The Dominica Labour Party (DLP) is set to hold its’ delegates’ conference in the constituency of Grandbay on November 22nd, 2026.
Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit stated this during an announcement.
“The National Council of the Dominica Labour Party, as you know, met in the Wesley and there was a resolution which is required by our Constitution,” he said. “It is the National Council that has to determine when the delegates’ conferences is held. And there was a resolution which was unanimously adopted that the Dominica Labor Party should hold its’ delegates’ conference in the constituency of Grandbay,” he said.
According to Skerrit, the resolution further stated, that there’s a second resolution which stated that all positions are available for contest.
“Even if the Constitution says that when certain positions are filled, it is done so for three period,” he explained. “So in the case of leadership or the leader of the party, when there’s a delegates’ conference and someone gets elected as leader, you in office for three years, and the last delegates’ conference we had was in 2024.”
Furthermore, he noted that all positions became vacant and will be available for contest in the next delegates’ conference.
“So in the position of leader, deputy political leader, president, general secretary, these crucial positions, certainly will all be open for contest,” Skerrit revealed. “I will say that certainly I will place my name for contest…and we will see what happens on November 22.”
