BVI should have quota system for residency, Belongership
Former Permanent Secretary Kedrick Malone suggested there should be a quota system for persons seeking citizenship in the BVI and made this recommendation in his review of the policy and processes for Residency and Belongership.
“In the report, I made a recommendation, and again, it was cited by evidence citing where countries use a formula to determine the number of persons that should be integrated into a society for it to be stable,” Malone said. “So that formula is recommended in the report; that there be some sort of a quota.”
According to Malone, this policy should be given to Cabinet for approval and should be used to set the number of approved Residency and Belongership applications that can be safely integrated into the BVI society annually.
Malone argued that the policy should be based on a cursory evaluation of economic, social, security, and national development objectives.
In the report, he further suggested that an independent Immigration Appeal Tribunal be established to allow applicants the opportunity to have their case reviewed outside of the standard process.
Malone, while appearing on the Talking Points show, argued that he believes the quota system is necessary for trying to retain integrity, cohesiveness and social cohesion in the society.
“If you lose that, then why would you want to be part of a country where there is no social cohesion and [where]… you don’t feel comfortable and safe because things are out of control?” Malone asked.
He added: “So, it’s not in anyone’s interest to open the doors of a country for people to just walk in without some process in place.”
Malone posited that the quota system would be based on a percentage of the population that should be admitted in any given year.
Among other things, Malone also proposed that the BVI should conduct a population study, which ultimately leads to the establishment of a population policy.
“A population study says, this is the population we want within a certain time,” Malone said. “So they may say in the year 2030, we want to have a population of 40,000 people because we feel that that is an ideal population for the socioeconomic development of the country.”
Malone added: “So the population policy is important and once you determine what population you want, how you want to get to that population, then you fashion your immigration policy along the lines of those criteria.”
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SCREEN THEM PROPERLY AND ONLY GIVE TO WHO DESERVE IT
WE DONT OWE THEM ANYTHING….THEY ALREADY GOT A PRIVILEGE TO BE HERE AND THAT’S ENOUGH….NOBODY IS CHASING THEM
LET THEM EXIT THE COUNTRY AFTER 7 YEARS AND RE-APPLY
CLOSE THE FLOOD GATES!
I say no to anchor babies.
Its called a CENSUS which we are supposed to have already. What has happened to it?
We are being outnumbered….Too many lowlifes getting belongers….The country is getting run-downed.
Let them. Them them them. Torture them. Separate them. Demonize them. Them them them give it to them let them know them can go home where THEM come from. Them ain’t from here them no privilege. That THEM we will teach THEM. We will put quota on them. And when we get to HEAVEN we will tell God to put quota on them too. THEM THEMS no belong here. Mmmm
Basically, the BVI would benefit from a population of 60,000+, with a majority of the population being enfranchised. Pretty much everything would improve if you had a wider body of people who are invested in teh BVI.
Which anchor babies you speak of ?
Wondering is the the ones the you bvislanders anchor of PR,St Thomas and mainland usa ?
Or the expats that brings from their homeland ?
Please be specific
Let THEM rebuild the islands, heal the sick, protect us and support the local economy in too many ways to count. Then, turn THEM into pariahs for votes. Then, send THEM home because in the count (quota), THEM no longer count. BTW, Social Security benefits are not allowed unless you work ten years. What happens to all of those contributions from everyone sent home due to quotas. COI anyone?
You seem to hate babies that’s from another island
I wonder if or how yours are being viewed in usa
I can tell u this
U will never prosper
The one thing in life u must never do is hate discriminate embarrass hurt try to harm and do evil on
Is older ppl
Disabled kids /adults /babies
And jus general babies kids
You will burn in hell for eternity
There is no peace on your life
Your days are dark painful full of sorrows
And guess what u inflicted your own karma
So, for example if there is a quota for “residency and citizenship”, are those who do not have those statuses (but live and work here) just suspended in the air?
Or are they still contributing to the tax base and rents and shopping at the supermarkets etc.? Are they not just living in this society giving and taking as per? There are ppl here 40yrs with no status.
