Dr the Hon Wheatley to spend World Food Day with Farmers & Fishers
This is according to Deputy Premier and Minister for Education, Culture, Youth Affairs, Fisheries and Agriculture, Dr the Honourable Natalio D. Wheatley (R7), who said he will be spending World Food Day with the farmers and fishers at Sir Olva Georges Plaza in Road Town.
According to a press release from Government Information Service (GIS) on October 8, 2021, observance of the day will commence with an opening ceremony and presentations by select Government agencies and members from the farming and fishing community.
Farmers and fishers will also be on hand to sell their produce and promote their services.
Community invited
Permanent Secretary Mrs Carolyn E. Stoutt Igwe is inviting the Virgin Islands’ community to attend the event and support the farmers and fishers.
“I am looking forward to this year’s World Food Day activities, and I am inviting the community to come out and participate by supporting our local producers. I salute those who continue to farm and fish in our Territory and encourage others to start taking actions to increase local production so that we can indeed live better lives”.
This year’s observance of World Food Day will be held under the theme, “Our actions are our future - better production, better nutrition, a better environment and a better life”.
The observation will culminate on Saturday, October 23, 2021, with activities organised by the Ministry of Health and Social Development, focusing on the nutritional aspect of this year’s theme.
World Food Day observed by over 150 countries
World Food Day is observed around the world on October 16 which marked the creation of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations in 1945.
The commemoration of this day is celebrated by more than 150 countries including the Virgin Islands.
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15 Responses to “Dr the Hon Wheatley to spend World Food Day with Farmers & Fishers”
Fast forward: when I was a young man our Grand parents, fathers, and mothers were also much involved in the three mentioned occupation. They had to scratch the ground, sail the rough seas, and attended live stock, relinquished modern education in favour of survival.
Fast forward: In the time of Hin. Chief Minister Hamilton Lavity Stout, Hon. Omar Wallace Hodge, and othe Hon. Ministers, agriculture, farming, fishing, and live stock interested were more sorted after that are sort after nowadays. This should not have been so.
Base on what I know, as we show greater interest in science, and other way of survival, we have drawn back on the troddle, and heaped praise on what is little more than simbols if hope, being hyped by politicians for their own glory, and their supporters, mainly.
However, some is better than none, when the some is helpful. But until a much larger sum of money is put to use in our food interest, World's Food Day is no more to us than World's Show Day. You may dislike what I have written, but if you are able to name one Country of this World that we produced, and shipped food to, then it will be right to vote me done with as many dislikes as you please, but if you cannot name me any, then vote LIKE rather than dislike.
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Here in the British Virgin Islands our political leaders talk agriculture, farming, and fishing. But you notice that they even don't have a farm, a fishing boat, a livestock business? But if by a small change that any of them do, it can't even produce enough to feed themselves and their families, much less others.
We do need to develop the farming, fishing, and livestock business in the British Virgin Islands. But leave it to our political leaders, you do it, they brag about how we have done this, and that, but where is the leadership from them? Promises by politicians in the British Virgin Islands are generally comfort to fools.
In the years of 2007-2011 the VIP administration under the leadership of the late Hon. Ralph O'Neal millions of our finances were spent, and larged farm buildings were built. Hon. Omar Wallace Hodge boasted that when finished, we would have been able to shipped food products to others, especially the USVI. We know the end of that storyline, a casualty of hurricane Erma.
New political hype in the making.
A good political leader (Premier) is like a train engine that pulls the remainder of the train behind it. Basically speaking, where are we now in our pursue of helping to produce at least 1% of our food to help us survive starvation? For those of you that don't know I will tell you. We are in the title grip of the CoI hand, because of mismanagement of our finances by political leaders and others that supporting their rag to riches mindset.
Have wha I wrote belittle a good effort by the the 7th district Hon. Minister? No, it doesn't. But understand this fact, the new shift in this agriculture farming, and fishing hype is only because the marijuana initiative ha not been approved. In spite of, agriculture farming, fishing, and livestock business are necessary ones for all people of all Countries.