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CIL celebrates 2 years since opening VG branch
VALLEY, Virgin Gorda, VI – After opening its doors on Virgin Gorda two years ago, Caribbean Insurers Limited (CIL) yesterday marked the occasion with a customer appreciation event featuring music and food at its Watts Building office, Valley, Virgin Gorda.
‘Be there for all not only for chosen favourites’ – North Sound, VG residents
NORTH SOUND, Virgin Gorda, VI – “If we have to speak through this means we will as our concerns need to come out in the open. We are being hushed down and boiling up inside by the glaring subtle attack by this NDP government. We are not happy and so we need to let the world know,” said a senior member of the Education Sector of the Virgin Islands.
'STOP the destruction of our mangroves!’ – VG residents
VALLEY, Virgin Gorda, VI - Concerned residents of the Virgin Gorda Community are making an appeal to the Deputy Premier and Minister for Natural Resources Dr the Hon Kedrick D. Pickering to urgently step in and stop the destructive moving of mangroves in Valley Virgin Gorda (VG).
UPDATE: Premier Smith defends Hon Walwyn’s scholarship move
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – “There are many cases where persons may have come to the BVI and they may not have become a BVIslander, but live in the Virgin Islands and went through the school system and so I think as a country, as a people, we could be sympathetic to persons who fall in that category,” said Premier and Minister of Finance Dr. the Honourable D. Orlando Smith.
Travel + Leisure Magazine Names Virgin Gorda #1 Island in Caribbean
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - The British Virgin Islands Tourist Board is excited to announce Virgin Gorda has been ranked as the number one island in the Caribbean by readers of Travel + Leisure magazine.
Crime a rising concern in VG – Resident
VALLEY, Virgin Gorda, VI – The issue of safety and security has become a growing concern of residents of the Virgin Gorda Community of late as they have been noticing a rise in criminal activities there.
Several Haitian families held in VG for illegal entry
VALLEY, Virgin Gorda, VI - During the course of last week Police and Immigration Officers in the line of duty on Virgin Gorda stumbled upon over 25 Haitian nationals who were suspected to have entered the Territory illegally.
This Week We Feature Young Professional Angela A. Penn
By: Nikolai J. Earle
She is an aspiring poet, an active sports and community oriented person and career woman. She is certain of what she wants out of life and believes that she is on her way to achieving her goals. She is Angela A. Penn, our Young Professional for this week.
2 employees alleged racism & discrimination @ Oil Nut Bay
VALLEY, Virgin Gorda, VI – “I know that nothing will be done about this but we cannot take that just so, we have to continue to sound the word until someone somewhere hears us and steps in to do something about this thing,” those were the words of a Virgin Islander resident of Virgin Gorda.
No Hospital for Virgin Gorda just a larger Clinic - Premier Smith
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Premier and Minister of Finance Dr the Honourable D. Orlando Smith has given the assurance that the much touted expansion of the Iris O’Neal Clinic in Virgin Gorda is moving ahead towards realization and that it would not be a hospital just a larger clinic.