USVI Governor wants 25% tariff on BVI goods and travellers
Governor of the neighbouring US Virgin Islands (USVI), Albert Bryan Jr has requested an emergency session with the USVI legislature to discuss imposing a 25% tariff on imports from the BVI and introducing travel fees for non-residents crossing between the two territories.
According to an article published by the VI Consortium yesterday, the proposal, which aims to address economic imbalances and protect local businesses, was revealed in a letter sent to Senate president Milton Potter.
“This discussion is crucial to ensuring fair trade and economic stability for the U.S. Virgin Islands,” Governor Bryan stated. “For too long, we have experienced economic leakage and inconsistencies in our trade relationship with the BVI. It is time we take decisive action to protect our local industries, generate revenue for essential services, and create a more balanced regulatory framework,” he argued.
The proposed measures include setting tariffs on imported goods from the BVI at 25% or higher and implementing new entry and exit fees for non-residents travelling to and from the U.S. Virgin Islands via the BVI. The Bryan administration expressed readiness to provide lawmakers with data and impact assessments to support the discussion. Governor Bryan urged the legislature to convene promptly to deliberate on the proposed measures and evaluate their potential impact on businesses, residents, and travellers.
This move comes at a time when global trade tensions have been rising. Recently, the United States introduced reciprocal tariffs to counter protectionist trade policies from countries such as India, the EU, and Japan. These measures aimed to protect domestic industries and address trade deficits. Similarly, U.S. allies such as Canada and the United Kingdom faced potential tariffs on their exports to the U.S., which analysts warned could significantly impact their economies.
The economic relationship between the US Virgin Islands and the BVI has been relatively modest. According to the U.S. International Trade Commission, US exports to the BVI amounted to approximately $445 million, while imports were about $4 million, resulting in a trade surplus of $441 million in favour of the US.
Governor Bryan’s proposal could also impact cultural and social interactions between the two territories, particularly the annual Friendship Day Celebration. This event symbolises unity and cooperation between the U.S. Virgin Islands and the BVI. However, with the introduction of tariffs and travel fees, some residents have expressed concerns about the potential strain on cross-border relations.
While the proposal aims to protect local industries and generate government revenue, it also raises questions about the future of economic and cultural ties between the two territories. The BVI government has yet to respond officially to the proposed measures.
Copyright 2025 BVI News, Media Expressions Limited. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or distributed.
We’re about to reap what we sow. Huge increases in taxes on marine industry is going to hurt us. USVI is going to slap us hard with tariffs, taxes and fees. All of those fees we charge tourists to visit here? We’ll get ready to pay them when you visit STT to travel or shop.
Stupid legislators
You either an idiot or a person who just migrated here. The imports from the BVI to St Thomas are minuscule. Imports from the USVI to BVI are huge. If BVI tax USVI exports which forces our locals to buy locally, or we develop more trade with Santo Domingo, Puerto Rico and St Maarten, USVI would be screwed. Let’s not talk about fees to st Thomas. If they think BVI no longer shopping Kmart was bad they don’t want to see what will happen if we start solely going through our airport, along with our guests. They would loose huge, taxi revenue, rentals, restaurants, hotels due to late flights. Bryan is playing a game he will loose ….big time…….
This makes a strong case for the Airport expansion and believe me they wil lose alot. It serves all those people you were too smalled minded and kept saying why do we need our own airport.
What people are missing here is this is a direct push back to the BVI for the incoming charter increases. It was a predicted response.
Excellent points
How nearsighted you are.
