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June 12th, 2014
PAC calls on Governor to appoint Commission of Inquiry!

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - The plot thickens on the damaging report authored by the House of Assembly’s Public Accounts Committee with compelling evidence of corruption, usurpation of the role of the BVI Ports Authority Board, breaking of laws of the Virgin Islands, absence of transparency, and officers withholding information from the committee to name a few.

June 11th, 2014
Hon Ralph T. O’Neal OBE will remain Leader of the Opposition

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - The internal elections by the main Opposition Virgin Islands Party (VIP) that happened last month to replace outgoing Party Chairman and Leader of the Opposition Honourable Ralph T. O’Neal OBE will not automatically result in a new Leader of the Opposition in the House of Assembly.

June 11th, 2014
Details of corruption, breaking of laws & 1 man show confirmed!-Final PAC Report

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - The final report on the controversial Cruise Ship Port Development Project authored by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the House of Assembly (HoA) has already hit the streets of the Virgin Islands.

June 10th, 2014
Hon O’Neal to table final PAC Cruise Pier report

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Leader of the Opposition Hon Ralph T. O’Neal OBE is to table the final report of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on the Cruise Ship Port Development Project at a sitting of the House of Assembly on Friday June 13, 2014.

June 7th, 2014
Who to trust? Who not to trust?

By Dickson Igwe

Public trust is vital to good governance, and public trust is the product of transparency and political integrity.

June 6th, 2014
‘Pack your bags & go!’ – Edmund G. Maduro

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Political commentator and talk show host Edmund G. Maduro last evening lashed out at elected representatives for allowing what he alleges to be the abuse of Virgin Islanders by foreigners who treat locals as aliens in their own country.

June 5th, 2014
UPDATE: No decision yet on Henry O. Creque - Hon Mark H. Vanterpool

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - On the issue of the removal of the Deputy General Manager of the BVIEC Mr Henry O. Creque, Minister for Communications and Works Honourable Mark H. Vanterpool told this news site that no concrete decision has been made as to exactly where they will be putting him.

June 5th, 2014
Govt still to decide how to honour R. T. O’Neal – Premier Smith

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Premier and Minister of Finance Dr the Honourable D. Orlando Smith said that his government is still to decide on how they are going to honour one of the longest serving politicians and former leader of the Virgin Islands Party Honourable Ralph T. O’Neal, OBE.

June 3rd, 2014
‘My father would be happy with choice of Fraser as Chairman’-Perry Stoutt

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Eldest son of the founder of the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) Perry L. S. Stoutt speaking exclusively to Virgin Islands News Online said that his late father H. Lavity Stoutt would have been happy, if he was alive to know the Party he found had chosen Honourable Julian Fraser RA, as its new leader.

May 31st, 2014
On Julian Fraser, transparency and secrecy

By Dickson Igwe

On the night of May 28, 2014, Julian Fraser became the Leader of the Virgin Islands Party. Fraser is a man with an astonishing grasp of detail. Fraser possesses the steady ability to assess policy matters with careful deliberation and thoughtfulness. Fraser is a very intelligent man.

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