Fahie promises enhanced contract-issuing laws under VIP gov’t
A law that will ensure more transparency in the way government contracts are administered might become implemented if the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) is elected as the next BVI government.
VIP Chairman and opposition leader Andrew Fahie is branding that law as the Contractor General legislation.
He said this legislation would ‘mirror’ the Recovery and Development Agency’s (RDA) mandate and ‘enhance’ the BVI/UK Protocols of Effective Financial Management agreement, which says: “All projects must be subjected to a tendering and procurement process that guarantees the highest level of transparency and fairness practicable.”
He said he wants to implement a Contractor General law because of post-hurricane reports that government had issued contracts without conducting the required tendering process.
“I have been singing for the last seven years – police ourselves or someone is going to police us in a manner that we all don’t like,” said Fahie on Wednesday during what he said was the first of a series of meetings he will hold as opposition leader.
Fahie said the Contractor General legislation will ‘prove to the world that the BVI can police itself when the RDA fulfils its mandate and is dissolved in the next five years.
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