Speaking on a ZBVI radio interview recently, the Premier said: “We have done a lot of things right in the territory, more than the areas where we are under fire for.”

He added: “But as you listen to the Inquiry, you have found, [and] I have heard no area and other persons have heard no area to say ‘well, alright, this is clear-cut corruption’.”

While Premier Fahie conceded that there might be need for administrative improvements in certain areas, he insisted there is no one in his government or any other past government as far as he has heard from the COI that has demonstrated serious dishonesty or impropriety.

“Wherever money was given for a grant, whether persons agreed with the structure used or who should’ve gotten and who shouldn’t have gotten, because everyone becomes an analyst during this time, the point is that all of it has hit the target — the people of the Virgin Islands,” the Premier said.

“I know nothing else that no one else knows except for what has been furnished to the Commission of Inquiry by the government of the Virgin Islands,” Premier Fahie said.

Nothing hidden

And according to the Premier, there is nothing hidden in the inquiry as the government’s lawyers would have seen whatever was in the possession of the COI.

He further stated that based on everything that has been stated in the inquiry, the government has done their best over the years.

Premier Fahie drew attention to the territory’s financial services sector as well as its tourism product, and said the two sectors are both areas the BVI can be proud of.

The Premier also heaped praise on the territory’s public officers but said the structure that they are in is not modernised for the challenges that the government will face.

He said this is an area in the constitution directly under the ambit of the governor, and said this should not go unnoticed while fingers are being pointed at the local government alone.