OTs cannot be sitting ducks with UK – Skelton-Cline
With uncertainty looming over Brexit and UK pressure for OTs to remove belongership status, legalise same-sex marriages and implement the public beneficial ownership registries, Mr Skelton-Cline is adamant that the territory needs to chart its own course.
Sitting Ducks
“We in the OT territories, and specifically we in these Virgin Islands… we cannot afford to sit as sitting ducks and wait to see what happens with the UK,” the man of the cloth urged his listening audience.
He was at the time interviewing guests Edmund G. Maduro, Rajah A. Smith & Richard C. de Castro on the Tuesday, March 5, 2019, edition of his radio show “Honestly Speaking” on ZBVI 780am radio.
“There needs to be a very proactive, a very engaged community, a very engaged and proactive government setting the course, the tone and the tenor for a path forward as to who we are going to be as a people and what we are going to do in terms of our relationship with the UK,” he added.
UK Relationship
According to Skelton-Cline, in the future, the relationship with the UK and OTs will change and countries like the Virgin Islands, sooner or later will have to set its own destiny.
“Clearly our relationship with the UK is going to change, what it changes into, has a lot to do with the decisions, with the moves we make, with the education and the re-education that needs to take place in the territory commencing even now as we speak regarding our own self-determination.”
Mr Skelton-Cline further brought up the issue of seeking independence, “We as a people, we as citizens of this territory have a right to determine our own destiny,” he said.
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