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April 6th, 2021
Benefits of COVID-19 jab far outweigh the side effects - Dr Pickering

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Calling the local AstraZeneca COVID-19 Vaccine an ultimate weapon against the pandemic in the Virgin Islands (VI), Medical Doctor and former Deputy Premier and 7th District Representative, Dr Kedrick D. Pickering has urged Virgin Islanders to get vaccinated.

April 6th, 2021
Opposition Leader calls for COVID-19 testing labs on VG

VALLEY, Virgin Gorda, VI – Leader of the Opposition Hon Marlon A. Penn (R8) has called for COVID-19 testing labs on the Sister Island of Virgin Gorda. He said the labs would be needed when the seaports reopen to international operations.

April 5th, 2021
No more delays to ‘open the seaports’ - Hon Penn tells Fahie Gov’t

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Opposition Leader, Hon Marlon A. Penn (R8) has called on the Hon Andrew A. Fahie (R1) Government to open the Virgin Islands' seaports to international operations without delay.

April 4th, 2021
5 new cases of COVID-19 recorded in VI

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The Virgin Islands now has 18 active cases of COVID-19, five up since April 1, 2021, when there were 13.

April 3rd, 2021
UK’s latest race report ‘gives green light to racists’- Mother of slain black teen

LONDON, UK - Doreen D. Lawrence OBE, the mother of black youth Stephen Lawrence who was murdered by UK racists in 1993, has condemned a Johnson government-commissioned report that claimed the UK no longer had a system rigged against minorities.

April 3rd, 2021
Noticeable ‘uptick of drug use’ in VI youths - Skelton-Cline

BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI – ‘Honestly Speaking’ radio moderator, Mr Claude O. Skelton-Cline says in the Virgin Islands (VI) there is an uptick of drug use in local youths that has now become highly noticeable in the community.

April 3rd, 2021
Hon Rymer rolls out new 5th District Directory App

HUNTUMS GHUT, Tortola, VI - Minister for Transportation, Works and Utilities who also serves as Fifth District Representative in the Virgin Islands House of Assembly (HoA), Hon Kye M. Rymer (R5) has rolled out a new 5th District Services App Directory, to serve businesses in the area.

April 2nd, 2021
UNDP presents VI COVID-19 response as model for Eastern Caribbean

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The [British] Virgin Islands’ response to COVID-19 has been presented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) as a model for the Eastern Caribbean at the UN development agency’s official presentation of its joint reports with ISGlobal entitled, ‘COVID-19 Policy Reports for Recovery in the Eastern Caribbean: Analysis, Scenarios and Considerations for Opening to Tourism,’ launched at a virtual meeting on March 30, 2021.

April 2nd, 2021
UK Gov’t commissioned report slammed for downplaying extent of racism in society

LONDON, United Kingdom- A report on race commissioned by the imperialist United Kingdom (UK) Government of Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson aka ‘Boris’ has been slammed for being out of touch with reality and may have pushed the fight against racism in the UK back by “20 years or more”.

April 1st, 2021
The 'Global Britain' agenda is just another form of colonialism- Cromwell Smith

BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI – Umoja radio talk show host Cromwell Smith aka Edju En Ka has placed the spotlight on the ‘Global Britain’ agenda, referring to the relationship with the Overseas Territories (OTs) as a facade rather than a relationship that is beneficial to OTs.

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