After booted from HoA new Gov Jaspert to be sworn in August 22, 2017
The Majority government led a resistant movement through the House Speaker Hon Ingrid A. Moses with a series of letters to Government House and the Deputy Governor’s Office.
In the end, the Smith Administration got its way and Mr Augustus J. U. Jaspert will not take the oath of office in the HoA.
He arrives on Monday and on Tuesday, August 22, 2017 there will be a Swearing-in and Welcome Ceremony at the VI Supreme Court, situated upstairs the HoA. The ceremony begins at 10:00 A.M. and will be broadcast live on local radio stations and online. It will also be live streamed on the Government’s Facebook page.
New Sheriff in Town!
Mr Jaspert succeeds former Governor John S. Duncan OBE, whose legacy is still being debated.
Speaking on his appointment as Governor of the British Overseas Territory of the VI, according to a Government Information Service Press Release, Governor Designate Jaspert stated that “it is an absolute honour to be appointed to succeed Governor Duncan”.
The Governor Designate is married to Millie Jaspert and has two sons, Tobias and Oscar. He joined central government in the United Kingdom in 2007 and has served in several capacities including the Private Secretary to the Prime Minister at No. 10 Downing Street.
His most recent post was in the Cabinet Office as the Director of Security and Intelligence, National Security Secretariat. He also served as the Head of Drugs and Alcohol and the Head of Policing for the Home Office, according to public information.
On the ground first week
The appointed Governor will spend his first few weeks in office meeting senior officials, department heads and members of the law enforcement agencies and the media. He will also visit the Sister Islands.
There are many in the political and chattering class who are skeptical about his mission in the VI and if he would now crack down on alleged government corruption, lack of transparency and lack of good governance.
Mr Augustus Jaspert aka 'Gus' will be the 13th unelected Governor of the Territory of the VI because of the colonial non independent status of the Territory.
43 Responses to “After booted from HoA new Gov Jaspert to be sworn in August 22, 2017”
At this stage of our development, it is the time to flex muscles with the new governor because he will be with us for the duration of his appointment. A bad initiation will remain with him. It is always good to welcome strangers because there might be an angel in the midst.
That journey begins first with people centrist minded individuals in all positions relative to education and second; the reconstruction, dissemination and didactic inculcation of a people mind develop curriculum.
Meanwhile, The signs of intellectual development since emancipation is note worthy. The political realities notwithstanding, on the hand, has much improving to be considered relative to the God given right and those set forth in Geneva conventions that each man, woman and child, country and nation have a right to self determination and to be ruled by its own piers.
Many today, young, aging and old, have great intellectual and political concerns with their present political realities. For example, none in the Western hemisphere, Africa, Asia or other can be appointed to any political, never mind the highest paid position in any county, state or Provence in the UK. to make decisions for and on behalf of a people that are capable of making said decisions for themselves.
The sacrifices our ancestors made upon the very strong shoulders that bore the burdens of inhumane oppression that have us living here in this present moment is a testimony to intestinal fortitude and brute strength have enabled us to move forward towards an amicable political settlement.
We are a people of dignity and political pride, and each day those inalienable rights of freedom from the past are growing stronger and stronger.
The hard work of past to present legislators to ensure academic, intellectual, economic and political development of a people must be continued by the entire elected body, though you were not elected by us, thus making that a non democratic event. Indeed, it acknowledge that that reasoning and frame of thinking is clearly understood.
Meanwhile, all is looking forward to progressive and productive tenure.
An additional diversion here, freedom of the press and the expression of ideas of the common people must never be subverted by journalistic or political practices.
The media site, "BVI NEWS, COM." ,unfortunately, consistently engages in practices that are anti freedom of speech, anti journalistic freedom of thought and expression, and are otherwise apparently anti dogmatic expressions of truth which do not fit into its journalistic sensibilities.
In essence, journalistic censorship is being practiced right here in Tortola, contrary to charters established in the Geneva conventions governing journalistic freedoms and human rights.
Hence, Democracy is under attack right here in Tortola.
Chances are, this will not be published or read by no one other than the author and the dictocrats at BVI NEWS. COM..
But, it will will be published.
People, sleep no more! wake up! be aware! Speak out!
y'all sick, the man don't even reach yet, you done give him nickname. Almost piss my foot; cap fit. Lets see if him wear it. But seriously, that slave a&& mentality!!! If you ain't ready go somewhere go figure...stop blogging sh*t. Coward @&$ chickens.