‘It’s ignorance’ I. Fletcher Scatliffe clear the air on stay @ Sports Complex
Misinformation spread over the past months about his stay there and his alleged refusal to leave the building despite requests from the Government.
Mr Scatliffe said his experience there was "a good one" as he was able to see firsthand "other cultures and how they live and behave". He was at the time speaking on the radio programme Honestly Speaking aired on ZBVI 780 AM on Tuesday, April 10, 2018, hosted by former Managing Director of BVI Port Authority (BVIPA) and social commentator, Claude O. Skelton-Cline.
"I had an official role at the shelter" - Irvine Fletcher Scatliffe
Despite the rumours as to why he was at the Road Town Multi-Purpose Sports Complex, Mr Scatliffe told the host that his role there was as the Assistant Shelter Manager and he had to remain at the sports complex "to make sure there was order".
He said, "I was there because I had to be there and because the new manager could not be there at nights -she had books to mark- I was placed in that position having to be there."
Mr Scatliffe said the public needed to be more helpful and positive to people who find themselves in the shelter as “none of them wanted to be there, everybody wanted to have their own privacy, and could not wait to leave".
The former voice of farmers said: "They were trying to make the issue about me, and why I was there.” Mr Scatliffe said he has a big house with 4 bathrooms. "Where I live is a palace, but I was there offering community service.”
Government broke
When asked by the host Mr Skelton-Cline why the government is the least resilient he responded by saying, "They do not have the money to do anything.” He said he knows of a situation where a young man had to drop out school because Government could not afford to pay their portion of his scholarship, he added: “That is a shame.”
He lambasted Premier and Minister of Finance, Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith (AL) for saying information about the bill [Virgin Islands Recovery and Development Agency Act 2018] was "confidential”. He said passionately, "Dr Smith did the same thing over BVI Airways, and that is not right. The public has a right to know."
Mr Scatliffe said, “An uninformed community is an ignorant community” while adding that when you hide information from the community "something is wrong".
Responding to a question posed by Mr Skelton-Cline, Mr Scatliffe stated that he supports a Freedom of Information Act and a Consumer Protection Bill.
Where is the consumer protection bill?
In addition, Mr Scatliffe said from the time he was an infant the people have been "crying for a Consumer Protection Bill", and the people who we elect refused to put it in place but warned even if the Bill is passed "these fellows will still refuse to give us information".
Mr Skelton-Cline stated he will be a voice for the people and he will air on the side of the people, and he is "not protecting any banks, any insurance companies, or any government this one or the other".
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20 Responses to “‘It’s ignorance’ I. Fletcher Scatliffe clear the air on stay @ Sports Complex”
You should be shame of your self. You know how much it costs tax payers to have you and the others there. You got away with it because you are big bad Fletcher from Road Town. If it was country, east or west end folks were doing that B.s they would have been arrested, charge and be forcefully remove long time . You all playing games with this country but people are really hurting. I bet you if some disease had outbreak every last one of you all who stayed there would have found some place to go.
Fletcher not telling the truth. He was not there to oversee nothing. Fletcher just ignorant and out of place.
By the time I hit the 5th or 6th line I could not take it any more and stopped reading.
You always been a community-minded person who never isolate yourself from the people....a big house didn't keep you away from an opportunity to mix and mingle with the less fortunate. There's a lesson in that for some of these pious self-righteous people around who think they better than anybody else. Erma brought all to the same level. Let them take your stay at the Complex as an example that one day, the good, the bad and the ugly will end up in the same hell, if they do not repent. Amen