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The BVI Beacon Contract oversight body in the works Legislation designed to bring greater transparency to public construction contracts was debated in the House of Assembly last Thursday in a move that Premier Andrew Fahie described as part of … The recently published draft Contractor General Act, 2021 would create an independent office to oversee and investigate how government contracts are awarded in the Virgin Islands. In the past, many public projects have given rise to questions about contract management, including the Elmore Stoutt High School wall (above) built under the previous ad...

Shernet Haughton, former mayor of Lucea. The Integrity Commission has found that the then Hanover Parish Council which was chaired by Shernet Haughton deliberately splintered contracts which led to three being issued to a person identified as Mr ‘BB’, his son, and his girlfriend. However, the commission was unable to find sufficient evidence to substantiate claims that Haughton, then the mayor of Lucea, demanded $200,000 in exchange for the signing of cheques in 2014. The cheques were allegedly in the amount of approximately $1 million for a project implemented by the Hanover Parish Counc...