Over the past few days on Facebook, once again, everyone seems to be crawling out of the woodwork with opinions about how my team and I should run my campaign and what they think I should be doing. So let me be very clear. I will run my campaign my way.
If they want their opinions considered, they need to join the team. If they step up, contribute, and show commitment, I will listen seriously – and if their ideas are better, I am absolutely open to change. What will not happen is people standing safely on the sidelines trying to dictate what they think I should do.
If they don’t like how my team runs my campaign, they are more than welcome to start their own party and run it their way. Stay out of mine.
Now, I’m going to say something openly so no one can ever claim I was hiding anything from my people: I do not need Dominica. Dominica needs my Dominica Reform Party. Before anyone reacts emotionally, read carefully.
I have very clear and deeply personal reasons for not revealing my identity at this time. The most important one is safety. We are dealing with a Prime Minister who is allegedly connected to drug cartels – and let’s not pretend this is new or unheard of.
Similar allegations and realities have played out before across the Caribbean, Central America, and South America. History shows us what happens when political power, criminal networks, and desperation intersect. Ignoring that reality does not make it disappear, and pretending it cannot happen here in Dominica is not bravery – it is denial.
A desperate man is a dangerous man, and when someone feels cornered, they will do anything to protect their interests, especially where money is involved. I do not know Roosevelt Skerrit personally. I do not know what he is capable of. I do not know the people he associates with. What I do know is this:
- I am a woman.
- I am a wife.
- I have a family.
- And above all, I am a mother.
I will not risk my life or my family’s safety to satisfy the public’s obsession with my identity. If you want to know who I am, join the team, sign the NDA. Until then, wait! When I feel it is safe to step forward publicly, I will. And if I never feel safe, then I never will. That is not up for debate.
I would also like to clarify something else. I have options. I hold passports. I have visa-free travel. Travel bans do not affect me. If the people of Dominica choose not to engage, choose pity, and choose to slef-punishment upon themselves by refusing my policies designed to help them, that responsibility is theirs, not mine.
If a snap election is called and the party cannot be registered in time because a team is not in place, then that will be the end of this effort. I will no longer remain in Dominica with my family to suffer alongside people who actively chose inaction.
Unlike other party leaders, I am not doing this for money, power, or recognition. I am doing this because I love Dominica. I want to live here. I want to build here, and I love my Dominican people. That is why – as clearly stated on this official party website – I am willing to give 25% of my first year’s salary as grants, not loans, to help individuals start small businesses.
To be absolutely clear: I have tried to find others to lead this party. No one stepped forward. No one wanted the responsibility. So what does that tell me? Either I’m foolish for dreaming too big, or too many people are too afraid to stand up against Roosevelt Skerrit, who is allegedly tied to criminal networks.
Make no mistake, I have no problem packing up and leaving if an election is called and the conditions are not right to run. My priority will always be myself and my family. I stepped into this because I believed Dominica was worth fighting for. The question now is whether Dominicans believe that, too.
And to close this up. I am not apologetic for what I have said here. I stand by what I say, and I say what I stand by. You are either with the Dominica Reform Party, or you are not. There is no middle ground dressed up as concern, commentary, or unsolicited advice.
I asked people to join. I asked people to help. Many of you refused. That was your prerogative. But understand this: the clock is ticking. Tick tock, tick tock. Roosevelt Skerrit is watching. And he will call an election the moment he believes he can do so before we gain momentum. If that happens, this effort ends – your future ends and when the damage comes down, you will live with it, not me.
You may say I abandoned my people. The truth is far more uncomfortable: you abandoned Dominica decades ago when you surrendered your sovereignty, your self-respect, and your right to liberty and freedom. You accepted dependency. You accepted silence. You accepted fear. You accepted being Roosevelt Skerrit’s slave.
So no matter how many times you say it, my identity has nothing to do with the cowardly culture that exists here. My identity is not the obstacle to change – your fear is. If identity were what prevented and removed parties and leaders, Roosevelt Skerrit would have been gone over twenty years ago, when his name, face, and failed record were already known to everyone. But he remains in power not because people don’t know who leads them, but because too many refuse to stand up against him.
Blaming my anonymity is simply a distraction from the real issue: a population taught to fear retaliation more than it values freedom. Even today, people still openly admit they fear him – even if he were no longer in power. That alone tells the entire story.
If these words hurt your feelings, so be it. I am not here to hold hands and offer comforting lies to make people feel better about their own behaviour. This is grown-up talk. Dominica is your country. Act like it. Put on your big-boy or big-girl pants. Stop behaving like frightened children facing a schoolyard bully. Show support, or step aside. Because I am tired of the noise, and time is running out.
Good night, be safe on this Saturday night. There are loved ones and family waiting to see you again.
