Hon Walwyn tells VIslanders to not sell out lands! Is he being hypocritical?
Hon Walwyn was speaking at the Territory Day Celebration held in the compound of Central Administration Complex on July 1, 2016 under the theme: Our Story: The Independent Spirit of Our People.
Quoting some words from the late attorney Dr J.S. Archibald QC, who ‘The BVI is a country that values land because land ownership in the BVI is a matter of culture. It is a matter of basic culture and culture is always a decider in vital issues of life of an individual or country…’ Hon Walwyn added that land is a basis of freedom not law.
“While we fight each other at times, when we are busy envying each other at times, while we are buying cars and clothes, there are those here in the Virgin Islands buying nothing but land. They are better connected, they are better organised and they have greater access to cash than we have. There needs to be a reawakening of that independent spirit to ensure that the ownership of land and property remains firmly in the hands of Virgin Islanders,” Hon Walwyn stated.
The controversial minister of government also said the business opportunities to Virgin Islanders must also be in the hands of the people of the VI, explaining that whoever owns the businesses and the economic engines of a society will also have the power to determine the makeup of the society and ultimately have influence over politics and the direction of the society.
“Our reawakening would require us to be unapologetic in certain areas,” Mr Walwyn said, adding that if there is any business “where we have the financial resources and the human resources to operate in this territory it should be done by us.”
“Whether it be the supermarket business or the construction business, once the competency and the financial resources are available it should be done by our people. I say it is time for a reawakening of the independent spirit of the Virgin Islander.”
Hon Walwyn being hypocritical again?
It was in April of this year in the House of Assembly that Minister for Education and Culture and Territorial At Large Representative, Hon Myron V. Walwyn, who already declared that locals can no longer be protected, made a 360 turn suddenly claiming that he was now “fighting for locals.”
The controversial Minister told the public that he will fight any proposal put forward that may not be in the interest of local companies- referring to the pending sale of Road Town Wholesale (RTW).
He said “we cannot allow certain companies to come into the Virgin Islands here with all their money and take over what we have here and put all those local businesses-those small stores out of business,” he told the HoA.
But persons have accused Hon Walwyn of being hypocritical, after allegedly selling his law firm, Orion Law, to another in a merger deal with international law firm based in the Cayman Islands, Travers Thorp Alberga.
Britons didn't care about VI while voting out of EU
Hon Walwyn also sounded the call for an independent Virgin Islands in speaking about Brexit, saying UK voters made a decision out of emotion and fears of migration issues but never did consider how the vote to leave the European Union would have affected the Overseas Territories, including the Virgin Islands.
He said the relation with Britain and the OTs have been beneficial to the VI but “here we have a decision being made thousands of miles away based on emotions and cynicism, that has such a profound effect on our little territory in the Caribbean archipelago.”
“Do you think that while they voted in that referendum they thought about us here in the Virgin Islands? Do you think they thought about how it would affect us here in the Virgin Islands? Do you think they thought about how being in the EU benefitted our economy? I say again it is time for the reawakening of the independent spirit of the Virgin Islander.”
Hon Walwyn also suggested a change from the name Territory Day to Virgin Islands Day.
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A poor woman dieing in the hospital begging for help
A minister in St Maarten behind a billionaire saving sharks but promising to kill the chickens that we will need tomorrow to feed us the hungry ones who this government destroyed all our wealth and our jobs now that mr action man and his imported cronies destroyed our country he wants to put locals to lead the departments it is just like the potatoes that he sells for $1.89 per pound the ones that is not for human consumption but their time is just around the corner .
Election will be between now and next year mark my word if the billionaire don't buy this country out by then three islands and counting always remember God is great