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Finance and Business

June 27th, 2015
Best Dressed Chicken taking VI by storm

PORT PURCELL, Tortola, VI – Set up a big stage at the Festival ground with the best lighting and sound effects yet it would be too small to contain the zings, zangs and hits of a presentation of the ‘Best Dressed’ Chicken.

June 25th, 2015
This Week We Feature Young Professional Brittany M. Wilson

By N. Johann Earle

Our Young Professional for this week is Brittany M. Wilson, an Administrative/Accounting Assistant working at the Sage Group of Companies and who also runs her own small consultancy business.

June 25th, 2015
$50,000 in red hot prizes in Digicel’s ‘Red Hot Summer’ promotion

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Digicel, the VI’s bigger, better network, is turning up the heat throughout the summer by offering its valued customer’s a chance to win $50,000 in cash and prizes with its “Red Hot Summer” promotion.

June 24th, 2015
'EU blacklist is old news'- Premier Smith

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Premier and Minister of Finance Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith yesterday June 23, 2015 brushed aside the concerns of Honourable Julian Fraser RA (R1)who pointed out that shortly after the National Democratic Party’s (NDP) overwhelming victory, the European Union placed a number of territories, including the British Virgin Islands, on a blacklist.

June 22nd, 2015
‘The media is not a public relations unit’ – Ms Eugenia ‘Nina’ O’Neal

WICKHAM’S CAY II, Tortola, VI - It’s been a long and unending debate in the Virgin Island as to whether or not the media have a responsibility for the perception of the territory on the international scene. The truth was told, however, when popular television talk show host Mr Julio ‘Sam’ Henry and certified Journalist Ms Eugenia ‘Nina’ O’Neal set the record straight.

June 20th, 2015
45 graduate from entrepreneurial training

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Some 45 students of varying ages and backgrounds yesterday June 19, 2015 graduated from the Power MOVE Academy Entrepreneur class of 2015 and are now equipped with the skills to start their own businesses or enhance what they already have.

June 18th, 2015
EU places VI on financial services blacklist

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The [British] Virgin Islands was yesterday, June 17, 2015, placed on another financial services ‘blacklist’, along with 29 other small jurisdictions and international financial centres, by the European Union (EU).

June 17th, 2015
‘Employees were like family to us’ – David V. Johnson

BIRAS CREEK, Virgin Gorda, VI – Even after waiting until the ninth hour to break the sad news that all the employees of Biras Creek Resort would be sent home indefinitely with immediate effect, yesterday June 16, 2015, Mr David V. Johnson, the Chairman of Victor International Corporation that managed Biras Creek Resort, said the employees were like family to him.

June 17th, 2015
Gov't to help laid off Biras Creek Resort employees find work

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- After Virgin Islands News Online broke the news on June 16, 2015 that Biras Creek Resort had laid off all its employees and shutting down operations, Premier Dr The Hon D. Orlando Smith released a statement to the media in which he said he knew of the impending closure only last Friday June 13, 2015.

June 16th, 2015
Biras Creek Resort sends home all employees

BIRAS CREEK, Virgin Gorda, VI- More than 70 workers of Biras Creek Resort in Virgin Gorda will now be wondering where their next paycheck will be coming from as the resort has sent home all of its employees, stating in a severance letter to employees today, June 16, 2015 that the resort will be closed until further notice.

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