‘I never approved any $1m fence for ESHS!’ – Hon Andrew A. Fahie
A text message came in during the Virgin Islands Party’s (VIP) radio show ‘Let’s Talk’ on ZBVI 780 AM on Wednesday November 26, 2014 which said that the Minister for Education and Culture at the time Hon Fahie had given out “some fence for $1 million to go around the perimeter of the Elmore Stoutt High School. Can you confirm this?”
In response to the text message, Hon Fahie said, “We heard that during the campaign and that is totally false.”
“One of the things we were doing when I was Minister for Education is making sure that we improve the entire school compounds because we were working on accreditation and one proposal that came to the Ministry one day in a meeting was a design to do a fence around the school,” he said.
“And when we asked in the meeting the cost it was $1 million. That died an instant death. It never left the office. But somehow it left and hit the campaign trail,” he said.
“It was not something that was approved. It was not something that was accepted. It never went any further than after it came out of the person’s mouth and we left it there so we would have had to get the other design. So that was never something approved by the Ministry nor the Minister nor the Government at the time,” said Hon Fahie.
“That was just political chatter,” he said.
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16 Responses to “‘I never approved any $1m fence for ESHS!’ – Hon Andrew A. Fahie”
M..on started that lie on the Bronx bummer
SMH
People would far trust someone who took responsibility and was transparent than feeding the rumor mill. This whole pre-election is disgusting. No one wants to hear it. Just maturely state what each party will do to move forward. I would rather have a list of bullet points to see the bigger picture than get sucked into gossip and garbage.
Did the VIP have money to pay their bill while they were in power?
Could they secure loans?