Beacon's Genevieve Glatsky chided for unethical journalism
As print journalism and the newspaper business continues to perish globally, the Virgin Islands (VI) based tabloid published by local businessman Russell Harrigan and edited by Caucasian expat, Freeman Rogers is showing its true colours by targeting and profiling the East Asian Chairman and CEO of the ICA Group, Mr Ali Nawaz Shaikh.
This comes following a bombshell report by Virgin Islands News Online (VINO) regarding former Premier, Dr. D. Orlando Smith of the National Democratic Party (NDP) and the role he played in allegedly killing both the Prospect Reef and Dolphin Discovery Project that prevented over forty Virgin Islanders from getting jobs at the resort in December of 2018.
ICA Group, one of the Principal Investors in the project, had shared shocking details of incompetence, bureaucracy and a lacklustre approach from the NDP towards the investor’s proposals to redevelop Prospect Reef.
Now a 3rd generation international company, the ICA Group has had a long history of Public/Private partnerships in areas such a tourism and project development, international collaborations, Oil and Gas, Investment Banking in addition to Financial Services in countries across the Middle East, the Caribbean basin, North America and China.
Highly Unethical
In a June 19, 2019 document seen by this news website from tax consultants, Tax on the Fax Consulting LLC, the company has moved to formally chide one of the expat reporters attached to the BVI Beacon, Ms Genevieve Glatsky for attempting to obtain the tax information of the ICA group CEO over the telephone.
"This is very unique that someone calls on the phone and asking various questions on clients Tax matters, this approach is unethical and probably illegal, such matters are asked in writing," the company's Owner and Tax Consultant, Chip Reeves said to Ms Glatsky in a striking rebuke.
Information reaching VINO, also suggests that the Caucasian BVI Beacon reporter Ms Glatsky has been allegedly utilising the same approach to harass officials at Guardian Group, Dolphin Discovery and even the Ex-Wife of Mr Shaikh.
Gutter Journalism
While the details coming into our newsroom show how low the BVI Beacon is willing to stoop with these alleged unethical practices to stay relevant as pointed out by Tax on the Fax Consulting LLC, it comes as no surprise.
Several past and current VINO staff have complained of overbearing harassment from the tabloid’s editor, Mr Rogers, grilling them to leak information on the internal affairs of VINO and its owner, Hon Julian Willock of parent company Advance Marketing and Professional Services (AMPS).
"I'm not even in the BVI and this overbearing Editor from the BVI Beacon called my office requesting confidential information about Mr Willock, his staff and how VINO operates, it is beyond shocking how those people operate," one former staff told VINO in March of 2019.
Both Rogers and Glatsky at the time were trying to implicate House Speaker, Hon Willock in the editorial affairs of VINO, when the Speaker—elected unanimously by the VI House of Assembly (HoA) on March 12, 2019— repeatedly said that while he remains in the business end of the parent company, he has divorced himself from the editorial aspects of VINO for several years.
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32 Responses to “Beacon's Genevieve Glatsky chided for unethical journalism ”
This lady seems to have a history, she needs to be deported.
The bvi has no place for racism and targeting of people of color or black man in power
Thanks for fighting against racism VINO you deserved to be honored
Her affiliates maybe donates substantially to all political campaign
from time she came many people have said she is a r*****, where there is fire there is smoke!!!
The writers are vino are clever. VINO knows by using the word 'Caucasian' it makes this article even more controversial without even suggesting racism. It why VINO is and will remain #1. Us VI need to stop being pawns in these games and clearly the Beacon is not as high standards as they claim to be.
hope this info will clear up all of your confusion
how do you think we all found out about the airplane deal, and the port shenanigans?
a reporter asked the tough questions! That's how! This reporter just doing her job. She broke no laws asking a question.
What does ms Genevieve being a r***** have to do with how old vino is? Strupzz
Who will have the balls to deport her?
Does Local = black and Caucasian = white?
What does colour have to do with any of this?