BVI doesn’t need ‘big stick’ for reforms – Premier
The BVI does not need a proverbial big-stick approach to governance from the United Kingdom (UK) to ensure the completion of governance reforms as recommended by the Commission of Inquiry (COI) report.
Premier Dr Natalio Wheatley argued that point following a question at a press conference about his government’s more candid approach to ongoing reforms.
Former Governor John Rankin threatened to seek more power from the UK to ensure governance reforms are met by the May deadline, but there has been no word on whether his request was approved.
Meanwhile, the government has increased its efforts in the past few months to make sure that the anticipated reforms are finished on time. The government announced an action plan for enacting reforms and has assigned a governance reform delivery manager to ensure the deadline is achieved.
However, Premier Wheatley dismissed the idea that the UK needed to use threats or coercion, stating that he was impressed by the accomplishments made so far.
“To your (reporter’s) point about we wouldn’t do this unless we had a big stick over our heads. I would say as a people we have to move past that point, and this speaks to how we as a people deal with governance reforms,” the Premier said.
He continued: “Other countries don’t need someone who’s colonising them to be able to make them do what they need to do. We have to evolve to the point where the ones who hold us accountable are the electorate, the people of the Virgin Islands.”
Premier Wheatley said his government was putting all the necessary resources into meeting the agreed deadline and expressed optimism about hitting targets set in the government’s action plan.
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This would be hilarious if the truth was not so disappointingly pathetic.
A brief reminder why you need a stick:
– your former premier and party member is convicted for being a Narco Boss
– your former head of ports has been convicted for facilitating drug trafficking
– several other government persons have been indicated or indicted for fraud
– you have a number of drug lords shooting up the bvi on a regular basis
– a bvi lawyer was shot it the head execution style last week
– you have not had audited accounts for 9 years
– the roads are shit
– the schools are shit
– the water & power supply are shit
– the government services are shit
Are you living on another planet?!
IF THE WASN’T ANY FORM
OF CORRUPTION , WOULD THERE BE ANY NEED FOR THE ( COI ) ? AND IF WE WERE INDEPENDANT WOULDN’T IT BE BUSINESS AS USUAL ? WE KNOW HE LOVED TO GO DOWN ON BENG KNEES WITH HANDS HELD HIGH LIKE HE WAS HOLY / WE KNOW OTHERWISE NOW ~ WE UNDERSTAND WHO BEGGED FOR IT , BUT JASPERT DIDN’T SAY IF HE SAID A PRAYER BEFORE OR WHILE HE WAS SNITCHING
Boy you need a damn big stick across your damn back for talking s**t. The place is going under, let us hear some economic plans and realistic solutions instead of tit for tat bulls**t. We know you do not care because you do not own anything so therefore nothing to lose. Furthermore with the greedy bill your bread already buttered on both sides with honey around the edges. Let us get serious and LEAD instead of all this childish BS!
He is right. It does not need a stick – it needs power to be taken away for a while, the country put on a better path and to stop all the crony and family favourite corruption from coming back and to end the contining support for the criminal Andrew Fahie.
Bringing in the UN is probably a mistake. The UK is apart of the UN so is USA. Any information from the USA will probably easily be transferred to the UK and the UN will see how poor the government is being run. GL BVI.
If you don’t need a stick, how come virtually none of the COI reforms have been implemented after so many years (and one subsequent general election). But you did manage to keep the ‘Greedy Bill’ in place.
Why is it taking so long? Consider yourself lucky that Britain giving you all this much Rope, you have gotten much longer rope than Turks and Caymans. Count your blessing, be thankful and humble, stop talking and focus on working.
Our problem is we expect the same people who got things how they want it to do something about it.
We are the votes, but does anyone of the politicians listen i say not. When the uk get involved this is when all governments past and present does see the need for its people. I say we rise up against you the government.
Just get the dam thing done and shut the he** up.
the boy is a doctory mo…. the bvi ship is fast sinkin under he as captin.