We have not mourned Fahie’s conviction
Disgraced former Premier Andrew Fahie in prison wear.
Social commentator Claude Skelton Cline said the Virgin Islands has yet to properly mourn the arrest and conviction of former Premier Andrew Fahie, whose downfall sent shockwaves through the territory and continues to affect its political and social climate.
Speaking on his radio programme Honestly Speaking, Skelton Cline argued the territory remains gripped by unprocessed fear and silence.
“This country, we have yet to have had a public conversation about what happened to our former premier and the impact of what happened to him, what that has had on this country,” he stated. “I don’t know if it’s because we’ve been afraid… I don’t know if it’s that we’re still in shock… But the truth of the matter is we have not mourned this thing properly.”
Fahie, who was arrested in April 2022 in a US Drug Enforcement Administration sting operation in Miami, was convicted in February 2024 of conspiracy to import cocaine into the United States. He was sentenced in August to 11 years in federal prison. Prosecutors said he agreed to use BVI ports to facilitate drug trafficking in exchange for bribes.
Skelton Cline said the arrest had a chilling effect on both the public and the government. “It instilled fear in the country. It paralysed not only public officers, it paralysed the whole country,” he said. “It made us afraid to even have certain conversations with each other.”
He also claimed the UK government used the incident as justification for stepping up control over the territory. “The United Kingdom officialdom used it as a pretext for the context and the content of what has happened and is happening now,” he asserted.
Following Fahie’s arrest, the then-Unity Government took control amid public outcry and a report from a UK-sanctioned Commission of Inquiry, which had already criticised governance in the BVI.
Skelton Cline said the people of the Virgin Islands should not remain silent. “We should not be afraid to talk about our disappointment with what has happened to us. We should not be afraid to give voice to the anger, to the righteous indignation of the condition our country was put into,” he stated.
He further warned that “whatever you bury alive will come back and haunt you.”
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Well Claude you could mourn since you both were partners in a lot of things that were not helpful to the BVI. I listened to your show yesterday and I was disgusted with the xenophobia that you were promoting. Your uncle said what he said to Myron in the House of Assembly and now you are doing the rest. You people should be ashamed of yourselves. As for AH, I pray she gets the help she needs. Something is wrong with that lady.
We haven’t mourned the money he received from Gov. that he can’t show on how it was beneficial to the country. Yet we listen to this man spill his guts days after day. He has a lot to say but nothing on what he was awarded a contract to do years ago.
Mourn? What crazy sh!*. People need to think be fore they try to play holy and give advice that wasn’t requested. This man betrayed the people of the BVI and I should mourn? What fawk!n moron suggested that? Skelton-Cr!me what an !diot. S!0wW@nde and the A$$c!0wn brigade need to take the picture of Head Coach aka the Big Whale off the wall. They all look stupid with it there.
S!0wW@nde has a nerve trying to lecture people about patriotism when this man sold out the BVI and his picture hangs on the wall in HOA and he still enjoys a pension. I heard he wanted to touch the money as this would change his life. Haaaaaa S!0wW@nde has no moral high ground to tell anyone anything
Don’t forget the one who said that we can no longer protect BV islanders and his actions spoke what was said. Civil servants have not forgotten.
Did the present premier visited him? Hmmm
He ain’t got to do S and visit his former boss in jail. Drew got caught touching and holding the Feds marked money on the Feds private plane so therefore he got to take the lick. As bad as Natalio is or may be, he was not the one caught making contact with the Feds marked money in Florida. Drew is where he is today because of pure greed and stupidity.
They can’t hold Russia, China etc leaders, but they hold the Bvi Andrew.
I am hearing that Fahie’s family are receiving Greedy Bill payments. I hope this is not true
They are entitled to the greedy bill $$$ for the rest of his life. There are other perks that go along with being a former member of the house as well. For example, we are still obligated to pay for his funeral when that time comes. Those politicians set themselves and families up real good.
No wonder the wives of Politicians stick around in loveless marriages. Their husbands have side chicks, paying rent for their side chicks, traveling with the side chicks, some of these men have love children in the BVI and outside of the BVI. I am not going to blow up his spot but, there is a Politician from the BVI that have a love child in the US. Can you guess who this Politician is? You will be shocked.
Believe it my dear, it is true. Who knows, knows. Yeah his family is receiving greedy bill money.
The aphorism is if you can’t do the time, don’t do the crime. Fahie made a major error in judgement. No doubt he is mourning this regularly, but that does not in any way mean we should feel sorry for him. He is and was a big boy and got busted going for the gold.
