‘VI not a real country’– Trunk Bay residents told
In a private estate, with only three people living in close community, a road was being paved for the benefit of the persons living in that area. The jeep of one of the residents was parked at the beginning of the road together with a strategically placed 2 x 4 in order to indicate that the concrete was still wet and that no cars could pass.
It was alleged that the expatriate residents who lived below the road, drove straight through the wet concrete in order to drive directly to their property. The road had been under construction since Thursday of the previous week and all three residents were said to have had full knowledge of the continuing events.
Each resident made the necessary adjustments. With the final piece of the road being paved, all three residents would have to park behind the concrete and walk to their houses until the final piece dried out.
Two of the peeved residents said that when the estate engineer, Val Corrington was called and told of the turn of events, they said he did not understand the gravity of the situation until he arrived on site the next morning.
When he got there and witnessed the situation, he went into full rage, as one resident told this news site and confirmed by the other.
In speaking to Mr Corrington, he said, “I am extremely disappointed that people could behave this way in community with others. In particular, I am upset because of the hard work that the men put in over the last week and half to have the road completed. They have disrespected their neighbours and also the tradesmen's labour and I hope that they learn from the consequences that this situation will cause them.”
It was alleged In the midst of all the confrontation, one of the residents who was responsible for ruining the road proceeded to say, amongst other things, that, “if this were a real country, then cones would have been put in place to show that the road was wet.”
When Virgin Islands News Online spoke with resident Mr. Mark Wollner, he said, “It was obvious to anybody with sense that the road was wet and my jeep was parked there to indicate that cars could not pass. A 2 x 4 was also placed across the road for further indication. In my experience with construction, that is sufficient indication. Further, the way my jeep was parked, they had to angle their jeep to get around mine and must have been moving in very slow motion to do so. Therefore, they would have felt the wheel sinking as they entered the concrete, with enough time to reverse if they wanted to; but instead they drove right over the piece of 2 x 4 and straight through the concrete, which instead seems like a deliberate action.”
Virgin Islander and Trunk Bay resident, Ms. Ayana S. Hull also registered her disgust as she said she had been waiting for the estate to pave the road for some time in order to stop the damage to her car as she does not own an SUV.
She said, “It is a new realisation for me when I walk out of my house at 7:45 in the morning and I listen to a Trinidadian woman telling me to my face that the BVI is not a real country. My response to her was that we do not need her here in our unreal country and that she should go back to where she came from and where thought was real for her to live.”
Ms Hull continued, “I can take a lot of things but I am not going to sit down and allow people to behave like this in the BVI and just take it. I have to agree with the present Leader of the Opposition, I think it was, when he said that people like those have overstayed their welcome in my BVI.”
According to Ms Hull Ms. Myrna Herbert, the person in charge of Parker Trunk Bay Estate also said that she is fully aware of what transpired and she is not at all happy with the situation and is addressing the irresponsible and inconsiderate actions accordingly with the perpetrators.
Ms. Hull said she also alerted as many of the politicians as would answer their phones last Thursday night about the situation. She said one was empathetic with the situation.
“Another one indicated that he was busy preparing for the HOA and had five people in front of him and basically trivialised the issue,” she said.
Hull said the irritated response of the second politician bothered her because VIslanders are being forced to live in a country where nobody has any respect for them and everyone believes it is open season to do what they want and I believe that this is an important issue for our leaders to pay attention to as well.
“I have lived in the Florida, Barbados, Cambridge and London in pursuit of higher education and wherever I went, I simply fit into the people’s community and I respected and accepted the idiosyncrasies of those countries for the time that I had to be there. Nowhere is perfect. I know for sure we (the BVI) are not perfect, far from it; but BVIslanders must be able to live in peace and harmony in our own country and those who do not intend to fall in line can simply leave.”
She went on to say that nothing has upset her that much in a long time. “I pray that while our politicians appear to have placed their HOA deliberations on who gets which contract etc. as top priority, that BVIslanders are protected in the process so that they are allowed to enjoy those concrete developments and solutions approved in the HOA; as at the rate we are going, it does not appear that that will be the case."
The estate developers and the residents expressed their hope that they could all just get along and that persons would have respect for each other’s quality of life by compromising when they have to, while they all live in a community that is still developing.
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She's out of all order!
P.S. that's how it works in a real country
Where in the world anybody can pick up a phone and call a Politician directly? She has valid points but I only agree with her up to the point of calling Politicians and upset with the answer. NOWHERE else in the world people have that level of access, NOWHERE! You are calling a Politician on the eve of a heated HOA meeting to talk about someone messing up your newly concrete road and expect him/her to just hop into action at the sound of that? NONSENSE MAN! TO the Trini person who talked that s..t, they deserve a hot slap and a one way ticket on LIAT for that level of ignorance.
