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'We don't need appeasing' from the UK - Skelton-Cline to Gov Jaspert
Skelton-Cline has in the past petitioned the Governor to ask the UK for a definitive answer on their decision over a request from Premier and Minister of Finance, Hon Andrew A. Fahie (R1) for a grant to match what the VI was making available to its unemployed population as a result of COVID-19.
Protocols frustrating recovery efforts - Skelton-Cline
While the UK has committed to helping the VI, Governor Jaspert said the VI has healthy financial reserves and that the Territory can handle its own affairs.
It was also announced that a UK navy ship had visited the Territory and used the opportunity to scope approaches to the islands as part of preparations for the hurricane season, affirming UK's commitment to the Commonwealth and British Overseas Territories in the Caribbean.
According to Skelton-Cline, "We don't need no flyovers, what we need is the relaxation or the waving of some of those components in the instruments, the Protocols for Effective Financial Management that is interrupting, that is frustrating our capacity to recover and to develop this country," he said on the April 20, 2020, edition of his show, Honestly Speaking.
'It's like having a girlfriend [and] she keeps telling you all I want to do is for us to spend twenty minutes on the couch and talk, you keep sending her flowers, she don't want no flowers, she wants communication, she wants quality time," he said.
According to the man of the cloth, the VI is not looking for the UK and the Governor to seem relevant by 'being seen' and just doing something mundane for the Territory.
Petition to UK on Protocols
Speaking during a live COVID-19 update to the Territory on April 15, 2020, Premier and Minister of Finance, Hon Andrew A. Fahie (R1) had said Cabinet agreed to instruct the Financial Secretary to lead technical discussions with the UK Government’s financial technical team in petitioning the Secretary of State to relieve the Government of the Virgin Islands of its obligations under Section 20 of the Protocols for Effective Financial Management and the review and amendment of Sections 25, 27 and 28.
This, Hon Fahie had said, is to, “enable the BVI Government to secure the funding necessary to respond to catastrophic events such as the COVID-19 pandemic, in light of 1. The real impacts and economic forecast outlook for the BVI due to the catastrophic COVID-19 pandemic, 2. The unavailability of grant funding from the UK Government and 3. The impediment the conditions of the Protocols for Effective Financial Management pose to the BVI Government being able to finance immediate relief and economic stimulation programmes on its own.”
'VI needs substantive decision' - Skelton-Cline
"We don't need appeasing, we need substantive decisions to be had regarding how we are going to move forward, given the economic shifting and the impact that this pandemic, that the hurricanes, have had on us as a country and as a people," Mr Skelton-Cline said.
He called for concrete answers regarding the VI's request for financial assistance and promised to keep pounding the drums until a substantive answer is given.
"We need money, we need to be free from the hindrances...given these acts of God, natural disasters, pandemic... so that our country can develop. We cannot be at the mercy of the UK when they themselves are fighting for their lives and yet will want to dictate how we move."
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53 Responses to “'We don't need appeasing' from the UK - Skelton-Cline to Gov Jaspert”
No one is forcing the BVI to remain British.
I am personally challenging you or anyone of you to take your black @$& to the state or country where Whitey is from and see how white folks deal with human beings with dark skins: try take your head from out mr white rectum: you do not have to defend the governor, do you hear him complaining....
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But I would like every citizen of the bvi to accept that as of 2020,the bvi remained dependent territory,and the governor.
Chapter 3 of the BVI Constitution,teaches us about the Governor. The supreme lae of the BVI states:-
["There shall be a governor of the virgin islands who shall be appointed by Her Majesty by commission under HER sign manual and signet and shall hold office during Her Majesty's pleasure"]
The explanatory notes written in the said 2007 constitution order states:-
["The new constitution provides for a governor as Her Majesty's representatives in the islands and a premier and ministers who form a cabinet together with the attorney general.It provides for an elected house of assembly which TOGETHER with Her Majesty forms the legislature"]
According to the bvi constitution. the governor is not a representative of the UK government or uk parliament.
The governor is not a member of parliament in the UK government.
In my view,the governor is just trying his best to ASK for help through the diplomatic channels..
What are your aim,objective and intention,mr cline?
Please explain. I am confused.
sack the fat cats at the RDA. we dont need them. . huve salaries...what are they doing during the crisis when we need help " recovering and developing". Clyne..go.challenge them and ask them.if they are still taking big wages sitting at home.......suddenly they are forgotten about. get Mcmaster i to your interview and ask him the same questions you asked the former boss about his wages.
After WWII, the US in 1948 rolled out the European Recovery Plan (Marshall Plan, name after Secretary of State George C. Marshall) to aid Western Europe recovery. The US appropriated approx $15B with the UK receiving a large percentage of the aid. The Marshall Plan benefitted both the US and the countries receiving the aid; it boosted the gross national product of many countries. The 2017 hurricane season devastated many Caribbean OTs, including the VI, Anguilla........etc. Specifically, monster hurricanes Irma and Maria in September 2017 roared ashore and caused significant damage in the VI to the tune of approx $3.2B.
Given the extent of the damages in the OTs, the UK should have a rolled out a Marshall Plan style plan to aid the OTs. It didn’t. Now it needs to roll out a Marshall Plan to aid the OTs in fighting Covid-19. The VI and other OTs need help starting yesterday or day before and will continue to need help. Covid-19 has sidelined tourism, 1/2 of the economic twin pillars, throwing thousand of people out of work; these unemployed need help now. Moreover, Marshall style plan effort will help both the UK and OTs as the Marshall Plan benefitted both the US, Western Europe and other countries.
from what I reading is the queen send the governor here..where you want them to go.virgin gorda or tortola,because you cannot depot the men of the queen.