News
Chinese Company In! Local partner Company Out! For Airport project award
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- While our newsroom has not obtained the extract of the Cabinet meeting of Wednesday December 21, 2016 it is our understanding from our well placed senior National Democratic Party (NDP) sources that the Cabinet of Premier and Minister of Finance Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith (AL) voted to award the Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport runway expansion contract to China Communications Construction Company Ltd (CCCC).
BVI Airways acquires 2nd jet; But no flight date announced
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- A day after Premier Dr The Hon D. Orlando Smith failed to tell the public when exactly BVI Airways will begin its long overdue promised service from Miami, USA to Beef Island, Tortola, BVI Airways has announced it has acquired a second jet.
Shame on NDP! Breaks laws on NHI, SS & Inland Revenue payments
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- When the public, civil society, the media, the Opposition and talk show hosts continue to accuse the National Democratic Party (NDP) Administration of blatant disregard for law and order, many of their supporters claim that the critics must provide the evidence.
Will BVI Airways ever fly? Date remain unknown on 'clear for take off'
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The controversial bail out deal where a defunct airline that left owing the British Virgin Islands Airports Authority (BVIAA) close to US$100,000 is in the news again.
With no 2017 Budget, over $111M sought to keep Gov’t running
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- As the National Democratic Party (NDP) regime has failed to provide the territory with a 2017 spending bill, today December 19, 2016 they will in the House of Assembly (HoA) seek monies via a provisional warrant to keep the Government running for the first quarter of 2017.
VI has benefitted tremendously from over 100 nationalities –Premier Smith
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Premier of the Virgin Islands Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith says it’s an undisputed fact that expatriates have benefitted from being in the VI and that the territory is a much better place because of the over 100 nationalities who have made the territory their home.
‘This is a time of challenges’- Premier Smith in doom & gloom speech
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- What the Leader of the National Democratic Party (NDP) and Head of Government Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith (AL) dubbed as “a message of confidence and hope” turned out to be a message of doom and gloom and more of the same.
Old HM Prison Museum opens
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The nearly two centuries old, partially completed, Her Majesty’s Prison Museum on Main Street was today, Tuesday December 6, 2016, officially opened to the public.
Old HM Prison museum to be opened this tourist season- Premier Smith
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- With the expected rise in numbers for the new tourist season, visitors to the territory will have some additional places of interest to tour, including the old Her Majesty’s Prison on Main Street, Road Town.
Budget Day axed for November 21, 2016; No new date set!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The government of the Virgin Islands last week announced that the House of Assembly will convene its Third Sitting of the Second Session of the Third House of Assembly (HoA), which will be Budget Day.
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