Talk show host Dr Kedrick Pickering has stated that the BVI needs to consider how much development the territory has achieved and craft a vision for the future that residents can embody and work towards. On the May 21st airing of the Eye on the Future of the Nation radio show, guest hosts Shaina Smith-Archer and Bishop John Cline said the BVI needs a national plan that outlines how the territory should be developed. But Dr Pickering said there needs to be something greater than a plan for the country to move forward.
“What is it we want for our country? We have to answer that fundamental question before we know whether we want to build a hotel or race track. We have got to decide what we want for our country. People say we are falling behind, but we are falling behind because we are stagnated,” Dr= Pickering said.
The former Minister of government said the BVI has an abundance of natural beauty and can still maximize tourism to create a great future. But he said the territory needs a new philosophy that will define how the people use the resources to create the future they want. “We need to speak more philosophically because that is what inculcates the ideas.
No one gets up and says they want a nice body and just thinks it’s going to happen. You have to consciously say I don’t like the way I am and then do something about it. But it starts with a concept in your mind that this is what I want,” Dr Pickering explained.
He expressed that once the philosophy is define.