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BVIPA defers more port fee increases to January 2022
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The BVI Ports Authority (BVIPA) has announced that pursuant to the public announcement made by Premier and Minister of Finance, Hon Andrew A. Fahie (R1) in April regarding the postponement of port fee increases until 2022, the majority of fee increases, will now be deferred to January 2022.
146 graduate from HLSCC in separate ceremonies
PARAQUITA BAY, Tortola, VI – 146 Students have graduated from the H. Lavity Stoutt Community College (HLSCC) for 2021, in the first ever two-part graduation held at the College’s Paraquita Bay campus in Tortola.
The Commission of Inquiry: The silver lining
By Dickson C. Igwe
Now, international companies and investors are the platforms upon which the British Virgin Islands economy sits. Financial Services have kept this country alive through the many months of pandemic and the collapse in Caribbean tourism.
Speaker chides CoI for missing document in lawyer’s bundle
WICKHAM’S CAY II, Tortola, VI – Speaker of the Virgin Islands (VI) House of Assembly (HoA), Hon Julian Willock has chided the United Kingdom (UK) sponsored VI Commission of Inquiry for documents found missing from the bundle supplied to his lawyer.
CoI: Registrar of Interests ‘begged’ for compliance from Dr Smith's NDP
WICKHAM’S CAY II, Tortola, VI – During the morning session of the Virgin Islands Commission of Inquiry (CoI) hearing Day 13, on June 17, 2021, the Commission heard that regarding compliance to the Register of Interests Act, 2006, under the previous Dr D. Orlando Smith-led National Democratic Party (NDP) administration (2011-2019), the then Registrar Mrs Victoreen Romney-Varlack had to beg for compliance over several years, to no avail.
CoI: Hon Penn labelled ‘seriously delinquent’ with Declarations of Interests
WICKHAM’S CAY II, Tortola, VI – Opposition Leader in the Virgin Islands (VI) House of Assembly (HoA), Hon Marlon A. Penn (R8) has been labelled ‘seriously delinquent’ with regards to late Declarations made to the Registrar of Interests for the periods 2013-2016 and 2017-2020.
Nine arrested & questioned over HM Prison stabbing death
BALSAM GHUT, Tortola, VI- Nine male inmates at Her Majesty’s Prison in Balsam Ghut, Tortola, have since been arrested and questioned in relation to the stabbing death of fellow inmate Nickail Chambers on the evening of May 30, 2021.
$10K fine for falsifying vaccine records & COVID-19 tests- Premier
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The Government of the Virgin Islands (VI) has introduced a $10,000 fine for false traveller declarations relating to COVID-19, according to Premier and Minister of Finance, Hon Andrew A. Fahie (R1).
Dr the Hon Wheatley vows to correct tardiness of declarations of Interests
WICKHAM’S CAY II, Tortola, VI – Deputy Premier and Minister for Education, Culture, Youth Affairs, Fisheries and Agriculture, Dr the Hon Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) has given the Virgin Islands (VI) Commission on Inquiry (CoI) an assurance of working towards correcting late declarations made to the Registrar of Interests.
‘CoI has made us afraid of being family & friends'- Skelton-Cline
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Virgin Islands radio talk show host, Claude O. Skelton-Cline says the Virgin Islands (VI) Commission of Inquiry (CoI) has made persons residing in the Virgin Islands afraid to be family and friends.
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