Be careful! UK can still suspend our constitution
“We must not sit back and allow the United Kingdom to suspend our constitution! We must be careful!”
That’s the warning former Deputy Premier Dr Kedrick Pickering is sending to the BVI as he gears up to contest the next elections that are due in March 2023.
“There is a very real possibility that the United Kingdom might decide to take over this country! There is a very real possibility and I want to raise my voice so people can understand that. The Governor issued a warning the other day, telling our government what they can and can’t do. We must not take it lightly,” Dr Pickering said emphatically during an interview with 284 Media.
The former legislator said persons can show they are interested in governing their own affairs by getting involved in the democratic process and choosing leaders they believe can govern the territory.
“An election is due six to eight months from now and we must get involved — all of us and ensure that we go to the polls and elect persons who can run our country because we have the ability to run this country for other countries to see. We’ve made mistakes but this is the time to make things right,” Dr Pickering stated.
He also said he is concerned there hasn’t been more public debates and forums geared toward educating the electorate ahead of a possible election.
There is a general sentiment that local leaders lack transparency and need to be more responsible in governing the territory’s affairs. But there has been no official polls or data to suggest that residents would favour direct rule from the United Kingdom over local leaders.
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Hear this sell out. How can we put you in to battle for us when you done full of fear. All you would do is go down by the governor and wine and dine with him and go over oil nut bay for weekends. No Dr. Pickering. Not you.
Yet this is the funny man who bent over for all his white friends, locked off `Oil Nut Bay’ stopped fishermen from taking sharks which no one fished commercially, took shark off all the restaurant menus and tried to sign away 131 acres of Anegada to a white guy for a mere $1.5million.
Who cause this mess? We have been used over & over.Only the rich get richer! I really don’t care who take over.All Y’all will answer to God for the wicked games on us the people.
England cannot take over this country, it does not exist.
We are a territory, a part of England, and most of us recognize that we made our own mess and now need help cleaning it up!
Gaslighting by those who know better is just sad..
Sooner the better.
“All of us must get involved”, or should that have read the 5,000 people who are actually eligible to vote?
All have failed us. So I’m up to giving Britain a chance. I’m not about to condemn them before we try them.
The UK can’t do shyte if we don’t allow it DR Does Nutin
Like the words of a deceased young man from Virgin Gorda, who often advised us to “Keep a cool head”, he hi is also remembered for his one-liner, “Sense”
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UK would like to get rid of BVI.