‘NDP Gov’t on reality TV fight while Territory hangs in balance’- Skelton-Cline
This news site has on many occasions reported on the division currently engulfing the National Democratic Party (NDP), where Backbenchers have become disgruntled for being excluded on important matters affecting the Territory and where Members of the NDP are in a power struggle as some seek to get rid of the old guards, including founding member and president of the party, Dr Smith.
And according to Mr Skelton-Cline, while on his show Honestly Speaking on ZBVI 780 AM on March 6, 2018, while the NDP Government is so busy with infighting the people’s business is not being taken care of.
“For example, we should have had House of Assembly today and we don’t even know why. Except to have some perfunctory remarks about some matter that has come up. It is absolutely unacceptable.
There have been unconfirmed reports that legislators of the NDP Government were set to roast Dr Smith under ‘Any other Business’ during the continuation of the First Sitting of the Third Session of the Third House of Assembly (HoA) which was scheduled for March 6, 2018, prompting a postponement of the sitting, which was subsequently rescheduled to Thursday, March 8, 2018.
“And so while the National Democratic Party Government is on some reality TV fight, pursuing power, the country hangs in the balance,” Mr Skelton-Cline stated.
He added that if the fight that the NDP Members were in were not impacting the Territory so much then the people would get out their popcorns, but too much is at stake. “We would pull up and sit in our chairs and watch the show, but this is not a show, this is our lives, our future. These are our children and our grandchildren, they deserve better than what they have been getting with the government that we have elected,”
VI like the Prodigal Son!
Meanwhile, there has been much discussion about the ‘UK Framework for BVI recovery’ and opposition to some of the stipulations, including the formation of a mandatory Agency to oversee the spending of the loan funds being backed by the United Kingdom.
According to Mr Skelton-Cline, he noted there is a big “pushback” against the Agency but it is needed because the Territory needs the money.
“We don’t have the monies because we have squandered our resources in our best years. It is like the Prodigal Son who has taken all of daddy’s stuff and has wasted it and he got to come back home, but the only difference is this daddy is saying and this mother is saying no sir it is not going to be like that. There is a cost for what has just happened.”
He said such is the position that the UK Government has taken and they have a right to do so, earlier adding that Government had failed to be good stewards of the Territory’s finances, even failing to produce financial statements to the House of Assembly for the past 7 years.
“They [UK] have a right to protect their interest, and we had a responsibility to ensure that we were executing appropriately our fiduciary responsibilities. So we have behaved ourselves into this now we have to behave ourselves out of this.”
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They are all horrible sn****s. Just that the ministers taking all the heat while they sheltered. Be careful what you ask for.