This quota idea is so illconcieved, it’s hard to believe that it’s coming from a learned mind.
It makes no material difference who or how many you give citizenship if the numbers who don’t have it continue to live and work here.
Now if you say that there are qualifying criteria for who should receive citizenship outside of the number of years, then that makes waaaaay more sense than simply pegging a number/quota. Please think about those ludicrous ideas. It’s just traditional feelings and emotions at play, not head or rational thought.
With not wanting oust Caribbean islands here but calling people babies name is not nice
U anchor off usa
We anchor off BVI
U do we do
What’s the big deal ?
Go wash your funky sleep tired grandmother cap
While at it wash your hair under them wig braids weave that smell rancid
Take a diet
Take of those fake lashes and fake nails it’s not cute
Every visit to the ATM see them there cant read to operate the machine. Its like we fight to import the dregs from the region.
Make these people leave after 7 years. Implement a quota on how much of them we think allows for a healthy balance. To hell with what these outsiders think we need to make decisions based on what best for BVI and bvislanders. Their opinion will always be that we should make laws to favor them! Only allow the ones with important skills that we lacking to stay longer and qualify for residency/ belongership; even then be sparing with how we handing out these privileges. That information should be then used to determine what areas we need to give more scholarships to locals for. These people think the BVI owes them they here because we spend the US dollar that’s IT; They already getting what they here for!
These people are given belongers to compete against us with/for everything. Its not fair!
NAME ONE, JUST ONE, ANY ONE OF THE OTHER CARIBBEAN ISLANDS THAT GIVE BVISLANDERS BELONGERSHIP
?????
DEM AINT FRUM SUMEPLACE AHREADY?
It’s quite amusing how other Caribbean Islands were the ones who stepped in and helped rebuild this nation in the aftermath of Irma. It’s remarkable how quickly people seem to have forgotten that fact.
Also, if i’m being honest, Minus the US Dollar this island really has nothing to offer. The way locals operate now, it leaves you to wonder how much more of a Braggart these people would have been if they possessed tangible accomplishments to showcase.
That’s because it don’t got no bvislanders in these people country to even want belongership or its equivalent.
What Caribbean countries step in and help rebuild after Irma? You mean the people who come here looking work cause they see a opportunity to make some US dollars?
is the law now. Maybe the UK needs to enforce that BVI law here NOW!
@Irma Remembers, if you feel all these things about the BVI why don’t you leave. The BVI have a lot of off Island snakes living amount us you hate the BVI people but you love the US dollar more and that’s why you are hear. The only reason some of you want Belongership is so you have the same chances as the BVI Islander.
The number has to be controlled somehow. You can’t just get off the plane, set up shop and boom that’s it. Work permits need to be carefully scrutinized; Are these people really needed. Future generation of VIslanders need work and opportunity in their own country.
When social security start running out of cash and apartments empty with banks threatening foreclosures and businesses dwindle down so that government is the only main employer on the brink of ruin, those that oppose immigration will be begging to let more people in to the Territory as belongers
This makes perfect sense; every other country has a similar program in place, why not the BVI.
Stop dreaming s**t.
Agreed. So ayo stop coming to USA to have ayo anchor babies too. You
With few exceptions, this too familiar and infamously known demographic, as expected, are proven liabilities,liabilities,thiefs and scammers and worse.
A whole brand new prison now saturated,hundreds of additional imported police required to control their cannibalistic tendencies. They,are creators of infamous Island nations with the distinction, consistently year in year out,, of being tops in the World’s record of heinous crimes against their own… Black like We
A cursed demonic subset of human,
Importing them in excess to the extent that this paltry dot of an island has literally become a degraded lump of feces is a sin against God and Man,a sin for which a price will be exacted,
Assuming and affording the expenses of policing and prisons would be impossible if these VI was to become Independent as some are hoping .
May God have mercy on these VI.
