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Contractors storm NDP Caucus meeting; Want Airport Project to stay local!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI -The issues of the Airport Runway Development Project and who should be awarded the contract, if the airport project moves forward, are still hot topics.
‘Perish the thought of cancelling EE/LL Festival’- Hons Pickering & Penn
EAST END, Tortola, VI – Talks have been rife about discontinuing the emancipation celebrations at the Eastern End of Tortola but District Representatives, speaking at the opening ceremony of the Andrew A. ‘Charlie’ Turnbull Festiville last night August 2, 2016, made it absolutely clear that will never happen.
Hons Pickering & Fraser attend Assembly of OECS in Antigua
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- They are not the two to always be in front of the camera but they continue to do a lot of good work behind the scenes.
Minimum Wage increase to take effect October 1, 2016- Hon Pickering
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Explaining that the delay in the implementation of the recommended Minimum Wage of $6.00 per hour is to allow the business community to ‘implement’ the National Health Insurance (NHI), Minister for Natural Resources and Labour, Dr The Hon Kedrick D. Pickering (R7) has announced that the minimum wage will take effect on October 1, 2016.
‘Beware of dream killers’- Hon Pickering tells exiting FLPS pupils
EAST END, Tortola, VI- Grade Six pupils of the Francis Lettsome Primary School (FLPS) came in for some stern advice when the Class of 2016 had its Exiting Ceremony at the East End/Long Look Community Centre yesterday, June 29, 2016.
After 6 years Hon Pickering to face his 2nd question in HOA
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Some called it political strategy, others political suicide, however, the only Government Minister in the history of the Virgin Islands House of Assembly never to face a question in his entire term in office [2011-2015] is the Deputy Premier and Minister for Natural Resources and Labour, Dr The Honourable Kedrick D. Pickering (R7).
Confusion: minimum wage still $4.00 in the VI; no laws to increase to $6.00
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Confusion and misinformation continue to circulate about the Virgin Islands minimum wage. As of today January 12, 2016 the minimum wage to be paid by law in the British Overseas Territory of the Virgin Islands (VI) remains at $4.00 an hour and not $6.00.
Selective VI youths meet millionaire David V. Johnson @ Oil Nut Bay!
NORTH SOUND, Virgin Gorda, VI- During the 2015 general elections in the Virgin Islands, Deputy Premier and Minister for National Resources and Labour Dr The Honourable Kedrick D. Pickering (R7) told the people while campaigning that “yes I have rich white friends and I am proud of my rich white friends.”
Discrimination? Sexism? Women paid less than men in the VI- Minimum Wage Report
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The Minimum Wage Advisory Committee Report 2015 was tabled in the House of Assembly (HoA) by the Minister for Labour, Dr The Honourable Kedrick D. Pickering (R7) on November 2, 2015.
Gov’t needs to significantly honour the Rhymers – Hon Ralph T. O’Neal OBE
CANE GARDEN BAY, Tortola, VI – Respected and retired politician of the Virgin Islands Honourable Ralph T. O’Neal, OBE has made a call for Government to tangibly honour Mr and Mrs William and Josephine Rhymer for their historic union of marriage.
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