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‘France has lifted its blacklist on VI’ – Premier Smith
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Premier Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith last night December 21, 2015 claimed that the blacklist imposed by France in 2013 on the Virgin Islands' financial services sector has been lifted.
$110M plus approved to keep Government running
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- With no 2016 Appropriation Act or Budget, the National Democratic Party (NDP) Government has secured some one hundred and ten million, five hundred and forty one thousand, six hundred and sixty seven dollars ($110, 541, 667) to keep the government running for four months at least.
‘Impose time limits on Ministers making statements’ – Hon Andrew A. Fahie
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – First District Representative Honourable Andrew A. Fahie believes that just as how there are calls to limit the speaking time for members of the House of Assembly Ministers should be similarly curtailed when making statements in the House.
Rescuing NHI from itself & accepting our own history
By Alred C. Frett
Oops! NHI has come too far to fail so soon:
Rumours that B&F Medical Complex has yet to sign on to NHI may simply be a lapse in journalist delivery by the Media… We thought we would have been the last to sign on but no one’s Memory is so short not to remember that B&F Medical Complex made History by being the first to sign with NHI – even before Government’s own Medical Agencies - Seems they had doubted themselves.
Hugh E. Darley tells it all! Alleges corruption on Ports Project
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – A former developer of the cruise pier development project Hugh Edison Darley, President of IDEA Inc., has accused the National Democratic Party (NDP) of perverting the process of the project’s development and causing it to balloon far beyond what it would have cost originally to build.
No 2016 Budget! NDP looks for $110M to keep Gov't open
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The National Democratic Party (NDP) Administration of Premier and Minister of Finance Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith has failed to present the people of the Virgin Islands with a 2016 Appropriation Act or Budget.
HoA to meet Dec 21, 2015; Another Censor Motion in the making?
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The Virgin Islands House of Assembly (HoA) will meet at its Chambers on Monday December 21, 2015 at 10:00 am in Road Town, the Virgin Islands capital city.
No Christmas Bush cutting for 2015
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- A tradition, which was started by the now Opposition Virgin Islands Party (VIP) whereby around certain times of each year, particularly during the August and Christmas seasons, young people from each district were given temporary work via purchase orders to help clear up their areas by cutting bush, will not happen for Christmas 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.
‘VIP not dead!’ – Julian Willock
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Chairman of Advance Marketing and Professional Services Mr Julian Willock said he is not about to “read the eulogy” on the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) of which he is a member and said the upcoming months will tell the fate of the party.
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