Go back to the drawing board! – resident to NDP
He offered to expand his point and stated, “We have a lot of BVIslanders abroad, bring them home and put them in jobs… if we have qualified BVIslanders we don’t’ need to import people from Jamaica and all over the world, we have sufficient qualified BVIslanders, so bring them home and pay them…”
The resident insisted that locals must be given first choice as the labour code instructs, “we are not talking about lip service,” he continued, “if we say it, we mean it and we do it.”
Stoutt also attacked a recent increase on BVI passport fees, suggesting that the NDP government go back to the drawing board. “Hon. Premier, I suggest that your government needs to go back to the drawing board… The increase is not [100 per cent] but it’s 212 per cent, that is too much of an increase at one time for poor people,” he stated.
“Do not take advantage of the poor,” the resident blasted, “some of us are rich and can buy anything, but please consider the poor and the little man…”
Citing biblical scripture throughout in re-enforcing his points, Stoutt offered Proverbs 22:16 in this instance, “He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want.”
Premier, Dr The Hon. D. Orlando Smith attempted to assuage the concerns about passport cost increases, stating that these were as a result of added courier fees now being incurred. “Wherein passports were issued here in the BVI before, they’re now being issued in the United Kingdom… we’ve got to send them by [courier] to the United Kingdom, [and] bring them back here…”
Another resident, Gloria Fahie, said, “what [the resident was saying] is very serious...Dr Smith, I don’t think you really addressed that issue, I think you spoke about the UK passport, but I believe what he is speaking about is the local passport…”
Fahie felt that the fees that went up affected the lower and middle class predominantly and suggested that fees be levied against businesses instead.
“Levy the business, go back to the business taxes, or whatever it was that was in place before and give us poor people that tax break.”
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22 Responses to “Go back to the drawing board! – resident to NDP ”
1. Trickle down economics with the first bill they pass
2. Tax the poor and give a break to the NDP rich business friends
3. Hire their friends, family and cronies and lie and say the country is broke
4. Victimize those who do not support them and only hire NDP
5. Keep the people dependent on them with threats and intimidations