Education system has failed the youths – caller
According to the caller, it is interesting that every year persons are leaving school and can’t find work especially in the yachting industry where VIslanders are a minority.
“Why aren’t we having people graduating with captain licenses ... Why are these kids coming out and they don’t even have a clue, they don’t know what to do, they come to these businesses with a certificate and they don’t even have an idea of what the boating business is about.”
The caller further opined that the problem is a failure on the educational system.“I just wonder if this country knows what it is doing. It blows my mind that every year we have students graduating and you don’t have a captain and you don’t have a shipwright, you don’t have people that understand the boating industry or how it works. And I think that we in the BVI got to realise that education is the key so that when these kids come out they will be ready to face the work area and the jobs that are presented in this particular country.”
According to co-host Natalio Wheatley, a friend of his showed him the salaries that boat captains receive and noted that they are very well paid. He then lamented that locals have not been benefitting despite there being a lot of youths in East End who love the water, own boats and are able to navigate anywhere in VI waters.
Too many Filipinos in the VI
Meanwhile, Cromwell Smith highlighted that someone told him that the hotel businesses and marinas in Virgin Gorda are bringing in people to work and that locals can’t get a job there.
He went on to say that “You are hearing now from local people that there is too much Filipinos in. I am sure that you have heard it...Where are the Filipinos coming from?....We have to realise first of all how are the Filipinos getting in the BVI. Who is hiring them?”
On another note, Smith said the elected representatives must see that their responsibility is to maintain “this harmony, this equilibrium and relationship in the community”.
“And again I have to say that the government needs to step in and make sure that there is a decent wage for all workers and that nationals of the country are enjoying a good quality of life or else they are going to have to unionise to defend themselves and that will increase the antagonism and prolong that antagonism with the possibility that would eventually destroy all the gains that we have made in the BVI.”
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