Walwyn confirms: Alliance was formed with Skelton’s blessing
Yet another member of the Alliance has confirmed that the group’s formation was not a betrayal of former Opposition Leader Ronnie Skelton, but instead had his explicit blessing.
During a recent interview with Cindy Rosan, Opposition Leader Myron Walwyn said Skelton gave his blessing when the idea of the Alliance was presented to him, confirming earlier comments by Territorial At-Large Representative Stacy “Buddha” Mather, who had previously said that Skelton, NDP leader Marlon Penn, and At-Large Representative Lorna Smith were aware of their decision to form the Alliance.
Walwyn said the Alliance was born out of necessity, after the opposition’s fragmented structure left them weak and ineffective in the House of Assembly.
He added that the 2023 general election results — which handed the Virgin Islands Party more seats than many expected — were a direct consequence of this disunity. With the NDP and PVIM “in shambles,” Walwyn said he took it upon himself to reunite the parties to bring structure to the Opposition side. But when he presented his idea of an entirely new party to Marlon Penn and Ronnie Skelton, they both rejected it.
Soon after, PVIM members Melvin Turnbull and Mather put forward their own attempt to unite the parties.
“Honourable Turnbull and Honourable Mather went to Honourable Skelton and said to him, ‘we want to go form an Alliance with Myron’… Honourable Skelton gave them his blessing. He did. They came back and told me but I didn’t take their word for it so I went to him (Honourable Skelton). I said, ‘These two gentlemen came to you? He said yes. Walwyn recalled. “I [then] said, are you planning to run again?’ He said no, and these were his exact words: ‘It will take a miracle for me to change my mind to run.’ So we formed an Alliance only to see something different being said, which is reminiscent of what happened to me in 2019,” Walwyn said.
Walwyn’s claim cuts sharply against the narrative that the formation of the Alliance took Skelton by surprise. Many of Skelton’s supporters have accused Walwyn of betrayal and political opportunism. But Walwyn’s version of events suggests that Skelton not only knew of the arrangement but sanctioned it.
In the meantime, Walwyn’s statements have not been countered by Penn or Skelton, who have since formed a refreshed NDP and claim their party is capable of forming the next government when the territory goes to the polls.
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If we left it up to walwyn to run our Territory’s Government it will be a race to the bottom of trickery and opportunist, smooth talking and con-artistry.
Set of manipulative, incompetent, confusion maker
Myron is the best fit to lead the Country. Like it or not, that is your problem with your touchy fragile feelings.
Name one thing that he has run properly over the years? What’s the determining factor for you to say he is best placed to run the Territory when all of his businesses have failed?
slowando speaks well too
Some of you people are really nasty. SMH.
You sound very bitter. Not a good look at all and most of all it’s not true and you know it. Myron is one of the best representatives and ministers we had in the BVI in modern times. Whether you like him or hate him this is a fact. Plus the place can’t get no worse under Myron than how Natalio have it.
He must be paying you all to have him and his two stooges all over the site with their foolishness. The OFFICIAL COMPLAINER. Everything is a problem for him. If you got the blessing run with it and work for your district. As an insider you and short man Mit*h have the agreement 2 years wash as premier. Catch is you have to win first. . Short man think doing a course at Harvard will make him premier. Set of jokers
Talk Myron talk. They out here telling a lot of secret lies because you never set the record straight. I glad you finally talk out. They too bad and wicked. All because your mother and father ain’t from here mean that you not human? Stand up for your rights. Is here you born just like them and you more capable than them. That is what hurting them.
It all sounds good when one bird sings. Marlon and Ronnie don’t have time to be in any back and forth like this Diva but at some point whenever Marlon does speak on this, because of the the type of man he is, know he is going to swallow a lot of Myron’s n**tiness and not throw him far up under the bus.
Myron is a na**t person. Both him and Willock n**ty.
How Willock get in this. This post is about Alliance. We as Virgin Islanders must get along and stop studying melee.
who telling the lies? your statement could imply the members of NDP are so we want to be clear.
Seems like Ronnie is a thorn in his flesh. Why he hate that dude so much?
All of these people are fake, not one is real. For Walwyn to the Skelton was genuine and real.Hmmm.
Is BVINews a mouthpiece for Walwyn? Has BVInews reached out to Ronnie for comment? Hmmm. QTNA
What Myron said is the same thing I heard Hon. Mitch and Mather said before. Ronnie is the problem. Every election he ain’t running. Nobody begging him to run. He need not run if you ask me.
All of them have the same recitation written. DUHH Ronnie looks like any lil bwoy answering to Myron who can’t even … his staff N* or keep the lights on at 7. Yall easily mislead in this place.
My analysis from following all this drama is that Ronnie Skelton is the problem. This is what I see
1. NDP had an internal election for leadership. Ronnie and Myron ran for leadership. Myron won. Ronnie lost. Ronnie runs off like a spoil brat to form his own party because he lost.
