Building HLSCC on farm lands was a plan to sideline agricultre- Ulric Scatliffe
Speaking on his 60-minute show on Saturday November 12, 2016, Mr Scatliffe noted that what’s even worse is the HLSCC does not have an agricultural programme.
He was addressing the territory’s agricultural sector.
“The Chief Minister [H. Lavity Stoutt] took all the farm land which was ideal for farming and gave it to the college and there is nothing now, just a skeleton of what they are doing there; not even offering a programme on agriculture in the college. So again it was a deliberate act it seemed to get out of agriculture,” he said.
Tourism is affected
The programme host also brought up the fact that the territory is heavily dependent on the tourist dollar and agro-tourism is one area that the Virgin Islands (UK) is missing out on.
He said over and over again these tourists are brought to the same attractions.
“…and people are suffering, because we are into tourism and the people who come here want to see all the stuff that we are growing,” Mr Scatliffe added.
The HLSCC was officially opened in 1990 under the leadership of the late Chief Minister Hamilton Lavity Stoutt who was a founding Chairman, which the college was named after. Prior to the college, the land was used for agriculture.
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