For the holidays my wife and I decided to visit an exotic island, and landed on the beautiful British Island of Anguilla. Our stay at the Aurora Hotel was extraordinary, we have never encountered such vibrant and kind locals in all the places we’ve been to. Nearing the end of out visit, my wife and I couldn’t help bur overhear some locals speaking about the mistreatment of a fellow staff member and the humiliation this person suffered at being forced to leave the kitchen with nothing but their undershirt on. My wife, being the nosy woman that she is couldn’t help herself and asked more about the situation, the locals did not want to go into detail or even continue to talk about it due to fear of retaliation in the workplace; my wife and I assured them this was a private conversation, we were simply concerned about it. We were then told this was not the first person forced out of a position but just the first one to be brave stand up to the Chef and their bullying; we were also told this Chef was an American and that most of the manager positions in the hotel industry in Anguilla are not locals, they’re mostly Americans stealing these positions that should be for the locals. It wasn’t until after our conversation with these workers that we then started noticing the differences in positions with power not only in our hotel but within the tourism here. It seems to us, for what we witnessed and overheard that  the locals don’t have a voice in their country. We are used to seeing this sort of thing in the US on an almost daily basis everywhere you go and it is devastating to see it in such a paradise island like Anguilla. We truly hope this gets to the right people and there is some change such as having this so-called-Chef removed from a position of power, maybe even removed from the hotel and give the locals who have been forced out, their jobs back. You can’t keep losing good, hard working locals just to keep one foreign Chef.