HEADamus Prime you trying take over the world? You was at the HEAD of your class. When a girl ask you for … you say I have enough.
They had no choice. It is called self preservation.
They were securing their bread.
They came,filled their as usual empty pockets with US dollars while securing their future BVI bread line and gateway to a better tomorrow for dem ungrateful selves.
We thanked them and $$$ paid them because that’s who we are and why we are Blessed to have been given such priveledge to extend to these cursed beggars and lowlife.
same thing that needs to be done to people from here who go to the USA. SMH
These ppl worked very hard
I’m
Sure they pay their taxes social nhi rent etc
I don’t think money’s was handed out free
Especially those who go to the USA to anchor theirs
watch who they does hold most of the time!
I guess they will also give back the contributions while they sending “THEM” home.
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!THATS WHY I AM QUALIFIED, BUT DO NOT HAVE THE DESIRE TO EVEN APPLY! TASTELESS! JUST BECAUSE, BECAUSE, BECAUSE.
so the elderly lady that gets up for the past 30 years every morning to take care of the family mother down the road don’t deserve it? That is why you all young people looking like they curse! allu bad minded self. Everyone not contributing? that’s what have you all systems going. I dear you all send them back and see!!!
BVISLANDERS,their only resource was/is their human character, resulting in zero crime rate, a magnet for tourism bd successful investment by well meaning investors, brought themselves from worse than nothing..drought poor soil zero natural res ources,
With our only resource as previously mentioned we are guaranteed bountiful survivors.
Recognizing and omitting hindrances when/ if they occur,is a must as is now being debated.
From nothing to feeding clothing housing educ ating the minds and the bellies of updeislun self made poverty stricken independent Island nation countries that are inundated with unimaginable amounts of God given natural resources, thousands of acres land mass, extraordinary beaches gold oil fertile soil…you name it ,but unfortunately with human qualities not conducive to successful lives and contented living leaves them as lowly reptiles slithering here and fro,ungrateful and ungracious with no desire nor intention of recipricocity in word or deed to anywhere or anybody. Poverty wanting and needing guaranteed.
Havent YOUR Government begging for it’s people to stay??The BVI and it’s people are resilent, besides the bank see that Apartments are used as a safety net to pay the mortgage. Don’t worry my dear, we surely have plans in mind if that time comes.
I often here of persons who has migrate to the BVI in recent years about the negativity about the island and it’s people, but still they are here, they send for their auntie, uncle, bro, sis, in laws, cuz, niece, nephew,God child and the list goes on…
People the BVI is a bread basket for the Caribbean. Lets eat and be merry!
5 years leave return if u wish after 12 months new permits
Jus give a person 5 years automatic permits after that no renewal
That’s reasonable
But why the name callings on persons
Not everyone had the opportunity to go to school and or finish school
Do not make fun out if ppl
I know a mani always calling ppl names dog n cat
Years later he in accident he don’t even know what he is as dog and cat better than he
When u see ppl like u all start to suffer later I hope u rem the way u treated others
The islands is small that is factual
But all this drama not making sense
Put your laws down we will abide can’t fight what we can’t change and we can’t flood the place down either
All I’m saying soo much hate and names calling
Is truly uncalled for
These uneducated can’t use machine buts it’s them building and doing the jobs u won’t
soo shut up and keep it moving seize and desist from the name calling
Many Expats get their babies in US as well! Let me clear this up.
But sometimes they have immigration issues unlike Locals.
Any one can get their baby where ever!!
If you don’t know the Frendship between the VIs and BVI don’t judge!!
KERMIT THE FROG PLEASE BE QUIET!!!
As a Virgin Islander, I wholeheartedly endorse this recommendation Mr. Malone. It makes perfect sense. Our immigration system has been broken for too long. It’s not sustainable for a territory as small as the Virgin Islands to continue to grand status to so many persons each year.
