Hon Myron V. Walwyn calls for support of Country
It was the occasion of the Territory Day celebrations held at the Noel Lloyd Positive Action Movement Park on Monday June 30, 2014 as a wide cross-section of persons had gathered mostly in the territorial outfits for celebration. It also featured a drama written by local playwright Ms. Janice Stoutt.
The Elmore Stoutt High School debate team, Western Schools' Mass Choir and Ebenezer Thomas Primary School were also featured items on the programme. It also featured remarks by Veteran legislator Honourable Ralph T. O’Neal OBE and Deputy Premier and Minister for Natural Resources and Labour Honourable Kedrick D. Pickering.
During his brief remarks the Hon Walwyn spoke of the humble beginnings of the Territory during the 1950s, a time he said there was no doubt that politicians put country first. He noted that leaders should look at the ways previous leaders resolved differences and found opportunities to work together to advance the country. “That is the political culture from which we have come,” he said.
“Our history tells us that we had various political parties even in those days. Men and women with different ideas of how to solve a problem, but those men and women I say again were for country first. We solved our problems in a direct but congenial way,” he said.
According to Hon Walwyn it seems at times that politicians’ support for certain initiatives are tied to which political party those initiatives come from. This he said is evident in cases where an initiative is in the best interest of the country and its people.
Directing his message to the general population, Minister Walwyn said persons from outside the Territory seem to get more support when they come and set up a business “rather than our own people.”
He said that there is evidence to show that when local aspiring businessmen and women pool their resources together, persons that are in positions and should be protecting them use their offices to dismantle those homegrown businesses. “That was never the way of our people,” said Hon Walwyn.
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