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Law firm shuns Hugh E. Darley for fear of Gov't victimisation
As a result, Darley said his company has retained the services of another Virgin Islands based law firm to represent its interest as it seeks to recoup monies allegedly owed for designs and drawings used in the construction of the pier project.
However, as final negotiations take place between IDEA Inc. and this newly hired law firm, Darley said he would be revealing the name of the firm when it is safe to do so.
“We had to change firms because one firm felt like the matter was too toxic and they did not want to have a conflict in the future as they had business with the Government,” Mr Darley told Virgin Islands News Online in an exclusive interview on February 3, 2016.
Darley seeks amicable resolution
Darley said he never intended to have a battle with the Government of the Virgin Islands in the media and hopes the matter is resolved amicably. “We would like to reach a resolution that is good for both parties and we will try to meet with the Premier and see if we would resolve this amicably between the two parties.”
Following the further revelations about the cost projections and standard of work done on the project, this news site again asked Darley whether he had documentation to counterbalance what Minister Vanterpool was saying.
“I do have a lot more documentation. I have probably about 2,000 pages regarding estimates and costs. I don’t want to go that far and go through all of that but we have estimates down to every square foot. Someone unfortunately is just giving the Minister some bad information, speaking about cost per square foot and us building some buildings on the sand. Well that was never the case,” he said.
BVI Ports Authority lacks expertise
According to Darley, if the BVI Ports Authority had built tens of millions of projects in the past then maybe they would have had the expertise needed to build the cruise pier development project. “They didn’t [have that expertise] and the contractors are like sharks as they can smell blood in the water.”
Darley pointed out that unlike what the Minister said about the buildings needing to be strong to withstand hurricanes; one-storey buildings do not need to be built with piles. “You have more money in the piles than you do in the buildings. When you spend more money on the piles than on the building cost you know that is not a very good decision,” he said.
Darley noted too that there are buildings on Tortola that are 300 years old built only on stone foundations and have survived hundreds of hurricanes.
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43 Responses to “Law firm shuns Hugh E. Darley for fear of Gov't victimisation”
In regards to designing buildings to withstand hurricane force winds , this is a government decision. It depends on how much risk government wants to take. There are five categories of hurricanes: Cat 1 -74-95, Cat 2- 96-130, Cat 3-111-130, Cat 4-131-155 and Cat 5-156 or greater. The Vi lies along hurricane alley and should construct buildings should have minimum wind load standards. Storms at Cat 1-3 occur more frequently so minimum standards should be set to minimize the risks. Cat 4 and 5 occur leas frequently so greater risks may be assimed. Construction for these wind load can be optional.
You don't work for them yet you make such a statement. Your apparently enslaved mind gives a foreigner the benefit of the doubt, and not the local government. WHY?
If you just stop and think about the whole thing, you can't you see that this guy is fraud? 2000 pages of estimates down to the foot? Really? And yet the project is double his "estimates"? It seems he is the one that needs to be sued - for incompetence.
peer pressure and retaliation. If people were allowed to do what they were supposed to do we would have a more open society.
Willing to bet that no law firm has
or will take this case be it locally or otherwise. App arently he needs work because he is idle and wants to be revelant.