The VI ‘seems to have at times become a cowboy town’- Hon Mather
Hon Mather was, in particular, referring to the daring daylight armed robbery of a jewelley store in Cyril B. Romney Pier Park on July 1, 2023. The robbers were heavily armed and at least one of them fired off their weapon several times during the escape.
“I am also very troubled by the fact that I think it was two weeks ago in our country, we all were shocked to see that the Virgin Islands seems to have at times become a cowboy town, where people run through the country and using guns is not something that shocks some of us anymore,” Hon Mather stated during the debate for the second Supplementary Appropriation Provision (SAP) of 2023, at the Second Sitting of the First Session of the Fifth House of Assembly on Thursday, July 13, 2023.
‘We don’t manufacture guns in the BVI’- Hon Mather
Hon Mather; however, said he was pleased to see that the Police, within the SAP, are being given almost nine hundred thousand dollars ($900,000) to “do what is necessary”.
The Deputy Speaker also said he was pleased to see that a portion of the funds for the Police will go towards security at the ports.
“Because as we all know we don’t manufacture guns in the BVI, so they must be coming in somewhere.
“And I hope with those appropriation we can reduce the number of guns that we see coming into our territory,” Hon Mather stated.
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29 Responses to “The VI ‘seems to have at times become a cowboy town’- Hon Mather”
Is the UK Commissioner of Police with the Governor busy illegally in innocent people's accounts in the bamks and illegally listening to all our phone calls to try to find how to destroy anyone they can who they feel have too much wealth or who against their attempt to take plot over so they have no time with fighting the crime that exist? Every year the force getting plenty new recruits funded by the government but yet we are seeing less police presence territory wide and cannot get CGB & West End police station opened and stay opened 24hrs. The Governor and Commissioner of Police have failed the people of the BVI. They are not utilizing the resources given to them to be proactive about crime and this is by design.
The same people want to deflect and bash the church and Christian community but ignoring their own hypocrisy.
Same people who rallying for him to come here would be saying stop the violence.
The devil is their guide.
Substanciating facts and evidence is to blame for revelation of truth.
Deal with it.
I don't know what is the hold up.
Also assign some of them to CGB station, as well as West End station.
Also assign two to three armed police staff at the Pier Park if the security personnel are not allowed to carry guns.
At least the robbers will think twice before they move.
There is no representation. When the governor has the final say and holds up our progress then we can never truly be innovative and on the cutting edge, not while coloring within the lines of a neocolonial power.
Thanks UK for not upholding democracy. We do not want you to take over, step aside!! Stop the bias, stop the foolishness we do not produce guns, we do not produce coke. We here are rich now partly because the UK plantation owners/slave owners abandoned the lands when they left with monetary compensation for having to free their slaves! Look into those accounts. Racial profiling continues.
However when a disagreement happens everyone should feel able to call the police without being victimized as if they call the police on themselves. Legalize the flipping herb give persons more reasons to trust the police, and less reasons to feel they must resort to violence's because they cant call the police!
If a homeless man in town come slap up some people... An accidental fire starts in a house... you can bet some caribbean people, white people, indians, locals & expats of all kinds have to go stash their weed before calling the police? Thats sad.
You sound so silly go from here the people right now need another grant you here chatting sh**
........Kudos to Jaspert ,Rankin and the UK...they are the heros of this now God forsaken line of turd in the Caribbean island chain.
Yep!
Thanks to your homies . Certainly you gave noticed.
As to the claim that guns are not manufactured here, while that may be true, what evidence is there to discard the possibility that gun parts are brought in, and that guns are assembled here? This happens in the USVI.