‘People need to rise up!’ - Sam Henry
“There is absolutely no reason why under the system that we have now that each district, every time the budget is decided upon can’t get a set amount of money. There’s no reason,” Henry said on the Speak Your Mind TV show aired on April 12, 2014.
He repeated a claim where a District Representative allegedly stated in the House of Assembly that there were some guerilla politics going on in the Virgin Islands since the Representative had been submitting requests for money for repair works in their district and had been getting nowhere.
Henry questioned why, following the most recent budget passed, each Representative could not be given a million dollars to execute works in their district and be able to get things done easier and quicker.
According to Henry, the residents in the affected districts that are being neglected when this kind of ‘petty politics’ is being played out, need to get up and start making noise.
“…the people need to rise up,” Henry commented while observing that non-elected officials are being allowed to execute works in the Districts where elected officials are being cast aside.
He charged that the situation was not unique to the current administration as it also obtained with several different governments in the past.
One caller argued that the current system was not working and advocated that a type of local government system should be put in place where revenues could be collected for each district to function properly.
“We have to control [and] collect our own monies, our own revenues thinking about our local concerns if the national government is thinking of national concerns,” the caller argued.
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