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May 26th, 2021
Skelton-Cline calls out distasteful memes against ex & current legislators

BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI - As the Virgin Islands continues to navigate the COVID-19 pandemic and the United Kingdom (UK) sponsored Commission of Inquiry (CoI), Honestly Speaking radio moderator, Claude O. Skelton-Cline has called on Virgin Islanders to desist from using metaphorical weapons against each other.

May 25th, 2021
Top CoP challenges VI to contact him with leads for unsolved murders

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – With a number of unsolved murders currently on the books at the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF), new Commissioner of Police Mr Mark Collins has challenged Virgin Islanders to reach out to him directly with leads that can help solve those crimes.

May 25th, 2021
Public consultations on Integrity in Public Life Act, 2019 ongoing

GREAT HARBOUR, Jost van Dyke, VI – Public Consultations on the Proposed Integrity in Public Life Act, 2019, continues this week, with the latest being today, May 25, 2021, on Jost van Dyke.

May 25th, 2021
Unity will get us through CoI ‘man-made disaster’ & pandemic– Dr the Hon Wheatley

BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI – Deputy Premier and Minister for Education, Culture, Youth Affairs, Fisheries and Agriculture, Dr the Hon Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) has called on the Virgin Islands to unite against the current challenges facing the territory.

May 25th, 2021
VI U17 footballers wrap up successful tour of TCI with 1-1 draw

PROVIDENCIALES, Turks & Caicos Islands- The Virgin Islands U17 National Team returned home from the Turks and Caicos Islands with the three-match series ending all square and Quelahni Nickie being named MVP.

May 24th, 2021
VI’s fate in hands of UK Monarch ‘is unacceptable’ in 2021 - Skelton-Cline

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Radio talkshow host Claude O. Skelton-Cline has called 'unacceptable' the reserved powers of the Queen as laid out in the Virgin Islands Constitution Order 2007 to make laws for peace and order in the territory.

May 22nd, 2021
The Social Community

By Dickson C. Igwe

For positive change in the era of COVID 19, a Commission of Inquiry that is throwing a fog over the future, and a terrifying new culture of crime, social cohesiveness, and social responsibility—Social Democracy—is the answer.

May 22nd, 2021
12-year-old reportedly threatens to stab father with knife

PARHAM TOWN, Tortola, VI – The 12-year-old daughter of a Josiah’s Bay man has reportedly threatened to stab him with a knife on May 20, 2021, after he prevented her from speaking with a man on a scooter outside her Long Swamp home.

May 22nd, 2021
Former teacher starts petition for mandatory swim classes in VI schools

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Executive Director of the Youth Empowerment Programme (YEP), a former school teacher, Mr Stacy R. Mather, CMG, has launched a campaign with the aim of getting the masses to sign a petition that forces the Virgin Islands government to mandate swimming classes in the curriculum of schools across the territory.

May 22nd, 2021
Vaccination remains the only ‘credible option’ to fight COVID-19- Premier Fahie

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Premier and Minister of Finance, Hon Andrew A. Fahie (R1) has reiterated the importance of vaccinations for COVID-19, urging citizens to get vaccinated as the territory navigates the global pandemic.

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