Bryan is proposing an entry fee on non residents entering from the BVI. So that means EVERY BELONGER traveling through STT will be hit with an extra fee. going shopping, you’ll be hit with the fee. Going to UK or beyond, you get a fee. That means we the people pay for our governments idiot policies
And… what happens when USVI hits our water taxis with entry and/or daily fees. We have numerous operators running boats back and forth every day to avoid the ferries. That will stop those businesses in their tracks
Think about it
How Narcissistic and pretentious are you. We are fully aware what his ill advised action means. But USVI has never been the only option for us. We will not be bullied or in this case blackmailed into allowing others to take advantage of us. Going shopping????? WhoTF still shops there? Most of us go straight to Miami or St. Maarten or online now. We fly to the UK through Antigua and JFK via a connection in Miami. Which as of late comes out way cheaper as we save on taxis, boat fare and those inflated airport prices charged in USVI airport. Our water taxis will be just fine. USVI can operate their yacht charter in their waters, but you see they can’t because they have no yacht charter business. They are trying to take over, control and dictate what was never theirs. We wouldn’t be having this argument if they had one, even if they are trying to blackmail us to get it…
Like the BVI has infrastructure to pull that off
@ Smith. Most of us in BVI have moved on from Kmart and don’t even set foot in St. Thomas. AA has now increased flights to Beef Island. Everyday we hear how us going through STT airport is a problem for the USVI like we are intruding. So no more, that is next on the chopping block of things we will no longer use.
You are either an expat or clueless. They can issue their tariffs on our minuscule exports to them ($1 million) but if we reciprocate and tax their ($40 million) exports to us who will feel it? It will simply force us to buy locally, shop online even more, or usbSt Maarten and Santo Domingo more. His sellers/exporters are who will be stuck with goods and no customers to export to.
Also the guests and us traveling through their airport is a plus for them. That results in taxi revenue for them to and from the airport, meals while we travel or wait for the boat, rentals, stays at hotels to catch early flights or if we miss flights. That is millions in revenue for their economy. An unintended windfall due to our lack of airport. Now if he makes it so expensive that we choose not to use them but rather Puerto Rico, St Maarten and Santo Domingo, do you think that hurts us??? You better learn economics. He is flirting with sinking their economy further…..
Hilarious
So we tax imports, even more than they already are, which means WE pay more for them. And buy local? So we produce boat parts, mattresses, air conditioners, fridges, and building supplies. Get real.
If you have not paid attention lately, we stop shopping in St. Thomas. Also, the mass of us no longer travel through St. Thomas anymore. He is hurting St. Thomas more than ever.
Good luck getting anywhere without going through STT
You sound like one of those USVI manipulators. We already have, why do you think AA even recently had adjusted from 2 to 6 flights to deal with the growing volume…….
What is going on here? They consume Our food, Our food meant for Our children, and then watch us Black people squabble over the scraps! They think our own Black family are going to beat us into their submitting like slavery days!
The more things change…the more they stay the same! Black families are pitted against each other for the greed of the white community who care more for their pets than us!
Our relationship with the USVI is one of kinship, yet I don’t see many of them involved in that industry that we welcomed them into. This is an issue the USVI Leaders should tackle instead of always catering to the lighter-skinned individuals with the cash. Black people we are still under a form of slavery in our minds that make us fight each other to ensure the wealth of the white man.
This situation could have been approached with more diplomacy, but I’m really curious about how we reached this point. What kind of leaders would allow people from another country to operate businesses in our territory, raking in $90 million a year without following local labour and commerce laws? This is why some people think Black folks are stupid. Can BVIslanders just waltz into USVI waters and do the same? Absolutely not.
In the BVI, there are labour laws that favour BVIslanders in terms of business ownership percentages, and we BVIslanders would have liked our fair share of that $90 million industry, especially since these outsiders have been taking advantage of our natural resources.
We need to stop acting foolishly and come together for the benefit of our people and our resources.
@ “Comment”
Why be so ignorant and racist?
What has this got to do with white people and slavery????
This is USVI vs BVI
What does BVI even export to the USVI? Illegal Drugs and what else???
25% of nothing is still nothing
$4 million in products are exported annually. So a 25% tariff on those goods will cut profits and destroy local businesses
USVI really don’t have no work because you on here busy, thinking your fear tactics/manipulation, half truths, ignorance and down right lies will sway us. That’s the price countries have to pay to not be bullied by you manipulative ba**ards.
