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Finance and Business
Return your extra provisioning grocery packages - Hon Malone
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Deputy Premier and Minister for Health and Social Development, Hon Carvin Malone (AL) has issued a strong warning to households who may have collected multiple provisional grocery packages, to return the extra ones to authorities.
Tailors & seamstresses respond creatively to demand for face masks
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- A number of persons and businesses across the Territory are said to be taking the initiative of producing face masks, which are now in high demand as Government has insisted that persons wear masks when conducting business in the public or are in the company of others while travelling.
Almost 5000 Gov’t food packages delivered in 'huge undertaking'- Gov Jaspert
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Close to 5000 food packages sponsored by the Government of the Virgin Islands under the Territorial Food Provisioning Programme have been distributed so far, according to Governor Augustus J. U Jaspert.
CORONA: 7 years of famine
Dickson C. Igwe
Corona Virus will precipitate a long economic depression: be prepared for a very different and much more difficult world.
This Week We Feature Young Professional Jhon J. Samuel
By Ron O. D’Avilar
Father of two and technology entrepreneur, Jhon J. Samuel is not letting COVID-19 slow his plans for business. In fact, Jhon is one of many using the situation as an opportunity to do good for the community.
We need to 'manage' our money better- Hon Flax-Charles
DUFFS BOTTOM, Tortola, VI- Junior Minister for Trade and Economic Development, Honourable Shereen D. Flax-Charles (AL) has issued a call to residents of the Virgin Islands to learn to manage their money better.
Will we or won’t we survive COVID-19??
Alred C. Frett
From whence it came to where it goes:
The Coronavirus did not happen overnight and for the past months I explained it as I understood it so this is neither to foster uprising or rebellion but to seek answers to what has now become a pandemic crisis… Clearly, our fear and ignorance of Covid-19 have driven the actions of Leaders and made us too terrified to say anything that isn’t in total agreement with their authority.
Branson to mortgage Necker Island for airline bailout
NECKER ISLAND, VI- British billionaire and Virgin Islands Belonger, Sir Richard C. N. Branson has said he will mortgage Necker Island, located in the [British] Virgin Islands, to raise money to save his Virgin Atlantic airline from collapse.
Opposition slams 7% fee on money transfers
DUFFS BOTTOM, Tortola, VI – Having its First, Second and Third Readings at the Friday, April 17, 2020, Seventh Sitting of the Second session of the Fourth House of Assembly (HoA), the 'Financing and Money Services (Amendment) Act, 2020' has now been passed amidst brutal Opposition criticism.
Cabinet approves $2M to finance food provisioning during extended lockdown
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- To ensure that seniors and those absolutely in need of food supplies are taken care of during the extended week of lockdown, which started today, April 19, 2020, Cabinet has approved $2M for this initiative to be executed.
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