Budget 2022: Premier Fahie to present 4th budget in less than 3 years
Budget plans
As part of its annual estimates for the year 2022, the Premier will detail the government's monetary plans and announce big decisions on how his administration will spend the people's money.
Some of the key focus areas will include but are not limited to tourism, ports, education, healthcare, utilities, infrastructure, border and law enforcement, the financial services sector, social services, disaster management, and E-Governance.
The Premier is also expected to announce innovative new economic drivers outside of the main economic pillars, that can complement the local economy in the era of COVID-19 and generate additional income.
Order of the Day
According to the Order Paper for this morning’s sitting, which is the Thirteenth Sitting of the Third Session of The Fourth House of Assembly scheduled to start at 10:00 am, the Premier will move motions for both the first and second reading of the Appropriation (2022) Act, 2021 ahead of his usually detailed budget address.
After the historic address, which will be the fourth budget in less than 3 years for the Fahle-led Virgin Islands Party Administration, the Premier and Minister of Finance will move another motion that the debate on the merits and principles of the Bill be deferred until a later date.
On the same day, a final motion will be moved so that the Annual Estimates for the year 2022 can be referred to the Standing Finance Committee in accordance with Standing Order 67, and then the HoA will move into Private Members Business and Other Business before an adjournment.
What we know so far
Deputy Premier and Minister for Education, Culture, Youth Affairs, Fisheries and Agriculture, Dr the Honourable Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) has proposed an allocation of $2M to address some of the immediate issues plaguing public schools.
Teachers have been staging protests in the form of a sickout, and the money requested is expected to address some of the longstanding issues, including that of mold, dilapidated classrooms, and poor educational facilities that have existed since the Hurricanes of 2017.
The latest budget is also expected to cater to the territory’s ongoing COVID-19 strategy, given the 2021 budget had to be re-adjusted as a result of unbudgeted pandemic expenses.
Meanwhile, today’s sitting and Budget Address will be live-streamed on the House of Assembly’s YouTube page, Facebook, ZBVI 780 AM, CBN 90.9 FM and Flow TV – Channel 101.
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In the meantime let’s reflect
On those days not too long ago
And on the days ahead
By asking a simple question
We know where we are, but
More importantly Who are we and
Where Do we go from Here?
And lest we forget here is
A moment for reflection
PEACE FOR REFLECTION
A VETERAN WAS HE
HON. RALPH T. ONEAL
Member Emeritus, OBE
A Requiem, Written for This Day, For This Hour, And That Hour They Inter Him
By Tafari Zharr.
[Breathe In]
Oh, Virgin Islanders
His Days Were Numbered
Thirty-One Thousand, Three Hundred Seventy- Seven (31,377)
And You Held on To Him Thirty Days More
Monday Till Wednesday
Picture-Perfect, Statesman, Procession:
Showered with Adulation Three (3) Days
Before They’d Later [Privately] Inter Him
Jack, It’s Hard to Believe RTO Is Gone
Oh, Virgin Islanders
Oh, It’s Up to You Now
Left to Be Seen What You’ll Do
With What He Advanced
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Oh, Approbations: Left by Him for You
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Be Neither Blind nor Distilled
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Oh, Virgin Islanders
Oh, For His Ambitions Traded for Yours
Oh, For Her Hopes Prorogued for Yours
Oh, For Their Futures Deferred for Yours
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Oh, Virgin Islanders
His Love Has Been Your Affairs
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Oh, For A Romanticism with Tortola
Oh, For A Proclivity for Anegada
Oh, For His Political Life, A Sac-ri-fice?
Oh, Virgin Islanders,
Oh, But for His Earlier Excitement in The Vicinage
You Might Never
You Might Never Have
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Your Treasured, Highly Acclaimed, and Colossal Rising Son!
[Repeat: Breathe In, hold it, Breathe Out].
Oh, Virgin Islanders
His Days Were Numbered:
Thirty-One Thousand, Three Hundred Seventy-Seven (31,377)
And You Held on To Him Thirty (30) Days More
Monday Till Wednesday
Picture-Perfect, Statesman, Procession:
Showered with Adulation Three (3) Days
Before They’d Later [Privately] Inter Him
Jack, It’s Hard to Believe RTO Is Gone
And Alongside Him Came the Turtle Dove Inviting Him Home
[Breathe Out]:
May the Honorable Ralph Tedford O’Neal, OBE, Member Emeritus, Rest In Peace.
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