Welcome Remarks by Speaker of the House
at Swearing-In of Governor John J. Rankin CMG
Friday, January 29, 2021, Save the Seed Centre
Good Afternoon, my name is Julian Willock, the Speaker of the House of Assembly.
I thank the Cabinet Secretary for establishing protocol, Honourable Members, Ladies and Gentleman.
However, I must acknowledge the Premier Honourable Andrew A. Fahie and our First Lady Mrs. Sheila Forbes-Fahie.
Leader of the Opposition Honourable Marlon A. Penn and your wife Mrs. Joy Penn along with all other spouses here, All Members of the fourth House of Assembly, former legislators and, All those who were kind enough, to accept our invitation to this event including Members of the Virgin Islands Youth Parliament.
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Years of crisis at both the national and subnational levels had necessitated the search for a system of governance that could bring peace, unity, stability and trust to the polity.
The consensus among the people was that key political offices should not be held by only one group or section, but should be distributed in such a way as to give everybody a sense of belonging. This, in a word, is called zoning of public offices.
But what is zoning of public offices? Zoning of public offices refers to the sharing, rotating, or shifting of political office(s) from one section to the other. This could be region based (from the East to West, or North and South or vice versa). Zoning is one of the many manifestations of ethnic nationalism in African politics.