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Engineers' integrity questioned in bridge assessment
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – A response to a question asked in the House of Assembly during its most recent sitting has left many, including Representative for the First District Honourable Andrew A. Fahie, to ponder the integrity of workers and engineers within the Public Works Department.
$65K still owed to contractors in Georgie Hill Road project
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Minister for Communications and Works Honourable Mark H. Vanterpool revealed during last week’s sitting of the House of Assembly that some $65,000 remains outstanding to contractors in the Georgie Hill Road Project.
UPDATE: Teachers want draft policy on discipline discussed with them & PTA
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Teachers, especially some at the Elmore Stoutt High School (ESHS), are pleased to learn that a policy to guide disciplinary measures for school children is in the making but admonished that the draft first be scrutinized by parents and teachers.
Did the Premier lie about knowledge of Auditor General’s Report?
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The issue of lies and more lies from our political leaders have again raised its head and stunned the Virgin Islands community. Many are shaking their heads as they could not believe what they heard in the House of Assembly on December 17, 2013.
$$ for teachers' dinner could have paid ‘school bus’ drivers- Opposition
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Debate surrounding some $103,160.00 owed to taxi drivers of the Territory for transporting high school students touched on some nerves during the Third Sitting of the Third Session of the Second House of Assembly on December 17, 2013.
Churches need to take the front seat in VI – Hon. Fahie
LONG LOOK, Tortola, VI – “I challenge the church, even at this honouring ceremony, to start to take the front seat in the country rather than the back seat,” challenged Representative for the First District Honourable Andrew A. Fahie on November 17, 2013.
Local NGO takes Breast Cancer awareness to Primary Schools
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – A large number of pupils and teachers of Primary Schools across Tortola were drafted into the ‘Pink it out’ initiative last Friday October 25, 2013 thanks to the brilliant idea of the Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) Little Speakers’ Touch Youth Empowerment Organization.
Hon. Fahie to be honoured by USVI group
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – First District Representative Hon. Andrew A. Fahie is among several persons expected to be honoured when the League of British Virgin Islanders hosts its 15th Annual Norwell Harrigan Memorial Scholarship Luncheon on November 3, 2013 at the Sugar Bay Resort and Spa in St Thomas, USVI.
Church & political leaders need to knock heads- Hon. Fahie
WEST END, Tortola, VI - The challenges that are currently facing the people of the territory, especially those that are seeing a number of persons being laid off from their sources of a daily bread, present a need for urgent action. One of the actions, according to First District Representative, Hon. Andrew A. Fahie, is for the church and political leaders to knock heads.
VG Mystics scrape past NW Surfers in 40+ B/Ball tournament
VALLEY, Virgin Gorda, VI – Showing much fitness and endurance despite their age made for a keen and competitive game of quality basketball when VG Mystics and NW Surfers of Tortola clashed in a 40 plus affair basketball encounter at the Jeffrey Caines Arena in Virgin Gorda on Saturday October 5, 2013.
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