It is wrong to do so without taking the interests of Virgin Islanders into account. Look at our schools for example. It is safe to say that most of the kids in our schools, whether private or public are of parents not born in the Virgin Islands. I sit back and read all the negative comments posted about the Virgin Islands and Virgin Islanders, often accusing us of hating or discriminating against our Caribbean brothers and sisters. We don’t hate our Caribbean brothers and sisters. After all, we have most things in common with them. Virgin Islanders are passionate about the issue of immigration because we don’t want things to continue the way they are. we have nowhere to run. People talk about Virgin Islanders going to the US to give birth to their children but very few Virgin Islanders does this. As a Virgin Islanders, I want to see Virgin Islands culture preserved.
Tell me if Jamaicans would like to see foreigners outnumber Jamaicans in Jamaica or Bajans want to see foreigners do the same in Barbados. Same for Antigua and Barbuda, Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis etc. Yet everyone feels it’s ok for Virgin Islanders to be outnumbered and ridiculed or accused of hating foreigners when we are simply fighting for self-preservation and preservation of our culture.
They were paid. They did not work for free.
It is hoped, since the electorate is not prevee to the details therein, that the current constitution being formed addresses this issue forthrightly, protecting the VIslanders and all his rights, forcefully.
Lest you forget, multiple containers with ample items from food to electronics(generators etc.) were sent here free of charge.
It was your own local politicians who held the items there on festival grounds like it was their own – Giving only to family and friends and keeping everyone else out of the loop. Claiming if they gave out the items the local businesses would have suffered.
So don’t turn around and talk like the rest of the Caribbean didn’t reach out…
Stop the hate.
Fact in point: Every generation since 1834 moved from pasture to pasture seeking a better greener life, while birthing the next generation.
That is life, and that is normal human survival methodology.
Further, it is only the governing and immigration mechanisms of the USA can determine who and who can or can’t enter the country for whatever reason might be.
Hence, stop displaying the mental programming of division and ignorance..
Is there not an ancestor in your bloodline who did not travel out seeking better life survival opportunities?
You watching them go to ATM and get jealous. cos u not working but living off the rent they pay to your granny
If strict protective quotas are not designed, constitutionalized and implemented, the Native VIslander will become a historic used to be.
The evidence, all of it, is clear for all to see.
Every country has the political and human right to protect its own from all adversities.
The territory of the Virgin Islands are no different..
Some of you are so ignorant and foolish. I guess it’s the inbreeding talking.
When you all rush to St Thomas and PR and the mainland to have your ‘anchor babies’ it’s all fine and dandy, but suddenly it’s an issue for people to migrate? Migration is a GOOD thing. It’s good for the economy especially for a small place like the BVI. When the so called ‘off island’ folks decide to leave, I hope your thieving government takes the necessary steps to preserve the wealth they are giving away to the white man.
My native blood and clan are the Vanterpool’s, O’neal’s, lennard’s, Leonard’s, Smith’s and Whites…
Moreover, we are related to every other local name within this territory through centuries of marriage and intermingling.
They/we will be relegated to second class citizens, it is assumed, if either the general migratory realty of people seeking a better life continue to grow uncontrolled, and or the British decides to invade and execute another colonial move on these islands.
That is not the kind of future we are looking forward to or deserve. We have rights, human, political, economic and social that have been acquired and established over centuries.
Indeed, profound biases against us are noticed within the comments every time this issue comes to the front in media.
We are being convicted like criminals just because we are local to these islands, which have a reasonably good economy and standard of life and living that others may not have.
Some seem to think that we are not deserving of our birth rights and privileges that come with it.
Hence, we must secure all privileges, economic, social and environmental exclusively for us first and foremost. Every country does the same for its citizens. So must we.