Im at a loss though. I always thought STT always benefited far more than we do from inter island travelling. We use their airport, we shop over there…
What is Bryan really after?
You are correct.
I guess they are trying to tell us stay over here. With the already high increased ferry prices and now a possible tax, does it make sense to go over there?
It would be interesting their best interest if we were notctraipsing neighborly into their territory and taking the initiative to keep us at a distance before Trump intervenes would be Wie. Our contribution to the USVI are illegal immigrants from the top most criminal countries world wide. Sadly our close affiliation and mucking up with the CARiCOM has tainted the brotherly familial relationship with the USVI. For their sake ,they would be wise to reorganize the kinship with these VI in their favour a territory of the USA now . To do otherwise,to continue the status quote would be detrimental to the peoples of the USVI. They don’t deserve that and we need to get out of their way. The BVI and its myriad of illegal and illicit activities A-Z and in continum while using the USVI as an in-between has been a kick in the face to the USVI. They have plenty and everything to lose with us as their frenemy.
They do not want anyone benefiting of their fake golden age (Babylon the Great) which is doomed to fall according to Revelation.
Sounds like the USVI Guv is jumping on the Trump band wagon and trying to be trumpian – is there an election this year?
The BVI does not export anything significant to the USVI – except some drugs which he might struggle to tax. This is all about trying to get tourists to stay in the USVI rather than come to the BVI via STT.
The direct flights are a god send from everybody but the ferry water taxi companies – but it is still often 3 times the price to fly to Miami from EIS as it is from STT – sometimes the difference is much less but typically it is much higher to fly from here. What we need is another airline flying direct and a bit of competition. The problem is that the BVI hates completion which is why life is so expensive and inefficient here.
For Airport expansion .For all those that advocated that we let someone else be surrogate for Passenger lift , well this is what happens when someone else controls your destiny – they have an option to pull the plug at anytime. Hopefully lesson learned – expand the damn airport .
Sure, go ahead and spend half a billion + on an airport that will be obsolete by the time it’s finished.
How woukd the airport be obsolete?
This is going to hit the Criminals and Drug runners of the VI hard.
Nobody else doing business with USVI.
them going tax the illegal drugs?
big business
Told y’all when the orange man was elected again this was going to happen.
You are literally a moron. This has absolutely nothing to do with Trump. You must be one of those Trump deranged lunatics who looks under the bed and in the closet for Trump at night. Seeing an orange must have you catatonic lol
The main thing is “entry and exit fees for non-residents”. Based on current fees, if made reciprocal, result in $50-$200 of taxes per person to go to from USVI/US, BVI, and back.
Another note, the drug and human smuggling aspect is now more consequential to the BVI. The cartels are now terrorist organizations. Smuggling carries the risk of aiding a terrorist organization. This is a real and new liability for BVI finance and banks.
So much for USVI- BVI friendship day. I wonder what the Premier will have to say now.
Take Note! All Tropical Shipping Containers comes in at USVI Port then Tranship to Bvi.So is not what the Bvi Export is what they are Importing Via St Thomas 25 % on each Container on Top of the Cost of living in Bvi.Sad day it will be. The Governor is not Playing. Stay Tune!!
SMDH…..Do you understand how tariffs work and are implemented? It would be a disadvantage for them to put tariffs on goods we import from them because that makes their products less desirable. It would be best to put the tariff on what they import from us, which is not much……Do us a favor and go back to school……….
Trying to insult or be little others privately or publicly done by 2 type of Why. 1/ the insecure ones, 2/ the no little or the no it all people. USVI doesn’t concern about what come mainland or any where else, their tariff is about what leaving or coming to the USVI. Do you know it is cheaper for containers from the mainland to USVI then transfer to BVI is still cheaper than coming straight to the BVI. Don’t you think the USVI govt knows that and think that they are been used.
i thought they were our friends
They are our friends and our kin. The BVIslanders ,hsnd b in gloves c with them together we built each other upwards.
