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March 28th, 2022
VI Gov’t will consider recommendations in CoI report- Premier Fahie

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- With the April 2022 deadline for the Final Report of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) in the Virgin Islands (VI) fast approaching, the Government of the Virgin Islands has reiterated that it has no disagreement with a transparent and independent inquiry that will yield a just outcome.

March 6th, 2022
CARICOM Heads of Gov’t express ‘deep concern’ with UK-sponsored CoI in VI

SAN PEDRO, Belize- Regional leaders who attended the 33rd Inter-Sessional Conference of the Heads of Government of CARICOM in San Pedro, Belize last week have expressed ‘deep concern’ with the lack of transparency and the manner in which the United Kingdom-sponsored Commission of Inquiry (CoI) was called in the [British] Virgin Islands.

March 1st, 2022
VI raising CoI concerns @ Caricom Heads of Gov’t meeting- Dr the Hon Wheatley

SAN PEDRO, Belize – Deputy Premier and Minister for Education, Culture, Youth Affairs, Fisheries and Agriculture, Dr. the Honourable Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) says the BVI will be taking its concerns about the UK-Sponsored Commission of Inquiry to the 33rd Meeting of the Caricom Heads of Government currently ongoing in San Pedro, Belize, March 1-2, 2022.

February 27th, 2022
CoI 'witch-hunt' continues! Months later Dept Heads being asked for information

LONDON, UK- Even with two extensions to deliver its report for what many described as a bogus and a witch-hunt Commission of Inquiry (CoI) ordered by a controversial former governor, Augustus J. U. Jaspert aka ‘Gus’, the plot continues.

February 11th, 2022
Senior Anegada resident blasts CoI as hypocritical

THE SETTLEMENT, Anegada, VI– 93-year-old Anegada resident, Darvin G. Potter has lambasted the United Kingdom (UK) sponsored Virgin Islands Commission of Inquiry (CoI) as an exercise of the "the pot calling the kettle bottom black while both are cooking on open wood fires.”

February 11th, 2022
'Substantial' CoI caused work deferrals @ AG Chambers - SFC Report

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Despite the Attorney General’s Chambers achieving a significant amount of its 2021 work plan, Attorney General, Hon Dawn J. Smith has revealed that demands of the United Kingdom (UK)-sponsored Commission of Inquiry (CoI) had resulted in some deferral of work.

February 8th, 2022
CoI will write a 'scathing report' on VI– Skelton-Cline

BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI – Honestly Speaking radio moderator Claude O. Skelton-Cline says he forecasts the final Commission of Inquiry (CoI) report coming out of the United Kingdom (UK) will be one that is ‘ugly.’

January 27th, 2022
Perfecting our own destruction: From slavery to now

Alred C. Frett

When Blind leads Blind, We all depend on Miracles:

I am no more special than you - We are all dispensable and disposable but even as we come and go, all that really matters is whether or not we make things better or worse… None of us live in a vacuum so we are exposed to Bad as well as Good and Wrong as well as Right… Whatever we do or know, are interactions with or lessons learnt from one another and, making right decisions are not automatic.

January 24th, 2022
All HoA Members are 100% in compliance- Clearlie Brown-Turnbull

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Newly appointed Registrar of Interests, Mrs Clearlie Brown-Turnbull told the Standing Finance Committee (SFC) that all 15 House of Assembly (HoA) Members were in 100% compliance in instances where declarations by Members were due in 2021.

January 7th, 2022
Embattled Johnson facing new round of corruption allegations in UK!

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI– United Kingdom Prime Minister, Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson ‘aka ‘Boris’ has been accused of a new round of corruption allegations for 2022, after it emerged that he sought funds for his flat refurbishment from a Conservative donor while promising to consider plans for a mystery “great exhibition”.

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