Foreigners favoured in top positions – radio show caller
“It seems like almost every major position we need help [from overseas],” said the caller, referring to the employment of expatriates over locals.
“We have a number of persons who have gone on their own out there to be educated to the highest level in all sectors of the economy. And yet when a position is opened we going to England or America to bring somebody to fill these positions,” said the caller.
Wheatley said, “It is not only positions but sometimes when there are economic opportunities for the people to benefit we bring in an expatriate company to benefit from some of those same economic opportunities that should be available for our people.”
The caller said, “All these things should be examined carefully because we have our own educated persons. With all of the persons who have been working at the establishment for years nobody could have fit in that spot?” the caller asked?
Wheatley said that there should be succession planning in companies and organisations to groom locals to take over top positions. “It seems as they are not capable of taking the BVI and entities within the BVI along the development path. But we did it very successfully in the past,” he said.
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30 Responses to “Foreigners favoured in top positions – radio show caller”
Well do not depend on the NDP to fix it, for sure. All of them are foreigners so you know that they are only looking out for themselves and foreigners. You see that big contract they give P...y the other day and the scholarship that is reserved for nationals? Where else in the world, does this happen? Treason.
Clearly his global outlook is beyond what a lot of them can see. The caller was right the BVI belongers are betrayed by these people's lack of global awareness.
P.S. I am a local & will speak out against otr locals if I see they doing foolishness & blaming otrs for their own wrong doin.
I had a wonderful time on BVI and still have some good friends there but a few people were simply nasty to me and my family just because we weren't from the islands. You have a lovely place but you are fooling yourselves if you think expats are all just trying to emigrate there as if there is nowhere else like it.
If you don't like it fix the system.
8 months later, several spells at Labour being told to do whatever i can to keep disgruntled, lazy and malicious staff happy - despite the disruption they are causing to my other local staff who WANT to progress and improve - and being the target of some downright nasty action against me, for no other reason than i'm 'not from round here' (in my country we call that racism), i have admitted defeat, realised some people just cannot be helped and am off back home before the beautiful BVI loses it's shine for me altogether.
I really feel the sense of entitlement that pervades amongst some locals will be the eventual downfall of the economy here, and thats sad, as it could be completely avoided if only they felt the need to compete for their jobs, like the rest of the world has too.
As for the days we all used to have to waste lining up for our annual visa renewal at the Immigration Dep't and some of the lectures we had to endure from the jumped up officers having their little power trips... I'll stop now. Overall I loved my time there and met some truly wonderful people and don't regret it for a minute.
Something fishy here. You didn't hear you supposed to be pure evil?
Now I really confuse.
The question people are asking themselves is: how do we co-exist on these islands, on this planet?
The Jews have not got over the Holocaust. The Jews have, in the form of Israel, become the bullies, brutalizing their powerless Palestinian neighbors. They went from victims to bullies.
How is it helping them?
In the Caribbean, are all we Caribbean people to do the same? Is it justified to hate based on skin color and people's origin? People who are not the perpetrators of the sins you are justifiably angry about?