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How can you tell lies about people & then want to sue? Donald E. de Castro
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Long-time public activist and radio talk show host Donald E. de Castro said politicians using their protection in the House of Assembly from being sued for slander and libel should not abuse that privilege to attack ordinary citizens.
VINO stands by statement on desperate & disgraced Myron V. Walwyn
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- We read today May 13, 2016 on a pro-government online news site that the controversial Minister for Education and Culture Myron V. Walwyn reportedly has filed a suit in the High Court against an ordinary citizen for defending his good name.
VI: No history of unions- Julian Willock
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- With the absence of active labour unions in the Virgin Islands, aggrieved workers are often left with no choice but to turn to the Labour Department to settle their disputes, leaving them sometimes at a disadvantage.
BBC reporter an idiot! - Edmund G. Maduro
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Controversial radio talk show host Edmund G. Maduro slammed UK BBC journalist Tom Hagler for what he called his unfounded accusations against the Virgin Islands in a recent radio interview by BBC World Service of former Permanent Secretary Julian Willock and said the journalist needs to be jailed for his comments.
Premier Smith commends former PS Willock for defending territory
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Premier and Minister of Finance Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith has commended former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Communications and Works Mr Julian Willock for his robust defense of the territory’s financial services sector against a hostile BBC journalist who interviewed him on the revelations of the Panama Papers and its effects on the Virgin Islands.
Fmr PS Willock takes on hostile BBC journalist in defence of VI Financial Services
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- With the recent Panama Papers leak causing a shakeup in Governments across the globe and much negative attention being directed to the Virgin Islands and other financial services jurisdiction in the region, a private citizen and publisher of Virgin Islands News Online has come out in strong defence of one the territory’s main economic pillars, even while Government and other stakeholders remain silent.
Shame on Myron V. Walwyn! Threatens media & public with legal action
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The embattled and controversial Minister for Education and Culture Hon Myron V. Walwyn has continued his unstatesmanlike tactics on the media and the ordinary citizens of the Virgin Islands.
Willock hits back @ Hon Walwyn's HoA attack
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- It has been brought to our attention that the disgraced and irrelevant Minister for Education and Culture Myron V. Walwyn, whose legitimacy to sit in the House of Assembly remains an active area of contention and debate, went on his usual crazy, biased, self serving, disgusting, childish and unstatesmanlike line of attack on Wednesday, March 23 2016 during the Budget Debate about a nomination made by the Leader of the Opposition to the Public Service Commission.
Budget not yet passed; Process still in Standing Finance Committee
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Many local vendors who provided goods and services to the Government of the Virgin Islands continue to complain bitterly about the lack of payments from the Dr Smith-led Administration.
‘Come forward with statistics!’ – Julian Willock
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Chairman of Advance Marketing and Professional Services Mr Julian Willock has challenged persons linking blogs on news reports of accidents, especially involving tourists, to a reduction in tourism numbers to bring forward statistics showing such a correlation.