Mather blasts Skelton Cline over failed projects
Opposition Member Stacy ‘Buddha’ Mather reminded lawmakers about failed projects linked to Claude Skelton Cline that were exposed during the Commission of Inquiry (COI), stressing the importance of accountability in government spending.
“Let’s go there,” Mather said as he turned his attention to the projects tied to Skelton Cline during yesterday’s House of Assembly debate.
“When a personality on the radio gets up and says that as a Belonger I shouldn’t have the right to vote in a referendum, when you lived in Detroit, what were you doing?”
Mather highlighted the Virgin Islands Neighbourhood Partnership Project, arguing that he would have ensured that residents benefited from the project.
“I built mine in this country, working with young people. Had I gotten that money for that Neighbourhood Partnership Project, my people would have gotten what they needed,” he told lawmakers.
The COI report, released in April 2022, set out a series of projects involving Skelton Cline that collapsed despite substantial sums being spent. These included the Virgin Islands Neighbourhood Partnership Project, launched in 2008 to assist at-risk youth, which was aborted in 2010 after almost $690,000 was spent. The Auditor General found serious governance failings in the initiative.
Between 2019 and 2021, Skelton Cline also held consultancy contracts that covered the renewable energy programme (Power52 solar project), a proposed medical marijuana industry, a fintech symposium, and the Shores Development at Brandywine Bay. The COI concluded that these projects showed little or no progress, and that Skelton Cline did not perform the contracts or provide value in line with their terms.
The inquiry further found that his role appeared to be more like that of a political adviser to the Premier, but without oversight or measurable deliverables. “Mr Skelton Cline did not perform the contract, nor did he seek to do so. He gave no (or no adequate) value in those terms,” the report stated.
Mather said such cases underscored the need for transparency. He argued that the people of the Virgin Islands must have confidence that public money is spent responsibly and with clear results.
“Our people asking us, why the roads like that? Why the healthcare like that? Why education like that? Why is it that pensions are the way they are? Why water like that? Why, why, why?,” Mather said.
“You know what we’re throwing back at them? Who, when, what? And then we say, come follow us on a road to self-determination. Let that road to self-determination begin with education. Let it begin with a road that is paved.”
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CSC another one robbing us all of millions.
People does have short memories.
Sadly just more words.
Thank you Mather, he have energy to open his mouth and spew controversy and discord all day everyday but cant answer to the ppl where it matters most! LETS GO THERE!!!!!
Why is CSC good for? Just yaking his mouth with the YENG YENG and fleecing.
CSC NEEDS TO PUT A MINI PADLOCK ON HIS MOUTH AND KEEP IT LOCKED AT ALL TIMES. SPEAK WHEN SPOKEN TO, ANSWER WHEN CALLED. RELIGION AND POLITICS IS A BIG NO NO NO.
Call him the YENG YENG man. LOL. He is always up in things spackling his mouth. Damn GRIFTER are us.
Its about time one of you took him on.
The one-termer is trying to sound like his dear leader Myron, poor thing does not get it.
That is your opinion and I respect that however, MATHER, TURNBULL AND RHYMER IS GOING TO WIN BACK THEIR SEATS. WALWYN IS GOING TO BE THE NEXT PREMIER AS WELL. I ENDORSED/APPROVED ALL 4.
Deflecting from the fact that he took secret incersse after the greedy bill
Was Mather’s salary doubled? Did he accept it? Did he mention it to the people?
The thing is we didnt vote for Claude. We voted for you and in less than one term you done shown that you have no loyalty or principles. Just wishy washy. So yeah Claude needs blows but tell Mather to go siddung! Claude from here and could have been Detroit for 3 decades and he still have more rights than Mather. Mather is a huge disappointment.
You summed it all up in one post. Go pat yourself on your back now.
Hes…..I told you all hes fake.
csc ran home to escape consequences from his boss kilpatrick getting arrested
Stop taking on CSC and focus on the development of the Territory. No matter what you’ll thrashing about, you’ll still fn greedy and are not trustworthy.
Thus Cline individual is not a BVIslander . But he us according to some, a wanted and suspected2 man in the USA. This is according to repeated decades of related info via media.
And, it should be noted…he has never denied the accusation and inferences. One would think that efforts would have long ago been taken to address this those and
these public inferenceslong agi,as it has left dark shadows on our Governments. Who owes him a debt and so on and so on such as his ability to fleece and floss taxpayers moneys with the shut eyes of local elected Governments.
Basically, what we’re seeing is that the taxpayers paid for Skelton Cline’s posh home in Ballast Bay.
His home is paid off the tax payers backs. So in other words the house belongs to the taxpayers.
When I see CSC anywhere around town I will give a little chuckle and mumble under my breath there goes the YENG YENG MAN.
BOI , IF YOU DON’T THROW IN SONE OF YOUR RACIST SH*T YOU WOULD NOT FEEL GOOD / CAN’T YOU KEEP TMYOUR DIRTY MINDED THOUGHTS ON YOUR YELLO SITE OR TO YOURSELF , Y ARE LIKE TRUMP .ON YOUR YELLO SITE , AND YOU STILL WANT TO DO THE SAME ON THIS SITE THAT YOU HAVE BEEN CRITICIZING BUT WON’T KEEP OFF OF IT ( IS IT ENVY – HYPOCRISY OR BOTH ? EH WIGGIE ? •¿•
Somebody had to challenge him especially the garbage coming from his mouth lately..Big up Thater. U R more real than them.
Ayo could talk all day long but CSC is from here Mather only born here. There is a difference! it got a set of us who didnt born here but still more from here than Mather. Our roots long, some of them born here roots tain hold yet like Mather and Myron. Learn the difference.
An individual is either a BVISLANDER or OTHER.
Nuttintall go so bout mo from here than another, Stop dreamin and over classifying trying to feel good.A grown elderly man with a hyphenated surname ,unable to claim and be recognized as a BVIslander or any other Island nationality is a categorized OTHER..Capiche!
Fraud Skelton Crime will have his day in court.
There are many skeletons in his closet.
Mather for premier
As a local if you are born and grow up here. you are from here.
It seems as if though you guys failed, don’t understand or want to understand that the Premier is an American. He can pick up and live anywhere in America be it the East Coast, the West Coast, up North, down South or even Alaska or Hawaii. He is doing what ever the hell he likes and when everything hit the fan he can flee to America and America will protect him because he was born on American soil.
Like the same way others can claim parentage rights in other countries and leave us here with our wings flapping. Thank you kindly.
The Skeltons owe reparations due to history of wholesale slavery conducted by Mama Skelton..look it up..oh and Mary Anne Fraser and plenty others.
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