’Heritage’ suggests gov’t boycott as protest looms
A group of Virgin Islands residents is preparing to stage a peaceful protest in the heart of Road Town on Monday, June 2, calling for urgent action on a wide range of national issues.
The protest, led by Floyd ’Heritage’ Burnett, will take place at the Road Town roundabout from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Organisers expect up to 1,000 participants, according to a letter sent to Governor Daniel Pruce and other officials.
In addition, the group plans to deliver a formal letter of demands to the Premier and Governor, seeking responses and action within seven days. “Failure to comply will result in the call for a nationwide boycott of all government workers and private sector for seven days,” Burnett warned in a social media post promoting the protest.
“We believe in the right to peaceful assembly and will conduct our protest lawfully and respectfully, adhering to all pertinent laws and regulations,” he added.
The planned demonstration comes amid growing public frustration over issues including water shortages, the high cost of living, poor infrastructure, and the lack of a national energy plan. Protesters also want greater transparency from elected officials and improved support for vulnerable groups.
“We the people are once again fed up with the poor conditions of living in this country and the lack of accountability of the people elected to do what they actually say they want to be elected for,” Burnett stated.
The protest will also highlight calls for consumer protection, legalisation of marijuana, reversal of the so-called ‘Greedy Bill’, term limits for officials, and improvements in public services such as fire stations, clinics, and roads.
Protest organisers have submitted a request for police protection during the event and have asked for an hour’s leave of absence for civil servants and students to attend. They also called on the Governor to reassure participants that no reprisals will result from their involvement.
“This non-violent march is to bring greater public awareness to the failings of our leadership,” Burnett argued.
The demonstration comes as concerns continue to mount about the territory’s governance, rising living costs, and stalled infrastructure projects.
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Any body who march behind this rude, obnoxious , unstable man need to have their head examined.
You need a good hardddddd slap across your face . You dumb Island A this is not about Heritage. It is for the betterment of the Territory your dumb A including.
The Island is filled with four types of people, DUMB, DUMBER, DUMEST AND DIMWIT. You so happen to fall in all four category. Why the stupidity? You are one of the ones that is going to be eating cow S..t soon to survive with that type of attitude and way of thinking.
You forgot to mention the big head snapping turtle always skinning their teeth lunatic ones that simple common sense passed by. I don’t care who gets mad, Tortola is filled with a bunch of ugly black people inward and outward. The ugly ones is always the ones that have the most to say. When you are ugly, you should be seen and not heard. People here don’t want or expect better for themselves.
Sounds like pure confusion. Heritage has gotten too big for his boots. He will undo himself very soon with that horrible attitude he has. He didn’t learn from his debacle with CCT. He will learn soon.
We supposed to tke advice from a person that had one of the sweetest deals and managed to screw it up??? give me a break
More like Heritage, mad woman, and her two kids.
Any public servant attending this event should be fired for breaching their obligation of impartiality. Any public servant taking unauthorized time off work should be fired.
sounds like the slavemasters beat yall right no common sense most these comments got to be from the people that getting hand outs or cronies too
Take half a vacation day and exercise your constitutional rights. it is not about who is leading the protest; it is about the REASONS for the protest.
Confusion I see
is a good location for a single person protest. We can all just drive circles around the lone protestor!
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He didn’t learn his lesson the last time…
Legalize it.
“Failure to comply will result in the call for a nationwide boycott of all government workers and private sector for seven days”
Genuinely, what does this mean? This isn’t a coherent condition. What does boycotting an individual mean here? How can you boycott a government worker? What does “and private sector” mean here? Are we supposed to be boycotting private sector individuals too? Then who is left? Is the condition asking for government and private sector workers to strike and abstain from work? Then why not use those words? If he was writing this for a primary school teacher there would be a bunch of red marks up in his book.
I believe in the idea of collective action and protest but c’mon, there’s no clarity in this.
HZow,fo you boycott your Government????.
How do you boycott a Govetnmrnt worker at work.
Lawd allyo mek sense if u know how otherwise stop embarrassing these BVI,your adopted Country,showing off your illiterate ignorant back and sides.
This wpuld be Comedy if it wasn’t an attempt by grown folks to interject in serious business. What a calamity these VI have brought on themselves. BVI used to be a standout in intelligence commonsense and good sense.
“the lack of accountability of the people elected to do what they actually say they want to be elected for”
Floyd Bennett once dis have anything to do with you we not supported, u is a half breed white boy u only for yourself and I don’t think u like people u just a smart man want to get on top like man s**nt
If you are not in support, fine. No one is beating you over the head with a hammer making you do anything. Just continue peeping from behind a park car or peeping from behind dark drawn curtains until you catch a big rock in your face. You stupid ground lizard and mongoose mix looking person.
I am a half breed as well and proud of such. I am glad that I am a half breed than an Inbreed. I am glad that my cousin/uncle/family member is my daddy.
I meant to say I am happy that my cousin, uncle or family member is not my daddy. It is a sin to mix blood, your children will have special needs or some type of autism.
