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Finance and Business

May 16th, 2023
Coronation or just another nail in the children’s coffin?

Alred C. Frett

Preventing our Children’s Tomorrow from being their Grandparents’ Yesterday:

Our need to move forward is long overdue, and it is painful to watch as Leaders re-deposit our Children back into 21st Century Slavery… The more we cry for change, the more things worsen or remain the same, and we are afraid to imagine Long-term effects, because we are already seeing the short-term damage in the forms of Strokes, Deaths and Murders… Funerals have been too frequent and unbearable.

May 15th, 2023
‘We take cyberbullying seriously’- TRC

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC) Mr Guy Lester Malone has reiterated the commission’s commitment to creating a positive digital environment that has zero tolerance for any form of harassment or abuse.

May 12th, 2023
YOURBVI Tourism Awareness Programme launches May 19, 2023

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- "It’s time for each resident of this Territory to embrace tourism as an important engine for personal and national economic growth."

May 11th, 2023
Education World Forum has widened vision to re-imagine sector in VI– Hon de Castro

LONDON, UK – Virgin Islands (VI) Minister for Education, Youth Affairs and Sports Honourable, Hon Sharie B. de Castro (AL) has said Day 2 of the Education World Forum in the United Kingdom has energised her delegation, as well as bolstered and widened their vision to re-imagine education in the [British] Virgin Islands.

May 10th, 2023
US making it ‘very difficult’ for VI to attract & keep healthcare talent- Hon Wheatley

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI– While not a new challenge, Minister for Health and Social Development, Hon Vincent O. Wheatley (R9) says one way to retain and attract healthcare workers in the VI is for the territory to start encouraging some of its own people to return home and make the sacrifice.

May 9th, 2023
Total system shutdown on Saturday being investigated- BVIEC

POCKWOOD POND, Tortola, VI- The BVI Electricity Corporation (BVIEC) has said it is investigating the cause of the island-wide power outage that occurred on Saturday morning, May 6, 2023.

May 7th, 2023
‘You can’t have progress in confusion’- Darrell Ruan Jr

VALLEY, Virgin Gorda, VI- Chairman of the Anegada Advisory Lands Committee Mr Darrell Ruan Jr. has made the commitment to work together with the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) Government in an effort to advance the cause of the people in the Ninth District.

May 7th, 2023
Public Service increments will be paid by June- Gov John J. Rankin

BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI- Governor John J. Rankin, CMG has said the first round of Public Service increments is expected to be paid by June 2023.

May 5th, 2023
BVI Yachting Hotel & Tourism Association officially launches

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The BVI Yachting, Hotel and Tourism Association (BVIYHTA) is official in the Virgin Islands, following its formal launch where the Government of the Virgin Islands presented it with a start-off donation of $20,000.

May 4th, 2023
‘Request for Proposal for’ Prospect Reef Development to come– Premier Wheatley

PROSPECT REEF, Tortola, VI – Noting that the now-defunct Prospect Reef Hotel and Resort is still being seen as one that can potentially cater to the business community, Premier and Minister of Finance Dr the Hon Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) says moves are being made for its development.

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