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Bilal Rawat earned £2.2M as Jr Counsel in UK’s ‘wasteful’ Saville Inquiry!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Current Counsel to the VI Commission of Inquiry, Mr Bilal Rawat in 2009 had earned some £2,203,633 in fees, paid for by UK taxpayers as part of the then UK Government's ‘wasteful’ & ‘disgraceful’ Bloody Sunday Inquiry, also known as ‘The Saville Inquiry’.
CoI Commissioner reportedly tried to bully HoA Speaker to meeting on his terms
WICKHAM'S CAY II, Tortola, VI – CoI Commissioner, Sir Gary R. Hickinbottom QC on arrival to the Virgin Islands was revealed to have attempted to bully the Speaker of the House of Assembly (HoA), Hon Julian Willock, into having a meeting on the work of the Commission, but on the Commissioner’s own terms.
Health Minister rebukes ‘blunt instrument’ of CoI
WICKHAM’S CAY II, Tortola, VI- Minister for Health and Social Development Hon Carvin Malone (AL) has blasted the ongoing Commission of Inquiry called by controversial ex-governor Augustus J. U. Jaspert, saying that a review of governance would have been better served.
VI must decide on date for referendum on status under UK- E. Benito Wheatley
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Special Envoy to the Premier, Mr E. Benito Wheatley, speaking in a personal capacity at a recent presentation on Decolonisation, has touted the importance for Virgin Islanders to make a decision on the date for a referendum regarding the future of its political status under the United Kingdom (UK). Further, Mr Wheatley believes the VI must call for a referendum no later than 2030.
‘We are actually American… we don’t like to hear it’- Cromwell Smith
BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI – Calling the Virgin Islands' (VI) relationship with the United Kingdom (UK) a regressive one, commentator Cromwell Smith said the VI has a much culturally close relationship with the United States (US) than it has had with the UK.
‘Leopards don’t change their spots’– Bishop Cline on colonialism
BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI - Bishop John I. Cline of the New Life Baptist Church in Duff’s Bottom, Tortola, has called on citizens to remain vigilant about the legacies of colonial countries and its role as a territory under Global Britain.
Global Britain’s mandate is to maintain power & control of VI– Skelton-Cline
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – As uncertainty looms over the outcome of the United Kingdom (UK) sponsored Commission of Inquiry (CoI), Honestly Speaking radio show host Claude O. Skelton-Cline has reminded that the UK as an empire has always had the mandate to maintain power and control.
VI’s fate in hands of UK Monarch ‘is unacceptable’ in 2021 - Skelton-Cline
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Radio talkshow host Claude O. Skelton-Cline has called 'unacceptable' the reserved powers of the Queen as laid out in the Virgin Islands Constitution Order 2007 to make laws for peace and order in the territory.
Jump aboard the change train & feel the change you want
Edgar Leonard
Life is living, learning, and change; change happens as a clock changes or waves roar ashore. The late Peter Drucker, Ph.D., the father of management theory, says, “unless an organisation sees that its task is to lead change---whether a business, university or school---, will not survive.
CoI lacks ‘prima facie’ by having no preliminary evidence - Attorney Richard G. Rowe
BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI – Attorney Richard G. Rowe of Silk Legal has said the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) in the Virgin Islands is one that reinforces colonialism and suggested it may even be hypocritical as it comes in the face of the United Kingdom (UK) resisting its own internal CoI as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic, yet imposing an inquiry on the Virgin Islands at the same time.
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