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PEP’s Lorie A. Rhymer raps VIP on VG hospital, greenhouses
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Public Relations Officer of the People’s Empowerment Party (PEP) Lorie A. Rhymer has slammed the former Virgin Islands Party (VIP) administration for the greenhouses which he said have not fulfilled their purposes and for doing nothing for Virgin Gorda in terms of a healthcare facility.
PEP remains tightlipped on candidates
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The People’s Empowerment Party (PEP) remains tightlipped regarding its candidates for the upcoming national elections in the territory and maintains that “at the right time” those candidates will be made known.
Premier Smith hits back @ Hon Fahie's latest SSB loan concerns
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith has come out swinging against statements that Representative for the First District Honourable Andrew A. Fahie made regarding the lack of transparency surrounding a loan of $16 million sought from the Social Security Board (SSB), specifically the budgeted value of the work and allowances for contingencies.
Works Minister refuses to produce docs on equipment purchase
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Minister for Communications and Works Honourable Mark H. Vanterpool (R4) declined to furnish Honourable Andrew A. Fahie (R1) with documentation on the road paving equipment Government recently purchased from a Chinese company, citing the Cabinet handbook disallowing the copying and distributing of Cabinet documents.
EE family was 'blindsided' over land acquisition– Hon Fraser
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Chairman of the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) Honourable Julian Fraser RA (R3) believes the family of East End got blindsided by Government’s recent motion in the House of Assembly for the compulsory acquisition of a plot of land earmarked for a sewerage pumping station opposite the East End Police Station.
Hon Fraser proposes Ministry of Homeland Security
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Chairman of the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) Honourable Julian Fraser RA (R3) said there is too much to lose if the findings of the latest International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) are not addressed straightaway and has proposed a new Ministry to deal with issues such as national security among others.
Hon Vanterpool refuses to provide reports in HOA
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Minister for Communications and Works Honourable Mark H. Vanterpool (R4) has refused to provide reports and other documents in the House of Assembly, citing the Standing Orders and saying that such disclosures would be inimical to the public interest.
Many flood VIP for nomination! Some candidates revealed
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- While some may have the public believe that the main Opposition Virgin Islands Party (VIP), who the historians have credited with building the country, may not have had candidates to contest the 2015/16 General Elections expected this year, it has turned out to be quite the opposite.
VINO fires back @ Premier Smith’s childish statement on cartoon!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- On the night of March 25, 2015 we were overwhelmed with calls from readers, advertisers and many civil society personnel asking, if we had heard the latest attack on press freedom by Premier of the Virgin Islands Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith.
‘Premier must engage US on Money Laundering report’ – Hon Fraser
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Chairman of the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) and Representative for the Third District Honourable Julian Fraser RA said Premier Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith should engage the US State Department at the highest level to resolve ongoing differences regarding the territory’s financial services and recent findings on concerns about Money Laundering (ML).
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