WELL THE OUTER WORLD CAN READ AND GET A CLEARER UNDERSTANDING OF BLACK .ON BLACK DISCRIMINATION ON EACHOTHER ~ THERE IS A LOT OF EVILNESS BEING EXPRESSED HERE ~ I WONDER IF ITS THE STORM THAT FLUSHED OUT SOME OF IT , LUCKILY OR THEY MIGHT OF IMPLODED
Dont matter
I got my point out
We u
We all anchor off babies
But u BVI ppl that has a special drive to anchor off usa I reside 3 decades and I can tell u I’ve seen instances where ppl risk making child on a ferry or private boat jus to avoid making them
Is sweet BVI Peebles hospital
Stop calling anchor when y all does the darn same
If u love here soo much why not have your babies here
U all calling us beggars when u all making them
To get usa benefits
Run StThomas for all your baggies
Free grocery and formula etc
Now tell me who’s the beggar????
Soo u know that anyone can have there babies anywhere they want
Why make silly comments ?
U must be in kindergarten still
U make we make
It’s anchor babies isn’t it ?
Girl bye
There’s many diff countries literally flooding my homeland and it don’t bother me or anyone I know back home I’ve never heard any comments from none
I go bout my business if the ppl come to make a better life why should I be mad ?
Me along with humans with a heart goes to where some of these migrants are setting up temporary shelters and giving them cases of water groceries and clothing
I will stand by my notion do unto others as u would have them do unto u
None of y’all will get me to think like u towards any other countries that try to make the country that i was born in a problem sorry
Goodness and mercy shall follow me /us all the days of our life I know that for sure time proves that
I understand here is small but the prob is most of the ladies envied the island woman and that’s the truth
Soo they look for opportunities to explode send them out send them home
None of ain’t cleaning no floor
They know to chat on phone
Leave work early
Come late
2 hrs lunch
Call in sick
The list goes on
I triggered something? That’s good.
We live in a modern world fellas and no one wants to go up carrot bay hills to plants and pick yam, dassien, sweet potatoes or calabash.
Folks love to buy US goods pre prepared and packaged and have running water (no one wants to tote water to flush toilets and bath). So going back to 1920s style living is not an option. Also ppl want to not live as hard in their 60s and 70’s most folks want a decent social security check, electricity and at least a circulating standing fan on dem when they sleep.
How much money this place makes having ppl pay for work permit and extensions each year? They will never stop expanding the number of work permits and therefore the number of belongers will continue to grow. It’s that simple
I find it funny as hell when you trigger a delusional BVIander (I am one just not delusional) about the need for liberal immigration policies that make sense given that it increases the tax base based upon growth (belongers add value by owning stuff, paying social security and other taxes and introducing commerce) and when they always go to “we can live like our ancestors”. I say BS
Also beaches and green hills didn’t make this territory rich. Financial services did (you know when we passed the IBC Act and all the incorporation work fled Panama and came to BVI out of sheer luck) so I don’t know what your read about beaches and blah blah blah bringing advancement to our people. Can you share what literature you read? Or did an old man under a tree tell you that?
keep your belonger, implement a quota, do whatever you think is important to protect the vi.
keep it, because I going Guyana, and I doh want see none of aye down there begging not f@@cking one of ayo.
karma is a bytch and the vi done begin to feel it to already
The bvi people don’t like to work what you expect
I would say there are good and bad people in the bvi some are some minded while some are well educated. The small minded people think that belongership shouldn’t be given to people let me ask yall a question respectfully if an another country attacks yall who will save yall ? Ain’t the British government that time yall will become uk citizens but as soon as the place start to recover yall wanna act like this is yall land and uk is a racist nation. If uk was racist then they wouldn’t have given yall uk citizenship when yall are born in the land of Tortola. Same like that outsiders have paid taxes and worked hard, contributed for the territory it’s time people who are here for 10years are given residency. Y’all need to stop because yall love to go to other countries and get rights let others make the bvi Their home too. Yall small minded ppl are the reason why immigrants come into the bvi yall can’t do those jobs hence why immigrants come yall want office jobs only if yall did small position jobs like cashier and cleaner then outsiders wouldn’t be in this country and yall could have been in power and belongership wouldn’t have been a concern. So stop complain like a baby and find a job from riding motor bikes like hooligans on the streets of Road Town.
