‘Stop all this drinking’- Claude O. Skelton-Cline to VI youth
Public health was among many topics he discussed during the June 16, 2026, airing of his show. “I want to ask these young people, and especially you young ladies. I see a lot of young women, y’all, drinking a lot of rum. Notice I didn’t say alcohol; rum.”
Skelton-Cline said he has observed over the course of many weeks the tremendous amount of alcohol young people in the Virgin Islands are consuming.
“Have you noticed…one of the things that is happening, you ending up with some big bellies. You look like you pregnant, and you ain’t even pregnant.”
Anesthesing the pain?
Skelton-Cline went a step further and asked if the people of the VI are hurting that much. “You mean to tell me that we are in so much pain this is anesthetising the pain? What is this about?”
He said he does not care if the young people get mad, adding, “I’m trying to help you.”
He stressed his point again, telling the young people that drinking needs to stop or it will kill them. “It’s messing up your liver; it’s messing up your kidneys; it’s going to cause poor decisions to be made; your front is going to become a public park. What in God’s name are we doing?”
The clergyman said that while the Bible says Paul said a little wine is good for the stomach, that is not what he is referring to. “I’m talking about hard liquor. Young people and all that thing does is turn into sugar, turn into fat, and that’s what makes your belly fat.”
Social & functional alcoholics
Skelton-Cline also observed that some of these young people only drink when they are among certain people, in certain places and at certain times.
“You know what those are? Those are triggers as to how habits are developed. I want you to pay attention. When you are not with certain people, you don’t drink. When you don’t go to certain places, you don’t drink. At certain times in the day, you don’t drink. I’m telling you, you can become a social alcoholic, a functional alcoholic and don’t even know it.”
He encouraged them to take healthy vitamin shots instead. “Stop all this drinking for your own wellbeing.”
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17 Responses to “‘Stop all this drinking’- Claude O. Skelton-Cline to VI youth”
Mehson he needs to stop. Drinking helps me w coping with the realization that I been a fish. Hard to swallow, IRL, but if we aint got no way to cope wa we supposed to do?!? Would you rather we go to use hard drugs, or go get the cookie cutter popped randomly, or can we atleast have an easy vice such as drinking? Claude u need to chill!
partying, drinking, having multiple partners, smoking, being single mothers, multiple baby mamas / baby daddies , unmarried with kids and single. minors from 8yrs and up smoking, taking edibles in school, minors over dosing on drugs and rum , minors taking sex drugs while in class , grown men with/without sti targeting minors , minors joining gangs , minors dressing like prostitutes , minors punking them own parents , minors dressing like thugs and posing like gangsters, thats the new culture meh boi get with it
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We shouldnt drink to cope with problems, that's alcoholism.
These islands have always made rum, our ancestors picked cane for sugar that made rum.
But the excess drinking ismaking us unhealthy with sugar diseases. Fatty liver etc and then the lover is at risk and thw only way to fix it is not drinking for a good period of time.
Cline is giving out good warning. Alochol takes up to 72hrs to process and your body prioritizes tgat over any other function when alocohol enters the system.
Just be mindful ppl.