'Govt called early elections to escape HOA scrutiny' – Hon Fahie
“If you listen to the marketing of the cruise pier dock, while it is needed and I applaud it, you would have the notion that it was just built and this was the first time ships were coming in,” he said during a community meeting in Carrot Bay yesterday May 3, 2015.
He noted that the VIP is the party in Government that first built the pier, then widened it and strengthened it and was going to do some more work on it when the party was voted out of office in the 2011 elections.
“I agree with the fact that the dock is good for the country and for tourism. What our concerns are is that no matter how many times you ask about this project in the House of Assembly where we are under oath and where we are supposed to tell the truth, we either don’t get the questions submitted or allowed to be on the Order Paper and when they were they refused to answer about the project. So up to now we don’t know officially the true cost of that project but what we do know is that the project is $20 million over and somebody has to be more accountable when you have a project that is $20 million already with committed bills and contracts and you only have $41 million,” he said.
He said Government has called quick elections so that the truth does not come out to the people. “They will be campaigning. It will be short and before you know it you will not know how many of their projects are either over, unaccounted for or how much money [has been spent], he said.
“They have closed down the House of Assembly without accounting for $100 of over-expenditure from 2012 to 2014. They have not accounted for it in the House of Assembly…the reason that they did not want to bring them to the table. You will be shocked to know what some of your money has gone towards,” he said.
Lavish ceremony
Hon Fahie criticised Government for the lavish ceremony held for the opening of the cruise pier last Wednesday April 29, 2015.
“I personally thought the celebrations were a little too lavish but because the House of Assembly has been shut down we have no way now of going and asking them under oath how much money was spent on the celebration. We are hearing figures from $50,000 to $75,000 and up. I don’t know. But I know that with that kind of lavish spending what they are trying to tell the people that you left them broke is a paradox,” he said.
Relax in the park with your Rep
Fahie also said there will be a new series of meetings in the First District called 'Relax in the Park with your Rep' and the next edition will be on Sunday May 17, 2015. “It is a little meeting for you in the District, Carrot Bay and the rest of the District to come out and listen and also hear some of what your representative is doing,” he said.
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29 Responses to “'Govt called early elections to escape HOA scrutiny' – Hon Fahie”
On entitlements, spending and payments, the Virgin Islands political elites—NDP, VIP et al.—is leading us to the brink of national bankruptcy. The ongoing political war for the upcoming political battle, the cronies bailouts, and the cruise pier, Sea Cows Bay project et al. are all consequences of an environment in which OUR leaders know they’ll never be held to account for the debts they incur in OUR names. This represents a very serious long-term threat to the Virgin Islands economic sustainability and stability.
When VIP called a SnapElection and without warning NDP was ready. It is called responsible behaviour_and leadership potential.
What we need to know is when /if you guys will be ready for what was predicted and expected for the last three years.
We should ask if we are still enslaved. Has the plantation system changed or is it still alive and well?
Shame on you NDP -AND, IF THE VIP WAS THE GOVERNMENT OF THE DAY AND DID THE SAME WE SHOULD SAY SHAME, SHAME! Beware, one day the bad things you do will bite you where the sun don’t shine! Stop treating your people like mindless children
Interesting that so many of us call ourselves Christians but fail to follow the principles Mind you, even if this TRICKOOGY help you to be back in office, there could be a hell of a lot of unanticipated consequences. Recall the line from the poem you learnt back in the good ole days when we were simple, humble folks, when we did not have much in the way of material things! YOU CAN FOOL SOME PEOPLE SOME OF THE TIME BUT YOU CAN'T FOOL THEM ALL THE TIME. Beware when the sleeper emerges from his deep sleep. Remember the history of the BVI. Even slaves exercised individual power. Our parents, the old folks used to say, DON't PLAY THE FOOL TILL THE FOOL PLAY YOU! So what all this have to do with that poem which some people either forgot, ignore or are overlooking? I tell you in the poem, KING JOHN AND THE ABBOT OF CANTERBERRY, there is a line which goes something like this EVEN A FOOL MAY LEARN A WISE MAN'S WITS, One of these fine days, when you are so comfortable and so pleased with what you have brought about, people, the ordinary man or woman is going to see through the BS and do exactly what should be done.
That the government is elected to serve the people, in this country, seems not to be a common idea.
And, shame on the elected who seem to profit from taking advantage of people some of who may be uninformed, naive, apathetic, or some who just don’t care so long as they feel they are benefiting from the gravy train.
While some of us might have reason to condemn the NDP and specific individuals, the problem, the real evil, is in the system allowing the government of the day to act in such a fashion. Is the government concerned with the residents of the Virgin Islands or with sneaking an upper-cut to the VIP? Remember that at the end of the day, it is the ordinary person, the duped one, who is going to be at the S...ty end of the stick you wield.
I don't know, but people should get up and protest against such a move. There is a lot of things people here in this place should protest against. For heaven’s sake are we still back in the early or mid-1800s. Is this why at the college which is supposed to be an institution of higher learning, not one course in political science is taught?