‘I see dangerous days ahead!’ – Edmund G. Maduro
He was speaking on his EGM Show aired last evening on ZROD 103.7 FM during which he addressed several topical issues.
However, Maduro was clearly peeved at the fact that nobody called in to the show to speak with him on any of the issues he mentioned, one of them being the issue of outsiders gaining more and more control over the lands in the territory.
“See? Not a call from you. Not one of you supported me. But I believe I’ll see on the blogs tomorrow [with] your ignorance and I am not afraid to say that,” he said.
He compared the situation to early South Africa, where white settlers raided lands of the blacks in the name of greed. He is of the view that the same thing is gradually happening here in the Virgin Islands and that people need to wake up to this new reality before it is too late.
“I want to refer you to South Africa. Nelson Mandela spent 27 years of his life in jail because he was fighting against racial discrimination in South Africa,” he said.
Maduro also said that the takeover is apparent in the yachting industry, where there are hardly any local yacht captains left in the territory.
“I am saying this to you because it is a reality. And you’re being dumb. We are being ignorant and complacent. If we are not careful these islands will be completely taken away from us. We will come right down to a South Africa,” he stated.
Maduro compared the territory’s elected representatives to the infamous Arthur Hodge for failing to look out for the interest of the common people. “Our own Arthur Hodge will turn us into a South Africa and if you don’t believe me your children down the road will see it. I am not stirring up confusion. I am not creating mischief,” he said.
“That is why they could say to you and me that they have rich white friends and that they and their families will be millionaires. Put what you want on the blog. I don’t care. I am seeing dangerous days ahead. The handwriting is on the wall but some of us can easily be fooled by an envelope of $2,000 every election season. Edmund G. Maduro never got one and will never want one,” he declared.
Maduro said that if persons in the territory continue to keep silent on these issues and ridicule him for speaking up on them then they will only be passing on the suffering to their children and their generations down the line.
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16 Responses to “‘I see dangerous days ahead!’ – Edmund G. Maduro”
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Dear, Virgin Islander, it is time to speak up. It is time to speak out; it is time to say to David Cameron, you will not bring us to our knees again begging you for Granting Aid. Wake up, My People!
yea maduro you run things; yep your mouth...question for maduro, who owns those trust comapies and off shore companies???? 60 cents out of each dollar we spend in this territory come from those companies so the Powers to be or elected official can't not stop those guys from doing anything they desire:: the only persons that are given a hard time in this territory are b***k folks especially Caribbean nationals and our elected officials.... a w****e person will build 3 houses and that is OK let a b**** man especially one from down Islands build one poor fellow will be given a hard time.....maduro if you were speaking about NHI or the port project on your show last night you will still be getting calls all now...we can't not offend the w****e settlers (our cash cows).....mind them w****e folk lobby to get you off that radio station or tell them other w****e friends not to do business with that radio station....
He was one of very few of the children involved in his group of friends (involved in the KATS programme over a period of 12 years) that was even remotely interested in pursuing a career in the industry. He is now in Canada finishing his last year of university and when he comes back, he already has a job waiting for him at a charter company located at Nanny Cay. Once he puts in about 5 more years learning the industry from the bottom up, and saves some money, he wants to start his own charter company. My husband and I fully support his ambitions. One of his friends from KATS is already in a related field, but not in chartering. Another of his friends is already working for a charter company as a captain.
So Mr. Maduro, why don't you get your facts straight rather than making erroneous claims. Ask the majority of young people who have had all the training, why they aren't interested in careers in the yacht charter industry.
Are you TRYING to promote racism within our community? Outsiders can only do as much as we let them. If our people aren't interested, how are "they" supposed to help our young people get involved in an industry in which they seem disinterested?
Perhaps people didn't call in because they see you for what you are. Step back Mr. Maduro, at take a REAL look at things. Put your obvious racial hatred aside and seek out the truth for a change.
Land is a scarce and non-renewable resource that we should protect and preserve. But if we do not and at the current lost rate, in the future, our grand children will only be able to lament as another blogger ( ReaLPol) like to say: "we may only be able to walk by, drive by, sail by or fly over and lament that our grand parents use to own this piece of prime real estate." Our grand parents disposed of it for peanuts but it is now selling for 7 figures for a fraction of an acre. Further, the "No Tresspasing" signs are emerging. We cannot blame the opportunistic expats, for we sold them the land. We failed to see the value of our land. Thus, we dispose of it to build a house, buy a boat, buy a car, buy some bling.......etc. Most of which depreciate in value.
Our foreparents (slaves) suffered through crimes against humanity with blood, sweat and tears so that we could have a piece of the rock. But we are selling it faster than butter melts in the sun. Let's not make our foreparents sacrifices be for nought. This is not a theoretical assumption for me, for I see my grandparents disposed of prime land for little or nothing.
Living with and dominated by wealthy caucasians or with the poor and the all criminally pervasive Jamaicans, Dominican Republicans,Vincentians,Guianese, Trinidadians .
With Immigration laws stacked against the bvislander and the resulting culture loss,either way ting done.
Black expats demanding we give it to them for free along with container homes for creation of ghettos and subsequently a devalued BVI.