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Prevention better than cure! More life guards needed at The Baths
VALLEY, Virgin Gorda, VI - "Just now somebody is going to come up with a crazy website with the worlds most dangerous tourist beaches and when the BVI Tourist Board sees Anegada and Virgin Gorda ranking in the top ten, then we going to rush to listen to people and try to put things in place but it might just be too late," was the opinion of a worker of the Virgin Gorda park.
Massive launch party planned for Jazz on the Hill!
SPANISH TOWN, Virgin Gorda, VI - The 2013 edition of Jazz on the Hill will take on a new feature this year; a massive launch party, which has been timely placed to coincide with Valentine's Day celebrations in February 2013.
Henry, Huggins & Warner reach Carifta Qualifying!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Eldred Henry led the threesome of student athletes who surpassed the BVIAA Carifta Games qualifying marks at the Hastings Grant Memorial Meet on Saturday January 12, 2013.
Little Dix Bay workers disgruntled over retirement issues
LITTLE DIX BAY, Virgin Gorda, VI - A large number of workers of Rosewood Little Dix Bay Resort walked out of two recent meetings called by their senior Manager as very unhappy employees when they were told of new arrangements, which reportedly would see them not going home with nothing but pension after they would have retired from the company.
Hon. Fahie alleges imbalance in distribution of Govt contracts
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Representative for the First District, Hon. Andrew A. Fahie has cited an imbalance in the way contracts are distributed in his district and the quality of communication as being in need of change.
Georges flays ‘Ministers’ in 2011 Complaints report
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Cold water may have been poured on any thoughts of a public spat between Commissioner of the Complaints Commission, Mr Elton Georges and Minister for Natural Resources and Labour, Hon. Dr Kedrick Pickering following the latter’s charges aimed at Georges during the recent sitting of the House of Assembly.
UPDATE: No specific date to confirm Donovan-Stevens- says PS Archer!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola,VI- Some two years and several months since Mrs. Michelle Donovan-Stevens was appointed to act in the post as the Government’s Director of Human Resources, there is no sign of her confirmation.
UPDATE: Richard D. Holder was a man of distinction & honour- Premier Smith
ROAD TOWN, Tortola VI- The late Superintendent of Prisons Richard Dacosta Holder was laid to rest today December 19, 2012 amid glowing tributes from the upper echelon of society including Premier Dr the Honourable D. Orlando Smith and Governor Boyd McCleary.
“Nothing is off the table” in conducting business – NBVI Board Chairman
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Chairman of the Board of the National Bank of the Virgin Islands, Mr Clarence Faulkner is assuring stakeholders that the bank is adequately capitalised, but emphasised that the bank is never at a point where it is “just sitting back comfortably”.
“Sam” wants churches to take up issue of children born in VI by non-nationals
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Host of the television talk show Speak Your Mind, Julio S. Henry popularly known as Sam, has expressed surprised that churches have not been taking up the issue of children born in the Virgin Islands by non-nationals, which he labelled as a human rights issue.