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Premier wary about being grilled on incomplete & unpublished AG report
WICKHAM'S CAY II, Tortola, VI– Virgin Islands Premier and Minister of Finance, Hon Andrew A. Fahie (R1) has raised serious concerns about the United Kingdom-sponsored Commission of Inquiry (CoI) and its use of an alleged unpublished Auditor General's report that may not have followed due process and was never made public, at least 'to the best of his knowledge'.
VI Premier speaks up for Caribbean people violated by UK
WICKHAM’S CAY II, Tortola, VI- Pointing out the hypocrisy of the United Kingdom (UK) regarding their treatment of particularly Caribbean people, Premier and Minister of Finance Honourable Andrew A. Fahie (R1) has painted a grim but all too true picture of the atrocities that the people of the Virgin Islands and the rest of the region have faced at the hands of the United Kingdom (UK), including via slavery and the more recent Windrush Scandal.
CoI: UK lawyer calls out hypocrisy of UK regarding governance in VI
WICKHAM'S CAY II, Tortola, VI- With many already questioning the motive of the one-sided Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into Governance in the Virgin Islands, United Kingdom lawyer Sir Charles Geoffrey Cox QC, who is representing Government Ministers and the Attorney General before the CoI, has again raised suspicion about the reason the CoI was called and the fact that Governors for the past three to four decades did nothing about Cabinet decisions that the CoI is now taking issues with.
Gary R. Hickinbottom’s own son called him a bully!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Already accused of bullying and making unreasonable demands of Ministers of Government and public servants in the [British] Virgin Islands (VI), it has come to light that the Commissioner of the Inquiry into governance in the VI, Sir Gary R. Hickinbottom, was even accused of being a bully and making unreasonable demands by his own son.
CoI is a theatre to ‘shame & humiliate’ persons in public- Skelton-Cline
WICKHAMS CAY II, Tortola, VI – Talk show host Claude O. Skelton-Cline has lambasted the United Kingdom-funded Virgin Islands (VI) commission of inquiry as one that has a mission to ‘shame and humiliate’ persons in elected office and in the VI public service on the public stage.
Skelton-Cline’s contract was reduced from $16K to $9K per month- CoI hears
WICKHAM'S CAY II, Tortola, VI- Permanent Secretary in the Premier’s Office Dr Carolyn O’Neal-Morton said because of the financial strain on the public’s purse, contracts, including the third contract between the Government of the Virgin Islands and Mr Claude O. Skelton-Cline for the post of Strategic Adviser, were reduced where possible.
CoI ‘feels like targeting & victimisation’ toward me as a private citizen - Skelton-Cline
WICKHAMS CAY II, Tortola, VI – Local clergyman and talk show host, Mr Claude O. Skelton-Cline has blasted the United Kingdom-sponsored Virgin Islands Commission of Inquiry for what he called victimisation and a public lynching towards him in his private capacity as a citizen.
'I am the Commissioner, you aren’t'– Hickinbottom tells Skelton-Cline
WICKHAM'S CAY II, Tortola, VI- Commissioner Gary R. Hickinbottom has reminded businessman Claude O. Skelton-Cline that he is the boss at the United Kingdom-sponsored Commission of Inquiry(CoI) and asserted that his findings on the governance and whether there is corruption, victimisation and the like in the Virgin Islands will be evidence-based.
CoI slammed for making unreasonable demands of ministers & public servants
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The United Kingdom (UK) sponsored Commission of Inquiry (CoI) continues to face criticisms of unfair practices and trying to cast a negative light on the Government of the Virgin Islands, while seemingly ignoring ‘illuminating’ information provided to it.
UK CoI violated ‘sacred rights’ of self-determined VI Cabinet– Skelton-Cline
BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI– Virgin Islander Claude O. Skelton-Cline has lambasted the United Kingdom-sponsored Virgin Islands (VI) Commission of Inquiry (CoI) for what he said was a violation of the VI’s sacred rights as a self-determined people when the CoI team revealed contents of Cabinet Minutes without reportedly seeking permission.
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