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Finance and Business
Global reinsurer Peak Re to fully acquire NAGICO Insurances
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- NAGICO Insurances, the largest privately owned General Insurance company in the Caribbean, has announced that definitive agreement has been reached for full acquisition by Peak Reinsurance Company Limited (Peak Re), a Hong Kong-based global reinsurer.
Living for each other instead of just the dollars
Alred C. Frett
Expecting their Vaccines to save our Nation:
We would all like to pride ourselves in being our Brothers’ Keepers, but clearly Family Affairs are being replaced with a Dog-eat-Dog Mentality… Mother Nature is annoyed, Father Christmas is absent and the Auntie Bertha and Uncle Sam we have known, still promise much but deliver little… After 3 Centuries, we are still comfortable being fooled and too afraid to speak out against Traditional Injustices.
BVIEC spending more than earning- Info in HoA reveals
DUFF’S BOTTOM, Tortola, VI- The Virgin Islands Electricity Corporation (BVIEC) may be raking in millions per year in revenues; however, this does not mean the Corporation is any better off.
VIP Gov’t 'doing more than talk' to diversify local economy– Hon Wheatley
DUFF BOTTOM, Tortola, VI – Minister for Natural Resources, Labour and Immigration Hon Vincent O. Wheatley (R9) has said that after years of ‘talks’ and nothing to diversify the local economy, his Government has broken the cycle by taking action towards achieving the goal.
BVIHSA urgently seeking Rapid Testing Agents
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI– The BVI Health Services Authority (BVIHSA) is seeking to hire 20 Project Employees to facilitate remote COVID 19 testing. This additional human resource will be assigned to the mobile testing facilities at the various seaports throughout the Territory.
No attempts to 'shut down Opposition' in HoA- Speaker Willock
DUFF'S BOTTOM, Tortola, VI- Speaker of the House of Assembly Honourable Julian Willock has shut down claims by Opposition Leader Honourable Marlon A. Penn (R8) of attempts to suppress the Opposition in the House of Assembly (HoA).
Premier to wrap up HoA debate on VI Investment Bill today
DUFF’S BOTTOM, Tortola, VI- The Eleventh Sitting of the Third Session of the Fourth House of Assembly (HoA) of the Virgin Islands will continue today, August 23, 2021, at Save the Seed Energy Centre in Duff's Bottom, Tortola, where Premier and Minister of Finance Hon Andrew A. Fahie (R1) will wrap up the debate on the Virgin Islands Investment Act 2020.
$404K contract for UK firm to provide feasibility study for modern landfill
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The Government of the Virgin Islands has signed a contract for a feasibility study aimed at developing a sustainable and modern landfill that contributes to a responsible and circular management of waste within the Virgin Islands.
Checks, balances & the abuse of power
By Dickson C. Igwe
The greatest benefit of the Virgin Islands Commission of Inquiry is, it’s check on the abuse of power
VI’s very limited resources strained ‘with very broad & imposed’ CoI- Premier
DUFF’S BOTTOM, Tortola, VI- Although burdened with a Commission of Inquiry (CoI) by the United Kingdom (UK) Government, which has evaded calls for a CoI into its own handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and allegations of corruption, the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) Government led by Premier Andrew A. Fahie (R1) continues to forge ahead with legislation to improve the lives of the territory’s people.
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