Just look at the comments; these expats really unreasonable. In none of the places where they come from they outnumbered by people who not from there but for some reason BVI must be open and available to any number of foregners to just pour in here and stay forever and get every right as a bvislander and if the locals have a problem with that they evil or bad minded. I don’t care who don’t like to hear it; something has to be done about it. The place is too small to not have any controls on how many outsiders we letting in and giving belongership to.
Let’s do better than this hate
Teach your kids to live and let live
The lack of pride and decency is woefully absent.
For starters,if at anytime you are made aware th at you are an unwelcome guest,leave and return home or find an alternative hangout. Trust me,no one is irreplaceable.
BVIslanders live,marry, birth wherever they so desire and with no interference or displeasure from their chosen host countries. They are not liabilities and nuisances.Settling away from home is fine but becoming and performing as destructive elements is unacceptable. The exact reason why you left your country to become unwelcomed a foreign nuisance,prideless and shameless….unacceptable and destructive elements in your country,have created a worthless country. Even my canine knows when to lap its tail and take leave., arguing and comparing BVIslanders’ with other islands is absurd. BVIslanders are in their own lane,no comparison. .
THIS MAN IS A FAKE
Nice shirt, Nice tie, Nothing else to declare !
That is a very good idea, the place is to small for that.. I am not from here but I understand..some people come here and act as if the BVI owes them ,and are the same ones call down the place like there’s are so better
This is another ten day talk.
I have no qualms with imported human labor,
The problem is the quality and source.
There are nationalities of many sources on this lil pin head of an island.
The problem is the ones from the upper Caribbean. Their Spiritual energy is one of evil and discord. They come to destroy. Orderliness and positive living and growth is not part of their being. Nothng new. Get to know history. It has always been that way from long ago.It is quite evident that the lack of a life worth living in their country is caused by a force within them. They have been given everything on this earth by the Divine for prosperity and contentment but their hearts minds and Spirits are mucked up big time. BVIpeople,take heed and take steps one by one to eliminate / reduce one by one the unfortunate proliferation of their evil presence. Do yourself country future and present generation a favor in the name of Jesus.
what do you suggest?
Sadly for us as African descendants, you are speaking the truth about some. Yet, we must not lump all in one basket. We must avoid such thinking and judge each on his/her on merit, as difficult as that is to do.
Nonetheless, to reinforce your position, a family with a child was given a shelter with bed, bath and kitchen at their disposal 24/7, upon asking and pleading to be granted the favor..
That family from Grenada, one month later, went to the land lord and asked and begged and pleaded to have the local, who had agreed to and offered them the favor of staying, went and petition the landlord, who was also a local, to throw out the locals and give them the whole house instead.
Imagine such a mentality.. Just plain horrible. Thank God, the landlord, who was having none of it, told them that, the tenant did nothing to me, he pays his rent on time, why should i put him out?
Such a mentality clearly exemplifies your words, “Their Spiritual energy is one of evil and discord. They come to destroy. Orderliness and positive living and growth are not part of their being.”
That was really very low and evil of them. Moreover, it creates a struggle of mental proportions for those of us who are of Pan Africanism persuasions, and who see all Black people as brothers and sisters, and who will not hesitate to help any and all no matter their nationality or island of origin..
It was a nasty wicked blow and awakening. Trust for them was annihilated and caste away after those moments.
Last, there is no doubt that circumstances that arose around our family shortly after were results of them seeking to harm and kill us….
The super natural power of spirit, financial assistance from government, a progressive medical field and institution, treatment and time are what saved us to be alive today.
May God continue to richly bless Mr./brother Skelton for being in the right office at the righ time, and for his selfless and immediate intervention. His heart and mind are bigger than nay of them combined. God is great!
Even in the Bible Joseph and Mary had to return to their homeland for census! Don’t you want to be counted in yours? Something is very wrong when one has to argue to belong in another man’s country. If I’m not welcomed, I’m gone!