2. He formed PVIM with Mitch and others and contested the 2019 election. He lost the election and resign as head of PVIM. Mitch and others build back up PVIM, in comes Ronnie just before the 2023 election and say he want to lead the party and wrestle away the leadership for Mitch who was elected the head of the party after he left.
3. Ronnie then wins back in 2023. He became leader of the opposition. Mather and Mitch could no longer work with him because he was not performing his role well. Myron became leader of the opposition.
4. Ronnie quickly dissolves PVIM without telling members and run back to NDP and is now fighting Marlon for leadership.
Are you absolutely certain about item 1. From what I heard Ronnie was in Asia when that took place.
It makes sense to you that a man running for an election would be in Asia at the time of the actual election? And what he doing Asia anyway? That is one of the lies his surrogates saying. That Dr. Smith send him China so Myron could beat him. What hogwash. Myron was always and continues to be more popular than Ronnie. He would have beaten him whether Ronnie was china, Greenland, Switzerland or here. People need to be gracious in defeat and stop making excuses when they lose. Take your loss like a man. Set ah big men acting like chirren.
This is pure facts. I wish I could like it 100. Skelton na**y si man.
I can’t blame these men for coming together. If every time someone is saying that they aren’t running and then change their mind at the last minute how do you plan effectively with that person. Nobody begging Ronnie to run. Either he is running or he is not. I wasn’t following anybody who is this indecisive and then playing victim when these guys make a decision to move on. Good going guys. Leave Ronnie where he is. He is Marlon headache now.
Ronnie like he got a bad mind mehson. On top of that he can’t stand island people.
Now we know you don’t know Ronnie at all. He has many many friends from the other islands, just like we are from the island of BVI. You all ain’t easy.
No island man going run my country
So what if your behind from here. That I from here played out a long time ago. I am from here and I am voting for the Island man as you refer to him as. I would agree, Myron is the most qualified to run the Territory and take the Territory in a new and positive direction. I must also add. Myron was the best Education Minister.
All the other Caribbean islands saying the same thing and nothing is wrong with that. If here goes belly up under this present government those from other islands will go back so facts is facts.
Mather ran with Skelton PVIM & got his votes along with his educator votes then left PVIM to join Alliance.
Turnbull left NDP with Skelton to form PVIM and then left to form Alliance.
Walwyn is NDP but decided he wanted to leas the opposition so he formed Alliance.
Skelton then left PVIM and went back to NDP.
Penn has been chilling over on the NDP side.
I see very little leadership or loyalty on that side.
Bunch of deceitful wicked disciples of Lucifer.
Something tells me that you are Lucifer lol
@smh.. get behind me u satan beast.
I think Walwyn’s recent rants/statements have solidified why so many people do not want to work with him and are afraid of him being the Premier of this Territory. Smart, witty, eloquent of course, but cunning and cut throat as well it seems. All this airing out of dirty laundry, is it really necessary? You had negotiations with people behind closed doors and you are here leaking out all this information? Why would any potential candidate, backer, supporter trust you with anything sacred with this behavior? State your case, build your team, layout your plans, bring your candidates and let the people decide. All of this negative stuff and he still hasn’t formally resigned from the NDP.
Cut throat because he talk out for himself. People including you I am sure were out there misrepresenting the truth about what happened even blaming Myron for breaking up the NDP when you all know that Ronnie left NDP because he lost the party elections. Everybody know it. Everybody see it but yet some of you peddling the lies. You ever see leader lose election and go form them own party? You can’t see that leader got bad mind? He right to talk out. It is about time. He should have said these things since 2019.
I agree. Some things you just do not get in to. Well many now know not to speak anything sensitive with him. How he approached this isn’t looking good but his type of behaviour already out the bag. Not Premier material at all. My mind has turned.
I watched the interview and it was a very good one. Cindy asked some tough questions and Hon. Walwyn answered them. It seems as if the writer of the above post wanted him to lie.
Sometimes in life you have to speak your truth because if you don’t the bad people who spread lies will make you out to be horrible while you keep your mouth quiet and say nothing. I appreciated the candid discussion in the interview and I now have a better understanding of what took place. Myron was believable and I believe him because I have seen the conduct of Skelton for instance in his recent refusal to debate and support the vote of no confidence which he tried to bring when he was opposition leader. It says a lot to me about the type of person he is.
On one final note, since when do political parties in the BVI require people to resign? I doubt any of them have any registration forms to begin with that all their members fill out including candidates. When Ronnie left NDP did he resign? When he came back did he fill out a form seeking membership again? People just leave parties and go elsewhere if they choose. That’s how I know it to be. Here we go again with different rules and requirements based on who the person is. This is the biggest problem we have in this BVI. Our decisions and views are not principled.
Clear the air Wally. The entitlement establishment wants to maintain the status quo and frame the narrative of what happened to suit their agendas. Keep the fiyyah on dem backsides!
Myron said that Ronnie encouraged him to run for the NDP leadership. Mitch, Mather and Myron say that Ronnie encouraged them to get together. But yet he turned around and did different after the things he supported were done. What kind of person is this man?
