Daughter can't get back job @ Peebles Hospital after studying abroad - caller
She was telling the host of the show, Douglas Wheatley, that her daughter came home qualified after studying abroad and now she cannot get a job at Peebles Hospital where she worked before embarking upon her studies.
"She graduated and came back home last year August. She applied back for her job in November of last year. From November until now she can't get her job back. She is being put on the back burner. She is not an alien but she has to go through all kinds of haste and harassment in her own country for a job that is well needed for in the BVI," said the woman.
The woman said her daughter has hired the services of an attorney to help her fight her battles.
"A native should not be going through this kind of harassment in their own country. This is ridiculous," she said.
"I cannot see this being the BVI. We have to take our country back. We are going to have to get up. We're going to have to wake up and start walking to fight for our rights in this country because this country does not belong to us," she said.
The woman demanded to know who gives approval for work permits for foreign workers and who search their police and medical background. “Without any hassle, without any harassment they are in here working and who belong here can’t get a work in their own country,” she said.
“I am here to say tonight that I am lighting a torch and I hope other BVIslanders are ready to light their torch and get this country back in order where we can be happy and free. I am going to speak out for my rights and the rights of my children,” she said.
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77 Responses to “Daughter can't get back job @ Peebles Hospital after studying abroad - caller ”
This could have been my child.
Those nurses who are home and unable to get a job they fail their final exam, and unable to practice. They need to be certified. They well aware of this and need to tell the truth. They have three chances to get themself certified and the failed so shut your mouth and rest your case.
What about those who pass their exams? Right now they have one of our own with a bachelor degree in radiology an the C** giving he hell to pay her for her degree. You have the foreigner over the nurses and w have someone qualified coming home and she talking about she needs to stay where she is because she coming to take her job. Can we JA and hold such a position. That hospital need to clean up their act. A woman from here cant even get a cleaning job and thy sending for permits for a cleaner...pure nonsense..
The problem here isn't the issuing of work permits, its the automatic renewal system. The work permit is only given for 1 year but the renewals go through without the job being advertised locally, now this would flood the papers and boards with thousands of jobs, but isn't it supposed to for BVIslanders. Even if its not mandatory for the papers it should be advertised in the Labor department 3 months prior to the work permit ending by LAW and then the renewal only issued if no suitable BVIslanders apply. This simple thing would cut the unemployment figures to less than 1% within 12 months.
Shame i'm not born here and so can't run for office....
So the issue is with the entire system and it needs to be taken back to drawing board, assessed and modified in order for this long standing plaguing problem to get any better. the ratio of expats to BVI Islanders should be meeting some where at a marginal. This is from a Human Resources Professional Perspective working in the private industry.
Selfish greedy @$$3$. You'll don't care anything for no one. So if someone not from here but worked here for 6 Yeats someone from here should be able to take there job.
Crazy selfish bastards.
.. Your daughter left and she was replaced by someone. It is unrealistic to expect the employer to just dismiss the employee until the end of the contract. Also, if your daughter has gone away and become qualified, why does she want her old job back?
To the mother if you feel you have a legitimate case I do not understand why you had to bring this to the media, it just adding salt to the wound. #IJS
So my dear if a local did you wrong take it up with the appropriate person or channel, because I could careless where you or anyone from.
She now has qualification, so i would think that she is looking for a better job than the old job she had.
My next question is, does the caller expect an employer to keep a position vacant when someone leave to go to school? I would say that is absolute nonsence.
Government preferred outsider to be in charge. You fools on here saying locals
gone for better education, outside with less educated in a job that
locals more than qualified for and we should say its OK? You must on something.
Hall yous "$$ where you come from. Government failure is when locals go off for training
that position should be filled with temps until student return. Thats the problem. Thats a pefect
example when no one is looking out for our own.
Its happening to our youong people too often and needs to stop.
If the story with this young lady is a failure to pass board exams or certification exams then she can't be hired in a professional capacity. If she was given a trainee position initially then she really can't be put back in the trainee position as that is for someone else local to have the same opportunity as she did. The challenge would be to find a suitable permanent position. I can guess that this is the situation here.
1 Complete your progeamme of study.
2 If it is a professional area Complet you registration with the professional body.
3 Inform the BVIHSA 3-6 months ahead of graduation of your expected qualification and the position you seek.
4 On returning to the BVI contact the BVHISA and inform them of your avaliability.
That is all you need to do .
Now for the real story. This young lady worked well while employed and was a great help to the dietary unit. She went to school for training so she can filled the new positions that would open up with the new hospital. Now that she is finish the want her and many others in similar position to work under someone less train and some not even qualified and for less money. Also the great divide is the driving force behind this non sense. You are either team bird or team pop diva and from all account she was on neither team. There are two local dentists and a few local nurses in similar situation.
Keep your ears and eyes open for the rest
people like ayo is who gave the bvi a bad name ...every last one of ayo dont got ntn good to say its always something negative ..if ayo cant open ayo eyes ayo would see not only her daughter she fighting for right but for us and at less she had the courage to speak up on like some of ayo that just running ayo mouth behind the news site...the people who in charge for important thin just doing a hole lot of bulls$%^ for and in the country... even its own ppl they cant gave jobs ...but oversea and island people gettin jobs be4 us in our own country that a hype of nonsense.. i dont care who vex and got negative things to say on my comment i am talkin the truth and it will set me free...ppl need to put it in to consideration that they need to work on there own ppl first be4 down island ppl that why the bvi is so damn corrupted.. and at less the girl come back to serve her country than some where else and the bvi need the extra hand than the kind of s^&& of a staff they got at the hospital