THEY SAID THE SAME THINGS ABOUT NOEL LLOYD LOOK WHO BENIFITTED PRESS ON MY BROTHER LET THE HISTORY BOOKS REFLECT THAT YOU DID SOME THING TO MAKE A CHANGE VIRGIN ISLANDER TO THE BONE
What have you done to change the ineffective trajectory of the BVI? If the answer is nothing, but you’re still talking, you’re part of the problem.
You will see who is for you and who is not for you.
It is not about Heritage. This is all to do with poor leadership in the bvi.
That is against this peaceful protest, may the Government continue to urinate, S and spit in your faces. May you continue to beg for water, drive on deplorable roads and scratch like a yard chicken for the next meal on $7.50. I’m getting my sister and niece out of that place as soon as the school year is over. At least they will do better living here in America.
Moment them reach, somebody goong call Ice on them and ship yall back to your impoverished homeland to look work instead of criticizing others in theirs.
The message or the messenger??
This man is crazy both he and Cindy let’s march against Tola radio
Even if Ms. Jackie is at home on sick leave, she is still acting police commissioner and could have still made the decision. Why is it that a simple something has to turn into rocket science. Every one of you that is sitting back trying to stop the protest and is against it for whatever reason is going to be living worst than the throw away seniors in the nursing home and starving when you get in your olden years. Why here in 2025 an aide have to lift a patient in a wheelchair chair up and down stairs. That is a liability eating to happen.
When the house ni**er is living in the master house sleeping in the cockroach infested basement dungeon getting the left over, they do be laughing at the field slave. This is what happened to Cyndi when she try to awake the people conscience.
So now heritage has arrive at this moment in history of the realization of taking action against the political elites that ripping off the BVI tax payers to give Vybz Kartel quarter million USD, oops! Heritage had praised and celebrated natalio Wheatley for doing that.
Sindee would definitely not be allowed into the house!
This is a show of civil maturity in heritage, when Cyndi did so people heckled her, even noel Loyd, I want to see the alliance come out and support this exercise as a teaching moment for the electorate that they have the power.
I see the negative comments but from what I’m understanding this march protests is in relation to poor governance, poor infrastructure, poor educational system, greed, poor water supply, lack of price control etc these are things we complian about on regular and are things the government get away with blatantly in our faces.
I see no issues with this compared to the other marches that had to do with coi and “Colonial power”. The same coi revealed to us how the government was abusing loop holes and certainly practice’s to give out free large sums of money to friends and family while the regular tax payer struggles to meet end meet.
Im still waiting to hear monies paid back to our treasury from those fake fishers, fake farmers, and fake University students
Good, positive and righteous energy need no company. Heritage got the courage to do what the Governor and Britain didn’t had the courage to do..Too many issues in this country that need addressing and are ignoring while politicians focus on enriching themselves..I support Heritage
Any politician who go out there with Heritage is a moo moo. He saying get rid of all 13 but expect the same 13 to march with him. Stupidness!
Are you some type of no common sense idiot or what? Non common sense idiot, it is not personal, it is business. If none of the politicians show up, they are making it easy to get not get elected next election.by the way, Heritage is not the only person calling for the dismissal of all 13.
The people of the Virgin Islands are just self haters programmed into them since the centuries of forced slavery.
They will complain about and put down every Black messenger, and uplift the white English man when he comes with a whip and an COI WEAPON in his hands.
They still do not believe that they themselves can bring forth the changes they so dearly need and rant about daily.
For example, if you live in VI you know the issues. They see, feel eat and sleep these issues daily.
They have grown scared that an unknow known personality has the audacity to sqpeak out about about:
“Poor Governance, Poor infrastructure, Poor Educational System, Greed, Poor water supply, Lack of price control,” Silent Hunger, Medical and Housing Affordability and more.
Those chronic issues are decades dont care, low priority and neglect by the elected.
Hence, the governer, government and their spporters are now running scared that the people political eyes and social conscience are tiring.
They are beginning to see and fear a political uprising, which is brewing, and like all uprisings, will be ignited by the youghts.
They have them shaking in their pants after decades of elected officials self enrichment, high way robbers, imported luxury heads of state officials.
The people have been tolerating much and have been ignored for to long. The plght of youths, underpaid workers, over priced every thing and the struggle just to breath comfortably are now being voiced.
The young man is congratulated. He has shook up the the whole stinking rotten basket of DEAD FLESH.
May he now take his ideas and the caring folks of the territory off of the media pages and streets and and transform their political weakness into POLITICAL POWER.
That in the year 2025 how many of you here in the BVI is house negros and slaves just as content and ok with the scraps that is being thrown your way. The slave masters kill a hog, they keept the good part of the hog and give the slaves the scraps from the hog that they would never eat ie feet, tail, head and the hog intestines they call chitlins. The peaceful march on Monday is for a better BVI that we live in. Are we going to continue being served up scraps?
This. Protest is not about Heritage and his family roots or who he is
He is leading a march against the issues that are facing the country.
Lack of water
Poor infrastructure the roads
Closure of clinics
Lack of national plan
Pensioners pittance
Poor Education
Lack of facilities in the school
Rise in cost of living etc.
This is not about him
It is for the country
Ayo sit down and criticize but when it is time for action all kind ah name calling
Shame . He is rude yes but the cause is justified.
A very strange place
Ayo still under SLAVE MENTALITY
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