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Local Politics

February 3rd, 2023
Hon Vanterpool embarrassed over tourist seeing 'garbage smoke' on VG

DUFF'S BOTTOM, Tortola, VI– Fourth District Representative Hon Mark H. Vanterpool has said he was recently embarrassed over the unsightly burning of garbage on the Sister Island of Virgin Gorda.

February 1st, 2023
'I still believe' a woman will be next VI Premier- Skelton-Cline

BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI– Although general election is supposedly around the corner and fresh candidates are yet to declare their intentions, pastor and talk show host Mr Claude O. Skelton-Cline remains faithful that his prophecy of a female becoming the next Premier of the Virgin Islands will come to pass.

January 27th, 2023
‘I will not succumb to the malicious attempt’- Kevon S. Lettsome

LONG LOOK, Tortola, VI- Political aspirant Kevon S. Lettsome has accused Guavaberry Media Inc, owned by the controversial Rosemary Cindy Rosan, of being malicious, irresponsible and politically driven.

January 25th, 2023
VI needs a Unity Gov’t that is elected & not selected – Skelton-Cline

BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI – Talk show host Claude O. Skelton-Cline has lauded the concept of a Government of National Unity as a good one; however, he slammed the process that led to the formation of the latest Unity Government led by Premier Dr the Hon Natalio D. Wheatley (R7).

January 24th, 2023
The Virgin Islands Constitution & the Greater Good

Kedrick E. Malone

Ironically, the Virgin Islands Constitution review was to be considered in 2017 as it is customarily up for review every 10 years.

January 24th, 2023
Fourth HoA 'one of the most productive terms'; 101 pieces of legislation passed- Gov Rankin

DUFF’S BOTTOM, Tortola, VI – The Government of the Virgin Islands has laid out its legislative agenda for the start of the Fifth Session of the current Fourth House of Assembly (HoA), which is ‘likely’ to be the last, according to Governor John J. Rankin, CMG, in his deliverance of the 2023 Speech from the Throne.

January 24th, 2023
VI Premier maintains he ‘unequivocally’ never slept on Antigua airport floor

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Despite clarifying that he never slept on the airport floor as a result of a flight delay in Antigua, Virgin Islands Premier and Minister of Finance, Dr the Hon Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) is being accused of discrediting a local media house, specifically Guavaberry Media Inc operated by Rosemary Cindy Rosan.

January 23rd, 2023
Fake elections & bogus constitutions

Alred C. Frett

Selling out our Country is like losing our Children:

Several years ago, they took me off a radio station, not because I had done or said anything wrong, but it was their Radio Station, and according to them, they didn’t like what I was saying, so that was enough justification - A case of ‘Might makes Right’ and, ever since, our Country has moved from bad to worse - Nonetheless, I still choose to deliver ‘Truth for the Youth’ even if some of you still dislike the message.

January 21st, 2023
No discussions to run as Unity Gov’t ‘but anything can happen’- Hon Penn

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI –Minister for Health and Social Development under the Government of National Unity, Hon Marlon A. Penn (R8) said while he has had no discussions on current elected officials taking on Elections 2023 as a Unity Government, anything can happen between before elections day.

January 21st, 2023
Values make a nation

Dickson C. Igwe

A country without an appropriate set of guiding values and principles: invisible rules of conscience and morality that sit in the hearts and souls of its residents, is a vessel with neither compass nor rudder. It will end up on the rocks.

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