If CSK feels we should mopurn for him, how is it that years later he thinks this an issue?
SMH
We should be mourning the fact the BVI didn’t and still doesn’t have the integrity or personnel to have done the job ourselves. We should be celebrating the prosecution and trying to kill & bury but not mourn the CORRUPTION.
The country is still mourning from its losses from the neighborhood project and all those contracts that you got paid for by Andrew where no work was performed. One mourning at a time. Bring back the government’s money so we could stop mourning.
CSC, stop it, stop it, you are dead wrong for this, you and a few others are the only ones hurting since you all no longer have access to the government treasury.
CSC, HAS ANYONE EVER TOLD YOU HOW MUCH OF A ACTUAL MO MO LUNATIC YOU ACTUALLY ARE? WHY DON’T YOU TAKE THAT DAMN PICTURE OF ANDREW THAT IS ON THE WALL OF THE HOA AND BUILD A SHRINE AND MOURN YOUR FORMER BUDDY IN CRIME YOU ISLAND LUNATIC.
The former Premier has not shown the decency to utter an apology to the people.
Even if he is claiming innocence the fact remains that he effectively caused indelible and international disgrace to the VI and its people.
If it looks like a pig then I suppose,it is a pig.
The V.I. Party and B.V.I. Gov. Has yet to denounce the actions of Mr. Fahie and his arrest. They have yet to remove his picture from the house of assembly even as he sits in a jail cell serving harsh prison time.
What you need to do is worry about is if the USA is watching you and is going to come after you next. That is what you should be worrying/worried about. The Drew is doing 11 in Federal Prison, you might end up doing 25. Remember Detroit? The mayor’s famous house parties? Where the lady was…….? Were you a part of that or have knowledge of that?
Words cannot describe the cancer that Claude is for this country.
He lived back Detroit with not a single penny but through his shenanigans with government he sucked the treasury at every turn. From the bogus neighborhood project to his time at the Port to his many contracts with Andrew Fahie where he produced nothing but got paid.
People of this country should know by now that this fake pastor is bad for our country. Now here he is sowing seeds of disunity for his own benefit and his associates. Reject this man. Do not allow him and fork tongue to infiltrate our minds. He is not of God and he is a terrible citizen.
They turned their back on Andrew after he help them get elected
They are a set of wicked people and they well know Fahie is innocent
Sowande Wheatley, Karl Dawson and Luce Hodge Smith turned their back on a lot of folks who supported and help put them wheee they are today. So much complaining about them msknt. They are worst than poverty. They will learn a life lesson the hard way. You have to give Lavity Stoutt, Andrew Fahie, Omar Hodge and Ralph O’Neal credit because them were for people. These other id**ts are blood suckers and wicked people. Keeping power out them hands is the best thing.
Both Lavity and Andrew had special people in the first District who they helped of course. Others suck salt. All they did was bulls**t others.You seem bitter about something. Pray
We should be mourning the hundreds of thousands of dollars of the taxpayers money that you swindled you darn ratchet thief. How much of the taxpayers money you swindled to build the house that you are lying up in. You ratchet thief. You are bitter because the Government cookie jar was slammed close on your fingers. OUCH! It hurts bad doesn’t it. Ha Ha no more free Government money for YOU OOOOOOOOOOOOOH. PEEK A BOOOOO, DAH DAH DA DA NO MORE FREE FREE MONEY FOR YOU OOOOOOOH.
Is this guy serious? Go back to Detroit, scam artist..
Y’all mourning for somebody who almost used the BVI as our big drug transhipment point at the cost of your tax money, safety and further corruption. BVI a wild place fr
Only thing we should be mourning is how our tax money was abused and up to now we can’t see it get return back to the treasury from all those people and politicians that abused the system for their personal benefit
#covidGrants
why mourn the greedy, dude was the premier, his salary was higher than almost everyone in the bvi and he still wanted more, greed was his downfall
That man is a swindler and bold face thief. He is angry because Andrew is no longer around to shield and protect his a.. As far as I am concerned he can go and join Andrew in his prison cell in where? Coonsville Georgia with the other red necks that have committed a Federal crime. Don’t eat too much stew raccoon field peas and grits Drew. Save some for CSC who may be joining you soon. What the F you want us to do CSC walk around with little candles and a t shirt with the criminal AKA Drew picture mourning through Main Street?
