Report: There are signals that gov’t knew Skelton Cline was inadequate
The findings of an audit conducted on Claude Skelton Cline’s last three public contracts indicate that the government might have been aware that Skelton Cline was badly underperforming, but they continued to keep him employed anyway.
In her December 2022 audit report on the examination of public contracts issued to Skelton Cline from March 2019 to September 2021, Auditor General Sonia Webster concluded that the government did not receive any value for money on the contracts which paid Skelton Cline monthly salaries of $16,000, $12,000, and $9,000, respectively.
“The decreasing contractual remuneration in each successive engagement suggests that the [Andrew Fahie-led] administration was aware that value was not being achieved from this arrangement,” Webster said in her report.
“Review of the documents, information and contracts suggests that the primary purpose of this consultancy was not to add value to the government but rather to provide employment for the consultant,” she added.
Skelton Cline was seeking even more money
According to the report which was only made public yesterday, Skelton was pressing the government for more money even as he failed to meet his deliverables.
The report found that “attempts by the consultant to re-negotiate this second contract into a three-year term and higher monthly renumeration than the $12,000 offered were not successful.”
This second contract which ran for one year required Skelton Cline to identify and develop at least three initiatives that would generate a minimum of five million dollars in revenue to the government. He received that contract through a Cabinet tender waiver even though, according to the report, there was no evidence that Skelton was qualified to do such a job.
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The entire present government is inadequate. They have all been feeding off my tax money month by month with nothing to show for it. No value. Showdey went from being Fahey yes man to the Pharoah’s yes man and now that he in a pickle, he bawling mistake. His whole legacy is a mistake. Funny thing is, his weak party just selected him again to be chairman and that is the boat malone wanted to take over. They all the same. Cr**ks, dundun and inadequate. Well, CSC been a bad boy bad boy. What he going to do when they come for him. And who else was being paid off while showdey sat by with the same moo-moo expression on his face. Literally had to beg the man every day on the blogs to cut the bush. Well well. Not another term. Not now. Not ever.
See how one of our leaders conviently sweep it under the rug . We as a nation continues to look the other way ‘Asked to be excused he is my relative
Wow what a country ! He is my famo so I cannot be a man and say he did not deliver to the nation for the money he got . You are not fit to be in office much less a leader of this nation . Shame for being afraid to be Honest
The thing is there are so many of these kinds of arrangements from work on roads, to earth works to bush clearing to lawyers in the COI. It is also not looking like stopping anytime soon as the present leaders daily show they have learnt nothing from the COI, and have not intention of changing how they think or how things are done.
LOCK HIM UP, this is high day robbery, WHAT A CROOK
Audit everything. Were any of the funds paid to politicians themselves? Let’s scrape the bottom of the pot
Every story has three sides. Let’s wait to hear all sides before making judgements and casting blame wrongfully.
You can take the man out of Detroit, but you can’t take the Detroit out of the man. YIKESSSS!!!
They didnt expect or even want any reports from Skelton Crime.
It was just a way spreading tax payers money around the boys with the inside knowledge.
And this is nothing.
Wait for the report into what the Premiers office did with the $60 million.
Invoke the Order in Council now before this puppet show goes any further. Suspend the BVI constitution, dissolve the HOA, dismiss all the government employees, bring in the UK army, navy and marines to take over control of these islands until 2030 PLEASE!
Hush your backside
Don’t be mad a Claude cause it’s not his fault our government is incompetent fools… your contract getting renewed and you don’t even have to do nothing why not see if you can get a bit more from these idiots.
Well everybody know that the cline affair was more of a family thing – One family member name Skelton looking out for him no-talent scheming nephew. The law got to put cline in the place where all the other criminals go.
All HOA have known about CSC Like the Head Coach
Lock them all up!