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September 15th, 2016
Hon Marlon A. Penn ponders lack of local participation in VI festivals

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Junior Minister for Trade and Investment Promotion Hon Marlon A. Penn (R8) says Virgin Islanders need to get their cultural identity reflected in the annual festivities to observe emancipation.

August 3rd, 2016
‘Perish the thought of cancelling EE/LL Festival’- Hons Pickering & Penn

EAST END, Tortola, VI – Talks have been rife about discontinuing the emancipation celebrations at the Eastern End of Tortola but District Representatives, speaking at the opening ceremony of the Andrew A. ‘Charlie’ Turnbull Festiville last night August 2, 2016, made it absolutely clear that will never happen.

July 16th, 2016
Greenland without water for 2 weeks due to broken pipe

EAST END, Tortola, VI – Residents of the Greenland community, in East End, Tortola are upset at the shoddy excuses they have allegedly been getting from officials of the Water and Sewerage Department for the disruption of water supply in the area.

March 23rd, 2016
Hon Marlon A. Penn cries for protection of locals

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- In total contrast to what controversial Minister for Education and Culture Hon Myron V. Walwyn had said in January that Government can no longer fully protect locals, Junior Minister for Trade and Investment Promotion Hon Marlon A. Penn (R8) has called for Government to do all in its power to protect locals.

December 16th, 2015
Jr Ministers Marlon A. Penn & Archibald C. Christian sworn in; media snubbed!

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- In a low profile affair today December 16, 2015, Hon Marlon A. Penn (R8) and Territorial Representative Hon Archibald C. Christian were sworn in as Junior Ministers, appointments that were first and accurately reported by Virgin Islands News Online.

November 6th, 2015
Who will it be? NDP internal drama over final Junior Minister!

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Our newsroom’s traditional senior sources within the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) regime have told us that there is a “healthy debate” over the final appointment of a Junior Minister within the Government of Premier Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith.

November 5th, 2015
Hon Marlon A. Penn to be named a Junior Minister

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- (Post Time: 10:40am) Word just reaching our newsroom from senior sources within the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) is that second term 8th District Representative Hon Marlon A. Penn will be named one of two Junior Ministers in the Government of Premier Dr The Hon D. Orlando Smith.

June 3rd, 2015
Hon Penn warns D8 challenger not to wake a ‘sleeping giant’

EAST END, Tortola, VI – Eighth District Representative Marlon A. Penn last night June 2, 2015 said because of his demeanour he will not stoop to the level of hitting out with words to his opponents despite what they say of him.

May 21st, 2015
‘I am no longer a diamond in the rough’ – Hon Marlon A. Penn

EAST END, Tortola, VI - “They can take the credit, for all I am concerned about is improving the lives of the citizens of my community.., and their families,” said Honourable Marlon A. Penn as he officially launched his campaign last night, May 20, 2015 in Red Bay, East End.

March 25th, 2015
‘We not soup drinkers’- EE fishermen

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Construction of a fisherman’s dock in the East End community is underway after some 20 years in the making; however, not without criticisms.

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