‘Absolutely not true!’ - Dr the Hon Kedrick D. Pickering
“I heard that the Government give a next island to [Sir Richard Branson] in exchange for money to extend the airport,” said a caller to the National Democratic (NDP) Party radio show heard on ZBVI 780 AM on Monday November 3, 2014 from 8:00 pm.
“This is absolutely not true,” retorted Hon Pickering on the show. He was there with his colleague NDP Ministers, including Premier and Minister of Finance Dr the Honourable D. Orlando Smith.
Sir Richard Branson owns real estate on Necker Island.
Many, including radio and television talk show hosts and numerous bloggers to this news site, have decried what they term the selling out of the Virgin Islands to the detriment of locals. Some have raised the issue of racial discrimination and a return to the colonial attitudes of the past as it relates to selling off of lands in the Territory to whites.
35 Responses to “‘Absolutely not true!’ - Dr the Hon Kedrick D. Pickering”
Dr. Pickering will sell the white on rice if that have to be the last thing that the government owns while NDP in power.
I am so disappointed in that man as a BVIslander and a politician that I can't wait for the day he is voted out.
A total waste of time. Don't represent the people
Quite often wealthy people make donations anonymously, or without any fanfare.
I'm black caribeean, but I refuse the discrimination as i can ear on several place in the BVI.
Mr Bronson is honorable person.
The shame is to see some minister have business and have all right to do what they want !