Fraser mum on ‘unimportant’ special committee for Willock
The senior legislator in the House of Assembly (HOA) Julian Fraser remains mum about the special committee set up to examine the payment of legal fees accrued by Willock in the High Court.
Fraser, who is a part of the three-member special committee along with Minister of Natural Resources Vincent Wheatley and Fourth District Representative Mark Vanterpool, refused to answer any questions surrounding the meeting of the committee.
“This country will be better off if we concentrate more on matters that are important to people like the incinerator not working, the people not getting water,” Fraser said in addressing the question.
“These issues where the government goes out to get persons to fill a position that can easily be filled here. We are here to look out for people and those are the kinds of questions and issues I am prepared to address from here on in. The mundane, they’ll take care of themselves,” the veteran legislator continued.
Fraser said there is a process that HOA committees must follow and the decisions made by the committee must be reported to the House.
“[Decisions] are not made public by committee or committee members. You’ll know what happens when the House meets, and they divulge that information to the public. You just have to wait,” Fraser said.
Last week, Premier Andrew Fahie denied any knowledge of a likely reporting date for a decision made by the special committee. The Premier had pushed for the committee to be established three months ago. And at the time, he said the committee had two months to meet and decide if Willock acted in the interest of the House when he filed a costly court injunction against three attorneys attached to the Commission of Inquiry.
It was Premier Fahie, who told reporters when questioned on the same issue in early December, “the committee should start to get running very soon, it is already in place.”
At the time, the Premier disclosed that no work had been done by the committee so far.
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Advantage Willock. Disadvantage us tax payers. The power brokers and those who control it never looses.
It is always the working and the poor class that do. What a shame…
And look what BVI has evolved into… Money and power are the two most evil forces on earth today….
This is the true cost of and side effects of economic development…
Dodging the question! We knew this was going to happen. Time for the High Court to serve a prison term for non payment.
The taxpayers will foot every penny of that bill. The special committee is just a sham. They will vote 2-1 (Frazer and Wheatley-for and Vanterpool-against). The ‘esteemed one’ has nothing to fear. The premier has taken care of it.
So wasting tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars is mundane? WOW. SMDH.
Mice minding cheese.
And it will continue
Fraser think he smart. That topic is equally important to us. All of them is a bunch of jokers.
Quite important to watching voters – to see any one of you has any integrity left.
Not important???
The incinerator and water issues are donkey years ongoing. Fraser suddenly interested in thos3 issues and the people’s concerns?? LMAO. They going to make taxpayers foot the bill as they have no cojones.
WHO HAS A BETTER HACE A MOUSE THIS PERSON WHO LONG AGO LOST RESPECT
Like ayo cant wait?
I hope that the voters of District 3 Seacows Bay and and 9 Virgin Gorda are paying attention to this. District 4 has already made his position clear that the speaker needs to pay his own bill. I also disagree with Fraser saying this not not important. This is a Very important matter because it is another example of how our country’s resources are being constantly wasted by these politicians and their friends. They constantly put their families and cronies above the well being of the country. District 3 and 9 wasting time trying to play smart and hoping that people will forget but let them pay the bill and voters you have your answers. A YES vote by any of them on this should be a NO for them next election. It is time to move on and hopefully find some honest representatives.
Vip and Andrew just need to pay the d**m bill willock was fighting for we the people
How he going tell us that its not important when that’s what the ppl are crying for. That’s to show you they don’t care about what the ppl say. How can we go independent with these leaders who don’t listen to the ppl and do what they want. They don’t care about our cries unless the solution can help their pockets get fat at the same time. How does a someone like Fraser and Fahie who been in the game so long feels when he looks at the BVI infrastructure and see it’s still just as bad as a 3rd world country after all these years of being a politician, a leader of this territory. It must be shameful but they don’t care as long as they’re getting a big salary.
Meanwhile the unpaid legal bills are accruing late fees and interest like any legitimate unpaid debt will do….
Why the fuss just pay the bill he is the speaker not some joe blow