'Come together & stand for the good of the country'- Bishop John I. Cline
Speaking this morning, April 17, 2025, during a Facebook live video on his page, Bishop Cline described the review as something stemming from the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) that continues to “plague” the Virgin Islands (VI).
Recommendations in the controversial report include taking Immigration and HM Customs from the government and giving them to the Governor.
Bishop Cline said the purpose of his live was to “give a view from a citizen’s standpoint and not a political elected official standpoint”.
The review was being debated during the Continuation of the Third Sitting of the Second Session of the Fifth House of Assembly (HoA).
The HoA, he said, will do what they have to do in the House as “they have all the mechanisms, the lawyers, the consultants, to sit and review this bill before it goes any further”.
They will need our support- Bishop Cline
“The government will need our support. It comes a time in the Virgin Islands when it doesn’t matter if you wear a green shirt, a blue shirt, a red shirt; whether you VIP, NDP, PU, whatever, it doesn’t matter,” he said.
At some point, Bishop Cline explained, some things are too critical for Virgin Islanders not to come together on.
“We are to close ranks, come together and stand up for the good of the country, and I believe that the discussion and the proposal in this bill…is important for us to come together on, support the government’s initiative and be aware of what the discussion is and what is at stake.”
Bishop Cline said his mission was not to go through the entire bill on social media, but he had to familiarise himself with it in order to give an informed opinion.
HoA members not in support of the review
Members of the HoA on both sides have slammed the review, with some describing it as “racist”, “recolonisation in disguise”, “repugnant”, a move to give the Governor more power, among other things.
Premier and Minister of Finance Dr the Hon Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) called on the public to “reject” the report during his contributions in the House.
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24 Responses to “'Come together & stand for the good of the country'- Bishop John I. Cline”
Where was this noise with all our drug bust? Business men dying, minimum wage put back, greedy bill, covid grants, bad roads,bad infrastructure, no proper price control, crazy bank interest rates, when Andrew got locked up, when students almost brought a gun yo school, when youths as young as 14 getting arrested for guns, when students brought drugs to school, when Cline got paid for doing ntn etcccccc where was the noise then? ???
COi was done for a reason with excellent recommendations which if they were not resisted at every turn would now be benefitting the people and the VI.
We need to stop the corrupt from defending the corrupt and move these islands forwards.
There are now more than 350 police officers on this little island and I move around from East to West, North to South daily and I cannot see 10 of them. The Acting Commissioner is now just resuming Community Policing. Why do we still feel that the UK will do better? They do not care about you nor me. We have been taking care of ourselves from the very beginning and we will continue. Let the UK stay in the UK. We will keep our doors closed and beat our children. Let us beat them at the polls. If they are not governing properly, we should not hesitate to vote against them. And let the cycle move on. The present Government is doing the bare minimum because they were voted back in even though it was clear as day they were not read to govern. So, the King can pay us another visit and we will come to the Queen Elizabeth Park and say hi like we did in 2017 but we are not interested in UK rule and will fight against it. So, no thank you. All of you who is on here singing bring UK, are probably the same ones who keep voting back in certain persons to the Legislative Council.
ONE ) and hush . and let lord claudie do all yapping untill he start confessing , that's when we are going to hear all the skillz " prince charming really possesses