Carvin Malone crossed floor because Unity Gov’t was ‘afraid’ of Britain- Hon Walwyn
Speaking at the Seventh Sitting of the First Session of the Fifth House of Assembly on Thursday, January 25, 2024, Hon Walwyn said Mr Malone was no doubt a Virgin Islander who loved his country, and the Virgin Islands Party, in his view, was simply a vehicle for him to exercise that passion, love and that influence that he wanted to have over the country.
Mr Malone made a great political sacrifice - Hon Walwyn
“I noticed for instance… and it was said before, when Carvin took that decision to come on the Opposition side, I didn't question for one minute what it is he was trying to do because I understood who Carvin was,” Hon Walwyn said.
On June 15, 2022, Mr Malone, who was at the time a former Minister for Health and Social Development turned Government backbencher with the formation of the National Unity Government, announced he had crossed the floor to the Opposition.
“And to me, it is one of the greatest political sacrifices that I've seen anyone in this House of Assembly ever make, because at that time, Madam Speaker, with that CoI every member of the government, every last one, don't mind how bad them trying to play… Every last one of them was afraid of the British Government,” Mr Walwyn claimed.
He further said that while imbibing with one male government member at that time, he was told that the then government may have accepted the recommendations over fear.
“When that CoI Report dropped, I asked one of them... Well, how you all accept all of these recommendations without even checking through them? You know what they said to me?.... He said, Myron when that report dropped, all of us wanted to go to the bathroom one time.”
“And so what Carvin did was try to bring to the fore and to the understanding of the public, what was entailed in that report and how it would affect their lives and how it would affect the government's interaction with its people going forward, and he did that at his own political expense,” Mr Walwyn further added.
Malone died with VI on his mind – Hon Walwyn
The former Education Minister Walwyn said the move might have caused Mr Malone to lose support on the VIP side because people interpreted it as, perhaps, he was not pleased with the fact that he was not part of the newly formed coalition government.
“But that was not what it was, he wanted to make sure that he could give that information, and it helped a number of persons, including myself, because I was not in office at the time to understand really what was taking place and I think this country owes him a debt of gratitude for that selflessness that he displayed.”
Hon Walwyn said Mr Malone died with the VI on his mind, as he was concerned about the direction of his country, the colonial muscles being flexed, and how that would affect the VI’s ownership of its lands, economy, and right to free determination.
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These are the words of the Governor speaking to big grown people of the BVI as if they are as$E$. This is just like a man saying to a woman he will not have sex with her but allow him to only get his head in and nothing more. Governor stop taking the people of the BVI for fools.