Hon Fahie Blasts BVIHSA for snubbing locals for CEO position
He said he found it an insult taking those persons through the full interview process then telling them that they are not qualified for the position. “That’s why when they come telling me that they ain’t qualify I tell them no, I don’t want to hear that.”
Forever government and their arms have been getting a serious mouth whipping from locals for allegedly not employing locals in certain leading positions and with the appointment of a Trinidadian to the CEO position at the BVIHSA that discussion has taken centre stage again.
Of some twenty-two applicants for the CEO position, four were locals and topping the list was Dr Ronald E. Georges who previously acted as CEO at the said institution for some time. There was much disappointment in various sections of the territory, especially among locals, when this announcement was made and the reason given that ‘the locals were not qualified’. Among the most recent was Hon Fahie making is opinion known in the House of Assembly on Friday September 23, 2016.
Country not believing in its people
Hon Fahie spent some time defending the cause of locals when he noted, “We have to be fair to those who have the professional degrees in certain areas because right now Madam Speaker the country it telling our people, the people of the BVI to believe in the country but the country is not showing it believes in its people.”
He said many locals who invest in their lives getting high quality qualifications overseas, upon their return they are often times put down because of political affiliation and who their families are, “These things happen that’s why I am crying out for more democracy. Who you turn to?”
It seems as though you have to almost apologise in this country for being a Virgin Islander. “I am offended Madam Speaker by persons who continue to tell us that we are not ready to take up certain posts especially in government and government statutory bodies, it’s an insult.”
Hon Fahie contended that the education system of the Virgin Islands (VI) has been producing quality people, something he said he prays will continue to happen.
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(a) seek to employ a Virgin Islander or Belonger in preference to a non-Virgin Islander or non- Belonger where such a Virgin Islander or Belonger is qualified; and
(b) not terminate the employment of a Virgin Islander or a Belonger in preference to a non-Virgin Islander or non-Belonger
Then you give it to a local the same £"%$& will talk about ndp this and that.
Do you think that we would have owned Wickham's Cay and Anegada if Noel Lloyd, Lindy Ras Uhuru de Castro, Patsy Lake, Brushy Nibbs and others only complained?
This country is going to hell in a hand basket and all Virgin Islanders doing is complaining and not doing. Where is your AUTHORITY Virgin Islanders?
For God has not given us a spirit of fearfulness, but one of power, love, and sound judgement.
We got to stop this complaining and start doing my people.
He hired more experienced outsiders over us locals.