Put our people first! Caller on Speak out BVI
According to the caller, the unemployment rate among Virgin Islanders is up and locals owning businesses seem to be on the downward trend. He said where people are able and qualified they must be get work or encouraged to start their own businesses.
“For the last 40 years if you look at the statistics, our people are down in employment, they are down in business ownership, they are nowhere to be found, this is what we need to concentrate on. Let us stop talking so much and get into action because we if don’t start, in the next ten years we will be totally obliterated from this place, that is my feeling,” the caller told host of the show, Douglas Wheatley.
The same caller also accused the big corporations in the Territory of not investing in training of local staff but rather only looking to import more workers. He claimed that he recently saw an ad asking for waitresses with European service experience. “This is the Virgin Islands. Who are we? What are we?”
Meanwhile, the caller clarified that he wasn’t saying that the Territory didn’t need an expanded airport and dock but “above all we need to get our people up there.”
"If it’s not really benefitting our people then we shouldn’t really be thinking about it," he stated.
Issues with LIAT
Earlier, a caller had complained about the service of regional air carrier LIAT alleging that there is a constant problem of passengers luggage being misplaced and delayed and appealed to Government to look in to it.
Another caller agreed that the issue of LIAT’s passengers luggage being left behind or misplaced was an issue that needed addressing but said that Government should do all in its power to keep LIAT and not make the mistake like what was made to Air BVI, where it was allowed to come out of service.
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17 Responses to “Put our people first! Caller on Speak out BVI”
The caller is talking crap! Over the past 40yrs instead of focusing on growing businesses, BVIslanders got comfort in being landlords of both residential apartments/housing and the commercial buildings all through town. Who needs to work when you can build and get paid? Who requests the most permits at Labour yearly, aren't they BVIslanders? Come on cut the sh!+ out. We own everything around here. Even if we are not hired at a business, we own the property that they operate in and the apartments/houses which they live in. Ya'll complain about everything. Put what first. We decided a long time ago that certain jobs are beneath us and we will refuse to do them. So people must be brought in. Now hard times hit they want to lay blame all over the place because we weren't paying attention. The person is a fool to say developing the country won't change anything when in fact teh reason we are facing these times is because the place has been stagnated for the last 20yrs and being left behind in the industries that bring the jobs and cash in. In one breath they are saying unemployment is a problem and in the same breath saying bringing new opportunities won't change it. Set of idiots we have in this place sitting back and blame blame blame.
Also, since when has it been the responsibility of the companies to "train people" that's what the college is for! The responsibility of the companies is solely to pay taxes and abide by the labour code as much as possible.
Secondly, we do not have. Also he has chosen to forget that many of us Virgin Islanders leave the VI to go and live in the USA and UK because we can't stand the corruption and ignorance that goes on down here.
You CAN'T handle the Truth!! Damn.. always wanted to use that saying online..
Think traveling to a region of the world means that is the experience being sort and interacting with the people from there would be important to the experience. This seem like a serious attempt to undermine...Wasn't this the type of behavior that drove those people in st croix to commit that act that still affects that island tourism to this day.