This has changed now with the BVI unholy friendship and partners in crimes with the imports of the garrots the South Americans and the BVI operations and deliberate failure to work towards curbing and apprehending such operations.
Brian is in a tough spot but his USVI and people ,he must, as sworn, do what is in his and their best interest.
They were never our friends. This is a country thats actively using and claiming our country’s name as theirs.
BVI/USVI Friendship Day is just a hoax as far as i see
I still cant believe that this is the same man who was up here campaigning for the VIP
They dont like us
Okay ALBERT TRUMP!! What a sad day when you respond because yo CORN mash. Never a good decision. 🙁
Alot of our small businesses, entertainers, ssupermarkets do work with the usvi so look out for a price increase.
Another one who drank the Kool-Aid, extra stupid strength. Perhaps when Bryan recovers he can tell us the annual value of goods imported to the USVIs from the BVIs, which AFIK does not manufacture anything.
Consider the plight of those infirm enough that they have to go the St. Thomas for treatment (e.g. chemo).
The economic leakage in the USVIs has everything to do with its own mismanagement, cronyism and corruption The only question for debate is whether governance in the BVIs was learned from the USVIs or the other way around.
I never liked these St. Thomas people. See why we need our own intl airport now?
Never put your own destiny in the hands of another man..or woman for the matter
Who the H cares if you don’t like we St. Thomas people, we don’t like you Tortola people either.You all are getting what you deserve for making deals that is going to come back and bite you in the rump.
From the USVI. You don’t like us but you like us enough to come down from Tortola to give birth to your anchor babies so they can get American benefits. Karnage? don’t make the USVI and the BVI turn into enemies. We don’t care if you got families living down here. We can easily dismantle the relationship between the USVI and the BVI.
Lucky for the USVI.
Stick with the CARICOM evil with their slimy disruptive existencr and them as your preference.
If the USA could blockade or eliminate the BVI and its favored CARICOM parasites,the USVI and the rest of the world will be
a safer and more pleasnt place.
Good, time for us to grow the f**k up. Fix the airport and promote your country instead of being f**king simps!
Thank you Bryan I stopped going St Thomas to shop long time. Now I will purposefully book all my flights and families flights through Terrance B Lettsome to Miami and Anguilla. You save me them expensive taxi rides from your airport and buying food at the ferry terminal. Will be sure to let my guests know that also…..peace
The USVI and VI , a stone’s throw away from each other, are close friendly neighbors with close economical, social, cultural, familial, trading, etc, ties for over a 100 years.
Virgin Islanders emigrated to the USVI to work on the Bourne Field and Subbase projects, at West Indian Dock, in the Tourism and construction industries, transportation (taxi),retail stores, domestic services, etc. The VI, self-sufficient in food production exported its surplus to the USVI , primarily St . Thomas, viz, ground provisions, fruits, vegetables, fish, meat, conch, lobster, coal, etc. The USVI in turn exported consumer goods to the VI.; workers return home with consumer goods. It was a mutually beneficial, co-existence, arrangement.
Nonetheless, friends sometimes have disagreements; tongue and teeth fallout. As such, the USVI and VI seemed to have some frictional issues related to trade. However, it is in the best interest of and mutually beneficial for both to sit down as friends, break bread, discuss and debate the issue(s), and arrive at a decision that is a win-win ,ie, fair, reasonable , and balance.
Each territory needs to select a negotiation team and agree to meet either in Road Town or Charlotte Amalie with a commitment to negotiate in good faith to settle their differences.
Moreover, few countries, if any, are blessed with every thing they need. They must trade with other countries for the things they need. Countries with surpluses need external markets to sell the surplus to. Countries produce what they either an absolute or competitive advantage in and trade for the rest. Voluntary and free is mutually beneficial to trading partners. Countries imposed tariffs for various reasons, ie,,generate revenues, to protect local industries, retaliatory actions,,level trade imbalances, political weapons, etc.
