Gov Jaspert tarnished VI's reputation with CoI media blast – Attorney Michael J. Fay QC
On Tuesday, January 19, 2021, Premier and Minister of Finance Honourable Andrew A. Fahie (R1) and his team of Ministers were on their Sea Cows Bay leg of the ongoing community meetings when Attorney-at-Law Michael J. Fay, QC took to the microphone to question the motive of the Governor’s media splurge when announcing the Commissioner of Inquiry.
Was intention to damage reputation of VI?
Mr Fay said that, while ignoring for the moment the question of whether His Excellency the Governor believes he has good reason to call for a Commission of Inquiry, “I want to ask you a question about how the announcement was made.”
He stated that it was his understanding that the Hon Fahie government was not given any advance notice that an announcement of a Commission of Inquiry would be publicly made that Monday morning, January 18, 2021.
“However, it appears that the English press, but apparently not any press outlet in the BVI, were given advance notice so that they were able to run the story before the Government here was aware of, or had time to respond to, the story. An announcement was also made by the UK Foreign Secretary on Monday morning.”
Attorney Fay, speaking at the community meeting at the BVI Seventh-day Adventist School, said he was not able to think of any legitimate reason why the Government of the Virgin Islands had to be kept in the dark about the announcement of the CoI. “I cannot think of any manner in which the proper conduct of the inquiry would have been compromised if the Government had been given notice, and prepared to respond.”
“In the circumstances, I wonder why the announcement was kept secret and then made so dramatically. Absent any good reason for the secrecy and the surprise, I wonder whether the secrecy was intended to achieve two purposes (i) to be as dramatic as possible, (ii) to damage the reputation of the BVI as much as possible. It certainly achieved those ends.”
Well-coordinated ambush
“So my question is to ask you whether the Governor has been able to provide you with any good explanation for the secrecy,” Mr Fay asked.
Responding to Mr Fay, Deputy Premier and Minister for Education, Culture, Youth Affairs, Fisheries and Agriculture, Dr the Honourable Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) said, “I can say without a shadow of a doubt, leaving no uncertainty what-so-ever, we found out about this commission of inquiry, I can’t say same time as everyone else because obviously there were entities in the media in the United Kingdom and elsewhere which were informed about this well before we were informed.”
“I can only come to the conclusion that this was a well-coordinated ambush designed to do exactly what you said, damage the reputation of the territory and certainly seek to damage this administration.”
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“In the circumstances, I wonder why the announcement was kept secret and then made so dramatically. Absent any good reason for the secrecy and the surprise, I wonder whether the secrecy was intended to achieve two purposes (i) to be as dramatic as possible, (ii) to damage the reputation of the BVI as much as possible. It certainly achieved those ends.”
The Governor knew exactly what his EVIL intention was.
the longer you live the more you will see.
To say that he did what he did in the interest of the people of the BVI is hogwash. The intent is to destroy what remaining international standing we have and demolish our financial economic potential.
Those who consider him a friend need to stand back and reevaluate the lens through which he viewed and used them.
sad
How could you on the one hand say you are looking out for the country and it’s people and behave that way. That massive overseas media campaign was unnecessary!
Hoping for a job perhaps?
It’s sad that some of our local people are so blind they can’t see the BIG picture.
The governor has not done us good with this.
The International headlines are so terrible!!!! This is our BVI people!! This is all we have!!
He then hand picks a judge and brings him here to do an inquiry into corruption after he started and or aided to fuel the corrupt BVI propaganda world wide.
Tell me based on this knowledge, how can anyone with common sense not see that this inquiry will not be un-biased?
This commission of inquiry is part of a calculated plot to undermined BVI integrity, push a corrupt BVI agenda and pave the way for UK to make statements that they have to step in and stabilize the corrupt BVI; and the world will easier support it because of the filth that the governor and his associates have put out to them.
Look at the head lines being propagated into the world "PARADISE LOST Millions of pounds of taxpayers’ cash feared stolen in ‘corrupt’ British Virgin Islands"
I challenge anybody to show me where the lost paradise is... because it definitely ain't this British Virgin Islands that I am Living in right now!
To many persons seem to be grabbing at any floating straw they see. None of us knows what information is waiting to be put forward.
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What do you expect from w*** people. If they can't rule over the land they will leave it in ashes.