More positives rather than negatives must be promoted in VI– Hon Smith
“We need to stop talking about the negative and start promoting the positive. We cannot continue down this road taking negative about everything we do,” he added.
Hon Smith was at the time speaking at the Annual First District Report 2022 event held at the Cappoon’s Bay Recreational Ground on Saturday, January 29, 2022.
“Everybody has an idea, everybody has a plan… but it’s how you make that idea work, so never criticise somebody when they come with an idea, cause that is their idea, but embrace it and help them to fulfill this idea,” he said.
The Deputy Speaker added that under the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) Government, members who create ideas under the Government get to see those ideas explored to make it happen.
More youth inclusion in the VI Gov't
“And that’s the power of togetherness, so remember that,” he told those gathered at the recreational ground. Meanwhile, the Deputy Speaker said that moving forward, more youths will be involved in projects by the Fahie administration.
He said currently there is a trend where people who know better and feeding the youths the wrong information.
"So we got to come up with a system that we could feed the young people the right information," he added.
The Deputy Speaker added that he will be working to start a programme with youths who can get information directly from the government and not through third parties.
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14 Responses to “More positives rather than negatives must be promoted in VI– Hon Smith ”
crime free love & harmony
every one was embarrassed
fast forward
high day(broad daylight) murder
as Hon Smith noted
we speak so vulgar about one another
keep the faith because the price of our progress has proven to be very high
I was saying the same until there's a murder right in the very same area as the first district report the very next day. Real talk yall should be ashamed.
A legislative agenda.... politicians looking to make a lot of controlling overseeing rules for when people kick up and say there is no law to prevent this or that. Focus on strategies for crime prevention including getting on the UK's ass-ent for cannabis legalization. The choices & delays of politics have consequences.
This is one society yet acting as a 2 tier society because we continually criminalize a large portion of society especially the youth for their choice to use a therapeutic plant. There's communities & gatherings where police are not wanted and when they do visit they only linger around in plain clothes as undercover white & island man sorry to use the term. This is all over the island not a west end problem.
we cant all drive around in armored vehicles or hire personal security on the off chance something happens.
This whole no snitching American way will go right out the window when persons are arrested for real crimes only, thievery, violence, arson, and not outdated petty victimless 'crime' that turns the otherwise law-abiding folk against the police.
Couple that with real serious punishments, the type where revenge is best left to the justice system. That is something yall can legislate.
The punishments currently are stupid. We've got rapists and domestic violence murderers walking out after a couple years. Meanwhile people in jail longer for weed or faced with 100k bail that the rapists & gunmen never saw. Rape and murder should be death as punishment, to every ancient society the punishments were death. Who are we protecting???
Now we're enlightened by modern European ideas of human rights. They should be hanged or getting regular whips for life no joke.
Our ancestors didn't come out of slavery getting real hard European whips for less, for these people not to value life & respect each other and sit up in a hotel for a prison when their caught.
Protect & decriminalize your constituents. unify the society and itll make it harder for the real criminals to hide.
Right after the first district report. Talk about disrespect. Government that's a slap in your face. step it up & show them who rules this land. All this legislating farming fishing importation direct flights to the US.... will be for nothing if the governor doesn't get a grip on security.
Fix the incinerator, give the children a proper education (which means more than rebuilding schools), be nicer to visitors that come here (working here or as tourists), modernise the civil service, and stop trying to run such a planned economy. Those polticial giants that todays politicians are so keen to praise that were successful created the condictions for the private sector to innovate and thrive. Stop trying to control every last thing.