'Only after CoI has been completed the police have corruption?' Hon Walwyn
In a scathing takedown of the newly tabled Review of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Bodies in the British Virgin Islands Volume 2: A Roadmap for 2025 to 2035, done by His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and Rescue Services (HMICFRS), Hon Walwyn used the opportunity to point out that the United Kingdom (UK) does not truly care about the Virgin Islands and preserving its institutions under local government.
Speaking in the House of Assembly (HoA) on April 8, 2025, during the Continuation of the Third Sitting of the Second Session of the Fifth HoA, Hon Walwyn asked the question that was asked by many in the Virgin Islands- Why wasn’t there a CoI on the agencies under the governor, including the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force?
'You see the biasness from the onset'
In the Terms of Reference in the CoI, Sir Gary R. Hickinbottom said he was asked by the governor to enquire into whether there was information that serious dishonesty in relation to public officials may have taken place in the VI in recent years.
“And clearly you see the biasness from the onset, because if you looking for corruption and you really want to help, if it’s corruption you look for, then you should look at corruption throughout the entire sphere of governance.
“If you are doing a review, you should do a review throughout the entire sphere. You can’t have that double standard, Madam Speaker, existing. And that is a problem for me and has been a problem for me.”
The Opposition Leader said page 245 of the report shows “the unfairness coming forward”, adding that one cannot get things done right when they are doing things the wrong way.
Hon Walwyn atook issue with the second paragraph on page 245 of the Law Enforcement Review Report, which stated that the VI is a small jurisdiction but due to a variety of factors, including geographical, “it has a history of more than its share of crime including organised crime with which its law enforcement and justice systems were and are not designed to cope.”
The Report also stated that the VI does not have the capacity to deter, investigate and prosecute offenses “as they showed significant parts of the system, notably the front line, lack good standards of governance, which has itself resulted in corruption permeating the public such as police officers involved.”
Hon Walwyn wanted to know why only now, after the CoI has been completed, that the police has corruption.
“You see the point I’m making? The CoI has been completed, the corruption was only to look at public officials, i.e. ministers of government. You created a different dichotomy to review law enforcement matters that are under the governor and now that you have done your damage, the same police that is on the governor’s remit you are now in a subsequent report saying that they had corruption. So why didn’t you carry out a review of corruption entirely across the board if in fact your intentions were to help?”
Exercise in Futility
Hon Walwyn expressed that he was always against the Virgin Islands accepting the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) Report without first consulting the people, and he has a similar sentiment towards the Law Enforcement Review Report.
He said even this latest document— some 280-plus pages long—was delivered with barely any time to read, much less digest.
“For a document as important as this, sufficient time should have been given for Members of the House to read it; It was under embargo, you could not even have a discussion with your constituents.”
To this end, he reiterated that the report’s 10-year roadmap was not only unrealistic but also financially untenable since the territory’s projected revenue for 2025 was $410 million and expenditures were $411 million.
Having lambasted the report in its present form, Hon Walwyn pointed to the futility of the debate itself, telling members, “...our utterances would make absolutely no difference, because the report is done pursuant to recommendations that we have already accepted; What we are doing here today is an exercise in futility as far as I am concerned.”
As such, he openly questioned, “Who are we representing here, the UK or the people of the BVI?”
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15 Responses to “'Only after CoI has been completed the police have corruption?' Hon Walwyn”
Now this is the Myron we like not going after our indigenous premier but calling out the w**** devil
The following is very sure that if a soft mixture, that will become hardened, was poured into a crooked mold, the hard result will maintained the same shape as before.
Democracy been, and continuing being practice is likened to a crooked mold. How then can a mixture (local B.V.I political leaders) be poured into a crooked mold,(the UK'S Colonial mindset) and not have the same corruption behaviors? The UK'S government wants us to believe that is possible. No. No. No, six (6) of twelve (12) equals six (6), half of twelve (12) is si×(6).
The B.V.I political system is sick (unhealthy), and its condition is critical, factually proven.
The sun rises daily, so to speak, ever twenty-four hours in the east. If fir any reason in yours or my mind, it will rise from the west, beginning tomorrow morning, the problem is not the sun, but rather in the mind of the thinker or thinkers
.all humans were born corrupted in their mind, but we were given the right of choice, whether to choose good or evil.
In other words, choose good, rather than evil.
A bomb not only has the explosive energy of destroying lives but it too will be destroyed, if exployed Corruption practices are no different.
It is a report. The report made findings. They consulted people in open meetings that are available on Your Tube. VI people and Ministers largely did not look good but they were involved and consulted by the Commission of Inquiry.
Walwyn, you are supposed to be a clever lawyer. The report is done. It was thorough and done with people (OK White people mostly but some brown) and was clear, transparent and had the people of the VI at heart.
You need to open up, read the report, watch the consulted people of the VI in action and try and feel proud (that will be hard from what I saw), but most of all see the report as an opportunity to look at yourself and the VI and use it to put us on a better path.
Just condemning the report because brown and white people, (that have the right as representatives of the country that controls this territory), with the legal right as members of an appointed COI say things you don't want to hear and feed into your "anticolonial leaves us to be corrupt because that is how I will get rich mentality" is a diservice to yourself and makes us all wonder how you ever became a lawyer. And clearly are incapable of being an even handed, throrough, thoughtful one that should represent us. Vi need to open up and actually take on and deal with the issues identified by the COi, as they are real, and stop trying to avoid the reality of a report, well done, thankfully requested and resulted in further reports such as this one you also now seek to undermine rather than learn from.
Piracy Pillage and Plunder genocide the indigenous population like what they doing in Palestine. Who gave you the legal right to control this country. Your power and authority was obtained by the barrel of a gun...graduated thieves and murderers. All of you on here talking like you are so &^%$£ intelligent take us for fools because we have bought into your bulls*** narrative. Your Demiurge controlled material creation has brainwashed these so called intelligent people into doing and saying bulls*** that is evil to the core. The Virgin Islands have problems many of which are rooted in the actions of colonizers and slavers now they want to pretend to be the Holy Grail and keepers of the light using House Negroes Civil Servants and Politicians making life more unbearable. Truth be told there is no way that your Capitalist System can survive so all the bulls**** that you try to enforce is just futile. Your days are done.
Stop moaning about the COI. You boys got caught. Own up to it like a man and fix the busted way we govern.
“You see the point I’m making? The CoI has been completed, the corruption was only to look at public officials, i.e. ministers of government. You created a different dichotomy to review law enforcement matters that are under the governor and now that you have done your damage, the same police that is on the governor’s remit you are now in a subsequent report saying that they had corruption. So why didn’t you carry out a review of corruption entirely across the board if in fact your intentions were to help?”
“For a document as important as this, sufficient time should have been given for Members of the House to read it; It was under embargo, you could not even have a discussion with your constituents.”