Leonard, you taking a warmer, calmer view of things, proposing negotiation to arrive at mutual resolution. Well, St. Thomas benefit more from the BVI than the BVI benefit from them. What is good for the goose is also good for the gander. What does the BVI export to the USVI? Should we retaliate with similar tariffs? I say strike, strike, like an enraged rattler.
Another reason to avoid the place.
We’re local captain’s.The b b I s tax us every time we go in their country and we don’t text them fair is fair
We create 445Million for them they create 4 Million for us. However Tourists have no interest in what they have to offer. Generic Cookie cut experiences with no authenticity and run down overpopulated attractions.
Most importantly credit where credit is due, we now are accepting direct flights from One (1) continental country.
Lets upgrade our airport and truly make a plan where tourism and local interests can thrive.
Expand the airport , why would you want to put the faith of air lift the very heart of your bread and butter in someone else hand. Now here is a clear reason why you wouldnt want to do that.
https://stthomassource.com/content/2025/02/18/charter-boats-are-dying-and-drowning-in-the-usvi-town-hall-discuss-concerns-with-bvi-fee-increases/
The figure they quote is not entirely accurate “the proposed increases for operators of USVI-based charter boats may soon have to pay up to $24,000 per boat”. That is just one of the many options that is available. BTW that figure would get a charter vessel unlimited access to the BVI. Chump change for some.
Know the facts people!
The BVI and USVI prison population and crime is at least 99.9 % “updeislun”born or children of such with entry from those origins via the BVI both legal and illegal.
Longtime now I have been saying and wondering, when is the US going to ” rope off ” the BVI.
I glad if Trump and his Presidency do the job.of pushing the BVI out of the way,in order to clean up the USVI from the muck that the BVI has filtered into their islands non stop..Panama Canal becoming problematic and USVI saving itself,well the BVI just might have to grow up,learn clean living with neighboring USVI ‘ cause dem is all we have..there,for BVISLANDERs with families,culture,
,property,dual citizenship,taxpayers,voters, as much our home as is the BVI.
CARICOMERs..NO. USVI…YES
Respectable gentleman and Leader of the people of the US Virgin Islands, Mr. Bryan, are you MAD, UNINFORMED OR ARE YOU BEING MISGUIDED BY ADVISORS OF WHITE PEOPLE?
The capturing, encaging, selling and buying and enslaving of Black human Africans was so called abolished in 1848 in the USVI and, in the Virgin Islands in 1834.
For the next 150 years following, the people, your and my ancestors, were one family. They crossed the waters to share and trade with each other. They shared the same beds, toilets, food and desires to live better, as the ruling slaving class gave them nothing after making then wealthy. In fact, we/they are still owed for worked done, riches amassed and more.
In that sense, time has not changed the human familial relationships and dynamics from then until now. And the founding economic, political cultural iconic names such as Turnbull, O’Neal, Vanterpool, Flax, Rouse and others are rolling over in their graves seeking to get out and put back some sense into the heads of current day politicians.
What has changed are the geopolitical management by political minds and external managing and mismanaging of the cultural fiber of both sisters, the US and VI people.
The political, cultural divisions and familial dynamics began in honest between 1980 and 1990. There we saw the intrusion of the state department infiltrating and taking over all state and Federal departments.
That domination, led by people of a human prejudicial mindset placed in motion the separation of family, culture and other human close relationships of the US an VI’s people.
Any Black political leader who has lost touch with those facts can be compared to a bully or is mad.
It is now reallly sad to see Mr. Bryan, as a political leader whose roots connect deeply to our VI roots can even think of aligning his political thinking and policies with that of further separation and the implementation of vile oppression.
It is a very sad day for the Afro peoples of these two island groups. This announcement has sent shock waves through both the St.Thomian and Tortolian communities, isolating and dividing them even further, and demolishing all sensibilities of family, kinship, friendship and mutual economic, social, familial and cultural exchanges. Divide and conquer has come full circle. 25% tariffs. Really? Sad and mad indeed.
That’s why I stay tola ad travel beef with American airline
I will be joining you this summer. St Thomas can kick rocks literally……..
