The present Dominica Labour Party’s economic policies  during its last 15 years in Government, have failed to create any significantly successful business operator.

Candidate for the Roseau Central Constituency, Joseph Isaac said that unlike the former DLP administration, the Dominica Freedom Party and the United Workers Party (UWP) the current government cannot point to a single success story that has resulted from its initiatives in the tourism, manufacturing and other sectors.

Instead, the current Labour Party administration has created massive poverty and devastated income generating sectors such as manufacturing, tourism, agriculture and the cultural industry. He said the DLP’s only solution is VAT as the engine of growth.

Isaac, who replaces retired Party Trustee Norris Prevost as the candidate for Roseau Central, revealed the UWP’s intention to take measures that would lead to the financial success of literary and musical artistes. He said a UWP Government will take advantage of CARICOM, North American and Francophone markets to promote the work of artists.

As a result of his investigations into who became wealthy under the labour Party, Journalist Matt Peltier was sued by Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit ten years ago, for his report questioning Mr. Skerrit’s rapid acquisition of million dollar assets on a minister’s salary.

Skerrit subsequently withdrew the case. In his article, Peltier referred to lands acquired by Skerrit at Trafalgar, Beaubois and Portsmouth. While there remains controversy about the Lilac Villas and several other assets allegedly owned by Mr Skerrit, Mr. Reginald Austrie, Mr. Emmanuel Nanton and a few others of the hierarchy of the ruling Labour Party, there is no dispute about the fact that Mr Skerrit has acquired for himself a $5-$7 million  property in the village of Vieille Case.

“It’s time for our musicians to be rich in this country,” Isaac declared.

He has also vowed to make a difference in Roseau Central under a UWP Government by improving infrastructure and providing proper sports facilities for athletes.