Sleepychef has a better handle on it than I do, but there is a great desire on the BVI media by government heads of both parties to cast aspersions on the inquiry. They are claiming it’s an attempt by the UK to take over the country. They are claiming this investigation is keeping them from completing their internal investigations of poor governance and getting to the bottom of it. That kinda sounds like OJ going to look for the “real killers”. They are complaining about not being given a notice well before this investigation so that things could have been worked out through diplomacy. Then the current prime minister said he wanted every bit of the investigation to be carried live over the bvi media. Lol of course that is the way to have people feel good about coming forward with those they would be testifying against watching.

There was an effort by the politicians to stir up distrust of the UK, the governor and the judge. A big effort to discount the investigation before it begins.

There is a lot of money at stake. I have no idea what the major drug surge in the area has to do with with the political leadership if anything. However in the the same paper there was a store about a bust with hundreds of kilos of cocaine. That’s big time. A while back they found the quarter of a billion dollars worth of cocaine at the policeman’s house. Off. St. Thomas on two occasions recently they’ve had boats chucking suitcases into the water stuffed with cash, one instance of several million dollars. It seems the area is playing a much larger role in the drug trade. In most Caribbean and South American countries where you get that degree of narco trafficking you usually have government payoffs. If that is the case, it may get unhealthy in a hurry for those telling all they know.

https://www.bviplatinum.com/

So the judge surely has his work cut out for him.