'Premier is misinformed! I was not paid'– Hugh E. Darley
Darley fired off the response to the Premier’s statements made at a press conference held yesterday January 21, 2016, denying that Government owed Darley any more money.
The Premier said all payments owed to former project coordinator Hugh E. Darley have been settled and if the American still feels aggrieved then he can seek recourse by either engaging the Government or going through the courts.
The Premier also ordered an audit into the cruise pier development project to put to rest many of what he calls rumours.
“As far as I know there is no truth to those rumours. Whatever was owed to Mr Darley was as far as I know paid to the company that he was involved with. If Mr Darley thinks there is something else that he is due, he has recourse. He has to make his request or his presentation to government or to the courts. He has made his presentations in the news but that does not represent a presentation to Government,” Premier Smith had said.
Premier needs to read the emails - Hugh E. Darley
However, speaking to this news site today, Darley said, “He is misinformed. He should read emails between BVIPA and IDEA between October 2013-January 6, 2014. We were negotiating with BVIPA until we signed first licensing agreement on January 4, 2014.”
He asked the question why Government was negotiating with IDEA to get licence for their drawings if Government had already paid.
“I met in Miami in December [2013] with and agreed to license the drawings to the Government and valued that license at $2,000,000. They have our Invoice from October 2013 for the fee of $2,000,000,” he said.
In an earlier interview, Darley had told this news site that he received four payments of $25,000 each for the first four months of 2014 and then all communications ceased.
Darley said IDEA Inc.’s attorney Appleby is also aware of the details of the situation and noted, “TPP never at any time owned our drawings as they had to close on the financial deal to own our work. They failed to close on September 19, 2013.”
Darley also provided a string of email communications spanning 2013 and 2014 detailing correspondences between IDEA Inc. and Claude O. Skelton-Cline and other persons as they discussed the arrangements between the parties for the use and licencing of the drawings.
See earlier stories here:
http://www.virginislandsnewsonline.com/en/news/govt-investigating-self-on-ports-project-scandal
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32 Responses to “'Premier is misinformed! I was not paid'– Hugh E. Darley”
Who cares. Take your case to court like normal business people do and then get the bleep out. Sick of hearing this whiny w*** man now. Sheesh. Is this professional or personal?
I would think that with all the bad press Hugh Darley has generated and the allegations made by Mr. Darley against Dr. Smith and his ministers, the Premier would make it his business to KNOW for certain what has transpired. If he doesn't "KNOW" then what business does he have running our government. It is his job to KNOW!
I am tired of all the pussy footing around this issue. Clearly, the government is hiding things and we will NEVER be privvy to the truth. We will just be stuck paying the bills and paying to settle the court cases and NOBODY will be held accountable. The Governor has failed us and as far as I am concerned is of no use whatsoever since he refuses to do that which the people have asked him to do, time and time again!
We want a proper Commission of Inquiry, not some rubbish audit requested by the very government we want audited. What utter nonsense!
You are playing into the GOVT strategy; and you call yourself a business man?
A still tongue holds a wise head.
@ to much airtime: we both share the same point of view with this publication ( when will it end ) white boy just p.ssed to see the territory made progress on this project without him( he need to scatter his mot#e& s@u#t)....the one fellow in the education system has a law firm; let him give this white boy some legal advice