VI should guard against outsiders coming to do harm
Premier Natalio Wheatley has urged that national security be considered one of the important elements to be looked at as the country revamps its immigration policy, insisting that any new policy must protect locals from harm from outsiders.
“I don’t want to forget about one very important consideration as it pertains to immigration policy… there’s a national security concern,” Premier Wheatley said on the government’s Public Eye program recently.
He added: “Very central to any very strong immigration policy is the measures needed to mitigate against persons entering the Virgin Islands who can do harm to our people and to essentially make them insecure in their own homes.”
Officials were at the time exploring some of the issues that are likely to shape the territory’s new immigration policy as the government seeks input from residents on how to move forward in the wake of the Commission of Inquiry (COI) report.
According to Premier Wheatley, former Permanent Secretary, Kedrick Malone, produced a comprehensive report on the government’s review of the policy and process for granting residency and belongership.
In his report, Malone suggested that there are several measures the BVI can explore in order to shape its new immigration policy.
As part of its efforts at establishing a clear and comprehensive immigration policy, Malone said the BVI’s new policy must give due consideration to the territory’s economic needs, social and cultural impact and security concerns, among other things.
Addressing security concerns in particular, Malone said, “[The] BVI must ensure that their immigration policies do not compromise national security. Policies should be in place to screen and vet applicants to ensure that they do not pose a threat to public safety and revoke their status and dispel violators.”
Malone also posited that the new protocols should clearly state the overall objectives and priorities of the immigration policy, including considerations related to economic development, cultural diversity, family reunification, and national security.
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Does BVI has a list of deportees from America. If not they need to create one and monitor it. These Are the folks going to all part of the caribbean don’t lime to work don’t want to and they have to eat and live and they want the best ladies so they influence the locAls into gangs and crimes. 2nd local Police are no longer respected and feared, its time OECS negotiate and implement a police swap in a 2 or 3 months rotation. These initiatives will reduce crime in all OECS countries
We have nationals from 110 Countries here ( according to last Census in 2010) It’s NOW talk come up about Security/“ do harm to us”?
Who / which specific Race or Social Status are they trying to target —- ; because Clearly if there was any form of National Security— That has been infiltrated LONNNGGG ago . There are foreigners in EVERY aspect / business in our Territory.
The Police Force is 90% expatriates
So where will the Loyalty lie. ? Even children who are born has been disenfranchised!
We need to STOP the Nationalizing as that there are only so many people the infrastructure can /will maintain.
New Immigration Policy—
That is supposed to a number one priority , but the real threat is homegrown / who importing of guns ? Who controls the shipments of cocaine that comes through here ? Who ordering the hits or execution style killings ? Etc , everybody knows now , so you can paint a picture of innocence and act like you don’t know , LAVITY AND WILLARD have set good standards .so its still not too late to EMULATE / those two great leaders of the voice peaceful and beautiful which you were gifted with an opportunity of a lifetime to rule the country you were born in . ( INTEGRITY ) should be always in your mind
You are decades behind on this one.
IS HE THROWING SHADES AT THE GOVERNOR?
I do not dismiss the outside matters, but I am more worried about the inside issues right now – this man is not fit to lead this country forwards! It would seem that it is our people’s indifference to this matter that provides the best breeding ground for corruption to continue and grow!
“A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.”
This is all Lorna’s fault
Trust our fairness leader Premier Sl** Wande and his crew, the A** Clown Brigade, to say something that makes no sense every time he or they comes to a mic
Just import more women.
@ concern and suggestions
If there was to be a police swap with the oecs territory, those independent countries prime ministers have the police as stooge, and would be glad to have them placed in the BVI to have their transshipment of what ever get the clearance by their police stooge, a case in point is in Antigua where a police was the escort of prime minister Gaston brown who was caught with passport to do his personal C.I.P sale as they call it, and the court can’t touch him up to now, his name is Ray John and he is a vincentian not an Antiguan.
Don’t focus on the high crime rate within the BVI instead of always focusing on the UK???
Think with your mind and not your **nis.
You have to be in the BVI TEN YEARS before you can apply. Nobody sneak in to apply for belonger.
Why don’t you just tell people you don’t want anyone to be able to become a citizen!
It ain’t right, but you would at least be honest!
prove that belongers are NOT harming the BVI then we might listen.
Sadly, our criminal activity is mostly home grown, misleading everyone will not resolve this issue.
I’m not understanding these statements made by the Premier, at all.
