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May 5th, 2016
Premier Smith 'wishy washy' on final cost of ports project

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Premier and Minister of Finance Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith has directed all questions on the final cost of the cruise ship development project to his Minister for Communications and Works Honourable Mark H. Vanterpool (R4).

May 4th, 2016
Premier’s Office fails to inform Premier Smith about Darley’s meeting request!

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Premier and Minister of Finance Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith has claimed that he knows of no attempt by former Project Developer of the Cruise Pier Development Project, Mr Hugh E. Darley to seek a meeting with him to discuss outstanding monies allegedly owed to Darley, President of IDEA Inc.

April 30th, 2016
YCCS lays off staff! Premier Smith yet to inform 9th District Rep!

NORTH SOUND, Virgin Gorda, VI- Information reaching Virgin Islands News Online is that several employees of Yacht Club Costa Smeralda (YCCS) located in North Sound, Virgin Gorda have been put on the breadline since the company is closing for several months for renovation.

April 26th, 2016
BVI Airways Agreement 'guarantees' money will be repaid- Premier Smith

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Premier and Minister of Finance Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith yesterday, April 25, 2016 reiterated that the money being made available to BVI Airways is not a grant and that it will be repaid.

March 23rd, 2016
Budget Debate standoff! Ministers & Opposition playing ‘go first game’

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- As the popularity of the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) regime of Premier and Minister of Finance Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith sinks amid reports the party raided the treasury to win the 2015 snap election and leaving the country broke, there is a strategic standoff going on in the House of Assembly.

March 7th, 2016
USA brands VI as one of many money laundering countries in the Caribbean!

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The British Overseas Territory of the Virgin Islands is yet again under scrutiny from the power house to the North- the United States of America (USA).

February 11th, 2016
Hon Walwyn blames wrong information given by Premier Smith on his $1M ‘Wall’

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- It was first and accurately reported by our newsroom that the controversial Minister for Education and Culture, Honourable Myron V. Walwyn, spent well over One Million and Seventy-eight Thousand Dollars ($1,078,000.00) on a wall at the Elmore Stoutt High School (ESHS) in 2015. Many teachers and parents after hearing this were disgusted and outraged, especially since the National Democratic Party (NDP) Administration has left the country broke and public schools cannot get basic items

February 8th, 2016
Alarming? $92,500.00 brand new Cadillac Escalade purchased for Premier!

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- While no one who is fair and objective will disagree that the Virgin Islands’ Head of Government, Premier and Minister of Finance Dr The Hon D. Orlando Smith, ought to be driven in a state-owned vehicle, and security provided, as is the practice through-out the world or for that matter any Premier, residents are alarmed that in this hard economic time a new SUV was purchased for Dr Smith at such cost.

February 5th, 2016
NDP has run the VI broke! From $51M under VIP to $6M under NDP!

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The debate as to who left the Virgin Islands broke is now over. The Premier and Minister of Finance, Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith, has set the record straight by confirming that the National Democratic Party (NDP) Government has almost bankrupt the Overseas Territory of about forty thousand residents.

January 25th, 2016
Hon Fahie slams reordering of questions as ‘Abuse of Power & Undemocratic’

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- In what Opposition Member Honourable Andrew A. Fahie (R1) described as blatant abuse of power and undemocratic, Leader of Government Business and Premier Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith moved the questions the Opposition had on the Order Paper for the Government today January 25, 2016 to a later time on the Order Paper.

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