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Governor comes from 'a dead economy' & will only 'sink' VI– Former FS
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Former Financial Secretary (FS) in the Virgin Islands (VI) Mr L. Allen Wheatley has slammed the United Kingdom (UK) as having a dead economy and yet wanting to impose their economic policies on the VI’s thriving businesses sector through the unelected Governor John J. Rankin, CMG.
CIL's Brian W. Jermyn & Simone T. Monsanto launch new insurance Co. in Guyana
GEORGETOWN, Guyana - Managing Director of Caribbean Insurers Ltd (CIL) Mr Brian W. Jermyn and Director Simone T. Monsanto have expanded their insurance services to Guyana, with the launch of Atlantic Edge Insurance Brokerage Inc.
Good choices make a strong nation
Dickson C. Igwe
This Old Boy has a perverse delight in reading the lamentations of residents of specific societies. It is not schaden-freude. It is a simple acknowledgment that we all reap what we sow individually, socially, and corporately.
Premier Wheatley off to UK for high-level meetings; Hon Rymer now Acting Premier
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Premier and Minister of Finance Dr. the Honourable Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) is off to London as part of a delegation for high-level talks from 14 – 22 January 2023, and as such, Deputy Premier and Minister for Communications and Work Hon Kye M. Rymer (R2) is now Acting Premier.
Former FS accuses Unity Gov't of playing know-it-alls & refusing help
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI– Former Financial Secretary (FS) in the Virgin Islands (VI) Mr L. Allen Wheatley has slammed the Dr Natalio D. Wheatley-led Government of National Unity for what he said is their refusal to take advice from experts in the territory, even as the coalition government navigates the last months in office.
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.
Gov’t says 3 recent hires were in accordance with laws
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI– The Government of the Virgin Islands (VI) has moved to clarify the hiring of three persons, following accusations that Labour laws may have been broken in the process of hiring the persons who currently serve in the Premier’s Office and Government Information Services (GIS).
CoI reforms: ‘My assessment is that things are going pretty well’ - Premier
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Virgin Islands Premier and Minister of Finance, Dr the Hon Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) says his personal assessment is that the roll-out of Commission of Inquiry (CoI) reforms in the Virgin Islands (VI) has been going good.
Local tourism events to ‘get bigger & better’ in 2023– Premier Wheatley
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – As the Virgin Islands (VI) continues its rebound from the perils of the COVID-19 pandemic, the territory continues to see increases in the arrival of tourists in the post-pandemic period, which has resulted in a forecast of a bigger and better tourism season for 2023.
Series of earthquakes recorded near VI/USVI within past 10 hours
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- There has been a series of seismic activity in the Greater Virgin Islands region, some of which persons have reported feeling, within the past 10 hours.
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