UK vote for public registry ‘racist & economic terrorism’- John I. Cline
Only the black majority islands must comply
Speaking exclusively to our newsroom today Monday May 7, 2018 the man of the cloth noted that the vote, which took place on May 1, 2018, will only affect countries “where there is a majority of black people,” like the Turks and Caicos, Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Montserrat and the Cayman Islands.
However, the vote does not affect other Crown Dependences with majority whites, such as Isle of Man, Guernsey, and Jersey.
Mr Cline, a former Chairman of the BVI Health Services Authority Board, is spearheading a national march and demonstration scheduled for Thursday May 17, 2018 and is to start at 2:00 P.M. from the Road Town Sunday Morning Well and end at Government House.
He said "we are marching for economic justice and our dignity as a people."
Speakers at the march on Government house
Those expected to speak include Premier and Minister of Finance Dr The Hon D. Orlando Smith (AL), Opposition Leader Hon Andrew A. Fahie (R1) and others from the financial services sector.
In addition, national hero Ms Patsy C. Lake, who through the Positive Action Movement helped lead a march against the selling of Wickham's Cay and parts of Anegada, will also be speaking, as well as Bishop Cline.
The founder of the Save the Seed Energy Center said the vote is going to affect everyone so “it’s not a political thing, it’s about the country, as our financial services industry is well regulated and a legitimate business.”
The ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) is yet to tell the people what action they will take in protecting the industry that accounts for some sixty percent of Government’s revenue.
The attempts by the UK to derail the VI’s financial services sector comes at a time when hurricanes Irma and Maria have devastated the tourism sector.
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They will survive much better than we. FACT!
Perhaps rather than thinking of what can we get today, this government should have had a strategy to deal with the future repercussions for the BVI that are plain to see, rather than to fog the issue with allegations of racism.
People out way of life is at risk.
If we have no money for Roads, Schools, Health Care, civil servants salaries, teachers, the courts, prisons, water, sewage, should I go on, Is There Not A Cause???
Terrorism, Human Trafficing, Drugs, War and much more. A pastor should be supporting ridding the BVI
Of dirty money. Where is His faith that the Lord provides for His people? How come this pastor is not ashamed? Shocking. Like Irma and Maria did not show the BVI that God is not pleased with the BVI? Fasten your seatbelt and repent, Our God Lives! Seek ye first the Kingdom of God!
The 1968 March gave ius Wickhams Cay back.
We are 2-0 with marches. You never know the result of a thing unless you try.
Even if it does not make a difference we should march against their indifference towards us and send a message.
It is still pretty heinous behaviour by a fraud of a politician in Margaret Hodge (Who is not in government but in opposition) and her allies and vested interests in the ICIJ, EU and our competitors mainly the US. Nobody else is being held to this standard including the UK where registers are public but lack verification. Th US comes out very well looking to vacuum business out of here, Cayman and Bermuda. The UK therefore does very badly losing the business that was in the UK and its OTs. Of course if we want to talk of imperialism, the US states openly it wants to expend the world’s reliance on the dollar and now they want to take the offshore business in house as well. Just at the point where we may start to get more work from growth in Asia and Africa. Great timing.
What’s worse is it is a general attack on personal privacy made all the more galling by it happening as Europe passes more strict data privacy laws. It makes no sense to do this, law enforcement in the know generally say it won’t help and if bad money is in less well regulated or less compliant places including the US, it is harder to track down.
Be VERY clear on this, those who live in the OTs share every bit of anger frustration and consternation at the hypocrisy, treachery and stupidity of the interest group that managed to get this thing passed and the Brits and others living and working in the OTs are amongst the biggest advocates for the places and are being relied on to bring our economies through the challenges. With the hurricane and now this, which is not likely to be as bad as first it seemed, this is the time we need to turn the corner. This is the time for the OneBVI rhetoric to get real. This is the time we plan together to pull through. This is exactly not the time for division and ignorance. Lets do this.