Former Corporate Executive, Former Journalist and Dominica’s Leader of the Parliamentary Opposition, Lennox Linton, has responded to Prime Minister Skerrit’s allegation that his party or its supporters plan to file an injunction to the courts against the government or the DSS’ ‘Covid-19 relief response package’ to laid off workers, caused by the advent of the Covid-19 Pandemic. Recently Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit acknowledged receiving a proposal from the Board of the Dominica Social Security (DSS). Linton told Q95 FM on Tuesday evidence shows his executive had recommended some measures that are only now being considered by government. He suggests the government needs to urgently present and implement an effective stimulus package, to assist the plight f the people and small businesses in the economy. However, reports allege that this relief package in question may be the DSS’ Redundancy Fund package, which is already authorized and mandated by Law to be used under specific circumstances by the DSS, to assist persons who have been made redundant or have been Laid Off. Linton added that Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit should be able to access the funds he claimed was deposited into a special account for an international airport and utilize some of that to create an effective stimulus package for the people. Former Corporate Executive, Former Journalist and Dominica’s Leader of the Parliamentary Opposition, Lennox Linton
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