Close the 'backdoor' for unqualified persons - Hon Fahie
The First District Representative was speaking yesterday November 2, 2015 during the debate over the Employee Mobility (Amendment) Act of 2015, which was eventually passed following a deliberation of the committee of the whole House.
Honourable Fahie lamented that local persons cannot easily transfer from one post in the Government services to another without the risk of facing legal action as has happened.
Accordingly to Honourable Fahie, the taxpayers are the ones who lose when this happens as taxpayer dollars are used to educate these VI citizens only for them to be shunted aside for an outsider.
"They come back and because they want to move from government to a Statutory Body for a post for which they are qualified [they encounter difficulties]. There is no one qualified except for a few of our people and it would avoid us having to bring someone in to pay room and boarding and gratuities."
He noted that those things are things of the past from the days when people were not qualified for certain posts. He also said that importing of labour should only be limited to certain posts for which local expertise cannot be sourced.
"Now that we have matured as a country and we have developed we can bring that to an end," said Honourable Fahie.
He said the statutory bodies must not be used as a backdoor to get unwarranted persons into the Government service.
"Sometimes when I look at some of the hiring in some of the statutory bodies I am concerned about some of the qualifications of some persons placed in certain posts."
He said it is important for persons who would not have ordinarily been hired through the Government service not to be able to come through the back door of statutory bodies.
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20 Responses to “Close the 'backdoor' for unqualified persons - Hon Fahie ”
if you keep giving handouts for being born BVI, then none of you will ever work or earn anything rightfully. The birth right thing you people always hiding behind is getting old, many of us who aren't indigenous to here, contribute and care more than some that are.
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I understand your point and take away government contracts for doing poor work a lot of people here wouldn't own homes. All most BVI people do is scheme to make money off government. That's why you never find any of you doing the doctoring, the banking, the building of ports or financial president. So tell me outside of spunging off your government what you got to offer.