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‘There are elements in MoF to be dealt with!’ – Hon Andrew A. Fahie

- He claims that something is suspect with the tender process
“You could almost determine who going to get the contracts and be right about it and you have to be careful when you have a tender process and the same person winning all the time,” Hon Andrew A. Fahie said. Photo: VINO
Hon. Fahie was addressing the people of his district along with others last night September 17, 2014 at the Abraham Leonard Community Centre in Carrot Bay. It was the occasion of one of several community meetings of the Virgin Islands Party as they gear up to take back the reins of the Government come the next scheduled elections. Photo: VINO
Hon. Fahie was addressing the people of his district along with others last night September 17, 2014 at the Abraham Leonard Community Centre in Carrot Bay. It was the occasion of one of several community meetings of the Virgin Islands Party as they gear up to take back the reins of the Government come the next scheduled elections. Photo: VINO
The VIP continues their meetings through out the Territory as elections draw near. Photo: VINO
The VIP continues their meetings through out the Territory as elections draw near. Photo: VINO
CARROT BAY, Tortola, VI - “Something is suspect about the tender process, I know the intellectuals will get on me for this but they have to excuse me, something is suspect about the tender process. I don’t say it’s the persons involved with the evaluations, I kind of feel I happen to know where it is because they have some elements in the Ministry of Finance (MoF) that need to be dealt with,” said Honourable Andrew A. Fahie (R1).

“You could almost determine who going to get the contracts and be right about it and you have to be careful when you have a tender process and the same person winning all the time. You creating the haves and the have nots,” said Hon Fahie as he noted that this is something that he has indicated to Virgin Islands Party Chairman Hon Julian Fraser RA (R3) that has to be looked into in the best interest of the people.

Hon. Fahie was addressing the people of his district along with others last night September 17, 2014 at the Abraham Leonard Community Centre in Carrot Bay. It was the occasion of one of several community meetings of the Virgin Islands Party as they gear up to take back the reins of the Government come the next scheduled elections.

“It seems to me that the only way you could get an extra job through the government consistently is to become a consultant because when you analyze it not even to the bush they cutting and when they cut it it’s sparingly,” said Hon Fahie, who threw tons of blows at the current National Democratic Party (NDP) government for bad management and ignoring the people they should be serving.

“When you analyze it, the foundation that built this Territory, they talking that those things were hand outs, well if you taking my money, it’s our money, and giving it to companies coming in to do consultancy without tendering that’s a hand out to them, not because they have a degree. That’s what you call a sophisticated manner of giving a hand-out,” said Hon Fahie.

“Some people feel that when they go to school they get so intelligent that they could do the wrong thing and explain it to you that it is right with nice words but how could I understand those things when you telling every contractor, every vendor around who have children in school trying their best that they can’t get any work because you don’t have any money and every time you listen to the radio, more money gone to a consultant,” noted Hon Fahie.

He made it clear once again that he firmly believes that there is no government that can run without consultancy. “Don’t fool yourself,” he added while stating, “But if you broke for me you broke for them. You can’t broke for me and have for them… you have to find a balance,” he said.

He further stated, “That is why the people of this Territory know that you ain’t doing well but they can’t understand why, but they coming on the radio and telling you all is well.”

19 Responses to “‘There are elements in MoF to be dealt with!’ – Hon Andrew A. Fahie”

  • One word (18/09/2014, 09:39) Like (11) Dislike (0) Reply
    AMEN
  • Snap (18/09/2014, 09:40) Like (10) Dislike (3) Reply
    The pictures from all these VIP meetings says it all for me. Those poor loyalists.
  • One word (18/09/2014, 09:40) Like (6) Dislike (0) Reply
    AMEN
  • good (18/09/2014, 09:41) Like (12) Dislike (1) Reply
    This was a good & informative meeting. Thumbs up.
  • Contractor (18/09/2014, 09:44) Like (9) Dislike (2) Reply
    As a local contractor who is not a full Fahie fan I fully agree with him. I have reach to a point that I am not tendering for a next government project because all you are doing is wasting time & money & they done organise where it is going.
  • Like (18/09/2014, 10:11) Like (17) Dislike (1) Reply
    What I like about this meeting is it wasn't a meeting bashing no one. It was a meeting that educated & updated the people. This was good going. I got good insight of our country from this meeting. It was more than what I expected.
  • click (18/09/2014, 10:37) Like (10) Dislike (15) Reply
    People cannot get jobs because you Andrew saw to it that they are functional illiterates. They went to school under your good to great program, did college over the Internet or went away to lowrated colleges and now they cannot even complete a decent sentence. They are only qualified to put an X by your name on the ballot and take your BS as truth and gospel. Yeah yea you are an exploiter of the masses...Shame on you!
    • @click (18/09/2014, 12:13) Like (10) Dislike (2) Reply
      You sound so stupid with the nonsense you posting. Fahie was an excellent Minister of Education. For sure he brought education up to standard from where he got it from the NDP where now they can look like a star because of the foundation layed.
    • Oh dear (18/09/2014, 12:19) Like (4) Dislike (5) Reply
      @Click- Sounds to me that Andrew took your white faced cow and he didn't give you the horns. Go and sit yourself down and find something productive to do. Always blogging nonsense.
    • God please send help (18/09/2014, 13:26) Like (10) Dislike (0) Reply
      I can see that you are an NDP troller because you are not using logic in your message. The school programs are for the most part the same now as they were before and the changes that have been made are all cosmetic and make very little sense. Are you saying that if you don't go to an expensive college that you can't learn? Don’t colleges have to be accredited (low and high ranking)? What about the college here in the BVI, how low do you feel that college is? You are trying to spark an emotional response from your supporters. This is why I pray that God helps us. We need him even more than before with this current government!
      • click (18/09/2014, 20:21) Like (0) Dislike (5) Reply
        The fact is and it is an udeniable fact that the majority of the local job applicants are functional illiterates. Vip was in power for 8 consecutive years. During that time, he touted a so call "good to great'' program, fudged the scores and the results are job applicants that are shamefully illiterate wasting their lives with impossible hopes.
        I cannot imagine what they were like before entering college.. This sad truth about Andrew's deliberate attempts at dumbing down the future population while calling on the Great God of the Universe is criminal.. Defending and denying it is even worse. A Christian he is supposedly but he will eventually understand what is meant by "Suffer the little Children"..
        • @click (19/09/2014, 12:01) Like (4) Dislike (0) Reply
          I'm not a fan of the minister for the first district, but Andrew must have done something good in the Ministry of Education for the current minister to be trying to be " a man on a mission" and pushing to move from good to great.
  • David (18/09/2014, 10:51) Like (5) Dislike (6) Reply
    I agree that there continues to be a system of have and have nots; this district vs that district, but it's not like the VIP hasn't been guilty of the same process in the past. Political and ethics reform is sorely needed.
  • weed (18/09/2014, 11:02) Like (7) Dislike (5) Reply
    Fahie always say it like it is!
  • bay yute (18/09/2014, 11:32) Like (7) Dislike (0) Reply
    Vip all the way
  • mother hen (18/09/2014, 12:48) Like (11) Dislike (0) Reply
    Gaskin will be long gone by time the next elections
  • YES! (18/09/2014, 12:58) Like (10) Dislike (0) Reply
    Andrew you are on to something bossman but I am left Speechless
  • work it (18/09/2014, 14:33) Like (0) Dislike (6) Reply
    fAHIE WORKIN HARD FOR DUPUTY PREMIER MAYSON


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