UWP Leader and Marigot Constituency MP Lennox Linton issues his National New Year 2018 Message

The Leader of the United Workers Party and MP for the Marigot Constituency has issued a national New Year’s Message dated 29thDecember 2017. My Fellow Dominicans at home and abroad: As we leave behind a year in which the killer winds and flood waters of a category five Hurricane battered us beyond recognition, we are no doubt more mindful now than ever before of the necessity for unity of purpose behind the inescapable responsibility of fixing Dominica.In this steep, long and painful climb to a more resilient state of affairs we have been assured of the assistance of the world community to the extent that we are prepared to be guided by the disciplines of good, democratic governance that have become standard in the civilized world.
 
We thank our brothers and sisters at home and abroad, the international aid agencies and disaster relief organizations, the development cooperation partners and the entire global family of countries, people and governments represented by the United Nations. We thank them not just for who have rallying with empathy, purpose and commitment to assist us in this time of severe humanitarian crisis, but very importantly for demonstrating through their service on the ground the value of caring, transparent, accountable, professional conduct and procedure.
 
As Government turns the volume up on the buzzwords - “resilience” and “climate resilient development” – let us keep it real and avoid getting carried away with fancy plasters for old wounds left to fester by corrupt, incompetent leadership. For make absolutely no mistake about it, there will be no climate resilient Dominica in the absence of government of the people, by the people, for the people that is resilient to the destructive forces of corruption and incompetence.
 
He added, in the party’s 2015 Christmas Message, based on the lessons the nation needed to learn from the dismal leadership failures in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Erika, we urged Dominicans from all walks of life to unite around the most pressing national responsibility of our time: “To fix Dominica… to fix the governance of Dominica. “Let us accept the responsibility to lead ourselves into the disciplined lives of truth, righteousness and justice, that will allow us to demand and secure from those who govern us, achievement of the human development goals that characterize meaningful advancement of global civilization