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BVI Recreation Trust workers allege being unpaid for over a month

- Chairman Roy N. Barry claims to have no knowledge of workers being owed
The Recreation Trust is a statutory body under the Ministry of Education and Culture and is responsible for all the territory’s public sporting and recreational facilities. Photo: BVI2014.com
Chairman of the BVI Recreation Trust Mr Roy N. Barry said he had no knowledge of what the workers were alleging. Photo: VINO/File
Chairman of the BVI Recreation Trust Mr Roy N. Barry said he had no knowledge of what the workers were alleging. Photo: VINO/File
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Some workers of the BVI Recreation Trust are alleging that they have gone unpaid for over a month and said the situation has become extremely frustrating especially now that it is the Christmas season.

The workers are imploring the Trust to ‘have a heart’ and ensure that they are paid before Christmas so that they and their families can also enjoy the season.

“They have a set of people working for Government and its more than a month since they haven’t been paid. They just keep hearing all the time, next week or whatever. We can’t shop and we have rent and other bills to pay. Everybody else in Government getting paid two times for the month and we here didn’t get paid for November, and this has been happening time and time again,” a source told Virgin Islands News Online.

Meanwhile, Chairman of the BVI Recreation Trust Mr Roy N. Barry said he had no knowledge of what the workers were alleging.

The BVI Recreation Trust is a Statutory Body under the Ministry of Education and Culture.

Minister for Education and Culture Hon Myron V. Walwyn could not be reached for comment.

18 Responses to “BVI Recreation Trust workers allege being unpaid for over a month”

  • contractors (18/12/2015, 18:28) Like (4) Dislike (0) Reply
    Boy ain't them alone.
  • tola (18/12/2015, 19:04) Like (7) Dislike (0) Reply

    knows but telling the workers them busy with NHI

  • .... (18/12/2015, 19:16) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
    Look trouble
  • HMP (18/12/2015, 19:26) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply

    Poor we and NHI.

    • sign (18/12/2015, 23:53) Like (7) Dislike (0) Reply
      You can't tax the unemployed, and you can't spend what you don't have. Fiscal management is revenue earned from taxation, public spending and managing debt, not creating it. interprtation NDP is bad for our finances
  • gustav (18/12/2015, 21:08) Like (5) Dislike (0) Reply

    The cha***an. Thats a lie straight from Hell.

  • cay (18/12/2015, 23:24) Like (12) Dislike (0) Reply
    roy is the biggest waste of time
  • workers (18/12/2015, 23:42) Like (3) Dislike (0) Reply
    this is not fair at all ....
  • myrun (19/12/2015, 00:08) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
    (sarcasm off) Now that VINO reproted this, we know this will get resolved quickly. (sarcasm on)
  • tretretrete (19/12/2015, 06:12) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
    They wicked a whole month!!!!!!!!!
  • WHY? (19/12/2015, 09:46) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
    Why Myron not getting his bills paid?
  • open wide (20/12/2015, 14:49) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    More NDP spin wouldn't affect mistakes the people have made. NDP has become weaker with things like this
  • rattie (20/12/2015, 18:37) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    where the money gone?
  • TD (21/12/2015, 12:43) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    Imagine sitting on the bum for a whole month then making noise for pay if the whole recreation was locals nobody would have complain about pay the first thing would be a bunch of licals sitting down raping the government
  • wize up (22/12/2015, 09:27) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    Free money:


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