“If Chief Minister Stoutt was alive today, he would be proud…” – Walwyn
BVI News Correspondent - Tuesday, March 5th, 2013 at 12:27 PM
Education Minister Myron Walwyn addressing the audience at the 12th annual celebration honouring the late Chief Minister H. L. Stoutt.
Education Minister Myron Walwyn says if Chief Minister Lavity Stoutt was alive today he would have been proud about the strides made in Education and the Financial Services in the territory.
Walwyn’s comments were made at a ceremony at the H. Lavity Stoutt Community College on Monday to commemorate the birthday of the late Chief Minister.
It was the first time that the ceremony took place at the college which is named in honour of H Lavity Stoutt.
“When financial services came on stream, Chief Minister Stoutt skillfully navigated new policies and more importantly, he began to position Virgin Islanders to lead this new industry. It was because of this positioning, so many Virgin Islanders had and still are receiving opportunities for success,” Walwyn said.
The Minister said today the financial services industry is under constant attack and they must ensure that the young people are being strategically prepared to help us combat these attacks.
“I am positive that Chief Minister Stoutt would be proud to know we have a contemporary curriculum that seeks to educate people to meet the national priorities of our country. I dare say that if Chief Minister Stoutt was alive today, he would be very proud to know that Government remains committed to offering even more scholarships to Virgin Islanders.
“If Chief Minister Stoutt was alive today, he would be proud that we have raised educational standards for our students and are encouraging them to be competitive regionally and internationally to safeguard the Virgin Islands for Virgin Islanders,” added Walwyn.
The Education Minister further said that Chief Minister Stoutt “would have been proud to know that we are on the verge of having a technical secondary school to train our young people to take up various trades in the community. He would be proud because he was a technical man himself.
“He would be glad to know that this Government is more concerned than ever before with providing opportunities for inclusive education and opportunities for differently-abled citizens. He believed in an equal opportunity for all; he would be glad to know that arrangements have been made for teachers to be further trained abroad because he himself believed in training our people to match changing times and he would have been elated to know that we now teach Virgin Islands History in our secondary schools, he would be proud to sing the Virgin Islands’ Territorial Song whose words embody the very vision he had that transformed our society.
“A man deeply rooted in his community and culture, he would also be proud to see that we now have a Territorial Dress as well,” Walwyn said.
He added that just as Chief Minister Stoutt provided opportunities for Virgin Islanders to succeed, “we must continue the legacy of his leadership in our work today. When we provide prospects for our citizens to reach their full potential, the entire Virgin Islands succeeds.”
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All of them piggybacking off stout’s good name
HL may have been proud in some instances but overall he would not have been proud of the for these reasons:
1. College is in turmoil and far off from what he envosioned;
2. The country is running a serious deficit;
3. VIslanders outnumbered in their own home;
4. Severe cost overuns on capital projects;
5. Education as a whole has seriously fallen off the wayside;
6. Since the investment club there has been no strong push for VIslanders to be part and parcel of the economic growth of this country.
7. VIslanders outnumbered in their own home.
It’s funny how some conveniently use HL’s name for their own tooting of horn but have not the slightest clue or idea what the man REALLY stood for.
boy I agree with you with #3 and #7 a easy out here just today a jamdown bring in her cuzin for a position that a local could of get. I know it have a lot of local who can he a supervisor. I sure bet this gov. a going back in again for 4 year pico a lone a doing a thing for labour dept.
And how long was all that you listed going on?
The list has been going on for well over 10 years now hence why we are in the mess we are in. The statement was not directed at any one political party but rather an observation on what is going on in the Territory. If you really want to get political then both parties are at fault.
Lavity would have been proud of his achievements not because of his brilliance but because five relatively young intelligent, educated and financially sound men are unable to complete a single anything that they have started.
Lol! Are you that all of them are intelligent, educated, intelligent and particularly financially sound?
I have no doubts that HL Stoutt would have been proud with the status we’ve achieved, but I certainly don’t think he’d be pleased with the way things are being done by this present Gov’t.
I do not think Stoutt would have been pleased how the previous government did things either. To me they ran a muck of a party he created not to mention the government when they were in control.
Fraser had a right to call them so a bunch of CR….(bleep)
For true! because sometimes they are saying that the vip did nothing and so on and so on
A very good speech the minister of education delivered..
You are right walwyn.
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