Last month we changed time again by one hour ("fall back").
We saw our sunset moved from 6pm to 5pm ; this loss of one hour of precious daytime will run until mid-March 2022
Tourism has already been strongly impacted by covid ; this time change is not helping. A longer day means longer time spent enjoying our island and, to make it simple, spending dollars in our tourism industry.

Some years ago a public consultation on DST (Daylight Saving Time) was made. No final report was issued but the consultation claimed crime reduction. Crime by statistics doesn't happen in the morning. Many studies show evening crime increases with early sunset.

Consultation paper also claims the change is to stay year round same time as USA and Canada. In the entire Caribbean area only 3 countries observe DST ; let’s keep our Caribbean soul !

We were observing DST until March 2015 when the TCI government decided to stop the time change and announced : “Now everyone will be able to enjoy the TCI’s warm sunshine until well after 6pm during the winter”, “This move will provide our visitors and residents with an extra hour of sunshine during our winter months, our peak tourist season”, “This will be good news for our resorts, bars and restaurants, as well as allowing our residents to enjoy a little more sunshine at the end of their day.” What was good news in 2015 will be same good news in 2020.

But it is not too late, we can still reverse the issue.

We can still save our precious hour of life. Let's raise our voice together, be creative, come with bright ideas to revert this policy.