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VI not seeking ‘short term benefits & long-term misery’ – Dr the Hon Wheatley
BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI – Deputy Premier and Minister for Education, Culture, Youth Affairs, Fisheries, and Agriculture, Dr the Honourable Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) has said the Virgin Islands (VI) is not looking for any COVID-19 economic strategy that will bring short term benefits and long term misery to the territory.
COVID-19 led to discovery VI’s borders ‘quite porous’– Hon Malone
GREAT HARBOUR, Jost van Dyke, VI - Minister for Health and Social Development, Hon Carvin Malone (AL) has revealed that it was the COVID-19 pandemic that led authorities to discover how porous the Virgin Islands (VI) sea borders really were.
GPS tracking & multiple COVID-19 tests for VI tourists
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Tourists who arrive in the Virgin Islands (VI) from December 1, 2020, will be required to meet strict requirements, including GPS tracking and multiple instances of COVID-19 testing, before they are allowed unrestricted access to the territory.
‘Not everyone is crying out to rush back into the classrooms’- Dr Wheatley
BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI - Minister for Education Culture, Youth Affairs, Fisheries, and Agriculture, Dr the Hon Natalio D. Wheatley (D7) says that, contrary to the picture of disaster being painted by some for political gains, COVID-19 online schooling has been a moderate success.
Gov't takes Tourism Certification Programme to Sister Islands
GREAT HARBOUR, Jost van Dyke, VI – Ahead of the December 1, 2020, reopening of the tourism sector in the Virgin Islands (VI), the Andrew A. Fahie-led administration is pushing for the certification of persons working in the sector through a programme with the H. Lavity Stoutt Community College (HLSCC).
The politics of COVID-19 Part 1
By Dickson C. Igwe
OK. The evidence from Asia is that voters want their governments to suppress the COVID-19 pandemic over and above fixing broken economies.
‘Gov’t COVID-19 methods worked, we all are alive’ - Premier Fahie
GREAT HARBOUR, Jost van Dyke, VI – With the Virgin Islands (VI) recording just one death, that of a Filipino, early on in the territory's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, Premier and Minister of Finance, Hon Andrew A. Fahie (R1) says the territory's extreme measure has worked to saved lives.
Gov’t mulling new 7-day quarantine for persons entering VI
GREAT HARBOUR, Jost van Dyke, VI – Minister for Health and Social Development, Hon Carvin Malone (AL) today, October 22, 2020, revealed that the Government of the Virgin Islands (VI) is considering reducing the 14-day mandatory quarantine requirement to enter the territory to just 7 days, as a cost reduction measure.
Food security under threat with pandemic - Cromwell Smith
BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI – Social Commentator and radio host Cromwell Smith aka ‘Edju En ka’ believes the Virgin Islands (VI) import driven food security is now under threat, should countries decide they will not export foods to the territory as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Current VI curfew extended to Thursday, Nov 5, 2020
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The October 7, 2020, curfew order which allowed businesses to open from 05:00 am to midnight has been extended to Thursday, November 5, 2020, via a new curfew order (no. 36) of 2020, gazetted on Wednesday, October 21, 2020.
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