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BVI needs to reset standard for political leaders — Skelton Cline

Claude 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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  1. BACK AGAIN says:

    WE DON’T NEED YOU TO TELL US ANYTHING WE ALREADY KNOW / YOU NEED TO GET AQUAINTED WITH THE TRUTH

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  2. V says:

    He need to put in jail he and his uncle

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  3. Salty Fish says:

    Why are you still talking? My God!

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  4. Sit down and shut up says:

    All media houses please ignore this blasphemous charlatan..

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  5. BVI Future says:

    Any suggestion, your Highness!

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  6. Please STOP says:

    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’

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  7. Only the truth says:

    I agree with him we need people who care

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  8. simple says:

    Which means you wouldnt be qualified

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  9. Land Shark says:

    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?

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  10. the watcher says:

    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?

  11. Go long says:

    Go sit you tail dong you know everything now you out looking in , move way

  12. Ok says:

    You have called names and only one should get back and that’s Ronnie. The others, no

  13. strupes says:

    The same guy who called a qualified woman an empty kerosene pan

  14. The nerve says:

    @ 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.

  15. Yea says:

    All should come back but if only one came I prefer Myron. He was the hardest working and most productive one to me.

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