'We cannot rest until decolonisation process is complete'- Premier Wheatley to OECS
According to the Premier, the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States was one of the bodies that stood in the corner of the VI and continues to do so to ensure the democratic and human rights of the people of the [British] Virgin Islands are respected.
“We are grateful for your efforts to ensure the democratic and human rights of the people of the British Virgin Islands are respected, including our inalienable right to self-determination and the well-established principle of self-governance for a people seeking to achieve a full measure of self-government,” Dr Wheatley stated at the Opening Ceremony of the 73rd Meeting of the OECS Authority in St Kitts on Sunday, June 18, 2023.
Premier Wheatley shared that the path to the April 24, 2023, general election was not easy, since the territory faced very difficult and uncertain circumstances.
‘We cannot rest until decolonisation process is complete’- Premier
But he said while the democratic will of the people has been clearly expressed, the territory still faces the threat of suspension of the constitution “that is hanging over our heads by the United Kingdom Order in Council held in reserve and the potential attempt to seize more powers over the islands.
“I am very conscious that I would not be here this afternoon as the newly elected Premier without the unwavering support and intervention of the OECS,” Dr Wheatley said to applause.
He thanked the Governments and people of the Eastern Caribbean “for coming to our aid” during the VI’s darkest hour and continue to make representation on the VI’s behalf at the United Nations Special Committee on Decolonisation in New York.
“Ladies and gentlemen, we cannot afford to forget that the Caribbean space is not yet completely free of its colonial past. Therefore, we cannot and should not rest until the decolonisation process is complete,” Dr Wheatley stated.
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- Corruption is stopped.
- Guilty are prosecuted.
- Infrastructure reaches first world status.
- Country can stand on its own 2 feet.
Public Works has many idle employees, send them on the roads daily to fill in the potholes with bags of concrete mix as opposed to that useless cold asphalt.
We must become like the other Independent cesspools in the Caribbean. It is not enough that we have degraded desecrated our landscape with their Independent hungry criminal castaways.
Practically dancing on the graves of the slaves & our ancestors, in ignorance.