‘If Skelton-Cline doesn’t produce he’ll be fired’ – Premier Fahie
Speaking during the opening of the 2019 Budget Debate at the Second Sitting of the First Session of the Fourth House of Assembly (HoA) yesterday Thursday, April 25, 2019, the Premier further said that given the Virgin Islands Party’s commitment to be transparent, all contracts will be revealed and published under his government.
Nothing to Hide
“I hear a lot Mr Speaker and rightfully so… with the contract, we given to Mr Cline for 6 months and everybody jumping, and I say well alright, if he doesn’t produce he’ll be fired, if he produces well then you’ll see,” the Premier told the House.
“When you sign a man with a contract if the deliverables don’t come he in trouble, and we don’t have nothing to hide. It didn’t slip out, we doing a press release to release every contract we sign. It came out as a press release from GIS it didn’t come out as a ‘shoo shoo’,” he said.
Hon Fahie said he further indicated to all Ministers, that for every consultant hired, the details of the contract will be made known to the people of the Territory.
“We didn’t had nothing to hid… every consultant that’s hired, cause government can’t go without them… They going to bring their report, we’re going to file it in Cabinet, we will bring it and lay it in this House because the people’s money must be accounted for,” the Premier further said in lashing out at critics.
Accountability
According to the Minister of Finance, “And if they don’t feel that the deliverables are there… whether it be God or who, they have to answer the call. I love him [God] but he have to go sit down.”
“So I don’t know that they saying that this going to destroy Fahie or whatever… Now I didn’t speak to them about the $200,000 contract what was signed by some persons to look for the BVI Airways by the very people them who had it missing,” Hon Fahie said.
He echoed his previous statements pre-elections 2019, that the Dr. D. Orlando Smtih led National Democratic Party (NDP) lacked accountability for the territory’s funds, yet hired their friends to look for it.
“If they going to use their strength talking about one little contract, I will use the facts to bring out many more,” the Premier warned.
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