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Finance and Business

May 10th, 2016
Dealers report high sales of vehicles @ auto sales

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Brand new vehicles were flying out of showrooms on Saturday May 7, 2016 when in what many are saying is unprecedented, there were two major car sales on the same day.

May 10th, 2016
ASSI still in the VI taking millions from our treasury 12 years later!

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- After 12 years and counting the Virgin Islands still does not have a Civil Aviation Department and the functions of the department are being carried out by the United Kingdom based Air Safety Support International (ASSI).

May 9th, 2016
Broken AC forces closure of cashier section @ Trade Dept

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Service to the public was reportedly interrupted at the Department of Trade, Investment Promotion and Consumer Affairs this afternoon, May 9, 2016 after an AC unit malfunctioned.

May 9th, 2016
Orion Law Out! Travers Thorp Alberga In! Merger deal with Walwyn’s firm

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Orion Law, a firm which started its operations in the Virgin Islands in 2009 by the now controversial Minister for Education and Culture Hon Myron V. Walwyn and had as a partner Speaker of the House of Assembly Hon Ingrid A. Moses, no longer exists.

May 9th, 2016
Johnson siblings Julien & Patlian Out! From Government posts

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- It is not usual that a brother and sister team will leave senior posts in the civil service around the same time, however, this has happened in the Virgin Islands.

May 8th, 2016
Comm. Centres have no legal authority to charge residents for usage- Malone-Frett

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- In an earth shattering revelation that may have refund implications, the Chief Social Development Officer of the Social Development Department, Mrs Anne Malone-Frett told the House of Assembly’s Standing Finance Committee that her Department “has no source of authority that allowed them to charge for the use of the Community Centres.”

May 7th, 2016
Redeeming a failed state: the Nigeria story

By Dickson Igwe

Nigeria is a failed state. The country has become a model for developing countries. It is a model that shows what to avoid at all costs if social and economic development and prosperity are to be achieved by a society or nation state.

May 6th, 2016
Panama Papers: Source breaks silence on Mossack Fonseca leaks

BBC NEWS

The anonymous source behind the leak of the Panama Papers has spoken for the first time, offering to help law authorities make prosecutions in return for immunity.

May 4th, 2016
‘I will be examining sale of RTW critically’ - Premier Smith

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Premier and Minister of Finance Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith said when the matter of the sale of Roadtown Wholesale Trading Ltd (RTW) comes before him he will ensure the interest of the local food retail industry is preserved.

May 4th, 2016
Senior citizens homes on Tortola & VG still overcrowded years later

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- For well over eight (8) years and counting the Adina Donovan Home for the Elderly, located in Road Town on the main Island of Tortola, has faced overcrowding.

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