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Finance and Business

October 28th, 2021
Petition calls for Speaker to pay court bill out of pocket

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Even though the Speaker of the Virgin Islands had legitimate reasons to challenge the three attorney generals working in the Virgin Islands for the United Kingdom-sponsored Commission of Inquiry (CoI) and was seen as the Virgin Islands standing up for itself and making the statement that no one is above the law, some members of the public are having none of it.

October 28th, 2021
Gov’t completes road repair & resurfacing works in several areas

GREAT MOUNTAIN, Tortola, VI – Road works have been completed in several areas across the [British] Virgin Islands (VI) as part of the Andrew A. Fahie Government's commitment to improving the territory’s roads.

October 28th, 2021
HoA meets today; Public Procurement Act 2021 to be debated

DUFFS BOTTOM, Tortola, VI- The 12th Sitting of the 3rd Session of the 4th House of Assembly (HoA) is scheduled to continue at 10:00 am today, Thursday, October 28, 2021, at the Save the Seed Energy Centre in Duff's Bottom, Tortola.

October 27th, 2021
Governor reportedly unlawfully pressured AG to audit COVID spending

WICKHAM’S CAY II, Tortola, VI – Details from the BVI Commission of Inquiry Day 51 on October 20, 2021, has revealed that the Auditor General (AG) Sonia M. Webster may have been pressured by the Governor to execute an audit of the Fahie Government’s COVID-19 spending and to prepare a report.

October 26th, 2021
Digicel to install state-of-the-art Wi-Fi system @ Pier Park

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Digicel and Tortola Pier Park Limited are ensuring that tourists visiting the Cyril B. Romney Tortola Pier Park will have access to world-class connectivity, thanks to a new state-of-the-art Wi-Fi system to be installed in the facility.

October 26th, 2021
Unite BVI facilitates £25k donation from Necker guests to BFEC

VALLEY, Virgin Gorda, VI - In fulfilling its purpose to bring together people and resources for community benefit the Unite BVI Foundation, facilitated a £25, 000 donation made by guests of Necker Island for the benefit of the Bregado Flax Educational Centre on Virgin Gorda.

October 26th, 2021
'Who do you turn to?’ to complain about Governors- Premier Fahie asks CoI

WICKHAM’S CAY II, Tortola, VI- Virgin Islands (VI) Premier and Minister of Finance, Hon Andrew A. Fahie (R1) has raised serious questions about the powers of the Governor and how he is held accountable in the so-called "Modern Partnership" between the Government of the United Kingdom and the territory as laid out in the Constitution.

October 25th, 2021
Coincidence or not? UK newspapers @ it again!

LONDON, United Kingdom- Two days after the evidence-gathering phase of the ‘suspicious’ United Kingdom (UK) sponsored Commission of Inquiry into Governance in the Virgin Islands concluded, concerned persons have pointed out to our newsroom an article that appeared in one of the newspapers in the UK on October 24, 2021, which was appeared one-sided, much to the detriment of the territory’s reputation.

October 25th, 2021
VI Economy & Creative Destruction

Edgar Leonard

The creative destruction reference is not the deliberate destruction of documents, equipment, other physical property, or the Creative Destruction video game. It is a process in economics.

October 24th, 2021
Viking Orion Cruise Ship makes inaugural call to VI

WICKHAM’S CAY 1, Tortola, VI- Much to the delight of especially vendors and taxi drivers who have felt the brunt of the COVID-19 pandemic that brought cruise tourism to a screeching halt since early last year, 2020, a cruise ship of over 350 passengers made its first call to Cyril B. Romney Tortola Pier Park in the Virgin Islands today, Sunday, October 24, 2021.

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