“Going green” but no action – Douglas Wheatley
Mr. Wheatley, host of ‘Speak Out BVI’, aired every Tuesday on a local radio station, stated that the Virgin Islands has always been talking about a green economy but takes no action.
“We were green a long time ago but we moved away from it and I think we are to retrace our steps and become a green economy.”
In giving an example, he spoke about the wastage of mangoes and coconuts in the Territory, and different ways these produces can be recycled and become a personal benefit to the individual and the economy on a whole.
“There are many coconut trees around, can we not harvest these trees? Isn’t there more that we can do?” he questioned.
The talk show host said the VI should get back to the land and harvesting in order to fasten the knot between tourism and the agricultural industry with the resuscitation of the agriculture industry.
He said by doing this “you don’t see agriculture as being separate and distinct from the tourism industry.”
According to Wheatley, the VI now has an excellent opportunity now that the world is in disarray, “for us to really put our foot down and do the things that made us successful in the past.”
Mr. Wheatley said that local farmers today are battling with produces from Puerto Rico, the United States, Dominican Republic and other territories, because they think that the VI is “unable to feed ourselves with our own resources.”
In speaking about the Greenhouses in Paraquita Bay and Virgin Gorda he said, “One would hope that money is being spent on them and perhaps with a little bit of ‘tweaking’ here and there, they should be up and running and doing something, because people have to eat and they will always have to consume.”
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