who were posing as cocaine traffickers from a mexican drug cartel. the country has long faced accusations of corruption and dishonesty within govenrment. and the day after fahie s arrest, a report commisioned by the islands governor said the territory should be returned to direct rule from london, and its constitution suspended. from the british virgin islands, nomia iqbal reports. well, there were protests this morning where i m standing, right outside the governor s house, of around about 200 people. and they were really angry. they showed up with signs saying, cooperate, don t dominate , no uk colonial rule , uk, look after yourself, deal with their own problems, that sort of thing. people are really angry about the idea, certainly the ones that were here this morning, of direct rule. when i put to them the results of this commission of inquiry, which basically said that there s a chronic failure
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
from the british virgin islands, nomia iqbal reports. well, there were protests this morning where i m standing, right outside the governor s house, of around about 200 people. and they were really angry. they showed up with signs saying cooperate, don t dominate , no uk colonial rule , uk, look after yourself, deal with their own problems, that sort of thing. people are really angry about the idea, certainly the ones that were here this morning, of direct rule. when i put to them the results of this commission of inquiry, which basically said that there s a chronic failure of governance, just to quote the report, and basically everything that you need to make a government efficient is not happening here, they said we understand that, we understand there are problems here, but we don t think the uk taking direct rule is an answer. and they were outside the governor s house, as i say, as the uk delegation is inside meeting the governor, to make their feelings very clear. have a list