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Festival 2015 performers will be paid, 'trust me’ – Premier Smith
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Premier and Minister of Finance Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith on Thursday January 21, 2016 acknowledged that Government should have paid local performers of Emancipation Festival 2015 before the end of last year.
Gov't investigating self on ports project scandal!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Premier and Minister of Finance Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith announced that he has ordered an audit to be done by an international firm of the controversial cruise ship development project as a means to putting to rest what he called rumours being circulated.
Monday January 25, 2016 is NOT Budget Day!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Despite what other media houses have been reporting, our newsroom can confirm with accuracy that the Sitting of Monday January 25, 2016, which is the Sixth Sitting of the First Session of the Third House of Assembly, is not Budget Day.
Decision to close Little Dix Bay Hotel was done 'without' Gov’t consultation!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The decision to close Rosewood Little Dix Bay Hotel and Resort on Virgin Gorda for a year and a half from May 1, 2016 for renovation was done without consultation with Government, Premier Dr The Hon D. Orlando Smith has lamented.
'We know who beneficially owns VI companies’ – Premier Smith
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Premier and Minister of Finance Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith announced in the House of Assembly on Monday December 21, 2015 during the Fifth Sitting of the First Session of the Third House of Assembly that the territory was successful in gaining recognition for its “largely compliant rating” by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which said that the territory should not be labelled as a tax haven.
$110M plus approved to keep Government running
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- With no 2016 Appropriation Act or Budget, the National Democratic Party (NDP) Government has secured some one hundred and ten million, five hundred and forty one thousand, six hundred and sixty seven dollars ($110, 541, 667) to keep the government running for four months at least.
No 2016 Budget! NDP looks for $110M to keep Gov't open
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The National Democratic Party (NDP) Administration of Premier and Minister of Finance Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith has failed to present the people of the Virgin Islands with a 2016 Appropriation Act or Budget.
BVI Recreation Trust workers allege being unpaid for over a month
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Some workers of the BVI Recreation Trust are alleging that they have gone unpaid for over a month and said the situation has become extremely frustrating especially now that it is the Christmas season.
Did Premier Smith sell us out @ recent UK Meeting?
LONDON, United Kingdom- In a statement in the House of Assembly on Thursday, February 12, 2015 Premier and Minister of Finance Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith told the people of the Virgin Islands that key stakeholders within the territory’s financial and social services sectors did not support the Virgin Islands establishing a Beneficial Ownership central register, preferring the current regime which has been shown to work.
Employment dipped in 2012 & 2013 in VI; Were we misled?
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- In 2011 the National Democratic Party of Premier and Minister of Finance Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith was elected to office and in the two years that followed, 2012 and 2013, Premier Smith was talking up the Virgin Islands (VI) economy and claiming that it was “robust.” The statistics, however, proves that he was misleading the public.
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