Burden I carry for BVI has cost me tremendously — Skelton Cline
Political commentator and clergyman Claude Skelton Cline said the burden he has carried for the territory has cost him dearly.
The Honestly Speaking radio show host was at the time commenting on the failures of the party system in the BVI and said he felt at times that he would have been better off ‘just being an independent’ and not having any party affiliation.
Over the years, Skelton Cline has flip-flopped between being a staunch supporter of the National Democratic Party (NDP) and the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) — both of which have awarded him with cushy government posts and/or contracts.
“I would probably be a better independent, you know? My thought processes function as such where I carry a burden and sometimes I wish I really didn’t. I carry a burden for the advancement of the land of my birth, and it has cost, it has cost. It has cost tremendously,” Skelton Cline said.
The controversial former government contractor did not offer any details of how his particular burden may have cost him, but his contracts with the government have been the subject of several audit investigations and he also appeared before the Commission of Inquiry (COI) last year to offer testimony in relation to these contracts.
Making a biblical reference to Ezekiel and a fire that Ezekiel ‘shut up in his bones’, the clergyman said sometimes he too wishes he would shut up. But he said he can’t since he carries such a proverbial weight.
“I have to believe that it’s God-ordained, but there’s a cost – but nonetheless, I carry on,“ Skelton Cline said.
The politically outspoken clergyman has been decrying party politics for months, claiming it has failed the territory and suggesting that voters will now choose candidates at the ballot box on the basis of their own individual merits instead of voting for parties as a whole.
He has also been advocating heavily for female leaders to take up the proverbial mantle in politics and assume a greater leadership role.
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When will you all stop quoting this man? When they lock him up? He has cost the BVI tremendously!
Nothing like the burden he is on the BVI and its taxpayers.
Sweet baby Jesus. When will this stop?!?!?
the burden is coming, he will be the next arrested….
Well, he could always try opening up a hot air balloon business with all the hot air he emis
beware the false prophets in our midst
As I got my belly full of him speaking in tongues..
Put back our unjustified money in the treasury so we can move forward!
Clearly this chap
does not have to pay to have his photo in the papers. Neither does he have anything constructive to do. That leaves the question why are the papers wasting space with him and his repeatative words when there is info more meaningful for the general population?
TALKING LOUD AND SAYING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
I sooo wish someone would put this charlatan out of his misery.
Mr. Skelton CLine TBH as a man of God you need to focus on you and your church. Leave the government and them news behind. If it’s the money you’re after….Lost all respect for you.
@Lb When you guys stop commenting on it.
Claude honestly speaking, do you file a US Federal Income Tax return for all your business interests in the BVI as required by US law? Have you paid taxes to the US on all the money you received from government contracts. One day when you are released from prison in the BVI, you will be taken into custody upon entering the US. Perhaps you and the Head Coach will be able to share a cell in a US prison. This my dear fake clergyman should be the burden you carry into old age!!
BVI version of Kanye.
this guy is so funny, so full of poop
Where is the money that was given to u can run but you cant hide money has no friend the coi did a good job by biging the crooks to justic the former leader didnt do any crime here i want to.hear his faith if he is found guilty he leaves a stian on us down here and the uk will be watching us like a hawk
Unload some of that burden back into the Treasury please
You were more than well paid, so all that money you made were too heavy for you to carry? Come on stop the bs.
I wonder if his dentist ever mention those hemorrhoids
Does anybody listen to this man except the media and whoever is paying him to keep secrets?
next tuesday CSC