‘We are being treated like dogs!’ – Edmund G. Maduro
“Here in the BVI we are being treated like dogs,” Maduro stated about the situation on the EGM radio show aired on ZROD 103.7 FM May 1, 2014.
According to Maduro, there is a committee of non-local people who live in the area that has been giving direction to political representatives on the issue. “It is the direction from this committee that our Ministers and Representatives in government have been taking and abusing our BVIslanders of their constitutional rights,” he alleged.
He contended that everyone who has a right to be in the Territory has a right to life, “If we and our elected representatives are going to allow people to come in here and create committees and cause us to die for the lack of food, it is time to take serious attention to how we are being protected and represented by the people we elect,” Maduro cautioned.
Vendors were ordered to cease operation on the beach effective, April 3, 2012 until the requisite licenses were obtained.
He noted that the beach is public and urged that every person in the Virgin Islands should have access to the beaches. “If our people have vendors’ licences, who is the City Manager or any government department to stick up a notice and say that they cannot vend on a beach that is a public area?” he asked.
Maduro called on the First District Representative Hon. Andrew A. Fahie and Premier Dr The Hon. D. Orlando Smith to ensure that justice was served and the alleged abuse discontinued.
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