Protect our borders! Re-engage barges -Claude O. Skelton Cline
The barges, which were used between December 2020 and January 2021, cost the government upwards of $300,000 for that period. It also came under heavy criticisms in the public domain as well as in the Commission of Inquiry being conducted by the United Kingdom appointed Commissioner Sir Gary R. Hickinbottom.
“The last time we had a flare-up, the source led to this,” he said, referring to human smuggling into the territory.
“Again, I have not heard definitively yet the source of this most current flare-up, but law enforcement, we need to know. Cut this thing off at its source! These borders need to remain protected. Since the removal of those officers on those barges, which now we are scared to revisit because of this CoI, look like it got us paralysed.”
'This is not how the Lord works'- Skelton-Cline
He then asked: “Why is it that we do not have barges back in the water? Why is it that the JTF is not functioning at the optimal level that it was intended to function so that these borders can be protected, lives and livelihoods can be protected until we get our heads and hands around what’s taking place in this country? Why are we so afraid of our own shadow that we cannot speak truth to power and speak soberly about things that are challenging us?”
The clergyman said his sources from inside the law enforcement departments are revealing to him that the Joint Task Force is not operating as it should.
“You would think that by not addressing these things, by not attending to them that somehow it is going to go away and if we pray God is just going to supernaturally just make it disappear? This is not how the Lord works! We have to do our part in partnering with God to set this country on the right path. I am calling on the head of Customs, Immigration, I am calling on the National Security Council, you all get together present the facts as you know them, and come to these people of the Virgin Islands with some decision about what’s being done about the protection of these porous borders.”
Skelton-Cline went a step further, saying that the Health Services Authority “needs to push law enforcement to tell us they suspect where this all start, an official statement needs to be made if it had not been made already, but I have not heard one so that we know what we dealing with.”
The Virgin Islands currently has well over 1000 actives cases of COVID-19. There have been five (5) COVID-19 related deaths.
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42 Responses to “Protect our borders! Re-engage barges -Claude O. Skelton Cline”
instant testing must be done on arrival.
make no mistake here...the only way to have any chance of irradicating this from our borders is for the majority of us all to be fullt vacinated.
What needs to be done right now is to lock us down so we cant continue to spread this. it seems that the only thing we have adhered to as a people/ residents is when we are told to lock down..we do it properly. do it now government...dont wait for it to climb more.. give us 4 days notice abd shut us down. this spread isnt going to stop if people dont listen and think they are immune to spread.
Please Mr. SC...soread that word...not conspiricy theories...please..please ..please
Just look at the statistics of who is being hospitalized.
I honestly and strongly urge our goverment leaders to stop wasteing the people's well needed money on you. Especially in a cashstrap time as now. Your suggestions are like wornout shoes. Tired of hearing them.
Better option than the barges would be to get the Royal Navy back out here. I believe this was offered without cost to the territory last time and so makes more sense that splurging $300k on some ineffective barges
The Government made a decision to exempt vaccinated persons from testing and quarantine from the 15th June 2021. Three weeks later we see the result of this fatal mistake. They have attempted a half baked attempt at reinstating the testing requirement but still no quarantine.
Their solution: Protect borders so more money could pass yet you put a plaster over the real problem which is vaccinated persons coming in without quarantine.
Nonsense!
Get the borders under control so we can at least stop more cases from coming in UNDETECTED.
“I wanted to update you on the Commission of Inquiry (CoI), launched by my predecessor because of increasing concerns about poor governance and possible corruption, abuse of office or other serious dishonesty within the British Virgin Islands.”
Nonsense!!!!
Hid defiance was recorded by a photo op fortis, his well publicized and documented crime..
Ii was in defiance of the then Governor's urgent announced mandate for the VI.
Cline set the tone for the tragic deaths illness and economic bust that is now occurring.