BVI Airways, tax evasion probe among Opposition's questions @ April 26-27 HoA Sitting!
Beginning this Thursday April 26, 2018 at the Fourth Sitting of the Third Session of the Third House of Assembly (HoA) and ending on Friday April 27, 2018 before the Budget Debate gets underway, there will be a series of questions asked by Opposition Leader Hon Andrew A. Fahie (R1) and Member Julian Fraser RA (R3)
Accountability CDB loans-Hon Fahie
The Opposition Leader wants to know from the Premier and Minister of Finance the amount drawn down, to date, from the $65 million Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) loan approved in the HoA in December 2017, interest expense billed and or paid to date, and the names of the offices or officers empowered or authorised to instruct drawdowns.
Hon Fahie also wants to know, on behalf of the people, the amount each Ministry and or government entity has expended to date from their respective CDB loan allotments and the purpose for which each entity of government used the funds.
Backdoor policy?
One political candidate/aspirant Julian Willock, who is running At-Large in the next general elections, proposed a Citizen by Investment Programme in a national address some two months ago as a means of new revenue generation.
Well, Opposition Member, Hon Julian Fraser wants to know from Premier Smith, if such a programme already exists.
He is to ask the Premier and Minister of Finance whether, the government is considering a policy for Residency for Direct Investment, and if yes, could he verify that amount, and the many ways to achieve residency through the programme.
UK visit & Health professional- Hon Fraser
In addition, Hon Fraser wants to know whether Premier Smith has been asked to appear before a sub-committee of the Treasury Select Committee in the United Kingdom Parliament to give evidence to British MPs as part of a probe into tax avoidance and evasion in its investigation in the wake of the Panama and Paradise Papers leaks.
Minister for Health and Social Development Hon Ronnie W. Skelton (AL), who is mourning the loss of his mother, will have to answer Hon Fraser on how many locals with medical degrees were offered jobs since the salary adjustments were made, how many were hired, and how many locals and non-locals have resigned since salary adjustments were made and why.
BVI Airways again!
Both Hons Fahie and Fraser have more questions on the scandal-riddled BVI Airways. They want to know what efforts have been made to date, to get the people’s $7.2M back from BVI Airways who has yet to start flights between the Virgin Islands and Miami after it was promised to start in October 2016.
The HoA will be carried live each day on CBN Radio 90.9 FM 'The Caribbean Super Station' and is expected to start at 10:00 A.M. on both days.
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15 Responses to “BVI Airways, tax evasion probe among Opposition's questions @ April 26-27 HoA Sitting!”
It's a little worst thing that.
thanks Frazer for your questions, there is a lot of &h!t going on at the hospital that needs cleaning up