To much expats speaking nonesense at times and believe that we the BVIslanders would twiddle or thumbs and keep close mouth. Never. And a next thing, the politicians are here to serve the people.
But specifically, in this case, if she feels that the BVI is not a real country, then she ought not to be here...only crazy people or the desperate live in non-countries.
"The estate developers and the residents expressed their hope that they could all just get along and that persons would have respect for each other’s quality of life by compromising when they have to, while they all live in a community that is still developing."
Nicely put :)
I am particularly upset with her comment and have grown very tired of hearing my fellow B V Islanders and the BVI put down by these people. This begs the question. What are you doing here? Go back to where you come from. They say BVI people are stupid and the BVI is this and that. If your country is so much better, you need to LEAVE.
The immigration do not need to renew their work permits. LEAVE!!! LEAVE!!! LEAVE!!!
Make the woman pay to break up the slab, haul it away and pour new concrete. That should provide her sufficient reason to adjust her attitude. If she doesn't want to pay (and I am sure she won't), have the police charge her with vandalism and assess damages accordingly. Let the court deal with her.
Jealousy,resentment,self loathing and envy is understandable. She is a Trinidad I an a country of untold natural resources , an Independent island nation with racism poverty and daily occurrence of heinous crimes. This woman is a particle of that whole which contribute and contributes to the fabric and makeup of what is Trinidad. It is her shame that is guiding her. A little spirituality and she would cough up gratitude which would propel her humanity to a higher plane. Notice the absence of an outcry from the churches and their spiritual leaders when their countrymen spew disrespect at the Bvi,their lifesaver?
Karma will continue to keep such places and pepple desolate and desperate no !mayter jow maz y bi
Ipns thzt is given i. Aido matter what.
with the pity she deserves.
NDP MUST GO!!!!
I think I agree with the lady's comment about B.V,I not being a real country. I am very proud to know that my precious B.V.I. is not a real country and WE love it so because, if in fact B.V.I. was a real country, they would find --- ------ somewhere months after her comments. Case close.
I am not against progress, and I am definitely a poster boy for getting things done even in unorthodox ways sometimes however certain things need to be done properly depending on certain situations.
Here's the situation..... The BVI is a Tourist Destination also we live here and our families also. As soon as I saw these barriers I felt that they were unsafe. It was daytime and I found that these barriers would not do well in terms of being visible by all drivers. I also felt that the barrier would be even more difficult to see in the night.
I made a mental note of the barriers and I went home in informed my family for safety's sake.
Since we're talking about who pays for what..... I'll let you know what I was thinking when I saw these items in the street. I was wondering who's gonna pay for my vehicle when the bottom gets burst out from these rocks and things in the road that were barely visible.
I have a feeling that somebody is going to write be back stating that I must be blind and other things .....
before you hit me back .... ask yourself these questions especially if you're from here, live here and love here.
Shouldn't we aim to do things better?
Don't we deserve better?
Shouldn't we present our country better?
Shouldn't we avoid lawsuits? (The West Road was Public.)
One more thing...... Construction cones and other acceptable barriers for the kinds of road works we're talking about here have the proper reflector, size and colour to do the job properly. Blocks, stones, rocks, pieces of 2X4s, tree branches and kitchen sinks don't.
ask ....a where her parents come from are they not expat? she is a direct product of expat parents or is she a shame of that too.
SO I will say, to those who like to put down ... show some respect to those that welcome you, cause just like me if your country was so good... why did you leave? Am not putting no one down. But some people need to wash their brain and then put it back in their head...
yes they were dumb to do it and instead of putting their tails between their legs and saying sorry they became defensive. but in a way they are right. this is not a do it by the book island. any one who moves here has to adjust to tortola island ways. look at the work at the round a bout. no safety cones, no safety signs, no detour , no cops directing and yes after it was done there were very large holes and dangerous mounds. This is the normal way to do things here here, there are no people accountable for their actions because they are from here and that is it. look at the way this island works. you need to learn how to flap your arm out a window to get a drivers license. they spend a million bucks to divert raw sewage to the sea. a hospital that has no doctors, an elected official with no degrees. What Ayana says about expats leaving island has its benefits. The people here can then go back to fishing, farming and a slow pace of life. There will be no lawyers, trust companies, charter boats and far less autos so you will not need cement roads. A great solution to the problem of driving over wet cement