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School teacher calls for ban on toy guns in VI
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- A school teacher has called for a ban on toy guns in the Virgin Islands, as she believes their use could be training the minds of the youths to engage in activities involving real firearms.
Fenderbender reduces traffic to a crawl during rush hour
PASEA ESTATE, Tortola, VI- Many persons heading in to work in Road Town using the westbound carriageway of James Walter Francis Drive may have had a similar excuse for turning up to work late this morning, March 14, 2023.
Karen C. Vanterpool & Rosita Scatliffe-Thompson enter 2023 elections race
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI– Two additional Independent candidates, both females, have entered the 2023 political race in the Virgin Islands, each vying to take up a seat in the House of Assembly (HoA) as legislators but representatives in a different capacity.
‘I have mentored people!’- Lorna G. Smith to critics of her political ambitions
BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI – At Large Candidate and former First Lady, Ms Lorna G. Smith OBE said youths in the Virgin Islands (VI) are longing for more mentorship and while she does mentor, now is also a time for change, which she can contribute once elected into office.
Banks & trust companies making millions but do nothing to help VI- L. Allen Wheatley
LONG LOOK, Tortola, VI- The Virgin Islands Party (VIP) candidate in the Eighth District, Mr L. Allen Wheatley, believes foreign financial entities in the Virgin Islands (VI) have been making massive profits but are not doing enough to give back to the Virgin Islands.
FCCA partners with VI on Strategic Development Agreement
Miramar, Florida– Florida-Caribbean Cruise Association (FCCA), the trade association that represents the mutual interests of destinations and stakeholders throughout the Caribbean, Central and South America, and Mexico, along with Member Lines that operate over 90 percent of the global cruising capacity – is pleased to announce that it has formed another strategic development agreement.
VI, please beware, for somebody is fooling somebody
Alred C. Frett
Second Chances are not Erasers for First Mistakes:
Persons claim that Christ was crucified for speaking Truth to Power, so Truth has never been popular... At the same time, without Truth, there’s nothing but lies and faulty Imaginations, so, while we may bank on the Future, we are only on loan to the World... Principal messages may leave from just 1 mouth and reach 2 ears, but Deposits are worth nothing until we apply Interest and Investments become Reality.
‘We’re defending marriage between a man & a woman’- Premier Wheatley
LONG LOOK, Tortola, VI- Premier and Minister of Finance and Seventh District Representative Dr the Honourable Natalio D. Wheatley has said while the Virgin Islands (VI) welcomes persons of different cultures and beliefs in its society without discrimination, it is not in favour of anyone trying to force a different culture and beliefs on the VI people.
US First Lady Jill T. Biden expected to arrive in USVI today
VI CONSORTIUM
FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI- First Lady Jill T. Biden, who last vacationed in the US Virgin Islands (USVI) late December and spent the new year holiday on St Croix, is expected to arrive on the Big Island, as St Croix is called, sometime today, March 13, 2023, the Consortium has learned from several sources.
Building 'relationship' with UK must be 1st priority after elections- Dr Kedrick D. Pickering
BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI- Former Seventh District Representative Dr Kedrick D. Pickering said he believes he will have a lot more to offer the Virgin Islands (VI) as an At-Large Representative than anything else.
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