Tensions high from VG residents after July 17, 2018 public meeting
Residents had many questions, from how they were treated after the hurricanes of 2017 to the closure of the last bank.
Ninth District Representative, Dr The Honourable Hubert R. O’Neal, who got most of the anger at the meeting claimed the 2017 disasters and the subsequent closure of major Virgin Gorda resorts are the reasons he lapsed in fulfilling some of his campaign promises.
Too much excuses from NDP
Residents for the most part rejected that, and ‘peppered’ the Government members there with many questions and was dismissive of the excuses and reasons given by the NDP Administration, including the outgoing Premier, Dr the Hon D. Orlando Smith (AL).
There were even reports that one Government Minister had stormed out the meeting, as this was the third attempt at a meeting with residents. Dr O’Neal also announced he is running again and asked the people for another term.
“I want the people to be patient. We will recover. I can see it and we have come a long way since the storms.”
Dr O’Neal said it’s not easy
The first term legislator confessed that he has not delivered on many of the promises he campaigned on, and said “it is not easy being an elected official, right now”. He even threw some soft words at his opponent, Sister Islands Programme Coordinator, Vincent O. Wheatley, who will be the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) candidate for District Nine.
A number of residents of Anegada and Virgin Gorda have told our newsroom that Hon O’Neal was absent following the Hurricanes of 2017 while Mr Wheatley was there for them.
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