‘Beaconite’ tries to bully Premier & pronounces his name wrong
‘That’s Fahie, the name is important,’ the Premier said in the presence of shocked legislators and the media, when the Government held its latest press conference for updates on the Territory’s Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) response last evening, March 17, 2020, in the board room of the Office of the Virgin Islands (VI) House of Assembly (HoA).
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Uninformed that it was the third such update on the Territory’s COVID-19 strategy, the BVI Beacon reporter then tried to hijack the entire press conference, inquiring whether a long list of unanswered questions submitted by the community, could be given priority, even as other media representative were eager to have their questions answered.
“Community members clearly have many questions, and we appreciate that some have been answered already, but several remain outstanding which I have here in hopes of getting those answered tonight,” she said.
The reporter continued, “We realise that these press conferences are somewhat limited by time, but given that this is the first press conference about Coronavirus that we’ve had in several weeks, hence the importance of this issue, our first question is whether you would commit to spending the time this session to ensure that all of these questions are answered tonight.”
According to the Premier, “well that’s hard to know because I don’t know if you have a hundred, two hundred or three hundred…. We can’t assure you of all because we have different press people here to answer.”
‘Fax your questions in’ – Premier to reporter
“This is really our third press conference,” the Premier went on to say, noting that previous sessions were held at the Office of the HoA and with ZBVI for updates on the Territory’s strategy and that the government had been on an information drive to inform the community, while encouraging persons to send questions via email and social media.
“We’ve been answering as many questions as we can, but I must tell you this, we do not have all the answers, this is uncharted waters, we are doing our best with God’s help to ensure that whatever is humanly possible by our government to do… is being done,” Hon Fahie said.
The Leader of Government ended the bizarre exchange by giving the reporter an opportunity to have her concerns addressed.
‘You can fax your questions in, you could email your questions in, you could write your questions in… and we will try to answer them as factual, as up to date as possible,” Premier Fahie said.
Meanwhile, the public is encouraged to log on to the website: www.bvi.gov.vg/covid-19 to get up to date information as well as to have their various questions answered on COVID-19 matters.
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45 Responses to “‘Beaconite’ tries to bully Premier & pronounces his name wrong”
So the Premier did a beautiful response. She may have been nervous.
first question after took nearly a minute to ask if they could answer all the questions, she's a little girl full of self importance
That girl infuriated me during the question time, even had me shouting at the screen, get her out of here!
I don’t find that a reporter asking questions and trying to be assertive is bullying. Just another prime example of “she not from here” mentality. I am glad that the press is trying to obtain answers. She pronounced his name wrong? Come on, Fahie is not a common name outside of this territory so give her a break. Yes she’s new to the island, she will learn. How about being supportive in these difficult times
But did she humbly apologize after she was corrected?
banned from anymore press conferences that will never happen in the territory because she will asked one of her w..... friends to have a serious chat with our premier those w...... folks run things up in here however the non-w..... have to read the rule book......
they think because they are ........ they should not respect our leaders. There also need to be a dress code for reporters, going to a press conference. She like she came from a hike through the bush
Reporters must have some level of ethics and respect for authority.
Not because you have the "PRIVILEGE" to ask questions as a reporter,you should bombad an Hon.Premier of a territory with questions-questions-questions?
We as belongers to the virgin islands also have the privilege to ask questions of our elected representatives,but we cannont enter the premier's office and just bombad him with questions.
The premier is right to stop her with this nonsense!!
The name has multiple pronunciations.
I don't know the lady but this mob culture in the comments is distasteful.
Yep, sounds about right.