Expat exiting VI forced to leave her infant child @ airport- Skelton-Cline claims
“Just about a week and a half ago, I was called to lend some assistance, a lady who was told that she had to leave the country to come back in to get her permit transferred. Here’s this woman she is leaving the country, she has a six-month-old baby, gets to the airport and then they tell her the baby can’t leave, but she has to go. I mean, can you imagine that? A six-month-old baby!” he said during his show on Thursday, June 10, 2021, on 780 ZBVI Radio.
According to the commentator, the woman had to call her intended employer to collect the baby at the airport.
"You mean to tell me there is no discretion? There is no occasion for us to extend some kindness, some courtesy, and assist people? The woman then had to leave the baby, go out the country and then having a heck of a time getting back in because things aren’t being done,” he stated.
Suspend the policy!
Skelton-Cline then reiterated earlier calls for the policy of work permit holders having to leave the territory when changing jobs to be suspended and called on Minister for Natural Resources, Labour and Immigration Hon Vincent O. Wheatley (R9) to intervene.
“This whole matter of having persons leaving the country needs to be suspended. That is a policy it is not the law; it’s a policy, and I’m calling on Minister Hon. Wheatley and the head of Immigration … some direction needs to be given. We as indigenous Virgin Islanders, those of us who are deemed to belong, I want to warn us, I want to caution us about the way we are treating people amongst us.”
He added: “As the Bible warns, be careful how you treat the stranger or the neighbour amongst you. There’s going to come a time when our sons, our daughters, is going to be in somebody else’s place. Every dog has its day; every country has their season where you are going to need somebody else somewhere to assist your child, to assist your mother, to assist your grandfather!”
Skelton-Cline had said on May 25, 2021, that the tedious process of having people leave the territory for work permit processing and return only to be faced with COVID-19 entry policies or having to find overseas accommodations is something that should not be in the current pandemic.
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57 Responses to “Expat exiting VI forced to leave her infant child @ airport- Skelton-Cline claims”
Iam at a lost as to the reason why they come, beg to come legally and legal and by any means necessary. The BVI is really not better because of them. It is an unequal yoke for certain.
Seriously, considering their expressed negative feelings why do they come and angry and resentful because they are not permitted to stay forever.
Well in a nanosecond, I have learned that some of their countries are in need of nurses. Their hospitals are in need of nurses and they are unable to
attract nurses from elsewhere and there own nurses prefer to come to the VI for work.
The question remains. Why are the folks from all walks of life in the Caribbean, with c h o i c es , inspite of the nightmarish circumstances in the VI expressed by their compatriots heading to the V I Are they simple minded and/ or sadistic... is it the result of envy jealousy and an inability to express gratitude for kindness.
why cant all of the talk show groupies; sit under a tree and form a political party this way all they have in mind can be put into action
Why would a Mother would choose to do that?
I would guess the mother felt her child would be in good hands until her return.
Mothers do that routinely...leave their child with trusted care.
1. The father of child may have object to her leaving the country with the child as he fear she may not come back or the child may not come back with her. Or
2. She did not have the proper documents for the child leave. ( COVID paper)
This is just my guest.
The law is the real issue here not the minister who is responsible for the portfolio he can only do so much until the Government amend it.
The drones that are employed by HM Customs, the Labour Dept. and BVI Immigration have no ability to decide. They are trained to follow protocol and protocol only! They are merely robots, performing a task, and cannot think about right vrs. wrong on their own. These same lower-level government employees are most certainly not trusted by their respective department heads. This is a product of our own educational system; "critical thinking"... Who here has ever even heard of that?
The Immigration Dept. is the worst. Ingrained in the system is raging xenophobia and the certainty that someone - or everyone - is trying to out-con the Immigration Dept's con.
No follow up from her or her peeps...hmmm
how long this lady resign here in the BVI?
there is person living in the BVI less than a year was terminated from jobs because covid and did not had to leave!!
Also There is expats here living working till they making kids and here as a visitor paying 25$us every 3 months for time!
This is hilarious!!!!!