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BVIPA MD Oleanvine Pickering-Maynard not seeking release from jail

- waives right to a detention hearing for now
Accused Managing Director of the BVI Ports Authority (BVIPA) Ms Oleanvine Pickering-Maynard has waived her right to a detention hearing in US courts. Photo: Facebook/File
Oleanvine Pickering-Maynard, left, along with ex-premier of the Virgin Islands Hon Andrew A. Fahie (R1), right, was arrested at a Miami airport on April 28, 2022, by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) on charges related to conspiracy to import a controlled substance and money laundering. Photo: Facebook/File
Oleanvine Pickering-Maynard, left, along with ex-premier of the Virgin Islands Hon Andrew A. Fahie (R1), right, was arrested at a Miami airport on April 28, 2022, by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) on charges related to conspiracy to import a controlled substance and money laundering. Photo: Facebook/File
MIAMI, Florida, USA- Accused Managing Director of the BVI Ports Authority (BVIPA) Ms Oleanvine Pickering-Maynard has waived her right to a detention hearing in US courts.

Pickering-Maynard, along with ex-premier of the Virgin Islands Hon Andrew A. Fahie (R1) was arrested at a Miami airport on April 28, 2022, by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) on charges related to conspiracy to import a controlled substance and money laundering.

In an order published last week, she was ordered detained after Magistrate Judge Lauren Louis considered Maynard’s pre-trial services report and determined that the risk of flight and the danger she presented to the community warranted her continued detention.

The detention order does allow Maynard’s counsel to request a full detention hearing at any time in the future should she decide to seek release.

VI Gov’t seeking to fire Pickering-Maynard

In an update to the territory on May 11, 2022, Premier Dr the Hon Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) disclosed that the [British] Virgin Islands Government is seeking to terminate Ms Oleanvine Pickering-Maynard as Managing Director of the BVI Ports Authority (BVIPA).

According to Dr Wheatley, the legal and practical issues involved in terminating the appointment of the current Managing Director are being examined and updates in this regard will be forthcoming.

Pickering-Maynard’s son Kadeem Maynard, who has also been arrested by US authorities on similar charges, is yet to make his initial appearance before the Southern District Court in Florida.

His last known location was detention in Puerto Rico, where he was awaiting transport to Miami.

Hon Fahie still seeking bail

Hon Fahie, on the other hand, is seeking release from the Detention Centre in Miami.

A US judge had ruled that Hon Fahie be granted $500,000 bond and conditions of release at a detention hearing on May 4, 2022, but that order has been stayed pending an appeal by prosecutors.

