Rethinking Island Sustenance: Beyond Imports #shorts

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]I want to be like clear. I'm not saying that we would never import anything because I do think we would import things. We we have a global pallet here in the Virgin Islands.

[00:00:08]>> for trade. Right. And import and export is important for trade.

[00:00:11]>> have been surviving. But I think people, when you tell me something is a desert, I can't solve what desert is. You know why? Cuz God make that.

[00:00:19]When you tell me something is apartheid and I could engineer it, that means that we could think take all the brilliant minds that are here in the Virgin Islands, in the Caribbean, and around the globe and design something different that serves us more. It ain't going to be perfect either. I'm sure 10 years from now whatever we would choose to design, somebody else would have a problem with.