VI’s Christmas & other religious holidays to be led by religious groups
During the cabinet meeting of November 10, 2021, Cabinet also approved the set up working groups/committees within the relevant ministries/departments to advise Cabinet on activities to be held to commemorate the holidays and to formulate a communication strategy for the same.
As such, for the Anniversary of the Birthday of H. Lavity Stoutt, that event will now be chaired by the Premier’s Office and Sovereign’s Birthday will be chaired by the Deputy Governor’s Office.
VI Day led by Ministry of Culture
Virgin Islands Day will be chaired by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Youth Affairs, Fisheries and Agriculture and committee members would include: PS/Ministry of Education, Culture, Youth Affairs, Fisheries and Agriculture or designate; PS/Premier’s Office or designate; PS/DGO or designate; Director of Culture or designate; Director of Youth Affairs and Sports or designate among others.
For local religious holidays such as Good Friday, Easter Monday, Whit Monday, and Christmas Day, those Celebrations would be led by individual religious organizations and New Year’s Day Celebrations will also be led by individual religious along with cultural and business organizations.
For the Commemoration of the 1949 Great March and the Restoration of the Legislative Council Holiday, that event will fall under the responsibility of the House of Assembly.
The Committee members would include the Clerk of the House of Assembly or a designate; Permanent Secretary from the Premier’s Office or a designate; Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Youth Affairs, Fisheries, and Agriculture or designate and the Director of Culture or designate and the Director of Virgin Islands Studies Unit, H. Lavity Stoutt Community College or designate amongst others.
.png)
.png)
.png)
Follow Us On
9 Responses to “VI’s Christmas & other religious holidays to be led by religious groups”
There is an old saying about committees. Anything you don't want to do just put it out to a committee. Governments famous for doing this. I guarantee you both, it will not get done. Everyone has the own idea of how things should be and non can come to any agreement. Loser are usually we the people.
Keep church and state separate, please... trouble always follows when religion tries to dictate morality
We will indeed be opening a can of worm with this. Many religious organizations don’t always agree on the basic much less this. For those not accepted you already know the train of argument. Persons will be call racist, have some kind of phobia or just down right hateful. Think careful about this. This can cause more confusion than we willing to deal with. No matter what solutions you give, someone will be offended. This is not a win win idea.