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‘Personal attacks on me & family uncalled for' – Rosemary R. Rosan-Jones
Stop the Attacks - Rosan-Jones
Noting that the alleged attacks are uncalled for, Rosan-Jones singled out the readers of Virgin Islands News Online (VINO), urging bloggers that she can and will find their identities and will take action if attacks continue.
Without providing examples of the alleged attacks, Rosan-Jones said, “I’m not really here to create trouble for people, I just want to talk about the issues. The personal attacks on me, on my family, I think it’s uncalled for… I can safely say that… if I wanted to, I could find out who every blogger is blogging on VINO, but that’s not what I’m here for,” she told host Julio S. Henry on the Thursday, June 13, 2019, edition of 'Hard Talk' on Tola Radio VI.
“So what I want to say to people is that you really can’t hide behind blogs. If the person you are attacking wants to take it further, you can’t really hide behind blogs and you’d be held accountable," she said.
“If you are offended by what I say, then go look for some facts or bring something on the issue to talk about, you don’t have to talk about me personally," she further implored.
'I don't read the blogs' - Henry
Host Mr Henry noted that while he does not read the local blogs, he believes the authorities should mandate the identities of bloggers in the territory similar to how popular social media websites operate.
“You can’t post anything on Facebook without your identity being known. Maybe we can recommend to the government, we can advocate for this that going forward when they pass new cyber security laws, new journalist ethics laws or whatever, that every news website that allows blogging that there must be a name, a real name or their IP address,” he said.
Henry implored, “The people who blog with fake names are cowards, they lack substance… who are afraid to expose themselves. If you have something meaningful, something of real value to discuss… and you have a problem with what we say, instead of just engaging in a meaningful discussion, it goes on [to] a personal attack."
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Made...13th June,2007
Laid before parliament...14th June,2007
Came into force...15th June,2007..
Protection of freedom of expression # 23 (1) of the V.I Constitution..
[" No person shall be hindered in the enjoyment of his/her freedom of expression
(2) A person's freedom of expression includes freedom to hold opinions without interference,freedom to receive information and ideas without interference,freedom to disseminate information and ideas without interference(whether to the public generally or to any person or class of persons) and freedom from interference with his or her correspondence or other means of communication"]
That is what legal team read in the V.I Constitution.
Now, a few weeks ago, Cindy exercised her fundamental human rights and freedoms, and accordingly, she was protected under section 23 of the Constitution, when she challenged the Premier,and used explicits at a meeting and gave her views on Immigration matters.
So Vino, rightfully published cindy's statements, giving her an opportunity to be heard and VINO allowed the citizens and others to exercise their freedoms of expression to 'BLOG' and VINO would always delete and not publish statements that are injurious to Cindy and to protect her from slanderous statements of "BLOGS'.
The power of expats in the BVI.
Cindy, during the time when she exercised her rights to talk on the immigration matter on expats residing in the BVI, she did not inform the nation that her father [ROSA] is an expat from Guadeloupe and in nationality under french Constitution, Cindy is a French woman, who can carry a French passport.
Additionally,Cindy is married to an expat,and by virtue of that marriage,Cindy can become a citizen of the country where her expat husband is a citizen.I say that to say."cindy did not address the immigration matter with fairness to expats.Expats in the BVI have fundamental human rights too,and cindy did not recognized that right.
I will defend VINO.
Generally,I don't defend people,I don't defend organizations and I don't support people or institutions.
I support the LAW and I defend the Constitution and the rights of the citizens and residence.
But for the first time, I will say, that I support VINO because vino did not publish blogs that were slanderous, insulting or injurious to cindy, on the cindy topics that cindy published to the media.
Cindy wanted to be in the spotlight,so let us all welcome cindy into the spotlight.
When we the citizens go to vote at general elections, we vote privately. Let the bloggers blog privately and peacefully,because it is our fundamental human rights to blog on social issues.
Hon.Andrew Fahie read the blogs on the immigration matters and he flex a little to the comments.
Enjoy your freedoms....One love BVI..
Some people are so bitter it looks like it runs in their family always bitter like them squeeze lime on them