7news was first to report on the embarrassing incident with Dominican Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit. As we told you he was detained by the Coast Guard on the water of San Pedro on Independence Day. The officer in charge of the Coast Guard detail, has been demoted, but today the Prime Minister said more should have been done. Skerritt came at the personal invitation of the Prime Minister and he told us he was more than a little miffed.
Marisol Amaya, KREM Radio
“Sir, you didn’t comment at all about the fiasco with the Dominican Prime Minister? Can you say why?”
“Nobody asked me and I supposed its self-evidence. Clearly we had a Coast Guard officer who had behave in an entirely unacceptable fashion. He has been discipline and I personally think that the punishment was not as severe as it ought to have been, but I won’t second guess the Commandant. I believe that the Ministry of National Security can appeal that punishment – that sentence to the security services commission and I think they are doing that.”
“Really, to have treated a visited dignitary and especially at the level of Prime Minister in that fashion is utterly not to be countenance gave us a terrible black eye.”
“I did speak to the Prime Minister to offer my personal apologies and I must confess that he has been extremely understanding about the whole incident. He said look, we have bad people everywhere, in all of our societies these things happen, think nothing of it and please let us draw a line under the incident. I am very happy about that.”
