Hodge said federal disaster specialists arrived on St. Croix Tuesday but were unable to request immediate help because of communications problems.
It is considering possible litigation against Hambros, the merchant bank which recommended the purchase. Under new management, virtually all of the Blackwood Hodge businesses have been sold or closed down.
Hodge suggests still another area where spending reform could have been practiced.
Mr Sutton will remain as deputy chairman until April. BM blamed its misfortunes on the acquisition in 1990 of Blackwood Hodge, the construction equipment distributor, for Pounds 54m and a further Pounds 118m in associated borrowings.
But some pork barrelling, Hodge indicates, might be of no help back home or anywhere else either.
Hodge said he believed it would take up to two years for St. Croix to recover fully from the hurricane.
Here it is merely diffused. Part of the trouble is the character of Pericles himself, at first glance tailor-made for the Green Party candidate that Douglas Hodge is in real life.
Douglas Hodge depicted a nasty young Attila, and Kenneth Cranham a rather sane vagrant.
Peter Youlton has been appointed md and Richard Hunter sales director of Blackwood Hodge UK, part of the BM Group.
But the dollar retreated somewhat later in the day, Hodge said.
While Hodge and Mitchell might not speak for the entire foundation, their views were distributed by it, and so far as is known, they remain in good standing.
"After that it had grown big enough that we doubted they could have controlled it completely," Hodge said in a phone interview.
Gov. Derek Hodge said the relief response has been tremendous, but officials are having problems getting supplies organized and distributed.