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Team Bayside Blazers announces raffle winners!
DUFF'S BOTTOM, Tortola, VI - Last evening August 29, 2014 the Basketball Club Bayside Blazers stayed true to their promise and held the drawings for its fund raising raffle that the Team kicked off in May of this year.
VINO STATEMENT: Mark Vanterpool a desperate disgrace
Ladies and Gentlemen it was brought to our attention that Mr. Mark H. Vanterool on July 29, 2014 launched a blistering attack on Virgin Islands News Online and its staff while debating the House of Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee Report on the Cruise Ship Development Project.
Willock defends VINO article; says real issues must not be sidestepped
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The Esteemed Julian Willock, Chairman of the Board of Advance Marketing and Professional Services, the parent company of Virgin Islands News Online, has come out in defence of an article which appeared on the popular news site yesterday July 15, 2014 headlined ‘White Expat in! Locals shut out for the TRC post’.
VINO responds to Lorna G. Smith’s FB letter to our Esteemed Chairman
Our news room and the Chairman of our Board of Directors Mr. Julian Willock have been overwhelmed with phone calls, text messages and ordinary citizens from all walks of life stopping the reporters very disturbed by the personal attacks on Mr. Julian Willock and on the news site by Mrs. Lorna Ginevra Smith and Dr. the Honourable D. Orlando Smith.
Carvin Malone in as new VIP President!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Carvin Malone secured the position of President of the Virgin Islands Party following the withdrawal of Julian Willock from the race at the party’s internal elections held at Maria’s by the Sea this evening May 28, 2014.
VIP record on press freedom 'undisputed' - Willock
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The record of the Opposition Virgin Islands Party (VIP) with regard to freedom of the press is undisputed, according to Chairman of the Board of Directors of Advance Marketing and Professional Services, Mr Julian Willock.
Julian Willock vindicated again; Gov’t drops appeal!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - In a move that has surprised many knowing the political nature of the matter notwithstanding the legal class had long expected it, the Attorney General’s Chambers has discontinued its Appeal against the former Esteemed Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Communications and Works Julian Willock.
Virgin Islands News Online turns 4
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI: This month, March 2014, will mark the 4th anniversary of the news site’s operation. The company, a subsidiary of its parent company Advance Marketing and Professional Services, has certainly cemented its coveted position as the number 1 online news site in the Virgin Islands.
Virgin Islands News Online turns 3
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - It was on March 1, 2010 that the now popular online news site www.virginislandsnewsonline.com (VINO) was launched.
UPDATE: Ag. PS Arlene Smith-Thompson out! Last day was Nov. 9, 2012
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- As was firstly and accurately reported by this news site, Acting Permanent Secretary (PS) in the Ministry of Communications and Works (MC&W) Mrs. Arlene Smith-Thompson is no longer at the Ministry.