The Virgin Islands has to do what is best for the Virgin Islands. I whole heartedly agree with Mr. Malone’s recommendations.
A native Virgin Islander to the Nth generation
@that’s okay take about 300 with you and you don’t have to worry about any BVI Islander coming to Guyana to look work.
Nope
Words are wind/ breeze
Them Guyanese ain’t moving from here
None of the ones I’ve known have indicated intentions to leave
Rather they looking Belongers to evade permit and be free from immigration
Etc etc
Babies are precious in the eyes of the lord
@ born here,
You make every BVI native look stupid and illiterate with your comment. The word “ these people” are not use because you like, respect, consider or just support them. It comes from a place of hate, jealousy and inconsideration, with such spitefulness you will bring a lot of illness to your heart in due time.
I must say, BVI natives are not all that inconsiderate, but your language make that assumption of ill behavior. Be analytical in your behavior and don’t let the rust come out so blunt , be humanistic about the issue. T.H.I.N.K about it.
Now , it could be conflict of interest when the man who prepared the report is also give the solution to the problems, though he might have the solutions, let the authorities who behold immigration be the one to say this is what results we have reached to. The influence that comes across from the researcher or COI agent is not made in uranium, his quietness after his research would have served him better, than to receive black lash at some point in time.
I believe none of the West Indies expatriates should come to the island, work and return to their country. I watch how one immigration officer puff up her self with anger on those West Indies expatriates some years ago. The shouting and body language as if they were making her day unhappy ,but as soon as those from St. Thomas , told her the problem,they were having to get approval, she went into overdrive to help them, even offering the best restaurant for them to have lunch after they were finish. This behavior of some natives should be examined and correct ,because the service that is offer should be to everyone, then and only then, those with this behavior would have offer a service that they can be proud of for their country development.
I forgot: Do BVIslanders have a broad plan, individual plan or any type of plan if the banks foreclose on properties at a scale it has never seen before? If we do, can you share it? That is if it doesn’t include conducting a protest
I hear u loud and clear..
THANK YOU, MR. MALONE!!! A quota system (policy not law) was in place up until the mid-90s whereby they would look at previous labour/immigration numbers and set a quota for the current year on the different nationalities! Currently, there are just over 130 nationalities in the BVI out of approximately 195 different countries in the world!
Do people want to call the BVI xenophobic? GTFOH!!! It is time for us to be “protectionist” and ease the floodgates. Open door policy is getting the BVI and its people in trouble. We cannot continue on this trajectory with the influx of people. Tackle the underhanded “human trafficking” that is going on here also.
For the posters bringing up Hurricane Irma; please indicate which nationalities were doing most of the LOOTING post-Irma. Needless to say, we had/have and high number of undesirables amongst us!!
For the dumba$$es talking about anchor babies! We VI people go to the country legally and are not illegal!! Strong relative and friendship ties between the BVI & USVI. The issue of BVI citizenship at age 18 for non-nationals is NOT a local BVI law but rather the British Nationality Act!
Kudos to Mr. Malone for the quota recommendation; it is about f#@king time!!! Just for Cabinet to do their job in the interest of generational VIslanders!
You in other people country fighting to have the same privileges as the locals who from there and I jealous of you!? Sound like you’re the stupid illiterate to me. Maybe its your personal interests just talking or preventing you from seeing the point that’s being made. Something has to be done about immigration wether you like it or not. Your only defense is to try and make it seem like hate. Other countries larger than BVI have found it necessary to implement this same type of quota system that Mr. Malone is suggesting it is not some new idea that he just wake up with. It’s people like YOU is what I mean by “These People” who will try to make this about spite and hate and jealousy and xenophobia just because you don’t want this issue to be addressed because you just want what you want. Y’all don’t care about what’s best for the BVI or future generations of bvislanders. We need to get rid of some of YOU.
Everybody have their own opinion on this but at the end of the day data and statistics should always reign supreme over emotions and personal opinions or personal interests or attachments. Complete the census, get exact figures, determine what is an acceptable percentage of foreigners to locals in your workforce then take what steps you need to take to get there. Personally I find it to be madness that a quota has not already been implemented.
