ROADTOWN Tortola, BVI, May 13th 2011 - “We have had a number of boat captains working in the yachting industry and a number of them are complaining that how they (yacht companies) systemically are trying to squeeze them out of the area and bring in other people to fill the spot.”

Mr. Gordon said the reasons given for this by employers in the yachting industry are not substantial and called for the situation to be looked into.

“And they give all kinds of lame excuses such as their customers are uncomfortable with certain kinds of people on the boat because they have a view of the captains.”

Radio co-host Carl Dawson had also stated on the programme that local boat captains were becoming scarce and chided Government for it. “We have been a seafaring people for ages. The last time I checked we are growing increasingly short of boat captains and as seafaring people we should be producing them like if they come out of our nose. We are not producing and we got offices that supposed to do it and nobody is holding them to ransom to do what they are supposed to do.”

Mr Dawson also said the scarcity in local boat captains and seafaring people could have a negative impact on the Virgin Islands.

“When we don’t have boats going to St. Thomas and St. Marteen and Puerto Rico we are going to starve. We have better wake up and smell the coffee and our leaders have better get up off their tails and smell the coffee and do what is required to sustain the people,” Mr. Dawson said.

Article taken from Virgin Islands News Online

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