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March 3rd, 2021
Register of Interests Act to be amended to assist CoI

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Reiterating that it welcomes a transparent and accountable Commission of Inquiry (CoI) in the Virgin Islands (VI) that will allow for a ‘just outcome’, the Government of the VI has announced it will be making an amendment to the Register of Interest Act, 2006 to allow information to be shared with the CoI.

February 26th, 2021
CARICOM blasts UK, Ex-Gov Jaspert over secretive CoI launch

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) has broken its silence over the secretive nature of the Virgin Islands (VI) Commission of Inquiry (CoI) as established by the former controversial Governor, Augustus J.U. Jasper in collaboration with the British Government days before he demitted office.

February 22nd, 2021
Fight! ‘UK coming to throw water on a drowning man'- Caller urges Gov’t

BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI – An irate caller on the Tuesday, February 16, 2021, edition of the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) 'Let's Talk' radio show has urged the Government of the Virgin Islands to fight the United Kingdom's alleged attempts to trample on the freedoms of the territory.

February 19th, 2021
Is UK corrupt? Cocaine worth £184m found in London!

LONDON, United Kingdom- With the ex-governor Augustus J. U. Jaspert late last year labeling the Virgin Islands (VI) as corrupt following the discovery of some $250m worth of cocaine on Tortola in early November 2020, the question continues to be asked what would the controversial UK civil servant label his own country, since cocaine busts are not strange there.

February 19th, 2021
CoI could be a ‘pre-emptive strike’ against VI's constitutional review- Misick

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Former Premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI), Michael E. Misick has warned that the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) currently on the way in the Virgin Islands (VI) could very well be a pre-emptive strike against the territory’s upcoming constitutional review.

February 18th, 2021
CoI into VI Gov’t is ‘procedurally undemocratic’- Skelton-Cline

BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI – ZBVI 780am Honestly Speaking radio moderator, Claude O. Skelton-Cline has called the ongoing Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the government of the Virgin Islands (VI) undemocratic and colonialist against the people of the territory.

February 16th, 2021
It was ‘a mistake’ to cooperate with UK CoI - former TCI Premier

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – A former Premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands, Michael E. Misick said it was a mistake to cooperate with the United Kingdom (UK) Commission of Inquiry announced under his administration in 2008, citing UK hidden agendas and a predetermined outcome as a factor.

February 5th, 2021
Truth, Reconciliation & the Commission of Inquiry

By Kedrick E. Malone

The apparently unprecedented events taking place in the world during our lifetime actually are not unprecedented in life, for there is nothing new under the sun. What has been willl be, and what will be has been. However, there are some common threads linking these events together, with the most powerful of them being the revelation of truth. John 8:32 tells us: “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free”.

February 1st, 2021
Legislators present & past must unite to fight 'assault on territory'- Skelton-Cline

BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI – Past and present legislators in the Virgin Islands House of Assembly (HoA) have been urged to unite to fight the current United Kingdom's (UK) assault on the territory in the form of the Commission of Inquiry announced by Ex-Governor, Mr Augustus J.U. Jaspert.

January 30th, 2021
The Virgin Islands, post the Commission of Inquiry

by Dickson C. Igwe

An entitled minority must never again be allowed to control Virgin Islands governance, politics, and society, without full citizen and resident participation.

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