It is great that I can now see most of what is happening in the islands on the Internet. I am a Crucian, who left the islands back in 1990, but I do come home for visit here and there.
I am ashamed of the state of the islands. I remember when everybody was wearing a T-shirt saying "All Ah we A One", which took the tote of helping each other no matter what it was. Now look at what's going on. The government doesn’t have money to pay the people, the Police Department has young, dumb officers who are supposed to be upholding the law breaking them. What happened to the days we had police officers like Bert Bryan, Mrs. Christian, Teddy "Big House" Browne and so forth? What happened to our strong governor and lt. Governor partnership?
We have slowly fallen into situations we can't even handle. We have companies from America that want to come and develop business to help provide jobs and better the economy, and here it is we have all these knuckleheads in the big seats making all the wrong decisions and running them out. Let's make deals, not push out the money that will better our economy.
Let us start to train the young people of the Virgin Islands about responsibility, about business, about taking over offices where all these old folks are sitting for 30 something years. Let us make ways to better educate the younger generation and get them off to college so they can come back home better educated to serve the people of the islands.
I know so many Virgin Islanders who are graduates of some of the biggest colleges and universities and are so qualified — and they want to come home. But why should they come home if there aren't any jobs for them and no money to pay them? Granted, money is not everything, but some of these people want a family of their own.
Let's start TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
Al Simmonds
