CoI: ‘We got to be careful about how we criticise our own’- Angelle A. Cameron
Speaking alongside Bishop John I. Cline on the June 22, 2021, edition of ‘My BVI’, an online show, Mrs Cameron said now more than ever Virgin Islanders need to stick together rather than argue party politics.
“We have to be careful as we go forward, but a lot of this also leads back to the conversation of we the people of these Virgin Islands. We must stick together on this, this is not the opportunity for us to segregate”
Not the time for Segregation!
Mrs Cameron continued, “Our segregation is akin to us giving away pieces of ourselves and if we don't understand that I think we will lose it all in an attempt to argue political party politics when a country is being overrun potentially,” she said.
As the ongoing VI CoI has taken a focus on ‘good governance, rather than investigating allegations of corruption, Ms Cameron also warned Virgin Islanders about criticising local legislators and those who come before the commission.
“We really need to be careful about our conversations and dialogues about this we also need to be careful about how we criticise our own in the midst of this and I think everyone on the most part have agreed there's been some flaw in the system.”
According to Cameron, the CoI is using the breaches of the Registers of Interests Act as a starting point to plant doubt in the minds of Virgin Islanders about the people they elected.
Hidden Agenda
“This is how you start providing reasonable doubt… you start with what seems to be a very tiny insignificant perhaps query, that you know has holes in it and then you just start waving that thing around and that's where the questions began.
“The questions I believe in this very beginning stage of questioning have been simply to bring reasonable doubt to the public, not to the legislators, but to us, because it is also going to now make the decisions moving forward.”
Cameron further said as Virgin Islanders start to pick sides before hearing all of the questions to come, it is the same as locals giving ammunition to the wrong people.
“They already holding the gun, we got the bullets. We cannot provide them with everything and there's a chance if we're not careful as a country, I see us handing bullet after bullet… that will eventually be used to do what? Shoot us!” she said.
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35 Responses to “CoI: ‘We got to be careful about how we criticise our own’- Angelle A. Cameron ”
Good governance is a must. Why can't the BVI be a shining example of good governance? Why is it that politics always become a dirty game with some trying to use their power and ego to manipulate others? Victimize others?
We have to be careful of what we say as Talk show hosts, Radio hosts, TV hosts etc. as we can also be inferring the wrong things.
Shut up! a la me
grandma once told me.....
careless talk cause life
loose lips sink ships
Are you serious??? Seriously trying to spin the truth. We all know the highest pay goes to foreigners over local people. We all know the U.K. put people here on huge salaries and now that the position is filled by locals they are paid less money.
The logical extension of what you are saying is that if someone gets shot, maybe a young child, we should not talk to the authorities if we know it was done by one of "our own". Oh wait, ...
Your argument is that because we are BVIslanders, laws of decency, humanity, murder, theft, bribery, extortion, organised crime, political corruption and any other thing most decent people consider heinous activities - none of them apply because we have to look out for our own?
Or only if the people trying to expose these things are outsiders? Kinship is more important than morals and laws?