War in HOA – Fahie tells Premier to Bell that Cat!
During “Any Other Business” of the July 26, 2012 closing of the HOA sitting which had commenced on July 24, but break for a day, Hon. Fahie started out his statement by establishing the need for respect by all and continuously referred to the legacy of the forefathers of the Territory and the foundation of respect that they had set.
According to Fahie, who spoke of several cases of disrespect for traditions by the particular Government Minister, did not call name but based on the context of the issues, it pointed to Minister for Education and Culture Hon. Myron V. Walwyn.
Fahie started out by pointing to the removal of the school sign at the Althea Scatliffe Primary with the words “Mighty Mighty Scatlife” which the Minister had the authority to do but cited that he wiped out tradition in the process. He then turned to the removal of Bevis Sylvester as the keynote Speaker of the Elmore Stoutt High School graduation for 2012, though it was traditional for the selection of the speaker to be by the 20-year class which was done and refused.
The recent statement made by Walwyn in the House about the media was another contention for Fahie who said all of that was not bad enough until the disrespect reached him.
According to Fahie, in his district, he was given the “right away” by Premier Hon. Dr. D. Orlando Smith, to go with the Minister of Communications and Works to get some things done for his constituency but he said “the individual wants to force the Premier”.
“And I am waiting on the Minister to bring the documents for me to go through them and make contact with me, and when I look low and behold I see a herd of people in my constituency, and I am glad for them, glad they are getting work … Finance hire a consultant for the first district to give out work leaving out the representative,” Fahie told the HOA.
The district representative said he knows it was not the Premier's doing. “He always gives respect, I know is not him, I know he is being forced. He will defend his man because he has to.”
However, Fahie said, “ I have to defend my wicket because the elephant get on my foot and I waited too long to call out ouch, somebody has to bell this cat, but I will remain respectful even to him”, but he will not let anybody to disrespect the people the first district.
“I can understand with the Airport need a consultant, but consultant for the 1st District, man I big enough to represent the whole thing,” Fahie charged.
“Any project in the district needs to realise with the district representative. We cannot have somebody who is not elected, being there at the Ministry of Finance, organising projects and other things for my district and the district representative is there with his papers giving out waiting for the Minister to hear back, because working with the correct channel, I wouldn’t even have think about going finance,” he said.
Fahie said he brought the issue of disrespect to the House because he understands what happened at the November 7, 2011 elections but the elections did not give anyone who earned the votes and serving as Minister the right to cultivate a culture of disrespect for elected officials.
“Premier bell that cat, the people of the first district sent me … I have been watching a culture of disrespect developing and it look like either we afraid to tackle it or we decide well alright let’s leave it to see if it get better. It is not getting better. It happen round the territory with all kind of thing and everybody saying leave it leave it, but now the birdie reach down by my district here,” Fahie boldly charged in the HOA.
Fahie further charged that he is not afraid and will not sit down and get disrespected.
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