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March 14th, 2023
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.

March 14th, 2023
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.

March 14th, 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.

March 13th, 2023
‘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.

March 13th, 2023
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.

March 13th, 2023
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.

March 13th, 2023
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.

March 13th, 2023
‘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.

March 13th, 2023
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.

March 13th, 2023
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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