Finance and Business
No morning flights on AA in USVI from Nov 4 through late March 2023
VI CONSORTIUM
FREDERIKSTED, ST Croix, USVI- Morning flights from American Airlines departing the US Virgin Islands will not be available beginning November 4, 2022, a casualty of the airline's decision announced in August to slash 31,000 flights, representing 16 percent of the carrier's schedule.
Drag racing facility reopens on St Croix, USVI
VI CONSORTIUM
CHRISTIANSTED, ST Croix, USVI- The long-dormant motorsport of drag racing on St Croix, US Virgin Islands (USVI), has left the mechanic shop five years after Hurricanes Irma and Maria damaged the St Croix Motorsports Complex in 2017, and Governor Albert A. Bryan Jr was the first to get behind the steering wheel of a car to participate in a race during a reopening ceremony Sunday, October 9, 2022.
$97K contract signed to return old CTL Building to original design
PASEA ESTATE, Tortola, VI- With Elmore Stoutt High School (ESHS) students and teachers, who have been occupying the Old Clarence Thomas Limited (CTL) Building in Pasea Estate to return to the main campus in Road Town on completion of the new buildings there, a contract has been signed to return the Old CTL Building to its original configuration.
Oil Nut Bay announces heliport approved for international flights
NORTH SOUND, Virgin Gorda, VI – The Oil Nut Bay private resort has announced its first heliport in the Virgin Islands which is Air Safety Support International (ASSI) approved for international flights.
‘Come to the people with solutions not just criticisms’- Julian Willock
BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI- Former Speaker of the Virgin Islands House of Assembly (2019-2022) Mr Julian Willock said voters and residents must look for persons coming with solutions and not just criticisms to lead the territory.
Bush cutting delayed territory-wide due to policy revision- PS Smith-Berkeley
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Communications and Works, Mr Ronald F. Smith-Berkeley has stated that the Ministry has experienced some administrative delays in attending to bush cutting throughout the Territory.
Jeremy W. Hodge confirmed as PWD Director
BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI- After leaving the now Ministry of Communications and Works in October of 2019 to act in the post of Director of the Public Works Department (PWD), Virgin Islander Jeremy W. Hodge has now been confirmed to the post.
Liz Truss: From popular to unpopular in a month
Thomas C. Famous
What a difference a month makes.
Some persons would ask 7 to 10 elected Reps for grants– Hon Penn
FAT HOGS BAY, Tortola, VI– Unity Government Minister for Health and Social Development, Hon Marlon A. Penn (R8) has announced that with the transition of public assistance grants from District Representatives and the House of Assembly to the Social Development Department, the process is flowing in keeping with prescribed reforms coming out of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) recommendations.
New BVITB Board Members given orientation session
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The newly appointed Board members of the BVI Tourist Board (BVITB) met for their first meeting in an official orientation on Monday, October 3, 2022.
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