53 Responses to “BVIPA MD Oleanvine Pickering-Maynard not seeking release from jail”

  • Gilly (23/05/2022, 14:00) Like (36) Dislike (7) Reply
    Interesting! Us she admitting guilt or us content with free meals and room service.
    • Government Official 1 (23/05/2022, 16:23) Like (30) Dislike (0) Reply
      She is singing. Too dangerous outside.
    • Safehouse (24/05/2022, 00:03) Like (11) Dislike (0) Reply
      Probably escaping a potential hit
    • Pay rent for what (24/05/2022, 09:38) Like (9) Dislike (1) Reply
      It is cheaper she stay in there, accepting bond will mean additional expenses in like rent, food, electricity etc. She can't leave the house....Make sense to me.
    • Me (26/05/2022, 15:08) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
      Please stop calling him honorable
  • Windy (23/05/2022, 14:05) Like (14) Dislike (18) Reply
    This reminds sad sad sad
    • My girl (23/05/2022, 15:48) Like (32) Dislike (4) Reply
      Let this be a lesson for all of who think they are above the law but anyway think about his mother wife children and the people in the first district who believe in him he lost it all respect he just an ordinery man now
      • Byrdsnfeda (23/05/2022, 18:13) Like (10) Dislike (19) Reply
        Speak to the people in the first district and you will realise he has not lost anything as far as they are concerned. They still “believe in him”. It is a “set up”
        • yea (24/05/2022, 07:21) Like (14) Dislike (0) Reply
          Set of a$$. Yes it was a setup, but he took the bait, hook, line and sinker
          I know they can read just like us.
      • lola (24/05/2022, 14:19) Like (5) Dislike (1) Reply
        He has always been an ordinary man. All good things must come to an end.
    • Crazy joe (23/05/2022, 16:24) Like (26) Dislike (7) Reply
      It makes me glad , glad , glad that these scumbags are locked up.
  • local boy (23/05/2022, 14:06) Like (109) Dislike (79) Reply
    It was a Hoax according to President Donald Trump, the British and their co-conspirators set to take down Premier Foy over a fake story that they trumpt up against him and the port boss. It was all a hoax ladies and gentlemen.
    • Really (23/05/2022, 14:29) Like (9) Dislike (2) Reply
      What are you talking about say more
    • resident (23/05/2022, 15:02) Like (30) Dislike (3) Reply
      how did you even make this about trump, you leftys are sick
    • @local boy (23/05/2022, 15:11) Like (23) Dislike (25) Reply
      ...or a local fool?
    • @local boy (23/05/2022, 17:04) Like (13) Dislike (3) Reply
      DUMB MORONIC. ….. you people really think people have time for a dot of an Island. The lack of research and education allows you to hurl vomit, not words.
  • Fahie Maynard (23/05/2022, 14:12) Like (84) Dislike (67) Reply
    Let all ah dem stay incarcerated until the completion of this case. They misled everyone. I’m not rejoicing but I’m not sorry for them either. If this was a real Mexican drug lord and Andrew and Maynard got their fare share of payouts we the residents would not have gotten a penny. They did their crime let them serve their time in jail. No sympathy
    • Just saying (23/05/2022, 14:54) Like (35) Dislike (6) Reply
      Suppose the DEA agents were true Mexican drug lords and behead or cut down Andrew and ports lady in a hail of bullets when the step on the private jet. What would you all that is defending would have said?
      • Hmm (23/05/2022, 20:20) Like (9) Dislike (6) Reply
        Thats lease to think about. What if they were real drug cartels can u immagine the amount of drugs passing through and the dearh tile rising or ur country being taken over worst than it os already other than from the want to be so call gansters
      • @Just Saying (24/05/2022, 06:43) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
        Uhh...karma?
    • What? (23/05/2022, 14:57) Like (16) Dislike (4) Reply
      Am I hearing that you would have expected a share of the profits?
    • Ms Maynard. Why? (23/05/2022, 15:22) Like (24) Dislike (0) Reply
      You were playing Games all along. I can imagine the pain your in,. The beating your conscience giving you...Stop playing with good people. God don't sleep.
      • Juno (23/05/2022, 18:21) Like (17) Dislike (1) Reply
        Her favorite saying is “the world is round”. She thinks it is only round for her and not the people she treated out of the way on the job. She beat up her chest on port staff with the help of board members especially the females.
      • @Why (24/05/2022, 03:00) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply
        SCREAMS suspicion. He bulls**tting the people and needs to go. Either she in his ear or BVIPA board crooks in his ear or just another family affair if they are cousins. Terminate her contract and investigate every board created by Fahie. This job is too big for someone like him. The BVI may be better served without all the conflicts of interest in high places because cousin looking for excuses why they cannot fire cousin, even under the circumstances. If the director was from "down island", would he be experiencing this difficulty? NO!!
    • Jones (23/05/2022, 16:01) Like (4) Dislike (2) Reply
      Whats to say they dont already have similar deals in place
    • Peaches (23/05/2022, 20:10) Like (0) Dislike (1) Reply
      @Fahie Maynard who would have wanted any of their dirty money anyway?
  • smh (23/05/2022, 14:20) Like (34) Dislike (1) Reply
    You right. You are more secured in jail
  • Ye (23/05/2022, 14:25) Like (45) Dislike (1) Reply
    Must admit thats a profound level of ugliness.
  • Heyyyyyy (23/05/2022, 14:37) Like (52) Dislike (0) Reply
    Obviously she is good where she is, she is better off staying under the Feds protection.
  • old (23/05/2022, 14:40) Like (34) Dislike (1) Reply
    Good job. But looking more money. Some people s don't now where the next meal is coming from. We must learn from this.
  • This is as real as it Gets.. (23/05/2022, 15:13) Like (28) Dislike (0) Reply

    That's her guilty plea. Or she knows she is guilty and she will be there for long time so the smart thing is to programme the mind and be prepared for a long stay...

