BVI Moves is for 'a healthier VI'- Health Minister
Beginning at 6:00 am, the event will start at Port Purcell in the parking lot next to the BVI Ports Authority and will follow the route along the Dual Carriageway, continuing onto DeCastro Street, Positive Action Drive, Admin Drive, and ending at Queen Elizabeth II Park.
A twenty-minute aerobic session will take place. Participants will then return to Port Purcell, where the activity will end.
Minister for Health and Social Development Hon Vincent O. Wheatley (R9) encouraged everyone to come out and participate.
“I'm inviting all individuals, church groups, working groups, civic groups, everyone, to come and join this movement as we seek to get a healthier BVI.”
BVI Moves was designed to help people get fit
Hon Wheatley said BVI Moves was created with the main focus on getting people in shape.
“It’s part of our alternative measure for healthcare.”
BVI Moves was launched on September 14, 2024, by the Ministry of Health and Social Development, as part of Caribbean Wellness Day Celebrations.
The Health Minister had said BVI Moves would be implemented using a three-pronged approach by establishing partnerships with communities, schools and workplaces.
The first activity, held on September 14, 2024, was a Run/Walk event from the Ralph T. O’Neal Administration Complex to ZBVI in Baughers Bay and back.
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3 Responses to “BVI Moves is for 'a healthier VI'- Health Minister”
If in truth our Health Minister Hon. Vencent Wheatley really did care about the people of the B.V.I Health, as he would have to believe, the minimum wage workers pay an hour would not have past at $7.25, not at sky rocketing food prices, and other essential daily daily survival needed items.
Note this carefully, please. Weak people, due to their inability to pay for minimum need essential products for comfortable survival cannot be a part of the Health Minister walk/run spectable, because they need to conserve their energy for events that suits their ability.
Maybe, I hope, our government Cabinet members should revisit the minimum wages insulted, and add the $1.25 to the $7.25 that was passed, and let that stand in place for a minimum two (2) years, beginning October 1st, 2025-October 1, 2027. Minimum wages should be enacted in line with inflation rise, not inflation fall nor inflation stall.