2 employees alleged racism & discrimination @ Oil Nut Bay
One resident told this news site of her personal experience which allegedly forced her to resign from Oil Nut Bay resort recently. She said that she join the staff just a little under a year ago as a Senior of Reservations.
She alleged that she was soon after demoted to the position of House Keeper Supervisor but the plug was pulled recently after attempts were made to further demote her to the Laundry. “All of this is what they were doing to me to give position to ‘white’ face persons, I seem to have known too much and their people felt threatened and they kept setting me up and just kept pulling me down,” said the distraught woman.
She said that she is a well qualified person in the hospitality and tourism sector and has held prominent positions with very good records. In the most recent incident where she claimed someone planted a clump of hair in a drawer after the room was cleaned under her supervision she was told that she was going to be put in the Laundry department and if she improves after six month she would have returned to her substantive post.
“We have a local Human Resources and Government relations officer there that straight up does not look out for us. They called me into a meeting and he never came to that meeting and he was present at work that day,” she said.
Another related, “What happens out here at these resorts make me feel the pain of slavery and race discrimination of our forefathers afresh again. I will be celebrating our 60th Emancipation anniversary in pains and grief because especially here on Virgin Gorda we are not emancipated we are still bound by chains.”
It was recalled that on the very ‘Elite’ Resort, Oil Nut Bay, there is a tendency of covering up the faults of ‘white’ workers who are never penalized as the ‘black’ workers. They referred to a senior level member staff who recently destroyed a caddy, is more often than not in a drunken stupor but is never subject for any disciplinary actions much less demotion or dismissal.
A senior ‘Black’ finance officer was also forced to resign because of being put out to put in a ‘White’.
This news site did call to speak with both the Human Resources Manager and the Resort Manager to no avail. They said that the HR person was out and would not have been in for the remainder of the day while the General Manager of Resort Operations Mr Jonathan Oakes was not available to speak with us. Through an operator a promise was made to return our call but this was not done up to press time.
The Ministry responsible of such issues, Labour, said that once such complaints are brought to them they do investigate. The officer insisted that her name not be mentioned.
“I fed up of Labour, they always say they would investigate but nothing comes out of it and we own, born BVIslanders and expats living here for years never get any justice,” said one of the concerned persons.
63 Responses to “2 employees alleged racism & discrimination @ Oil Nut Bay”
the minister for the subject seems like he is in ... with oil nut
It's happening to staff at the biggest law firm in the BVI as well. They brought in a d...on woman to get rid of all the locals one by one and two by two.
Dr Pick...ng causing all of this
The good Dr. ignored BVI law for them, Another PS left the gov to work for them. All to be in their company, if it was an burnt skin Billionaire they wouldn't have. LOL
We hate Sowande & Edu Enka for their African names, we hate rastas for their African hair but we respect them for doing what we would not consider.
Judas didn't know his value so he tripped up over silver not even gold. Reminds me of the BVI soul.
They enjoy seeing your fall or fail.
Yes, they well blatant with it. Remember that one, think his name was W...er R...ch or something, get up the other day, bold as can be and said he long to and desire to fire locals without Labour Dept getting involved? The NDP done give them free reign.
O.. N.t B.y? For a moment there, I thought the company was ATU. They have a penchant of demoting blacks at their whimsy. I guess they must all share ideas around their dinner tables.
Every day with the people I work with and all of them black but that will not stop me from doing my best so it's not white alone does it our own black as well may the Lord help us all
But I live in the real world. Where the BVI top tier jobs in key industries are not even offered to the locals. Where deals are made to facilitate South African, Jewish and Broke European business men at the expense of qualified locals. Can we even sail to the beach at Oil Nut Bay anymore?
The BVI society has been divided like a pizza and is easy to tear apart and the mindless cultureless characterless few have made that possible. That tactic is as old as politics itself. Is it a coincidence the things that the governor is aware of yet permits to go unchecked here?
Now she's trying to create this racist issue, black against white, nonsense!!!!
It's a job, you either stick to the rules and do your job as required or there will be consequences. You don't get, nor deserve special treatment because "you born here". Get that through your skull people, the fact that you were born here, doesn't give you the right to not do the work or not follow the rules.