Nonsense! The USVI Governor is clueless and so are his advisors. Kmart prices are the same as the prices here in the BVI. It’s a waste of money going to Saint Thomas to shop given the fare the ferries charge. I don’t see hoards of people traveling through Saint Thomas anymore either so not sure what effect his 25% tariffs will have. Nonsense!
The usvi is going to loose this one . We inject over 50 million dollars a year into their economy, all we have to do is is start to shop local
Good luck
These BVI willingly functions as a sewer into the USVI..depositing
Illegal and dangerous human and dangerous products into the USVI and subsequently to the US and beyond. Terrorists have an open door into the US and the world at large with the open door given by the BVI. The BVI with its demonstrated refusal and failure to adequately have preventive measures at its borders is a worldvthreat and the USVI in thus matter is the unwilling conduit
conduit.Bryan is in a hard place. Who could ever anticipate that leaders and peoples ofvthesexBVI would/ could be such ungrateful degenerates. Human smuggling is a constant interrupted/ accosted only when/ with and by the USVI and on occasikn a half hearted reluctant pretend assist by one or two border assist from these BVI.
A pox. On the BVI. Ungrateful slime. Bryan has been placed in this position by greedy unconscionable ungrateful current generations of BVIslanders.BVI. The USA can not ignore the factv that the thousands of Jamaicans and other immigrants from far reaches of the World are in the
USA via the BVI. With friends like the now BVIslanders and their bosom scum of the region bosom buddies it is my wish that Trump recognizes the USVI effand put forth additional assist to contain and distance these BVI. The USVI is high on the list of dangerous countries,thanks to the BVI with no apology. The US has always been financially generous anf supportive to its territories. Loss of income from the BVI won’t and has never been a factor. Also note unlike the BVI the USVI don’t attract and encourage the bottom feeders as
residents.
To the r governor = Boy go siddown wid tha stupidness.
Other than illegal drugs and immigrants what does the BVI export?
Satisfied tourists with tan lines after spending a week getting in the BVI what they don’t get and bypass USVI to enjoy..
Which will lead directly to the same and identical scourge you mentioned as, “Generic Cookie cut experiences with no authenticity and run down overpopulated attractions.”
Are you aware that since 1960, the Baths, in particular and Spring, beyond the natural ambience, no longer has the allure or demure of back then. Moreover, my generaion is and will be the last generation who have seen those areas in their natural and most beautiful state, both above and below the water. All of that degeneraion and distruction have occured in just seventy years of intentional capitalism.
Those of us who were born and breed in Virgin Gorda in the 1950’s know the beauty of the original Baths, Spring Bay and the underwater world from Collison point to Devils bay.
Devils Bay has been spared the devastation of over toursing because the industry is reluctant to have lazy folks walk close to half a mile to enjoy a beach and its surroundings.
The tourism industry has been an industry that has provided great wealth for a small few investors and the government to a smaller extent.
However, statistics and evidence, if researched and the outcomes verified, will show that there remain two elements that have suffered considerably at the anus end of that industry and those are, the employees who are still paid less than a slave living wage and the environment, which cannot defend itself.
With King Trump on the thronrlandctge magnanimous focus on illegal immigrants and crime,the USVI with its high-rise rate under the auspices of immigrants filtered through the BVI,the demonstrated lack of effort and concern by the BVI and the bourgeoning prison population ofthe VI,a population which is farmed out to
facilities on Mainland USA,this action by the USVI is long long overdue. Smart action by the VI,to take the initiative and not wait for direct intercession by the mainland USA. I applaud Gov Bruan. He has been placed in this unfortunate position by the BVI Government and it’s determined and willful lack of border protection and it’s open participation in the wrongdoings afforded by their open borders.
The USVI has much to lose if it continues a path of selfdestruction bolstered by that of
BVI and its non efforts to cooperatively and adequately secure its borders for selfish and personal reasons easily
imagined.
