Amanda Milling, UK minister for the overseas territories has returned from the British Virgin Islands (BVI) to discuss next steps with foreign secretary Liz Truss.
to the british virgin islands where, in the capital, road town, there were demonstrations today. nomia iqbal is there for us. about 200 people, not a huge amount, but they were here protesting outside the governor s house where the uk delegation is based after amanda milling, then ministerfor the overseas territory, starting three days of talks notjust with the governor here but also the elected officials here. in terms of the people i spoke to, they were angry, and they were here holding signs, protesting and some of the things they were saying was cooperate, don t dictate, no to uk colonial rule, you can sort out your own problems , that sort of stuff, and when i put to them the findings of this commission of inquiry report which has found that my quite the report. chronic failure of governance. it basically says everything you need for a government to be efficient is not happening
here, but also the elected officials. in terms of the people i spoke to, they were angry, they came holding signs and were protesting. some of the things they said for example was, cooperate, don t dictate, no uk colonial rule, uk, sort out your own problems, that sort out your own problems, that sort of stuff. when i put to them the findings of this commission of inquiry report which found to quote the report chronic failure of governance, basically the report says everything you need for a government to be efficient is not happening on the island. when i put that to them, they say they understand the problems on the island and the challenges but they don t believe that the uk taking over is the answer. they want to work with elected officials and specifically the acting premier who was also involved in these meetings, he wants the fulljob permanently after the arrest of the premier, andrew fahie. basically you have a