Order in Council ‘should be removed’- TCI Deputy Premier Jamell R. Robinson
In an interview with the Acting Director of Communications, Mrs Karia J. Christopher, at the 49th CARICOM Heads of Government Meeting in Montego Bay, Jamaica, from July 6 to 8, 2025, Hon Robinson said the TCI, which is also a United Kingdom (UK) Overseas Territory, went through a similar Order in Council in 2009, where the constitution there was suspended.
“That’s something we don’t want to see in the BVI, and three years onward from that initial Commission of Inquiry, I think that it’s time that [it] should be removed so persons can move forward.”
Hon Robinson added that from his discussions with Premier and Minister of Finance Dr the Hon Natalio D. Wheatley (R7), all of the targets that were set out for the territory in terms of keeping self-government have been met.
“So once that has happened, it’s time to move on, as we would have moved on in the Turks and Caicos Islands, because of course, having the people’s voice in the Parliament as well as the decision making is the most important thing for any democracy, for any country in this side of the world.”
TCI continues to stand in solidarity with VI
Hon Robinson also said the TCI is and will be standing by the VI in this matter.
The United Kingdom Overseas Territory Association (UKOTA), together with CARICOM, he said, has “advocated for the removal of the proposed suspension of the BVI constitution, which [were] primarily based on the lessons learned in the Turks and Caicos, meaning it didn’t go well”.
He explained that it was better for an elected government to work together with the UK to iron out whatever differences existed.
“So definitely the Turks and Caicos stands then and now in solidarity with the BVI.”
Premier Wheatley left the territory yesterday, Sunday, July 13, 2025, to attend official meetings with the Minister for the Overseas Territories, the Honourable Stephen J. Doughty, and other UK Government officials on July 14 and July 15, 2025.
The meetings are part of the ongoing dialogue between the Virgin Islands and the United Kingdom on governance reform and other bilateral issues.
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