Dominica: According to a report on the Dominica News Online, Prime Minister, Roosevelt Skerrit, filed a lawsuit in the High Court against Dr.Thompson Fontaine on Thursday. Skerrit’s team believe that Fontaine started allegations that Skerrit was involved in the selling or granting of a Commonwealth of Dominica passport to Darwood Ibrahim, a notorious Indian national.
Legal adviser to Mr. Skerrit, Senior Counsel, Anthony Astaphan, said “We believe that the more recent campaign engineered by Thompson Fontaine, has its genesis in a conspiracy of persons claiming to be patriots, the fictitious or phantom Jeremy Sinclair and then a brief but ill-fated romantic dance with the editor of the Weekly Blitz”. He said Mr. Skerrit took the view that “ these allegations about the passports and Darwood and Singh and parallel Iranian programme and counterfeit money and conspiracies and illusions and collusions with criminal elements in China and so on went way beyond a personal attack on Roosevelt Skerrit and was in fact an attack on the national integrity of the country, an attack on the individual security of Dominica and was an attack to internationally and regionally discredit the Government of Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit.”
The report also said that in addition to a series of articles and emails that were published on the internet and a series of articles that were published on the Dominican.net, the matter which has been filed also contains some allegations made on Q95 FM radio station “and as a result of which” says Astaphans “ we have decided that as a matter of policy and purposivenes to join the owners of Q95FM in this case because the time has come for us to make the question of the responsibility of the radio stations a landmark issue for the courts to decide”. According to the Senior Counsel, the matter concerns the allegation of sales of passports, parallel programmes, conspiracies with international terrorists etc. but he says despite a brief reference to consulates in the matter, the legal team has not yet decided whether it will file a separate matter related to the alleged sales of consulates or whether the claim would be amended to include them.
The Dominica News Online report stated that Dr. Fontaine has previously said that his intent to countersue in the courts in Dominica is based on his firm belief that the people of Dominica need to know the truth about the sale of Dominican passports, and one way of doing that is by ensuring the main culprits are brought before the courts and under oath made to answer.”
Dr. Thompson Fontaine
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