DOMINICA'S PRIME MINISTER TRIES EXPLAIN AWAY HIS SON'S ACQUISITION OF A DIPLOMATIC PASSPORT TO CHEAT CRIMINAL JUSTICE

ROOSEVELT SKERRIT, the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Dominica, has claimed that our article FACING MANSLAUGHTER CHARGES, THE SON OF DOMINICA'S PRIME MINISTER IS GIVEN A DIPLOMATIC PASSPORT TO FLEE TO THE UNITED STATES; CAN HE BE DEPORTED BY ICE? is "fake news." He denies that his son MALIK SKERRIT, killed a motorcyclist in Dominica, and then fled to the United States, using a diplomatic passport illegally created by his father.  We note that there have been several news articles about the incident, both in Dominican and Antiguan media, with a photograph of the victim, and details of the case.

Skerrit claims he never gave his college-age son a Dominica diplomatic passport. He makes that allegation, knowing full well that the list of who holds a diplomatic passport is not available to the people of Dominica. There is the famous policy statement of FANCINE BARRON, then the Minister of Foreign Affairs, when asked in Parliament to release those names:

"The government has never, as a rule, publicized sensitive details, outside of the corresponding countries to which persons are engaged. Effective foreign policy is never practised in the media or the public domain. While the government could have no diplomatic appointment and postings established, it remains opposed to the idea of divulging information, on all appointees, in a forum that is essentially public in nature, and which the entire world has access."

This means that the people of Dominica will never learn who their diplomats are, including the names of those career criminals who bought diplomatic passports from Roosevelt Skerrit for cash, and we cannot learn who, in the government of Dominica, issued Malik that passports on an emergency basis, so he could flee the country, while the victim, Kyan Joseph, was dying in hospital.

Roosevelt Skerrit should resign, forthwith, due to his participation in this organized activity, the object of which was to cheat justice. He has no moral compass.