My Platform
As a career entrepreneur and the owner of multiple small businesses in the Virgin Islands, I am well aware of the frustrations of small business owners. Throughout my career, I have focused on streamlining government, expanding access to critical funding that small businesses need to survive and expanding visibility of small businesses in our community (JustUs). If elected, I will continue to work with my colleagues to implement changes that favors small business and that will allow us to have more equity in federal programs and access to grants, scholarships, and micro loans. Small Business, Agriculture and the environment initiatives are important to drive economic growth and help the USVI to strive to become more self-sufficient. I am your candidate, Lawrence Boschulte.
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Small Business
Small Business represents more than 90 per cent of all employers and create over 60 per cent of all new jobs annually. Since many small businesses operate locally, it gives them a strong preference to hire local. Small business have more flexibility and is more diverse in culture, form, and function which increases our potential against large corporations. The more we can diversify our economy, the easier it will be for us to withstand tough conditions.
Agriculture
Agriculture is the key for economic transformation, food security, and nutrition. We have spent a lot of time and money studying what we can do to become more sustainable. We import OVER 90% of our food and must do better. We need to provide sufficient support to our farming community to include livestock, produce, and fishing industries.
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Environment
Our US Virgin Islands is amongst the best in air quality worldwide. As I transport and speak to locals and visitors alike, everyone agrees that we have to do more for our environment. I am committed to improving the laws and regulations that allows us to continue economic growth through improved technology to enable higher output with less pollution.