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December 22nd, 2016
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).

December 20th, 2016
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.

December 19th, 2016
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.

December 19th, 2016
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.

December 19th, 2016
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.

December 18th, 2016
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.

December 7th, 2016
‘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.

December 6th, 2016
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.

November 14th, 2016
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.

November 9th, 2016
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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