Finance and Business
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.
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.
$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.
'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.
‘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.
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.
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).
‘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.
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.
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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