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May 6th, 2015
Election Day in the VI is June 8, 2015

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- (Post Time: 10:25pm) Just as the Opposition Virgin Islands Party had predicted following the sudden dissolution of the House of Assembly, the Virgin Islands electorate will be heading to the polls on June 8, 2015 to choose their government for the next four years.

April 30th, 2015
HoA to be dissolved tomorrow May 1, 2015

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The House of Assembly (HoA) of the Virgin Islands will be dissolved tomorrow, May 1, 2015, paving the way for elections to be held sometime in late May or June, 2015.

April 29th, 2015
Cruise Line wants ‘BVI’ not generic Caribbean experience

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- His message was short but very clear. Speaking at the official opening ceremony of the expanded cruise pier on Wickham’s Cay I, Tortola this morning, April 29, 2015, Mr Colin Murphy, Senior Vice President, Destination and Port Operations, Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Limited urged the Government of the Virgin Islands to never lose focus on the product the territory is offering tourists, which is a unique one as compared to the wider Caribbean.

April 25th, 2015
Orlando the flamboyant & Karl the trustworthy

By Dickson Igwe

Two party politics in the British Virgin Islands is getting increasingly entrenched into the social geography this early 2015. The two main parties are led by two men who, apart from the unexpected, will go into the next General Election leading their troops against the army of the other.

April 17th, 2015
Premier Smith throws FS Neil M. Smith under the bus!

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The recent statement by Premier Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith that his administration has been unable to produce audited accounts to the House of Assembly for the last three years because the former Virgin Islands Party (VIP) allegedly failed to practice proper accounting standards has been termed an indictment on the Financial Secretary Mr Neil M. Smith and former Premier and Minister of Finance Hon Ralph T. O’Neal OBE by senior VIP member Hon Andrew A. Fahie (R1).

April 13th, 2015
Look who we caught on camera! Can you pick the next Premier?

SEA COWS BAY, Tortola, VI- While the politicians were out in numbers at the post Easter races at Ellis Thomas Downs in Sea Cows Bay yesterday April 12, 2015 look who Virgin Islands News Online caught on candid camera!

April 10th, 2015
Was VI snubbed from meeting with President Obama @ US-CARICOM Summit?

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- While the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) was meeting with the United States of America’s 44th President, Barack H. Obama, for a one-day important summit on April 9, 2015 the Virgin Islands (VI) and the other Associate members of the Caribbean Community had to sit out as they were not issued an invitation.

March 30th, 2015
VINO fires back @ Premier Smith’s childish statement on cartoon!

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- On the night of March 25, 2015 we were overwhelmed with calls from readers, advertisers and many civil society personnel asking, if we had heard the latest attack on press freedom by Premier of the Virgin Islands Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith.

March 22nd, 2015
Create a buzz! Participants @ CCT Buy BVI Trade Expo urged

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – “Take pictures of your booth, put them up on facebook, twitter, instagram or whatever, lets create a buzz, let’s get the energy rolling, let’s get people into the building,” said Mr Antoni Tuckett as he sought to motivate fellow entrepreneurs present at the Buy BVI Trade Expo that started yesterday March 21, 2015 at the Multi-Purpose Sports Complex.

March 11th, 2015
Hon Fraser says Govt still hiding info on Ports project

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Chairman for the Virgin Islands Party and Representative for the Third District Honourable Julian Fraser RA believes answers to his questions posed to Premier and Minister of Finance Dr the Honourable D. Orlando Smith in the last sitting of the House of Assembly were not complete.

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