It got locals that can’t read either you must stop it
Why is there so much hypocrisy and jealousy in the BVI
From the various home
From the churches
From the schools
To the other institutions
We as a people are sinking lower and lower into moral decay
Make policies that protect the indigenous population
Make policies that support justice to those who work and live amongst us
Make policies that are just to children born in the BVI it is their home
Make policies that people who come into work are given their wages and not taken advantage of
Make policies that governs residency and belongership that is just to those individuals
BUT NO – Thinking on it the Policies are there but is not enacted fairly and the injustices outweigh the balance
Why?
Greed, underhand passing of money, adultery, fornication, prostitution supersedes the policies that are there to protect everyone. This has given rise to the inequality in the ratio and the resentment on both sides This will
Continue until the end of time .
Some BVl were even selling local passports
Some BVI politicians were even taking money and giving out passports
Some Bvi were even marrying expatriates and then spending their money
Some immigrants were using BVI people to in order to achieve what they wanted .
It is a melting pot of evils and atrocities on both side of the fence so the struggles will become greater as the population grows
You want me to give you an idea of Virgin zislands History? Our men worked hard to build this country before tourism and the influx of others. So do not think that we cannot continue without those who wish to leave. But who we have to wat h is them from UK, same law for them too, after 7 yrars, haul your tail back home. Stop bringing in these phillipanoes. Their numbers increasing daily. They will help outnumber us. But we are positive we can build this cointry without being slaves of Massa again.
Everyone is responding emotionally. They come here we go there. Everywhere needs immigration policies to protect it’s own. Had the US enforced their policies they wouldn’t be the disaster that they are today. America the Great is an overburdened nation trying it’s best to keep a stable economy and so is the UK which is already crumbling as you can see. Much of the bad in these countries exist because of poor immigration. The UK is daily trying to deport persons from the Caribbean. The UK has visa requirements on some Caribbean nations as well. One hand gives while the other takes away. Every Caribbean country has a policy. In some countries in fact expats are not allowed to work. Go read Caribbean news and see the fight by locals in other countries to protect their interests. Pretty much the same thing. Don’t be
fooled. There are expats here steadily losing jobs to other expats who come and work for less just to gain entry. There are expats who agree there should be a limit. Why would I run from my country to come to a country that will eventually crumble because they don’t have an economic plan. Oh, because I can run back home or go somewhere else. What about when there is no where to run. Many Caribbean countries do not have employment for their own so they cannot go home or ho home to what? The locals that are hostile need to stop because they go elsewhere to live or get their children. The US can feel the same about you and they have a right to. However, they themselves displaced the Indians and left them on reservations. The UK looking places to send their citizens to find work, they have waived much in the past year to help ease the economic burden they now face. God divided all tribes and give them their own lands he certainly knew why. Everyone is being hypocrites. Locals and Expats. Every single one of us!
One thing for sure the way expats behave towards immigration I will wait to see them try it in another nation. Let them go to the US Embassy cussing or go on with immigration officers like they do here, detained and in cuffs one time. Go in their country and try to behave like they do here. You would better be grateful to even be there. The BVI is a special place.
Stop telling lies
It’s the other way around
I do believe it should be curbed at some point
I do believe they can safely do a 5 or 7 year non renewal permit then one must exit for at least 1 year and return if they wish so as to curb this
The place is small and can’t take this influx
Everyone wants it
But u can safely apply for exemption after years and really don’t need the Belongers resident status
My thoughts as an expat with no status
Qualified by marriages and years 3 decades of residing and will not apply
The people of the virgin island are very selfish and wicked why people would want to come here live and work for 7 years and have to leave when 5-7 years up after paying tax yall just thinking of yall self the us should do yall the Same yall like run go they to live them even considering if the people get children that born here what will happen to them they have rights to remain here here is they birth country and it can’t change
THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN!