Millions & millions & millions & more NDP reckless spending unearthed!
![During the first NDP administration [2011-2015] there were millions and millions reportedly wasted or overspent on the Georgie Hill Road on the main island of Tortola. Now the NDP Government has forwarded $5M to a defunct BVI Airways when many persons are owed and schools can't receive supplies. Photo: VINO/File](https://www.virginislandsnewsonline.com/cache/images/800x_g_georgie_hill.png)
The people brought the theory and in 2003 voted out the VIP on the premise that a group of businessman was better equipped to manage the taxpayers’ money and bring about fiscal responsibility.
One of their supporters, who also was an NDP candidate Quito Rymer, even sang a song on the so called ‘Millions and Millions and Millions and more’ that was allegedly wasted by the VIP headed by former Premier and Minister of Finance Hon Ralph T. O’Neal OBE.
NDP tricked the people?
It turned out to be a scam as the NDP had started their reckless spending from its first administration. After the election of 2007-2011 the people chased the NDP out of Office in a landslide, with the VIP gaining 10 seats, 1 independent who sat with government and the NDP had two seats, that of Premier Dr D. Orlando Smith- an At Large Representative- and Dr Kedrick D. Pickering (R7).
In the 2011 elections, again the marketing arm of the NDP sold the same theory that the VIP was on a spending spree and that only an NDP government could adequately manage their money. They also sold in 2011 to the people that the Biwater purchase agreement to bring 24 hour water to residents on Tortola was bad and it was millions of taxpayers’ dollars going out of the Virgin Islands.
The public brought the information and voted out the VIP. The first order of business for the NDP in 2011 after taking office was to lie to the people that the VIP had left the country broke. However, in a series of questions asked by the VIP Opposition, practically Hons Julian Fraser RA (R3) and Andrew A. Fahie (R1), it was unearthed that the Treasury was full of money and in fact the Reserve and Consolidated Funds had over a $160 Million dollars and would have been more once the money from the Financial Services Commission had been credited to the Treasury.
NDP left country broke is a fact!
Once that “VIP left country broke Lie” could no longer sell, the NDP then blamed their financial mismanagement on the bad global economy.
During the first administration [2011-2015] there were millions and millions reportedly wasted or overspent on the Georgie Hill Road on the main island of Tortola.
In addition, millions and millions were spent on the Craft Alive project by the Minister of Communications and Works Hon Mark H. Vanterpool (R4) and to date we are not aware of the full cost.
It was also unearthed that the Ports Development Project reached closed to $90 million while still incomplete when the public was told it would only cost between $50 to $55 million.
It was also discovered that the controversial Minister for Education and Culture Hon Myron V. Walwyn spent over $1M on a small wall around the Elmore Stoutt High School. To justify the reckless spending, he said it was for security purposes, when in fact a small child can jump the wall.
It was even more embarrassing when after such spending it was discovered that there was no supplies for schools, or money for the additional 12th grade.
Recently, it was reported that the Minister for Natural Resources and Labour spent some $5M on the airport runway extension and not a rock has moved.
Further Dr Smith, the Minister of Finance, has already given $5M to a defunct BVI Airways and to date no one knows if the company would ever fly. The same BVI Airways owes the BVI Airports Authority some $99 thousand dollars but still is able to get our tax dollars. When the little man owes government money, for example Social Security, he cannot get a contract from some public sector agencies.
Reckless or not?
In addition, there were millions and millions spent on consultants for every Ministry, travel around the globe most often with no reports and other many petty contracts that Hon Fahie described as “questionable spending”.
Hon Fahie also declared that the NDP has lost their credibility to lecture him or anyone on financial management of the Territory’s monies.
In addition, it was revealed that following the 2015 election the NDP left the country broke. This they admitted in an answer to a question that there were only had $30M in the Treasury, a fall off from the $90M the VIP left.
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