The Central Statistics Office (CSO) in the Virgin Islands has called out commentator Claude O. Skelton-Cline for reportedly providing inaccurate information regarding the population of the Virgin Islands. Photo: Facebook

According to the Director of the Central Statistics Office, Mr Raymond Phillips, the Virgin Islands population, according to data collected in 2023, showed the VI population was 39,467. Photo: Facebook

Speaking on his Honestly Speaking show titled ‘Babylon is Falling’ on February 24, 2026, Mr Skelton-Cline erroneously stated that, according to information collected so far, there are fifty thousand people in the Virgin Islands.

“How [are] we going to have fifty thousand people in this country going north? Where are the classrooms? Where [is] the housing? Where [are] the vehicles? Where [is] the public transportation? How [are we going to] flush? Where’s the supply for fuel, for food?”

‘Plain wrong!’

But, according to the Director of the Central Statistics Office, Mr Raymond Phillips, the Virgin Islands population, according to data collected in 2023, showed the VI population was 39,467. Males numbered 20,084, while females totalled 39,467.

“Not sure where Claude Skelton-Cline got his information but it’s plain wrong,” a government official exclaimed to our News centre.

The last census for the Virgin Islands (VI) was done in 2010, following which it was reported that the VI had a population of 28,054. The official report from the 2010 population census was published in 2014. 

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