BVI needs to reset standard for political leaders — Skelton Cline
The BVI needs to lift its standards when considering persons for elected officials, political commentator Pastor Claude Skelton Cline has suggested.
Skelton Cline, who made those comments on his Honestly Speaking radio programme recently, further argued that this standard should be applied to leadership positions throughout the BVI.
“There should be a floor, there should be a standard, there should be a plumb line, there should be a measuring stick for how we elect leaders in this country,” he added.
Skelton Cline further argued that the BVI can no longer afford to ‘water down’ leadership in the territory.
According to the clergyman, the geopolitical, social, spiritual and economic challenges that the BVI faces and will continue to face calls for such a standard in elected leadership.
This is not pageantry
He argued that while in a democracy anybody should be allowed to seek elected office, there should be an unwritten rule embedded in the culture that says although anybody can run, not just anyone can be elected.
“We can no longer afford to elect persons purely based on popularity. This is not pageantry, this is politics,” the former government contractor posited.
“The people, the majority population of this country are going to discernibly, wisely, prudently, choose women and men that are able. You just can’t be willing, you gotta be able,” he argued.
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WE DON’T NEED YOU TO TELL US ANYTHING WE ALREADY KNOW / YOU NEED TO GET AQUAINTED WITH THE TRUTH
He need to put in jail he and his uncle
Why are you still talking? My God!
All media houses please ignore this blasphemous charlatan..
Any suggestion, your Highness!
Why are we still presenting this gentleman’s comments as something that merits airtime? The COI showed us that he is without morals. He took taxpayer dollars and delivered NOTHING!!!! I beg the media to stop promoting his ‘voice’
I agree with him we need people who care
Which means you wouldnt be qualified
You had a campaign of lies to remove productive leaders like Myron, Ronnie, Kedrick and others and replaced them with feather weight leaders and now you’re complaining. What do you want Claude Cline?
can’t anyone shut this guy up….? He taking up too much space with his obvious drivel….how does he get this website to publish this garbage?
Go sit you tail dong you know everything now you out looking in , move way
You have called names and only one should get back and that’s Ronnie. The others, no
The same guy who called a qualified woman an empty kerosene pan
@ the time he made that accusation, he could not have hold her purse then nor now. As it has turned out, he is the empty kerosene pan.
All should come back but if only one came I prefer Myron. He was the hardest working and most productive one to me.