholders For the agro-processing sub-sector in Dominica to fully thrive.It is critical that all stakeholders are on the same page and are aware of all that is occurring in the industry.To this end, the Climate Resilience Execution Agency of Dominica (CREAD), hosted the first of a series of meetings aimed at bringing together all the major players in the sub-sector to determine the way forward in a collaborative manner.
 
The meeting was attended by representatives of the Ministry, DEXIA, Dominica Bureau of Standards (DBOS), AID Bank and NCTE. Agro-processing has been a constant fixture on Dominica’s agriculture landscape; however, it has primarily been a cottage-based industry, barring the exceptions of enterprises such as Bello and Dominica Coconut Products, whose brands have become internationally known.
 
Discussions centred around the wide cross-section of initiatives currently being undertaken to enhance the sub-sector which include: Production of cassava and toloma have long been grown in these communities given their ability to flourish in the marginal soils and more importantly, the livelihoods of these communities revolve around the growing and processing of these crops. Composite bread trials have already been held with three bakeries utilizing cassava marsh, showcasing the potential for the product and the importance and need for these processing facilities.
 
It was further determined by the meeting’s participants that given the vast amount of work being undertaken in this sub-sector, a clear roadmap to prevent duplicity of projects in locations around the island needs to be developed. Additionally, agreements on food safety and Good Management Practices (GMP) must be accepted & adopted in the agro-processing industry. 

Parliamentary Opposition, Lennox Linton, reveals that because of his team’s decision to protest the Speakers decision to accept the motion moved by DLP Senator Cassani Laville, which requested a significant reduction of the Opposition Leader’s time for rebuttal to the Prime Minister’s Budget address, the lives of members of the opposition were threatened.

The facts are as follows: ‘this all happened as a form of revenge against Lennox Linton in a petty display initiated by Junior Senator Cassani Laville who moved this petty motion, that the opposition leader’s rebuttal time be reduced from 150 minutes to 30 minutes, in order to appease Minister of Finance Roosevelt Skerrit’. Linton attended the sitting of parliament for most part on July 28th 2021, and left before the finance minister gave his Budget address. It must be noted that Skerrit over the past 6 years has left parliament every time Linton gave his rebuttal to Skerrit’s National Budget Address.
 
Linton went on to further reveal that his team was threatened by a senior Police Officer in the Parliament. The Officer was heard speaking to other officers in Parliament and said, “Should you the Opposition members insider here touch one of us, we will just kill you all!”. The Dominica Freedom Party has also concluded that from yesterday’s behavior of the DLP Parliamentarians, the Speaker of the House, the Special Services Unit, and the Dominica Police Service, to date, ‘this is one of the worst behaviors displays of high-ranking members of the Police Service and Special Services Unit! The UWP says under the current Labor Party Leadership, Dominica is quickly becoming an oligarchy and a one-party state, with every passing day.’

​Leader of the Parliamentary Opposition, Lennox Linton.

The Dominica Football Association has announced that due to the latest developments in Portsmouth with the Covid 19 cases, the following matches which were scheduled for the Benjamin this weekend have been called off.
 
Friday 30th July, Promex Harlem United vs Connect 767 East Central - Saturday 31st July, Valvoline We United vs LA Stars -
 
Sunday 1st August - Sagicor South East vs Happi Bath Estate. We ask everyone to remain safe during this long weekend.

Thea Lafond has qualified for the finals of the women's triple jump at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic games. She did so with an impressive jump of 14.60 to set a new national record in her first jump. The automatic qualifying mark was 14.40 meters. Lafond breezed into the finals needing just one of her 3 allotted jumps to meet the qualification mark. The finals of the women's triple jump will be held on Sunday.

Opposition Lennox Linton claims much more money belonging to Dominica for the sale of Passports is held outside of the country, than we see in the Treasury in Dominica. Speaking via telephone interview on Q95’s Hot Seat show hosted by Loftus Durand this morning, Mr. Linton shared some statistics and figures with the nation, and according to his calculation, over 4 Billion Dollars is missing or unaccounted for.

​Leader of the Opposition, Lennox Linton.

​Cricket action kicks off this weekend with the Kalinago Premier League, and it is expected to reveal some epic battles. PRO of the Kalinago Premier League, Israel Fontaine, shares more details.

​PRO of the Kalinago Premier League, Israel Fontaine.

National Athlete Dennick Luke has been drawn in heat 5 in the men's 800-meter event as he begins his quest for Olympic Glory on Friday.
 
Luke who hails from the town of Portsmouth has been training as a student athlete Jamaica for the past year.
 
The men's 800-meter event at the Tokyo Olympics will begin at 8:50pm Friday July 30th Caribbean Time.
 
Luke however is scheduled to run at about 9:22pm Friday July 30th Caribbean Time.
 
He has been drawn in Heat 5, in total there are 6 heats in the 800-meter event.
 
The first 3 in each heat qualify and the next 6 fastest runners advance to the Semi-finals.
 
Luke has made steady progress in the 800-meter event, winning races in Jamaica and the Dominican Republic in the lead up to the Olympics.
 
He holds a personal best time of 1:49:08 (1 minute, 49.08 seconds) which was set earlier this year at a track event in Jamaica.

Former Senator and DFP Chairman Johnson Boston provides details onproper procedures & roles of Sergeant at Arms & Police Officers in Parliament & condemns the DLP administration’s dictatorial oppressive acts that took place in Parliament on Thursday.
 
Boston added that the alleged attempted murder of UWP Opposition members in Parliament on Thursday July 29, 2021 is unprecedented and dictatorial, and depicts the current governance in Dominica as a ‘one man government.’

Boston recalls his tenure in government and at parliament sessions, where only one parliamentarian, Elkin henry’ who was led out of parliament, mainly because he insulted a former Speaker of the house and the office of the Speaker.

​Former Dominica Freedom Party Senator and Chairman of the DFP, Johnson Boston.

Leader of the Parliamentary Opposition, Lennox Linton, has concluded after observing the actions and decisions of DLP representatives in Parliament for the past six years says, the DLP Parliamentarians “have zero capacity for fairness, and zero respect for the truth, and they are strangers of righteousness and Justice” 
 
Linton made the statement right after he and his team were allegedly brutalized in Parliament for peacefully and assertively protesting a vote to reduce the Leader of the Opposition’s time to respond to the Prime Minister and Finance Minister’s National Budget Address.

Leader of the Parliamentary Opposition, Lennox Linton.