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May 15th, 2025
Engage UK partners for scaled-down approach to airport expansion— Skelton-Cline

BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI— Well-known commentator and social advocate Pastor Claude O. Skelton-Cline has called for a streamlined, United Kingdom-partnered approach to the Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport expansion project.

May 7th, 2025
NDP should formally cut ties with breakaway members— Skelton-Cline

BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI— Radio personality and Pastor Mr Claude O. Skelton-Cline has issued a blunt warning to opposition parties in the Virgin Islands to ‘get their houses in order soon or they can forget about forming the next government.’

May 5th, 2025
UK regulator ASSI blasted for ‘tone-deaf, heavy-handed’ airport restrictions

BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI— The United Kingdom’s Air Safety Support International (ASSI) is being accused of imposing regulations in the Virgin Islands that are culturally tone-deaf, economically burdensome, and executed without sufficient local consultation.

May 3rd, 2025
Don’t get lost in labels, we must defend what is ours- Troy E. Christopher

BAUGHER'S BAY, Tortola, VI- The Virgin Islands (VI) and its people have been recognised internationally, “as a people and a grouping that has a right—a right to decide for themselves their future, their survival, their lifestyle.”

May 1st, 2025
The VI 'has outgrown the mandate of the AG’s office'- Claude O. Skelton-Cline

BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI— Radio personality and former government consultant Pastor Claude O. Skelton-Cline has called for a comprehensive review and overhaul of the Virgin Islands’ legal and constitutional framework, since he believes the current structure governing the Office of the Attorney General (AG) is outdated and ill-suited to meet the needs of the Territory.

April 30th, 2025
Alliance meeting with Governor undermines VI pushback against UK- Skelton-Cline

BAUGHER'S BAY, Tortola, VI—Social commentator Pastor Claude O. Skelton-Cline is of the view the United Kingdom’s proposed ten-year plan for the Virgin Islands is nothing but a “neo-colonising” move that undermines the Territory’s path to self-determination.

April 18th, 2025
Skelton-Cline calls for Independence Referendum @ 2027 Elections

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI— The question of independence for the Virgin Islands (VI) must be put to the people in a national referendum at the next general elections in 2027, former government consultant Pastor Claude O. Skelton-Cline said on his radio programme Honestly Speaking on ZBVI 780 AM on April 15, 2025.

April 17th, 2025
VI still 'paralysed' by Fahie scandal— Skelton-Cline

BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI— The Virgin Islands is yet to properly come to terms with the fallout from the arrest and subsequent jailing of former Premier Andrew A. Fahie, and the people of the Territory have been left traumatised and paralysed and continue to suffer under the lingering weight of silence, fear, and stigma.

April 16th, 2025
Skelton-Cline advocates collective stand against UK overreach

BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI— Radio personality and outspoken commentator Claude O. Skelton-Cline is calling on elected officials to formally draft a singular, collective correspondence articulating the Territory’s official position on the Review of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Bodies in the British Virgin Islands, Volume II: A Roadmap for 2025 to 2035.

April 4th, 2025
Native VIslanders ‘losing control’ of their country- Claude O. Skelton-Cline

BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI— "We are losing control of our country, and the lines between Virgin Islanders, Belongers, and others are being blurred in a way that is dangerous for our future.”

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