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2023 BVI Spring Regatta & Sailing Festival gets underway with 71 boats registered
NANNY CAY, VI- 71 boats have registered this year for the highly anticipated BVI Spring Regatta and Sailing Festival, which continues to attract sailors from home and abroad.
‘With Marieta & team VIP, D2 will be a district like no other!’– Marieta C. Flax-Headley
MEYERS ESTATE, Tortola, VI – Promising to start radical reforms in the Second District as soon as she is elected to office, Second District (D2) candidate on the Virgin Islands Party 2023 elections slate, Ms Marieta C. Flax-Headley last evening, March 30, 2023, officially launched her campaign in the district.
Unapproved ‘erection of election campaign billboards is strictly prohibited’- T&CPD
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Even before the elections season switched into high gear, billboards were springing up across the territory and many have since been utilised especially by the main political parties.
Hon Turnbull promised much 'but little was done'- Troy E. Christopher
BREWERS BAY, Tortola, VI- It was on March 9, 2023, that Virgin Islands News Online (VINO) was first to report that the son of the late legislator Delores Christopher, Mr Troy E. Christopher, was seeking to contest for the Second District seat in the 2023 General Elections of the Virgin Islands.
VIP fires back @Mitsy J. Ellis-Simpson's claims of 'unfair' nomination process
BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI- The Virgin Islands Party (VIP) has responded to claims by Mrs Mitsy J. Ellis-Simpson that she might have been cheated while contesting for a Territorial At Large seat with the Party, during its 2023 nomination process, which was conducted at the R & R Malone Complex in Pockwood Pond on March 15, 2023.
VI must 'sit around table with UK' on borrowing money– Hon Penn
FAT HOGS BAY, Tortola, VI - Leader of the National Democratic Party (NDP) Hon Marlon A. Penn (R8) has indicated that should the National Democratic Party (NDP) be elected into office, his team will be seeking to borrow money at better terms to build the local economy.
Dr the Hon Natalio D. Wheatley is an 'accidental Premier'- Allen O'Neal
EAST END, Tortola, VI- Chairman of the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) and Premier and Minister of Finance Dr the Honourable Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) has fired back at National Democratic Party (NDP) At Large Candidate Mr Allen O’Neal for referring to him as an “accidental Premier”.
Mariners given ‘tool’ to report suspicious activity to police
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI– The Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) today, Thursday, March 30, 2023, launched the Operation Island Watch, which is intended to offer mariners a tool for reporting suspicious behaviour in and around the Territory’s borders and shorelines.
Kevin C. Smith aka 'OJ' pledges to restore property value of D3
SEA COWS BAY, Tortola, VI- Virgin Islands Party (VIP) Third District Candidate Mr Kevin C. Smith aka 'OJ' has pledged to restore the property value of homes and businesses as well as clean up the surroundings of the Third District once elected.
$50k bail for Baughers Bay man accused of Obtaining Money by Deception
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- A resident of Baughers Bay was recently granted $50,000.00 bail after being arrested and charged for Obtaining Money by Deception and two counts of Possession of Proceeds of Criminal Conduct.
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