And, who, should be bringing harm to Belongers, again?
We are where we are, because of selfishness, corruption, and greed.
I say, that we allow a certain amount of persons, from each country annually.Be honest with them, and let them know the year that they can apply for citizenship, and the year, in which Belongership will be granted.
If a man came in tomorrow,then his application is stamped, 2043, for Belongership. We can then put a cap on the amount of Belongerships granted at 2043, say at the 500th applicant. The 501th applicant’s status would be granted in 2044, and so forth.
It is an easy process, but, the corruption of it all, has gotten us where we are!
And, until we apply a commonsense approach to this issue, we will be discussing this topic, for perpetuity with no guaranteed solutions!
Ah the blatant nationalism tinged with a taste of racism.
Nature’s dirty little secret
Fortunately we have enough locals who harm our territory:
– head coach: criminal
– education minister: co**upt
– CSC – co**upt
– healthcare minister: co**upt
– the west end guy: criminal
– prime minister: friends with criminals and co**upt
We don’t have to protect from outsiders. We should stop electing local cr**ks.
It is known fact that though the Primier do have valid points on the issue of country and people protection.
It is believed by many that the greatest and gravest treat to the people will not come through immigration tolls, but through imperialist designed and carried out interventions and take overs.
Many do believe that the stages are already set to, include the horror termed the COI, invade and take back and leave all VIslanders without a place to call home, or a political and financial institution to call their own.
These islands are no longer viewed as bird sanctuaries, but billion dollars out post by many. And as such, their greed will send them back to reclaim them under the fictitious colonial claim as UK territorial ownership.
And anyone who knows history knows all of the potentials for horrid atrocities, the destruction of human rights and obliteration of entire human rights.
Moreover, including the obliteration of populations and confiscation of their land and economic resources are still real and imminent treats to all people of color every where, and especially in the (B)VI.
Be forewarned. Those comments posted on site daily for the UK to come back and take over are not mere comments.
They have real and dangerous consequences for the people behind them. Stay aware and openeyed politically
this place belongs to guyanes people and st vincent , jamaica no tolians anymore
Seriously? All the major crime in the BVI is Belonger based because it isn’t visitors running the drug machine.
Every time people in Government start the racist bashing of people not from the BVI it is to cause confusion.
The BVI people need to stand up and see that BVI Government propaganda is telling them to look for the wolf in the wrong place.
Filipinos
Is Andrew an outsider ?
If he was premier we eould have been afraid to step out our door
The ports isan outsider the head of the ports ? How are guns voming in ? Di we manufacture guns ?
Who owms the top Security positions in the country?
Is it outsider?
Who owns the fast yacht and speed boats ?
Is it the oitsider?
That fellow needs to clean up the country and stop pointing fingers
There are Palestinians in other Arab countries for the past 75 years and have not been made citizens y’all damn lucky and here talking rubbish. UK is the author of all the confusion and turmoil on the planet. Those same ones in Israhell are the descendants of owners of the vast majority of the slave ships and many of the slave plantations.
Yes Mr Minister we only want our own guns in the BVI
None of that rusty crap outsiders bring in to rob we.
Correct,you are. But the world will simply ignore such. After-all, it has to do with Black people. So, for them , it is no value or worth.
But one day, all of that will change.
Willard did some good but also remember that he almost brought this country to its knees. People were losing their homes and they eventually marched on him.
Wow racism much! Check your history. Who sold the Africans as slaves to the Europeans? Who was in the Slavery business before the Europeans? Many Arab gulf countries only made slavery illegal in the 1970s. As far as jews owning slave ships, how? There were hardly any jews in the US and the few in the UK didn’t even get to mix socially and not in business with the Upper Classes who owned ships.
In the Caribbean Jews were not allowed to own slaves so they were traders in the islandand the Africans who worked for them were freed men. They intermarried, so you have Maduros, de Castros etc who were originally from Portuguese and Spanish Jewish stock (Lindy de Castro told me and also Mr Maduro from Josiahs Bay) being lightr skinned.
I don’t think you are from the islands if you write such a thing.
Hear we go.the blame game..if it’s not wicked ole Whitey it’s something else.Human smuggling is a generational game at this point.Working a bar in the BVI is better than a life of degregation in the DR or Venezula.zThere is HUGE money to be made..and the world migration has only started..look at Europe..southern border of the states..booming.
Race baiting….the number one tool of division used especially by Pan Africanists such as the Premiere.Theyre a fun bunch.