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'Trust companies forcing out VIslanders' – Gloria A. Fahie
This was raised by First District resident, Ms Gloria A. Fahie, who is also the President of the BVI Cancer Society and an employee of the BVI Social Security Board. Ms Fahie, first cousin of Premier and Minister of Finance, Honourable Andrew A. Fahie (R1), made the comments at the Monday, May 20, 2019, Town Hall Meeting called by the government to ventilate the controversial issue of granting Residency and Belongership status to persons residing in the territory fifteen years and over.
The meeting was held at Eileene L. Parsons Auditorium, H. Lavity Stoutt Community College (HLSCC), in Paraquita Bay, Tortola.
Citizens voice concerns
Ms Fahie, the second person in the audience to get the microphone, lashed out, “You [Premier] said that this issue started some 40 years ago. It could be forty years or more but a lot of the blame is to be placed on us.”
She went on to explain the “us” stating, “It’s not just the Immigration Department, Labour Department should have been right here beside us sitting down, because I worked in the Labour Department many years ago and the policy is Virgin Islanders come first and that is not happening here in my country.”
“It’s not happening here. You suppose to understudy,” giving her interpretation of the Labour Code. “When you apply for a work permit, its one year and a BVI Islander supposed to understudy that person. That is not happening.”
She said her comment was not really directed to “Caribbean persons”. “I am talking about Caucasians as well.”
Ms Fahie further accused especially trust companies of setting the bar way above the reach of locals, “Some of them come here, next thing you know they push the BVI Islander out and they were doing that mainly with the trust industry.”
“When we started to equip ourselves educationally they came up with some nonsense about you have to speak German, you got to speak Russian, you got to speak God knows what other languages.”
According to Ms Fahie, “This has to stop. This is an English speaking country and they need to come here and learn English. Not we going to learn their language.”
“We are like second class citizens in our own country,” she implored, while noting that she was not there to discriminate against any of her brothers and sisters, “I married a Jamaican and I don’t want to make this about them and us.”
Deep Division in VI – Ms Fahie
Further, Ms Fahie alluded to comments on social media over the immigration issue, “It’s horrible, but guess what? We the government, I am going to face you all. The government has put the cart before the horse. We should have been involved with this decision from [the] get-go and that is a problem here today and because of that don’t mind what [you all] have to say up there tonight, a problem has arisen.”
“There is some deep, deep division here in this country. People coming attacking me and I have to defend myself because this is my country and I have to defend myself,” she said.
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27 Responses to “'Trust companies forcing out VIslanders' – Gloria A. Fahie”
NB don’t study that *****woman. Always want to be important.
However she let her self down but making comments in regard to White people, she didn't blurt it out but she said it none the less, I think that is perhaps where the blogs you mention are attacking her from, as if its on the BVI Community board most locals can't access it as it run by white women, 1 who has never set foot in the BVI, whoops did I really say that.....
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I was not at the meeting but reading this account of what Ms. Fahie said, what's the big deal? I don’t see anything wrong with what she said. As a matter of fact, she was spot on.
And by the way, the government wants police records, but what about the steady erosion of the social fabric weaved into the BVI? Caused by none other than people who come here with their own agenda, to grow rich overnight; to steal and destroy husbands and wives of locals and break up families? Did anyone touch on that so far? It is a big problem here too and it needs to be addressed.