Politics

Mapp Administration Rejects De Jongh's $202,832.60 Payment For Improvements At Personal Residence

ST. THOMAS -- In a brief press conference held at Government at 10:00 a.m. this morning, Acting Attorney General Terri Griffiths revealed that the Kenneth Mapp administration has rejected former Governor John P.  de Jongh's payment to the Government of the Virgin islands (GVI), through the Department of Property and Procurement (DPP), of $202,832.60, for the guard house and electric fence constructed at his residence after taking office in 2007. The sum is less than half of the $500,000 of government monies used on de Jongh's residence in Estate Mafolie, but according to the former leader, who served two terms and was the 7th elected governor of the territory, the $202,831.60 is the appraised, fair market value of the guard house and fence built for security measures at his private home. Griffiths, however, disagreed. The acting AG said at the press conference today that she wrote de Jongh a letter on Wednesday night, informing him that the $202,831.60 sum was being returned,...