(PLTM) - The constant claims of corruption by sitting members of the government can hamper the Territory’s access to loan funds to help with the recovery of the Territory, according to Hon. Myron Walwyn, leader of the National Democratic Party (NDP).
“There is the talk about corruption in the air. I have warned the persons speaking about corruption, privately and publicly, to stop it. It hurts our country,” he said during the NDP’s pep rally held on Saturday, January 12.
He continued, “At this time when we are negotiating loans for our country’s recovery development, you cannot be out there speaking about corruption. It hampers the progress of the same country you are trying to run.”
Walwyn, whose Elmore Stoutt High School (ESHS) wall project is currently in the hands of the police, said that all the corruption allegations are unfounded.
“You have not produced one iota of evidence besides chatting your lips.”
The NDP has been accused of mishandling the Territory’s finances and major overruns of projects, including the $85M cruise pier and landside development.
Hon. Andrew Fahie, Opposition Member and leader of the Virgin Islands Party (VIP), back in 2015, publicly called the NDP the most corrupt government in modern history.
Recently, he repeated the allegation.
“Based on answers to questions in the House of Assembly; based on events that are now unfolding – I can safely state that I have been fully vindicated when I proclaimed years ago that “this is the most corrupt government in the history of the Virgin Islands”,” he said.