WHAT ABOUT THE COVID MONEY THAT YOU WERE NOT ENTITLED TO AND YOU GOT LET US HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT THAT MR. SWINDLER.
CSC – you bean counter! Anjuh dope slush fund was to be divvied up with you and now you bawling! Well sah. For a so-called clergy man, you sure sound like a snake oil salesman. You was expecting some ah dat gwop.
He missing dat gwop now
Mourn? Mourn what?!?
Mourn that a conspirator and crook finally got the comeuppance that he’d have never found here at home?
Pastor or what ever they call you. YOU GOT, GOT. We need to mourn all the monies that you stole from us. GET TO STEPPING.
Let me add my “two cents.” Since he is a supposed member of the clergy. Lucifer rebelled against the government in heaven. As a result he was kicked out along with a third of the angelic host. Do you know that not all of the angel might have rebelled against Yahweh? But those who were sympathetic towards Lucifer showed their allegiance to him. So they joined him just by that sympathy shown.
Scripture also states, ” Be not deceived, Yahweh is not mocked, whatsoever a man sows that shall he also reap.” But you all say the scripture is man’s doing. Explain to me then, why is it that what’s in it is played out in our daily lives today? Whether good, or evil? That’s why I love to read it. It is pure words of eternal life.
wow
Andrew Fahie did what he did and got what he got. Case close.
Claude Cline is the scum of the earth. The most dishonest man I’ve ever come across and he is a pastor. Supposed he wasn’t a pastor?
WE ALL KNOW BY NOW WHY WE CALL THIS HUSTLER CITY SLICKER / SO HE IS JUST TRYING AH TING ON US , DROPPING LITTLE BITS Z& PIECES AND USING HIS MILLION DOLLAR SMILE TO THROW NUS OFF HOPING HE CAN PULL THE WOOL OVER OUR EYES , SO IS USIND HIS PLATFORM AS A TOOL TO DO WHAT HE DOES BEST – ( TALK ) JUST LIKE HOW HE AND THE OTHER TWO WANNABES HOLY BOYZ FROM CGB DID WITH THE BIBLE, A WELL APPLIED BULLPISSLE WILL STRAIGHTEN HIS TRICKY ASZ OUT
Mourn Fahie?Really?Fahie has shown us one great talent that was ever so present in his life. He was a praying man.He prayed for health, wealth and he even prayed over his drug deals.Let him start a prison ministry and help his jail neighbors get closer to God.
HEY JUDGE WIGGIE , YOU LEFT OUT ( FREE THE DREW ) YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO KEEP HOLLERING IT OUT / UNCLE ANDY MADE A BIG MISTAKE BY ASSOCIATING WITH YOU AND OTHERS LIKE YOU , THE FIASCO WITH YOU AND MARK , WHEN HE HAD TO TOUCH YOU ON YOUR SHOULDER AND TELL YOU TO ” CHILL OUT ” THATS WHEN HE BEGAN TO REALISE THE TYPE OF NERD THAT HE HAD GOTTEN HIMSELF HOOKED UP WITH / FORTUNATELY NAT-AL-EO SAW IT AND RECTIFIED THE PROBLEM BEFORE YOU GOT CRAZIER
U want to praise him just like you guys praise Kartel, he think he coming to rich from west hope he already hide his, West not living that long and the little hungry TT boy he has with him could die with him, long road for dogs think they could be outside.
AF know about the death of FP and the little… got gun down west end say no more
Cloud I camping with VIP and I knew you were only doing to get your cut , you can’t get in so dis is your way of making your, Remember God witching u . U saying u is a man of God and that’s the kind of thing u promoting, Who u leading the blind, how much IQ you claim to have, BIG J A.
If he had only listened to the ones that told him they were watching him he would have never get caught. The Feds had Andrew on their radar for a very long time. This S did not happen overnight.The Feds is very patient when they are building a case against anyone.They knew it would be hard to snatch him up on BVI soil so they waited until he stepped on American soil to snatch him up. Now he have 11 years in the Feds play pen.
Didn’t CSC said something about the BVI having a gangster summit? Just picture all the gangsters coming together. That would have been one big blood shed summit. Enemies and ops would have gone gun crazy.
All the drug lord including yourself mourned for him!! We don’t give a crap all he did was lie and was serving black magic!
I wonder who … now or she waiting on him like sedem wait for Kartel.
Is he for real?
Would NHI cover the oral enema this douche needs, or do i need to start a gofundme?