Good morning to the island of endless beauty, fertile valleys, and unstoppable spirit our home, our Dominica!
People of Dominica, this is not a situation of comfort, and it is not a time for silence. This is not a moment for applause at rallies while our future is being stolen piece by piece. Our country did not lose itself overnight; it happened slowly, when our people got tired, distracted, and convinced that nothing could change.
So today, we will all stop pretending we don’t see what is happening. If a leader fears their people, they surround themselves with loyal followers instead of truth. A leader who cannot answer the hard questions attacks those who ask them. A government built on dependency will always fight back using fear, division, and propaganda, when the people begin to realize and wake up.
Roosevelt Skerrit’s greatest weapon is not strength or intelligence. It is exhaustion. We, as a country, believe that resistance is useless and that obedience is safer. We believe that crumbs should feel like generosity, and that dependence should feel like stability.
We as a country have been trained to beg for what already belongs to us. We have been trained to thank politicians for rights and things we should never have had to ask for. We have been trained to confuse loyalty to a party with loyalty to a country.
But oppression is never solved by asking it politely to behave better. Exploitation is never ended by trying to be accepted by it. Change comes from movement, not permission. If you are tired, stand anyway. If you are afraid, speak anyway. If you feel powerless, organize anyway. A people who keep moving forward, no matter how slowly, cannot be stopped.
We do not need approval from Roosevelt Skerrit and his government to demand accountability. We do not need their propaganda to tell us what our empty pockets already know. If we do not control our own story, we will always be controlled by their ideas, their way of life, their lies. If we do not take control of our own economy, we will all continue to live at their beck and call.
Their behaviour is not accidental; it is deliberate. Roosevelt Skerrit knows that misinformation doesn’t just misinform you; it manipulates the way you think. It conditions you to blame yourself instead of the government, a government designed to keep you down, and to defend power instead of questioning it.
They want us divided, distracted, and fighting each other, because unity terrifies them. The moment we, as a country, as Dominicans, stand together across villages, backgrounds, and party lines, their entire system and government that feeds on silence and fear begins to crumble.
This is not about anger or division. It is about clarity. We are against violence, but we are equally against a system that calls suffering stability and silence peace. A country where people survive by leaving, where youth see no future, and where opportunity is shrinking, is not stable, it is stalled. I refuse to pretend otherwise.
Real peace requires justice. Real peace requires accountability. Real peace requires courage. And every single generation is faced with the hard choices, they must either protect their future or surrender it, confront injustice or live comfortably with it. History will judge what we choose now.
There comes a moment when patience stops being a virtue and becomes a chain. That moment has arrived, and determination must take its place. Those in power are not afraid of violence, they are afraid of awareness. They are afraid of unity. They are afraid of people who think for themselves.
This is why the Dominica Reform Party exists. Not to manage decline. Not to polish corruption. But to return power to where it belongs: the People of Dominica through Direct Democracy.
This is not about personalities. It is about dignity. It is about voice. It is about the future we leave behind. Stand up. Get uncomfortable. Get involved. Vote like your dignity depends on it, because it does. Dominica does not need Roosevelt Skerrit’s permission to change. Dominica needs courage.