Ronnie did the right thing. It does not make sense tag teaming with iffy people. Bless them with their decision, which was already made, and move on. next thing you know election won again and rabbits jumping all over the place. Part in peace; great job Ronnie or whomever else was involved in this. We are tired of pretending people.
AND ALL THE OTHER NAMES YOU BLOGGING UNDER ( SKELLIE & MARLON – ARE BIG ENOUGH TO SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES /DO WHY YOU HERE ON THIS NEWS SITE DEFENDING THEM ? EH JUDGE JUDAS , NOBODY ASK YOU ANY QUESTION , BUT HERE YOU SRF VENTING OUT YOUR HATRED & EVILNESS ON WALWYN / THE TRUTH NEEDS TO BE TOLD ( WHO VEX , TOO BAD ) WHY YOU STOP SINGING ” FREE THE DREW ” ? / LOOKS LIKE YOU GOT A NEW MASTER NOW – SKELIE – REMEMBER HE DOESN’T LIKE ” ISLAND PEOPLE ” AND YOU ” WIGGIE ” IS HALF “ISLAND MAN ” AND % SOMETHING ELSE ) , SO KEEP YOUR EVILNESS ON YOUR RACIST YELLO SITE AND IN YOUR DUPLICITOUS MIND •
Cindy news site trying stop taking her down she might be over the top but she is with Myron so stop it now!!!!
BVI news is really milking this interview LOL. Every day it is a different story. It is interesting reading. I see some things clearer now. The NDP never liked Myron. They used him because he was popular and have a way with people and words and he could work. They saw the benefit of that to themselves but the minute he raised his head to go higher he was quickly reminded and continues to be reminded about his parentage.
Mehson the people and them calling for one a them own in the person of Myron.
They fed up with the Puerto Rican premiere traveling and partying.
You chatting you mouth about multiple business Myron involve with, he love his country and invested his money in it while you talking and never spend a red cent to help build the BVI.
James 3:16 says “For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every evil practice.”
The job of the Alliance from day 1 has been to knock down and stamp on Hon. Skelton. A Virgin Islander quietly going about his business and not playing tit for tat with them. Hon. Walwyn is better qualified how? A law degree and an A in Speech 1001 does not make you more qualified. Seems to me if he had good management skills and focus, he would know that time is of the essence and he should be spending time building a team for the next election with whome he should be working to convince persons of their suitability to run this country next election, instead of warring with persons he may need to form a Government, if they are successful. You see he can’t seem to be able to see the forest from the trees. His Alliance busy running a smear campaign when they should be running soemthing else. But time longer than twine. They, all three of them, seem to be sure that the person to attack in this election is Hon. Skelton. He is the threat for that is their concentration while we have a Governmen spending lots of money and not doing a damn thing to move this country forward. He apparently had a problem with Hon. Penn’s leadership but that was not his biggest problem. He apparently continuously looking at Hon. Skelton cockeyed. But destructive behaviour springing from envy always ends in chaos and that is exactly where we are. Hon. Skelton will take this country exactly where we need to go starting day 1. That’s why he is so feared. But carry on. We see you and we understand. Alliance apparently cannot sleep as they consistently have dreams of Hon. Skelton on their mind.
You sound so stupid. Stop using God’s words in your twisted deceit.
How does this make sense?
A Group of 3 legislators came together to knock down the weakest at large candidate of the 4 that got elected? Please give it a rest.
My point exactly, the Alliance came together, three of them and dismantled PVIM. It is gone. Left one man standing in both PVIM and NDP, but it seems like they never have enough. Their job is not done. Head of PVIM and head of NDP came together. They are pissed. Why? They left!! They are the new Alliance. Election is not here yet, but the are throwing daggers and pitch forks at Hon. Skelton every single day. So what do they want next? We will continue to pray for Hon. Skelton because this is not normal. He is not answering. They are blogging bull nonsense. Listen, the headlines daily are confusing. They did their thing. They formed and left Hon. Skelton behind. Wasn’t that their aim? Why are they looking back? Get together, build and win, without him and Hon. Penn. You chose that. What is the problem? You need him further for something? What? You didn’t mean to leave? You are sorry you did? Listen, I can’t understand. I can’t.
How many Virgin Islanders does Walwyn employ at his businesses? How many BVI Lawyers did he employ at his law firm. Maybe he has 2 or so tokens but nothing more than that. He will not look out for either Belongers or Virgin Islanders, unless they are from the other islands.
What does this have to do with anything?
It speaks to his overall credibility. Why would I vote for or even believe a man that says he will look out for Virgin Islanders yet does not employ them (or rarely so) when he and his business clearly have the capacity to do so and the need for employees. He speaks well, but lacks credibility. Perhaps you are not a Virgin Islander, because a Virgin Islander wpuld never have probed the relevance of my comment, as they would understood its import from the outset. Enjoy your weekend.