“The Auditor General has been working very hard on her report into the BVI Airways,” Governor Jaspert said to members of the media during a press conference at his residence today, November 1, 2019.

“That report is now concluding, and it will be given to me, and after that point, I believe up to a period of three months… it will become public. So that will be coming forward shortly,” he added.

While the governor did not divulge any further, he noted that the report was undertaken because of the questions that surrounded it.

BVI Airways deal

During the Dr D. Orlando Smith’s administration, the agreement created a controversy when more than $7 million was placed into the airline that never took off.

The deal was to provide direct flights between the USA and the VI and became one of the largest scandals to rock that administration.

Almost exactly one year earlier, the Governor announced there was an ongoing audit.

Fahie administration suing

Meanwhile, the new administration under the leadership of Premier and Minister of Finance, Honourable Andrew A. Fahie (R1) said the VI Government is suing its former legal counsel in the USA, Mr Lester Hyman, who it is alleged secretly received monies from BVI Airways.

Hon Fahie confirmed to members of the press that the matter is before a court in the United States and he was asked to refrain from making comments on it, “But, I would just like to say that there is no secret that the BVI has a strong interest in retrieving its $7.2 million.”