Cabinet expected to fully cooperate with post-COI audits, probes
Cabinet is expected to ensure full cooperation with all audits, investigations and reviews stemming from the Commission of Inquiry (COI) report’s recommendations.
This is according to a proposal submitted by the government to UK Overseas Territories Minister Amanda Milling.
The proposal stated that Cabinet is also responsible for taking immediate appropriate action in response to any findings of wrongdoing or misgovernance which might emerge from those audits and investigations conducted as a result of the report’s recommendations.
Premier Dr Natalio Wheatley, who made the proposal to Minister Milling, said the Cabinet will also be responsible for agreeing and passing policies necessary to implement necessary reforms.
“The Cabinet recognises that implementation of the reforms will require prioritisation and allocation of resources, as well as legislative changes, and fully commits to using its powers to achieve this,” the proposal stated.
In addition to all of this, the proposal said Cabinet will ensure that tender waivers in future are only agreed in exceptional, unavoidable cases, and must be explained publicly.
Members of the Cabinet, the proposal noted, are also dissuaded from using ministerial discretion to override or circumvent agreed policies or laws.
They are also expected to ensure support for the broadest possible participation from across the BVI in the constitutional review process.
The proposal further noted that Cabinet members are expected to commit to using their full term of the current House of Assembly (HOA) to work on the implementation of the report’s recommendations without proposing early elections.
In the COI report, it was concluded that Cabinet has acted over the years with unfettered discretion to the detriment of residents of the territory.
“One of the root causes of the difficulties I have identified,” Sir Gary Hickinbottom said in the COI report, “is the fact that many government decisions are made not openly and transparently on the basis of objective criteria, but using an open-ended power involving unfettered and unmonitored discretion.“
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Ah bunch ah sell-outs if yo ask me
Basically they will do as they are told to keep the status.
These are a bunch of honest individuals and hardworking at it also..
Pure yes man….None to put up a fight
Its just not like them to put up a fight. The new Florida resident conditioned them to be Yes men. First thing he did was announced that he was going to be an “Unconditionaleader”. That by itself was a ery powerful statment; (suggesting that things will be done differently; his way not ooen to discussion ;no bitching or complaining) or be reassigned as Junior minister.In my years of paying attention to politics, I cannot recall so many “I second the motion” in the HOA.
Sheep to slaughter of the UK. No courage or understanding of the issues facing the country. They look happy to have a job and get their payout
.. no other word for it. Plain and simple.
So how it going with the rogue officer writing personally on her campaign to Free Fahie/ Best start there.
I think the UK did not want to embarrass the BVI more than it already is. I am not totally against this plan.
What I would like though is for our news papers to get more sophisticated and key in on the real changes that are being made and report them so that the people know.
I could care less about CSC and others…that is sensationalism. The people deserve to know how things will be better going forward.