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Skelton-Cline condemns ‘scandalous’ publication on elected & local officials

Skelton-Cline condemns ‘scandalous’ publication on elected & local officials

Honestly Speaker Radio Talk Show host, Claude O. Skelton-Cline has called on persons in the Virgin Islands to condemn a publication, which he labeled as willful and scandalous misinformation circulated about elected and other local officials.

“I want to say I notice some piece of correspondence, it’s not even a worthwhile correspondence to mention except for in this manner circulating that spoke scandalous about some of elected official [and] appointed officials,” he said.

Honestly Speaker Radio Talk Show host, Claude O. Skelton-Cline has called on persons in the VI to condemn a publication where he called willful and scandalous misinformation circulated about elected and other local officials.


Misinformation


“I want to condemn this kind of reckless, willful, wicked, scandalous dissemination of misinformation and disinformation. I don’t know if it fits under the category of some of the cybercrime laws, but if it does, the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) needs to track these kinds of things that are in print and/or electronic,” he added.

He said some people are swift and exact in their condemnation of cartoons published by news agencies, “yet we see some of this spurious disinformation, half-truths and no truths at all, disseminating about… people, its wrongs,” he said.

He called on good persons in the VI, especially educated persons who pick up the misinformation and make jokes out of it, to desist from such behaviours.

“And this is the poorer part of our culture that perpetuates this kind of a scandal, we must be better than that,” he added.

“You are better than this and when you come across this kind of material, you ought to cut it off at the very root,” he said.

Claude O. Skelton-Cline called on persons in the VI especially educated persons who pick up the misinformation and make jokes out of it, to desist from such behaviours.


Be rational in your approach - Skelton-Cline


While Skelton-Cline did not name the publication in question, our new Centre understands it is a document published under the name Virgin Islands National Breaking News.

He called on the people of the VI to be better and do better given the territory is at a place where persons must be more sober and rational in their approach, relative to what is said and written in the public sphere.

“This stuff is libelous, and I want all of you who are so swift in condemning… you can’t continue to like who you like and because you like them you don’t say anything about it even though it's wrong, or those who you love to hate, when it happens to them you don’t say anything,” he added.

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