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‘C.B. Romney should be honoured’ – Edmund G. Maduro
Maduro was speaking on his EGM Show aired on Thursday March 5, 2015 on ZROD 103.7FM.
Responding to a caller who had a question regarding who brought social security to the Territory, Maduro said, “I know for a fact that social security was brought [here] by the United Party. I know for a fact that the Labour Code was brought here by the United Party.”
“I know for sure that the cruise ships that you see coming here now were brought here by the late Honourable Cyril B. Romney. He went through a battle with a lot of people here to bring the cruise ships here. And Mr Romney was a United Party man,” Maduro said.
He said further that the late Honourable Cyril B. Romney could also be credited for the financial services sector here.
“When the Honourable C.B. Romney was bringing that here he went through a lot of problems and a lot of headaches,” said Maduro.
At this stage the caller said that he had appealed several times to the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) when they were in power to name something after Honourable Romney as a way of honouring his contribution to the territory.
“Mr Maduro you know how much times I beg the VIP when they were in to name something in the cruise ship [industry] or financial services after Cyril B. Romney?” asked the caller.
In affirmation, Maduro said, “yes, we need something to be named after the Honourable C.B. Romney.”
Political background of Cyril B. Romney
According to research, Cyril Romney had his political beginnings in 1975, when he stood as an independent candidate in the First District against Hon Hamilton Lavity Stoutt. He lost this race but was subsequently elected in 1979 as the representative for the Fifth District and became a member of the opposition.
Research revealed that Romney served a second political term from 1983 to 1986 and was Chief Minister of a coalition government with the United Party led by Willard Wheatley.
Romney is credited with bringing the International Business Companies Act into force while he was Chief Minister, an Act which was said to be responsible for so much of the Territory's economic success.
However, in 1986 Romney's ruling coalition lost power after calling an early election, but he was re-elected and continued to serve on the opposition benches for two more consecutive terms. It was said that in both 1995 and 1999, he tried unsuccessfully to recapture the Fifth District seat standing on a pro-independence platform.
The former Chief Minister died on July 19, 2007.
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37 Responses to “‘C.B. Romney should be honoured’ – Edmund G. Maduro”
Prove it, the budget has never been over $300 Million per year, it is therefore impossible for them to have spent over a $1Billion in 3 SHORT YEARS.
Not a penny my friend, I am retired and not engaged in any business activities and besides I do not represent any political party, I vote for the individual and not for the party. The fact remains that we all
must be fair when we say and write statements about people and or our preferred party.
Not to say he didn't do some good things, but I would hate to have had an audit of his government in general now. choosing what laws to follow started with him and is deeply embedded in the way government does business. We are only looking at it now and I hope transparency becomes a more respected way of doing business.
I heard one of his daughters running. They will feel the wrath of the people I will tell you that..
CB Romney was a puppet master. Held the strings to a lot of things without people knowing.