Gov’t contracts awarded to Claude O. Skelton-Cline was a 'mistake'- Premier
During the Third Sitting of the Fifth Session of the Fourth House of Assembly on February 21, 2023, Legislator and Minister for Natural Resources and Labour Hon Melvin M. Turnbull (R2) recused himself from the debates on the basis that the report was on his cousin.
Mistakes must be acknowledged - Dr Whealtey
Premier Wheatley added that while Mr Skelton-Cline was his friend, legislators are subject to scrutiny and that he initially supported the contract when it first came to Cabinet, but now must acknowledge it a mistake.
“I am here to say to you, Madam Speaker, that I believe that my support for these contracts was a mistake, and I believe that the former Premier made a mistake in engaging Claude Skelton-Cline with these contracts,” he said.
The Premier added that if the VI is to grow, people must look within themselves and admit to some harsh truths.
“The period that we are in, is a period of reform, a period of self-restriction and if we fool ourselves into believing that we have nothing to fix, we will not improve this territory for the better,” he said, while admitting that Skelton-Cline is his friend.
Contribution to success of projects marginal @ best - AG Reports
According to the Premier, the Report from the Auditor General has concluded that in the three consultancy contracts given to Skelton-Cline with an income of roughly $16,000 per month, he was paid exorbitantly and that his contribution to the success of the initiatives was marginal at best.
The Premier added that persons in the VI must learn to ‘speak honestly’ to friends and family because the territory is a small society and that friends and family must tell each other the truth.
Meanwhile, the Premier said that he thinks the resources given to Skelton-Cline would have been better used.
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42 Responses to “Gov’t contracts awarded to Claude O. Skelton-Cline was a 'mistake'- Premier”
he should be investigated and made to pay it back
These mistakes indicate that you are not fit to lead this territory! Saying sorry now that election is around the corner don’t change anything!
Stop condoning wrong which is what we are so very good at
Heard 8District rep yesterday on the radio and I felt so ashamed that we put this dunce in the legislature. His mom, a dear woman, taught me in school when I was a child. She gave me couple rulers and pinches along the way. Was she not suppose to correct me because other children were doing the same thing too? Hey, today i thank her for those corrections else I could have turned into a jail bird. Because he is one who getting milk off the treasury tee tee he feel the wrong should not be exposed. This is why we suffering and we will continue to suffer until these set of idots are removed from office.
Not one contract.
After the first Skelton Crime contract produced nothing , he then approved the next two contracts for the same man
Him and the rest of the gang.
Blatant robbery of the tax payers money.
He paid no payroll tax and I'm sure he did not tithe on none of his luxurious income. But yet he preach to his so-call foolish flock that they must give their 10% to the church, while that part of the bible don't apply to him.
This article will get lower and lower down the thread and evenutally come off the screen in a few days and we will forget. BVI people only talk for 2 days and then go back to sleep. Set of people afraid of their own shadow. They stand up for nothing that will be a benefit and ramp and rave over other mess. Carry on
Government you guys really drop the ball on this one big time. This man offered nothing to him the youths and only cared about building his mansion and buying fancy car. And now he even have a contract to sell food in the high school. How much this man want to eat of the government head. And he call himself a man God. Then again Head Coach did as well.
Just like the Airplane that we still waiting to see or return our money. U can't make these things up. Smfh....Only in BVI...Until we get serious and start demanding for people to be lockup for their wrong doings, these sorts of injustice to us the people will continue.
The office of a deacon is played down to the role of the water boy for the bishop or carry his briefcase. No. the only difference between a deacon and a bishop is that a bishop is given to no wine, and a deacon is given to litte wine.
Now on the subject at hand. Because the D2 rep is a cousin, hey, you are also a so-call pastor or minister. You should be the first one to call him out. Family or not. Stand for rightousness and holiness in every corner and call wrong wrong and sin sin. Stop the blumming sugar coating. As a so-call man a God you cannot excuse yourself from any moral issue. The church should not be about family, and the government should not be about family either. The church is the bride of Christ and nobody owns no church. If it don't belong to God, then call it something else.
If a yacht was purchased by purchased lby public funds, call the spade what it is and demand an investigation. If a payment went out as you said, call it out let us get to the bottom of it. We cannot stamp it out by hiding some and seeking the rest go through the right channels a mnd demand answers and investigations into what you said. No cline own this place and no cline is perfect and exempt from falling.
After all that has happened gone wrong since CSC employment, how come now appeared to be the right for our current Premier to and now admitted that it was a mistake? Most of the times when people got caught for actions they have done wrong or wrong that they did agreed with, rather than accepting blame, they blamed mistake. Allowed me, please, to explain what I know to be the true definition of a mistake, bellow:
Two persons two different countries entered Terrance B. Lettsome Airport. Both of them are owners of a suitcase identical to the other. The wrong was taken up, and placed on the scale.
The wrong tag number was put on it. After flight landing, on of the passenger took the wrong suitcase, without knowledge that the owner was another. In other words it was take by error.
What our current Premier has claimed is mistake is not a mistake, but in facta deliberate judgment decision made by the former Premier, agreed to by him, the current Premier.
Mistakes is a commonly used word said after a person got caught, not before.
How come when a person want to buy a bicycle the don't pay for a back hoe and go bicycling?
Honesty is still the best policy, everytime. But mistakes do happens From time to time, but not according to the topic matter. No. No. No., rather than mistake Bad management, in many, and mine honest opinion.
In the land of the blind the one-eyed man is king.
To master!