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NDP reached out to me with a ‘definitive approach’ to rejoin party- Dr Pickering
BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI- Former Deputy Premier and Minister for Natural Resources and Labour Dr Kedrick D. Pickering has said he always indicated he had no intention to contest the 2023 General Election as an Independent candidate and that it was the National Democratic Party (NDP) that reached out to him.
VI @ point where teachers should help ‘parent’ bad youths– Cromwell Smith
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI– Talk show host Cromwell Smith aka Edju Enka said the Virgin Islands is at a point where teachers should now have to step in to parent children who lack parenting at home.
'Self-hatred' thwarting meaningful integration of VI history into schools– Skelton-Cline
BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI– Talk show host Mr Claude O. Skelton-Cline has criticised the local education system for what he said is an inability to meaningfully integrate Virgin Islands' black history into the local educational curriculum.
VI made ‘big mistake’ in not accepting UK loan guarantee- Dr Pickering
BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI– Former Deputy Premier Dr Kedrick D. Pickering says it was a big mistake for the Virgin Islands Government to not take up a United Kingdom (UK) £300M loan guarantee offer for hurricane recovery and infrastructure development.
Dr Smith said Jaspert asked him about corruption before becoming VI Governor
BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI– Former Premier Dr D. Orlando Smith says a precursor to the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) in the Virgin Islands (VI) came as a result of people in the territory continuously complaining to the British government about corruption in the VI government.
'I still believe' a woman will be next VI Premier- Skelton-Cline
BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI– Although general election is supposedly around the corner and fresh candidates are yet to declare their intentions, pastor and talk show host Mr Claude O. Skelton-Cline remains faithful that his prophecy of a female becoming the next Premier of the Virgin Islands will come to pass.
Persons starting to think VI environment a contributor to cancer– Cromwell Smith
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI– Lamenting that a high number of persons are dying of cancer in the Virgin Islands, talk show host Cromwell Smith aka ‘Edju En Ka’ has called for aggressive funding towards investigations into possible environmental causes of cancer as well as cancer treatment and prevention in the Virgin Islands (VI).
Skelton-Cline shares prophecy of several freak accidents to come in 2023
BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI – Talk show host and pastor Claude O. Skelton-Cline has shared what he called prophecies revealed to him by a third party and that it relates to what persons in the Virgin Islands can expect in 2023.
New homicides ‘saddens my heart, feels like nothing has changed'– Ex Top Cop
BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI - Ex-Commissioner of Police Mr Michael B. Matthews says receiving news of new homicides in the Virgin Islands is something that saddens him as the former commissioner in the Virgin Islands, since it feels like nothing has changed.
‘Once you start living here & have more time… you notice more’- Ex CoP Matthews
BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI – Ex-Commissioner of Police Michael B. Matthews has said now that he is no longer the Commissioner of Police and just a regular civilian in the Virgin Islands (VI) he is noticing more and understanding the anger of Virgin Islanders on certain issues.
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