The same way the UK can hold our nose down in filth and cut our ass is the same way USA can do the USVI. This 2000lb bomb was supplied by the Trump Administration and is designed to bring hardship to both sets of islands. The kicks of a dyeing horse are the worse and the American Empire is on its back fluttering. The violent process of colonization has ran out of steam with no other option than to victimize the victims. I can talk about why there is a place in St. Croix called Tortola or the true ownership of the National Park Property in St.John. Does it matter how many siblings were born some in St. Thomas and some in Tortola or how many St.Thomian parents and grand parents are from BVI. Of course this means nothing to Mr. Trump and his billionaire cabal same as it meant nothing to the slave masters of yesteryear to separate families and ship them to different islands never to see each other again. It is said the more things change the more they remain the same for this is exactly what was done in Africa during what is referred to as the Scramble for Africa where tribes and clans were separated by boundaries drawn on a map by Europeans who had never been to Africa. These same billionaires like Elon Musk whose wealth results from these historical injustices to African people are the ones whose insatiable greed is driving these draconian policies that are bound to hasten the demise of Capitalism. It is so sad to see that with all their material possessions these beings have not the slightest spark of humanity.
Haven’t been STT in years. Good! Spend your money here from making them fat.
Karnage always knew people from the BVI didn’t have much common sense. You all don’t have anything that the USVI want or have to offer. You don’t like St. Thomas people? Well guess what, the St. Thomas people can’t stand y’all with your backwards slow selves. A BIG YES TO THE 25% TARIFF.
Well, we all can’t measure up to you geniuses, but such is life.
I can’t really speak on this but USVI is very much mirroring the USA tariffs.
They have to do it look out for Puerto Rico next.
be reminded that drugs are trannshipped by rich whites, Arabs,Chinese and others for profit, to continue to grease the the noses and political noses of the indutralized nations.
The BVI does not grow a plant, neither cocoa, opium or marijuana.
What the public see daily are comments attempting to hide the real truths and beneficiaries of the drug trade.
Ecept for a few small time low level financial hustlers, the BVI is not a player in the drug trade, though there are some expats of European, Arab and far Eas people sitting in the Territory who are deeply involved.
The government from top to. bottomdoesnothing because everyone has a hand in the cookie jar. Then they will ask police to do a round up of a few youths to make appear there is an effort or war on drugs.
The hypocrisy if exposed would cause the sun to fall from the sky.
can’t save eferyone from their mental slavery. A very disappointing policy, that hits hard the kin folk of the two communities.
WE CALL OUR CARIBBEAN BROTHERS AND SISTERS ( ISLAND PEOPLE) HOW COME WE DON’T CALL THE US VIRGIN ISLAND ,( ISLAND PEOPLE ) TOO ? DON’T WE ALL AS BLACK PEOPLE SHARE THE SAME ANCESTRY ? WE ARE GETTING A TASTE OF WHAT WE ARE DOING TO OUR CARIBBEAN BROTHERS AND SISTERS / BLAME THE UK AND THE GOVERNOR OR THE WHITE COLONIALIST SLAVE MASTERS AS THAT IS OUR EASY WAY OUT TO HIDE OUR GUILT
All this pre fabricated talk of USVI vs BVI but guess what my family will be alright and never separate. USVI BVI USA world wide. Whoever wants us to fight and separate as if there is no blood connection take it easy by our African heritage Family is important and thick. That is why they love to cast us as corrupt, black people usually look out for our family and you can not infiltrate blood without sex which is hard to swallow for the white supremacist mindset. Our family operates the African way despite the beating of our ancestors.
BVI & USVI are the same people. Its pointless to try dividing us. The people who dont know that are running along talking. They have more problems with it being little haiti they are not worried about us taking their lunch. The leader is a one man sell out.
First of all our relationship with our friends in the USVI should not descend to this. What we are seeing is shameful manifestation of Trumpian politics. We should charge USVI boats more. However, the suggested fees are excessive, and perhaps they should be phased in over time. But Gov Bryant is incorrectly retaliating. if he wants to pinch the BVI he should go after the water taxi business.