VIP gala to honour founding members; raise funds to pay bills
The gala will be held this Saturday March 4, 2017 at the Cutlass Tower in Wickham’s Cay І from 7:00 PM. The cost of the ticket is $100 per person and can be sourced from Team VIP members and Speedy’s ticket outlets at Virgin Gorda and Road Town and Sun Bloom Beauty Supply at R & R Malone Complex in Pockwood Pond.
Honourees
The honourees are Omar W. Hodge, Oliver Cills, the late Reeial A. George, Naomi Turnbull and Donald Pickering.
In an interview with Virgin Islands News Online, Hon Fahie said as the party celebrates its 46th anniversary, they realised that they have gotten this far by faith, and is grateful to God for this milestone, however, they realised that God allowed a few persons in 1971, 46 years ago to take a leap of faith to create the VIP.
“And we recognise that the Virgin Islands is a much better place today because of the contributions of our founding fathers and the founding members of the VIP. And we do not want to see their hard work, dedication and contributions die with them. We want to remember them but we want to refuel the VIP to make sure that it is a viable option for persons to decide upon to be the next Government of the VI,” he said.
“In so doing, it is always wise for any organisation to pay respect for those who have made strong foundations for them to be able to enjoy and build,” Hon Fahie added.
Annual anniversary to be celebrated
The Opposition Leader said the VIP intends to celebrate their anniversary from this year forward on an annual basis.
“It is our intention to have this to be annual. We had this type of celebration almost 16 to 17 years ago. But being the new Chairman we have a very vibrant fundraising committee and they have decided that we must make sure that we do this annually. So every year we are going to be honouring more of our founding fathers and charter members and past legislators. In terms of our celebrations, we will be doing it in different forms nevertheless, honouring them we will.”
He pointed out that the future belongs to the prepared and the VIP is making sure that despite the challenges that they face, that they work and fix, but they are growing where they are planted so as to ensure that they move on to another level.
VIP left in serious financial position
Hon Fahie remarked that they are going to have a lot of other fundraisers and other public forums in the future so that they can ensure that a strong VIP is built, respecting the work of our forefathers do not die when they die.
“There is no secret, the VIP has been left in some serious financial positions and since I took over as Chairman, I have made it clear that we have to move towards paying our bills and take the party from those challenging areas that it has been left in and move to the other level,” he said. “So there is no secret that this is one of our main aims that we are going towards. We have a lot of existing expenses still outstanding from the last general election,” he pointed out.
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Kudos to Andrew and the VIP Executive.