UK donates heavy-duty vehicles for Government Depts
Besides just taking some photos, our curious reporter made a call to two senior government officials who have inside knowledge of government happenings revealed that the trucks, backhoes and pickups were a gift from the United Kingdom (UK) Government to the Virgin Islands (VI).
Gift from the UK to VI
The heavy-duty vehicles will be given to Government Ministries for distribution according to need and Governor Augustus J. U Jaspert aka ‘Gus’ is expected to do the honours in a short handing over ceremony on Tuesday, April 24, 2018. Some will be also assigned to the sister Islands.
When asked about the cost, our inside source stated that the cost was close to $1M USD. The heavy duty equipment was said to be sourced from local vendors and a bid for supplying of the equipment when out.
It’s believed that most of the pickups were purchased from International Motors, and the purchase project was coordinated by a UK officer sent to the VI after the Hurricanes working between the Ministry of Communications and Works and the Governor’s Office.
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36 Responses to “UK donates heavy-duty vehicles for Government Depts”
Where are the donations from the rich locals? Always got to be so @#$% negative about everything!!
Why international motors?
You want to make our recovery from the worst storm ever directed entirely by anger at what happened in past years? And if we don't agree that means we agreeing with what happened in past years? Are you simple in the head?
The BVI people NEED WISE DECISION_MAKING right now - about what is best for ALL the people of these islands, even Jamaican immigrants and white people who made their lives here.
This country needs to wake up to the reality and stop this simple-minded pride-driven nonsense that will make us suffer - just so we can have our pride? You serious? This is a symptom of your own insecurity. If we are a confident people who have pride in our history and know where we stand, we could make the smartest decision available for our people and our children and their children without concern for these distractions.
If we are an insecure weakling people we will rather choose chaos and cr*p than wise solutions to our enormous problems - just so we can walk around saying we 'sticking it to the man' - which is nothing but bad self-therapy.
Would we rather have a collapse economy, international pariah status, broken roads and social systems, poor health, massive crime and one giant kleptocracy running things - just so we can look in the mirror and tell our self that we are not being 'oppressed' by the white man anymore?
Many many people are not being oppressed in this way because their minds are liberated and they are confident enough to be intelligent. Gullible people will fall for your simple interpretation of the present which projects everything through your chosen portion of the past.
Stop it. We need help now and we in danger of losing any friends we have because of this ignorant, arrogant approach.
Let us as a Country / People see which Dept . Will get these vehicles AND see what condition they will be in ; at years’ end . MORE SO lets make a “ pack / agreement “ to report on their status EVERY month for the next SIX months .
Lets see if we as a BLACK PEOPLE can show appreciation ( from the Dept Heads down being responsible for keeping them clean / seeviced and ABUSED FREE
My thoughts and mr Challenge to ALL
Congratulations on your new baby boy.
However these machines need to be heavily guarded and their maintenance needs to be accounted for or soon none of them conveniently will not be working. Governor we aint easy here in the BVI. The country and the Government can only catch back itself unless it can help itself.
Anyway, the UK taxpayers (the taxpayers are probably not thrilled about sending their money out to the colonies) has made a generous donation of equipment valued about $1M. Let’s thank them and show our gratitude. To show our gratitude, the PWD Transportaion Divison should establish a strong maintenance programme and train mechanics to perform periodic maintenance and routine repair that will the equipment extend useful life, enhance reliability, lower operating cost, deliver high level quality customer service, maintain safe operations, use them for intended purpose......etc.