Skerrit says past four years difficult and painful for Dominicans

Tuesday, February 3, 2004

ROSEAU, Dominica: While observing his coalition administration's fourth anniversary in office on Sunday, Dominica's prime minister Roosevelt Skerrit says it has been a difficult and painful experience for Dominicans, but they understood. 

The Dominican leader told reporters here that nationals have accepted the economic stabilisation and adjustment programme as necessary pain.

''It has been a painful experience for most Dominicans but it was necessary and Dominicans by and large have been able to accept and understand it,'' he noted. 

The coalition partners, the Dominica Labour Party (DLP) and the Dominica Freedom Party (DFP), began their weeklong celebration of their February 1, 2000 victory at the polls with a service at the Lifeline Christian Fellowship Church in the second town of Portsmouth on Sunday.

In reviewing his administration's performance, Skerrit said, ''We inherited a country in great difficulty and it is this government which decided that we needed to put the country first and demonstrate a high degree of discipline in the management of the country's finances.'' 

Skerrit believes the recent US$11.4 million and the US$3 million loans from the IMF and the World Bank respectively are testimonies to good leadership and discipline by the DLP-DFP government. 

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