Residents need to be equipped for Cruise Pier project - commentator
He talked about residents needing access to micro loans in order to properly benefit from the project and said that the persons behind the project have a good talk in selling the project but have effectively failed to prepare the people of the Territory who should ultimately benefit.
“What we need our leaders to do is to ensure that our people are equipped to be able to capitalise on the opportunities… they have the resources to be able to help the people,” he stated on a recent Open Mic radio programme.
He added that the project should not be done in such a way that persons who are just trying to get themselves started in businesses are forced to compete against millionaires and billionaires or faced with the option of being chided about not seizing the opportunities made available.
“In order to have the facts, the people who are responsible for the [cruise pier] development have to be honest enough to put the facts out there,” host of the programme Julio S. Henry stated. He noted that this would allow residents to better form their opinions based on what they have been told.
Henry suggested that a destination should not be built within a destination to sell the Virgin Islands. “You don’t build a destination on the cruise pier, you build a destination because the BVI is a destination. So, forty million dollars shouldn’t go into the cruise pier development; it should go into downtown Road Town; it should go into Cane Garden Bay…” he stated.
He further suggested that once the port project has been completed, ordinary residents and business owners would only be able to access what the investors want them to.
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13 Responses to “Residents need to be equipped for Cruise Pier project - commentator”
Why Government have to do everything? Why people don't stop buying $h1t, cars, jewels, rims, taking care of women who don't even like them, making it rain in the strip club etc. Every $%&^g thing is Government man ya'll make the damn dog sick!!! Save your money and invest then maybe, just maybe Government can pickup the shortfall but it doesn't have to start with Government. Where will the money come from? People done balling bout paying back their student loan and mortgages to National Bank you want them issue loans again? Our people sick!!
How the hick we can equip ourselves and we do not know a $h1t about the project?