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Some businesses tried to bully Gov't to flout health protocols - Premier Fahie

- said persons even threatened to take their investments out of territory
Premier and Minister of Finance, Hon Andrew A. Fahie (R1) has revealed that as a result of the current COVID-19 health protocols in the Virgin Islands (VI), some business owners have tried to bully the administration to have their way, and not be subjected to the rules. Photo: HoA/Youtube
While no business was named or singled out, Hon Fahie hinted that what goes for one in terms of the COVID-19 health protocols, will go for all. Photo: Internet Source
While no business was named or singled out, Hon Fahie hinted that what goes for one in terms of the COVID-19 health protocols, will go for all. Photo: Internet Source
DUFF’S BOTTOM, Tortola, VI – Premier and Minister of Finance, Hon Andrew A. Fahie (R1) has revealed that as a result of the current COVID-19 health protocols in the Virgin Islands (VI), some business owners have tried to bully the administration to have their way, and not be subjected to the rules.

‘I’ve been under pressure’ – Premier Fahie

“I’ve been under pressure as the Leader of the territory by persons who have threatened me to take their investments out of here if I didn’t let them do what they wanted to do business-wise, because of certain health protocols.”

The Premier was at the time giving his contribution to the bill entitled, ‘COVID-19 Control and Suppression (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Amendment) (No. 2) Act, 2020’ at today’s, Wednesday, November 25, 2020, Third Sitting of the Third Session of the Fourth House of Assembly (HoA) in Duff's Bottom, Tortola.

“I want to say publicly to those persons here that anytime you decide to take your investments from the BVI because you are against some of the health protocols, it means to me that you only here for what you can get… you don’t care about the people nor your staff nor our safety, because we didn’t put them in to try to destroy your business,” the Premier further said.

While no business was named or singled out, Hon Fahie hinted that what goes for one, in terms of the COVID-19 health protocols, will go for all.

“We put them in to try to make sure that you are alive so that we can make sure that we can work through COVID-19, the post-COVID-19 era, and get back on our feet stronger than ever,” he said.

According to the leader of Government Business, COVID-19 does not discriminate and so the territory cannot have special health protocols for the rich and a separate special health protocols for the financially challenged.

"It is same across the board, and once we change our thinking in this COVID-19 era, and we change our business models, and we change our policies in Government...only then will we start to understand how to live and work through the new regular..."

Pandemic handling in reference point for future self-governance

The Premier said that when history is written regarding the VI's management of the pandemic, it will be written as a success story in the VI’s favour on its quest to chart its own future.

“It will also be a reference point for us to stop letting people think [and] make us believe that we cannot chart our way forward and be our own captain of our ship,” Hon Fahie said.

The territory currently has no reported cases of COVID-19, which has been mainly attributed to the health protocols put in place by Government.

17 Responses to “Some businesses tried to bully Gov't to flout health protocols - Premier Fahie ”

  • vip (25/11/2020, 19:38) Like (22) Dislike (15) Reply
    Don’t mind the noise y’all still getting in next election point blank
    • @ vip (25/11/2020, 20:29) Like (12) Dislike (21) Reply
      funny man and others going get a heart attack we sticking with VIP all the way!!!
  • vip (25/11/2020, 19:38) Like (8) Dislike (15) Reply
    Don’t mind the noise y’all still getting in next election point blank
    • Reply (25/11/2020, 22:23) Like (8) Dislike (11) Reply
      And we the people going with the vip team we understand the COVID has people hurting but this to shall pass
  • facts (25/11/2020, 20:30) Like (17) Dislike (15) Reply
    So happy you are our premier or else we would have been dead dead dead
  • okay (25/11/2020, 20:44) Like (9) Dislike (2) Reply

    Soanswer this question

    Why did a person from Oil Nut Bay be allowed to quarantine without security, without an app or wrist tracker and before Dec 1st , this person was released into the country on the 5th day allowed to go everywhere , was this because of the money???

  • west (25/11/2020, 20:49) Like (8) Dislike (5) Reply
    When the Primer leave west, remember that you leave ALL of us down here suffering for (8) eight years going on (10) ten with NOTHING. VINO, PRINT THAT!!
  • Thankfull (25/11/2020, 20:54) Like (4) Dislike (14) Reply
    Thank you VIP for looking out for us.
  • Free the people (25/11/2020, 21:45) Like (5) Dislike (13) Reply
    Listen to the people,,, Just tonight It came on the news that Center of disease control is now saying that fourteen days quarantine is no longer necessary and it's excessive,,,,,, Imagine that ,, they have us like a game after They already approved for us to be Lock down for fourteen days for 9 months,,,,,, Our leaders need to stop listening to These people and listen to us and stop ignoring and disgracing us,,,,,,If they were listening to the people with the knowledge,,, we would be in a better position,,,
    • @ free the people (26/11/2020, 01:01) Like (6) Dislike (1) Reply
      Wow !you sure are ignorant. What a shame.
    • Ghost (26/11/2020, 03:12) Like (5) Dislike (3) Reply
      First of all I want to give God Many Thanks for His Abundant Goodness and Love towards us as a Territory and also for putting Hon. Fahie as our Premier and to say Thank you to him and his team for their efforts in trying to keep us safe.now re: your comment about the CDC say: what you failed to write is that it was the news commenting on one of the airlines testing out a theory re: the lenght of time one should be quarantined.they DID NOT SAY it wasn’t necessary.. what THEY DID SAY WAS THAT WITH INCREASE TESTING OF “THE PERSON” THe LENGHT OF QUARANTINE COULD BE SHORTHENED OR ELIMINATED.what the doctors were saying is that this virus has a 2 weeks (14 days) incubation period and In traveling after an initial Negative PCR test that one should be re-tested on day 7.. (yes day 7) and increase testing of that person could in fact limit the quarantining time.. (advice- when you write, write all of the story as to not mislead persons with misinformation)
  • wow (25/11/2020, 22:00) Like (6) Dislike (6) Reply
    Our government full of sheeps and just follow what other bodies say instead of a little independent research
  • Dancing in the sunshine (26/11/2020, 03:53) Like (8) Dislike (9) Reply
    Let us thank God for a time like this when we have a leader who has the interest of the people at heart and not one who looks out for himself and the dollars that his business would make. We have no active case in the territory for over a month and we did not bury any of our loved ones during the said time. From South America to the Bahamas there are increasing numbers of COVID-19 cases and deaths. Those in the business sector are not thinking of people's lives, instead they are thinking of making money.

    I am unapologetic and cannot sit here an allow a few persons who profess to think that they have the interest of the people at heart, instead they are trying to look for opportunities for making money. The United States had almost 2000 deaths in one day and over 12,000,000 reported cases. I am sure we do not want our numbers to increase. Let us be patient and wait on God or else we will have money and the death of loved ones.

  • Norris Turnbull (26/11/2020, 19:17) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    There is a Culture here that seeks to undermine law and order and ministers usurping their little power a d authority to do as they see fit. Fix that


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