  • @ LOCAL BOY (23/05/2022, 15:14) Like (48) Dislike (1) Reply
    HOAX ???? YEAH RITE , ONE THING , HE IS A SERIOUS BUSINESS MAN , HE MADE SURE HE TOOK HIS CALCULATOR WITH HIM / BUT SEEMS TO HAVE CONVENIENTLY FORGOTTEN HIS BIBLE , AFTER PLAYING (ST ANDREW DOWN HERE
  • Mefeng (23/05/2022, 15:30) Like (38) Dislike (4) Reply
    Three meals per day, no rent to pay. Doors locked tight, no mosquitoes bite. Don't wrong you. Might as well stay right where you are.
  • Gus Gus (23/05/2022, 15:53) Like (41) Dislike (0) Reply
    I am sooo tempted to put a comment here.... but the good Lord has stopped me.... smh
  • Released (23/05/2022, 15:54) Like (8) Dislike (4) Reply
    Pray
  • Village (23/05/2022, 16:24) Like (18) Dislike (0) Reply
    She know that what she did is wrong so so she decided to accept the outcome
  • Greg (23/05/2022, 17:30) Like (28) Dislike (2) Reply
    Those two are just plain people now. Stripped of their high job titles. No getting bulletproof car, getting in front of the lines in banks, supermarkets, etc. People will look at them with scorn now because they fooled us with their so-called prayers and fasting, well, at least we know they were not fasting, so we have lost all respect for them. As far as her son goes, everyone knew he was a crook for years, just didn't know how long he could hold out. ZERO sympathies for them, living high on the hog while so many here can barely eat.
    • Sad ending (23/05/2022, 20:20) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply
      @Grey Andrew didn't fool me with his false prayers and on his knees calling for prayer. Imagine he said that we should have fasted for two days due to the COI Report when he full-well knew that he was such a deceiver! I still can't catch myself with this. It feels like a dream. However, let this be a lesson to all who think that they can forever trample on those who they feel are below them. I can say that I cried many tears day and night with one whom Andrew may have had on his payroll. God does not sleep. The chickens have come home to roost. As the Psalmist David said, "Yet a little while and the wicked shall not be. You shall consider his place and he shall not be. God sees and in his own time he will hear and he has answered.
  • She ain’t stupid (23/05/2022, 17:57) Like (12) Dislike (0) Reply
    She already knows what time it is. Her best bet is to stay with the FEDS, do her time and disappear. They got her son out of St.Thomas and ship him to PR until they send him over to Florida. Don’t worry about her, she eating good in lock up. Heard in Federal prison they feed them well.
  • Go MaMa (23/05/2022, 18:19) Like (15) Dislike (0) Reply
    She is smart. She loves the burgers. She does not want to come out now. They said she gets a job in the kitchen.
  • Tom drunk but not fool (23/05/2022, 19:31) Like (16) Dislike (0) Reply
    These people doing elegal stuff for years. So they time pop up on them now. How long shall the oppress a keep harassing poor people. And at the same time fast and pray and calling on God. And at the same time involves with witchcraft.
  • lol (23/05/2022, 19:47) Like (8) Dislike (0) Reply
    Sing birdie sing..
  • Rolling in his grave (23/05/2022, 20:29) Like (3) Dislike (3) Reply
    Her husband must be rolling in his grave....Wife and son! This ain't no time to be away from your home locked away. Especially in America. But I believe that the Lord allowed them to be there to save them from themselves.
  • uh (23/05/2022, 20:59) Like (5) Dislike (0) Reply
    Remember money isn't the root of evil its the love of money you make your bed you have lay on it sad to say
  • bvi (23/05/2022, 23:56) Like (4) Dislike (0) Reply
    She's too ashamed to show her face around here
  • reason (24/05/2022, 05:01) Like (0) Dislike (2) Reply
    I from here i born here I have been hearing that for a long time.
    • Stop It (24/05/2022, 09:09) Like (0) Dislike (5) Reply
      Reason, Stop tell lies! Even if you heard those words are they false.
  • confused (24/05/2022, 06:40) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply
    Why cant they just fire her outright? I would think missing her job would be considered derelict of duty and grounds for termination. Can someone explain?
    • reason (24/05/2022, 09:45) Like (2) Dislike (1) Reply
      Innocent until proven guilty. Public servants get half pay until the verdict is in... I believe the ports will be similar
  • Look at it this way (24/05/2022, 06:47) Like (8) Dislike (0) Reply
    She doing exactly what she got to do. Andrew ain’t worrying about her now, he is to busy trying to get his fat behind out of jail. She knows that she is stripped of everything back here in Tortola ie job, home, clothes, designer bags, shoes, reputation, everything. She is going to make a deal with the Feds. Her ugly behind, Andrew and her little wanna be thug son is F***ed.
  • Ingram (24/05/2022, 07:26) Like (5) Dislike (1) Reply
    If she is granted bail she cannot leave Miami, so what will she do. Looks like she is a broke dealer, and The people who were guiding her hands and mind have forsaken her. The one who was in the plane with her when she was arrested is now going to her job from on the port causing mischief while getting paid from a job she was not going to.

    While they were scheming people out of bread they could not see the schemes facing them. God see for us all. Hid us not mocked
  • H (25/05/2022, 07:26) Like (4) Dislike (0) Reply
    You see her ßorry face it look bad when a man got caught in thing much more a woman especially people in high please it is better you throw in the towel


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