10,000 work permits processed in 2013 while locals remain jobless- SFC
This information was revealed while the Labour Commissioner Janice I. F. Rymer was testifying before the House of Assembly Standing Finance Committee last year to examine the draft estimates for the year 2015.
Mrs Rymer was at the time responding to a question from Honourable Julian Fraser RA (R3) about the status of work permits in the territory.
Hon Fraser, the champion of youths and the unemployed, was told by the Labour Commissioner that in 2013 approximately 10,000 work permit applications had been processed and some 243 disputes submitted with some 200 being settled.
Work permits are granted to persons who deem not to belong to the Virgin Islands and are here to work.
In 2013, according to the Labour Commissioner, only a mere 80 persons were placed in jobs out of some 400 persons who registered at the placement unit both at the Virgin Gorda and Tortola offices.
Mrs Rymer claimed that the problem with finding jobs for locals is that some employers were looking for particular skills and were not willing to provide training.
Failed promises of job by NDP
The NDP has been promising young people jobs but this too has not came to pass. Critics have accused the controversial Minister for Education and Culture Hon Myron V. Walwyn of fooling the youths, promising them jobs but young people remain jobless.
The NDP Administration continues to say the economy is robust and that things are going great.
Hard for young people under NDP
Hon Fraser, in a national address to the residents last year, told the public that “today, record numbers of homes and vehicles are being repossessed. Parents have to work multiple jobs in order to provide for their families.”
The veteran politician said, “Since the NDP became the government, residents are having a hard time paying their mortgages. Most of our young people have no hope of affording their own home.”
The VIP Chairman said that our young people are facing a future of hardship. “But the NDP continues to tell us the economy is booming, while resorts, hotels, and marinas, laying off scores of people each month, even as trust companies downsize and relocate,” he said.
“The economy is not booming when you visit places like the Stickett in Long Look, Scatliffe Alley in Road Town, parts of Purcell, Little Apple Bay, Baugher's Bay, Cane Garden Bay, Huntums Ghut, Belle Vue and Parham Town,” he said.
“For what will you discover? You will witness too many of our young people without jobs or proper education sitting around all day in hopeless despair,” said Hon Fraser.
“This is very painful to me and is a social tragedy,” said Hon Fraser, who followed H. Lavity Stoutt and Ralph T. O’Neal OBE as the VIP’s third leader.
Hon Fraser also told the public that added to this fact, “too many of our youth leave colleges and universities each year and return home with no career prospects”.
This is certainly not good for the country, the leader of the longest serving political party claimed.
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63 Responses to “10,000 work permits processed in 2013 while locals remain jobless- SFC”
The Lab.... Com.... is an NDP stool pigeon. What do we expect.
Qualified to serve food & alcohol, wash hair, cut hair, clean house???? U @#$$^^^
The main issue is, they prefer young people who are ignorant of their rights and who will work for less money, just like the Filipinos and other foreigners that they are issuing these work permits for. And don't ask, "why should employers pay more than they want to?" or "why should employers have to hire employees who expect their rights?"
Because we are not a third-world developing nation, that's why. Because we are a democracy, not a dictatorship, because we are a British territory with a long history of decency, respect for human life and values, that's why!
For the love of God, why won't you foreigners go home and fight the battle for democracy and decency in your own country instead of coming here and trying to take ours? Democracy and that goes with it is earned, not given, and even if given, it must be upheld and maintained by responsible voting, protesting, media use and honourable behavior. Democracy does not grow in a vacuum!
Investing in youth and trainees by businesses is the life blood of a community and I would continue to champion thosecompanies thatare willing to do so. Old does nopt equal better. Young does not equal exploited.
Yes, some locals don't want the dirty jobs and some like to complain or are lazy, but at least they wont be able to squeal that there aren't any jobs available! They should take what is available and live humble lives just as the expats are doing. After two years, it can be assessed whether this was the right choice.
You sent us abroad seeking "qualification" and while we were away, you took over our country. WHEN will it end?
AMEN. CHURCH OUT
Don't blame the Politicians also. They can only create the climate for business to strive, provide education and training for the youth. Look at the local businesses, why aren't they hiring only locals? After all, it is not a crime or is it considered racial discrimination. It is a right that locals don't exercise.
So it comes down to our youths changing their attitudes and becoming more ambitious in their education, in their jobs and in their country.
Friend of mine told he went looking for in minister business place and local yes and minister say he dont have anything and that same minister before election told him to come to him now he minister telling ppl lies he better remember his place was empty dance floor and it could come back again dont play high
@ ABC you sure you write about that because if that's so the other 10% need to get back there money and we need our Cuban to be on the job that we give him @$$% waist of vote chooops
Locals r not stupid. Employers want to make poppy show out of to many locals hiring whites and blacks with same experience and qualifications but paying one triple money.
Then unskilled locals are expected to accept condescension racism bullying scarcism and direct and indirect discrimination as the order of the day no matter their good intentions. BVI landers are a proud people and the problem is that employers want us to act like the well groomed yard and house niggers that are prevalent in other caribbean and asian cultures.
There are many things that make BVI unique our people cherished dignity is one of them. We just are not bred to tolerate crap yet employers are on a campaign to break us.
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