Maynard’s sentencing gets postponed for final time
A Miami judge has deferred the sentencing hearing for confessed former BVI Ports Authority Managing Director Oleanvine Maynard for the final time.
Maynard, who confessed to being involved in a drug trafficking conspiracy led by former Premier Andrew Fahie, had her sentencing date pushed back several times since her guilty plea last year.
The former ports boss told a Miami court she helped the convicted former Premier orchestrate a Hollywood-style drug and money laundering conspiracy to smuggle thousands of kilos of cocaine through the territory’s waters and to hide the proceeds coming from their efforts.
Her sentence was initially set for August 21, 2023, after she pleaded guilty to her role in the conspiracy and agreed to testify against Fahie at his trial in exchange for lenience from the court at sentencing. The court continued to shift that date as repeated delays arose with the start of Fahie’s trial.
Maynard’s new sentencing date is June 6, 2024, with no further extensions expected for prosecutors.
Maynard’s son, Kadeem Stephan Maynard, was sentenced on November 20, 2023, to serve 57 months in prison after he pleaded guilty last year to a single count of conspiracy to import cocaine.
Meanwhile, Fahie’s sentencing was also postponed from April 29 to June 25 after his attorney requested additional time.
Fahie’s attorney, Theresa Van Vliet, asked the court to set a later sentencing date because of a conflict with a paid vacation she had already booked. She also cited the need for more time to finalise potential objections to the pre-sentence report.
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too much drugs and gun and crime and violence plaguing and destroying the british virgin islands. can’t you british virgin islanders see for yourself what is going on? look at the cruise ship industry in road town tortola british virgin islands without 5 star hotel in road town tortola bvi. prospect reef hotel has been destroyed right next to the cruise ship pier. all these category 5 hurricanes and cyclones and typhoons and tornadoes and earthquakes in the caribbean sea. no human being in this world has control over the climate and the weather. beach erosion and soil erosion and flooding and landslide and mudslides. plant back the mangroves and coconut groves and palm groves. the weak infrastructure of the bvi territory. the fragile eco system and the fragile topography and the fragile marine environment. it is difficult for humans being to race against the climate and the weather because humans being have no control over natural disasters and manmade catastrophe.
@MariaLouiseVarlack
Yes! You are correct. The BVI is corrupted by a mindset that we can do whatever we want, be it transhipment of drugs and sex slaves and guns, or skimming X amount of money off any budget we get our hands on “to help our people”, and all of it is part of a larger delusion that because we go to church on Sundays we are bigger than Nature.
We fail to understand that Nature is God and God accounts for our every action.
We have cronies pushing our coastlines into the sea to make themselves more real estate so they can take in rent for generations to come even while they are killing our coastal ecosystems and leaving us all vulnerable to oversize hurricanes and rising sea levels and helping to kill the seas of life and species we need just to live and breathe.
We build roads and don’t notice that we are changing the way the water runs down our hillsides so we get flooded more not that we used to.
We want more and more of everything and we don’t want to think about what that means. We just want it like we are infected with a suicidal disease.
And meanwhile we think we are smart. We think it is our right to chase as much money as we want from wherever we want with no consequences. We think we own our God.
But God/Nature keeps the receipts.
Drugs is what built the BVI. Back in those days we were not shooting each other like we are now. The young people watch too much TV and smoke too much imported weed so they have gone crazy. Back in the days we made our money, started business, built houses, helped eachother and all was well. The people of the BVI are not heavy users of the white powder, it’s a ‘pass through’ point and it worked until people got stupid and started killing others. The same people pretending to wage a war on drugs are the ones moving the most dope globally, don’t be fooled.
Whether it was back in the day or not, it is WRONG!
AS a BVIslander +40yrs.
Name one thing built in the BVI that I would have or should have benefitted from. Personal businesses do not count.
I keep hearing this statement. Drugs proceeds benefit those involved.
She still getting sentence before the Drew. Drew lawyer ah work.
hopefully she gives up her criminal ways and becomes a law abiding citizen when she is released
For God sake hurry up and done already…LOL!
We want n**on on the street’s promise he won last Edo style
I hope to god Andrew be free
I really sorry for him
Maynard can stay there and rotten
You’re an idiot
Andrew is not coming back to these shores for a very long time. What you need to do is warn everyone from the BVI that is going down to ST. Thomas for Carnival the ……. Got their eyes on you from the time you step off the ferry.So don’t say you were not warned in advance.
SHAME ON HER BACKSIDE. SHE AND ANDREW.
Them in a holaho
Andrew is free. Free of the temptation and the opportunity to screw over the BVI.
Let go the woman. You wanted the moray aka soary bum and you got himm.
all that food , is wasting away