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Disagree without 'degrading character' – Premier Fahie urges
DUFFS BOTTOM, Tortola, VI – Virgin Islands (VI) Premier and Minister of Finance Hon Andrew A. Fahie (R1) has called on persons in the VI to remember their culture as it related to respect and values, especially when disagreeing on an issue.
‘We got a lot of energy for people who look like us’- Deputy Premier
DUFFS BOTTOM, Tortola, VI- While some persons have been protesting and demanding that Virgin Islander and Speaker of the House of Assembly Hon Julian Willock be made to pay legal fees incurred in a withdrawn case that challenged the hypocrisy and disrespect for the laws of the Virgin Islands by lawyers working for the Commission of Inquiry (CoI), Deputy Premier Dr the Honourable Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) has said he would not sacrifice his conscience.
Hon Penn blasted as ‘weak’ over stance on Speaker’s legal fees
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition, Hon Marlon A. Penn (R8) has been blasted as a ‘weak leader’ over his stance on the Motion to exempt Hon Julian Willock from paying fees in the withdrawn court case against the three Commission of Inquiry (Co) lawyers accused of practising law illegally in the Virgin Islands.
Hons Vanterpool, Fraser & Wheatley to make up Special Committee on legal fee matter
DUFFS BOTTOM, Tortola, VI- At least three names have been announced to make up the Special Committee to consider all the facts available and then consider three possible recommendations in relation to whether the House of Assembly should stand the legal cost incurred by Speaker Hon Julian Willock for a withdrawn injunction that had initially sought to prevent three lawyers from working for the Commission of Inquiry while not being called to the Virgin Islands Bar.
Motion on Speaker's court fees is about conscience- Dr the Hon Wheatley
DUFF’S BOTTOM, Tortola, VI - Deputy Premier and Minister for Education, Culture, Youth Affairs, Fisheries and Agriculture, Dr the Hon Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) has declared that democracy is at work in the territory, where persons have the ability to raise their voices on contentious and controversial issues in the territory.
If Gov’t backed Speaker to file injunction then VI has to pay- Rosan-Jones
DUFF’S BOTTOM, Tortola, VI - Government critic and talk show host, Rosemary Cindy Rosan-Jones said if members of the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) Government can come forward and admit they were behind the injunction filed by the House of Assembly (HoA) Speaker, Hon Julian Willock, against the three Commission of Inquiry (CoI) lawyers, then she would accept that the state would have to pay the legal fees.
Jaspert had said ‘CoIs are expensive & reveal nothing’- Premier Fahie
DUFFS BOTTOM, Tortola, VI- With the Opposition often insinuating that Premier and Minister of Finance Hon Andrew A. Fahie (R1) was often running to the Governor to persuade him to call a Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into government when he was in the Opposition, the Premier has again sought to set the record straight.
HoA protest ends quietly as motion pushed back
DUFFS BOTTOM, Tortola, VI- Sworn critic of the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) Government and one of the organisers of the protest at the House of Assembly (HoA), Rosemary Cindy Rosan-Jones, along with a handful of her loyal followers, waited in vain for over seven hours outside the Save the Seed Energy Centre in Duffs Bottom, Tortola where the House of Assembly (HoA) held its sitting on November 1, 2021.
Hon Penn calls for political maturity in HoA debates
DUFF’S BOTTOM, Tortola, VI – Leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition in the Virgins Islands (VI) House of Assembly (HOA) Hon Marlon A. Penn (R8) has called for political maturity in debates within the House.
Cindy vows to ultimately cause HoA to be dissolved
DUFFS BOTTOM, Tortola, VI- Sworn critic of the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) Government and one of the organisers of the protest at the House of Assembly (HoA) today, November 1, 2021, Rosemary Cindy Rosan-Jones has vowed to cause the elected representatives in the HoA to be sent home.
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