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Local Politics
Radio show caller asks why no questions to Dep Premier
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – A caller to a radio talk show stirred up controversy when he posed a question to talk show host Doug Wheatley on Friday March 6, 2015 asking why it was that the Opposition never asked questions of Minister for Natural Resources and Labour Dr the Honourable Kedrick D. Pickering (R7).
'NDP Gov’t killed the middle class!' - Speak Your Mind caller
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - A caller to the Speak Your Mind television show of Saturday March 7, 2015 labelled the National Democratic Party (NDP) government the worst as she alleged they have killed off the middle class people of the territory.
Hon Fraser denies registering voters from outside his District
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Chairman of the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) Honourable Julian Fraser RA (R3) has vehemently dismissed allegations that he had a hand in registering persons from outside the Third District so that they will be able to vote in that district.
‘C.B. Romney should be honoured’ – Edmund G. Maduro
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Radio talk show host Edmund G. Maduro wants the powers that be to name something after the late former Chief Minister Cyril B. Romney given the many contributions that he has made to the tourism and financial services sectors.
Conflict of interest & government rent
By Dickson Igwe
The following is the second story in a three part narrative on the culture of political corruption in the British Virgin Islands. It is a call to voters and residents to place fixing the "corruption challenge," at the top of the agenda in the run up to General Elections in early 2016, in the British Virgin Islands.
‘Time for a Heroes/Ancestry Day’ – Hon Andrew A. Fahie
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Honourable Andrew A. Fahie (R1), senior member of the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) said it is time that the territory has a day set aside for honouring its heroes and ‘sheroes’ from the days of slavery to present day.
‘Long list of VIP achievements since 1995’ – Hon Julian Fraser RA
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Chairman of the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) Honourable Julian Fraser RA (R3) had cause to debunk the views of a caller during the VIP Let’s Talk radio programme last night March 4, 2015 after the caller gave the impression that nothing was done by the party since the death of former Chief Minister Hamilton Lavity Stoutt.
‘Local businesses being discriminated against’ – Edmund G. Maduro
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Radio Talk Show host Edmund G. Maduro has decried what he described as discrimination against local establishments which are being made to close earlier than some others owned by foreigners.
‘HL Stoutt is the VI’s modern day Moses’ – Hon Andrew A. Fahie
CAPOON’S BAY, Tortola, VI – Representative for the First District and senior member of the Opposition Virgin Islands Party, Honourable Andrew A. Fahie has called late former Chief Minister of the Virgin Islands Hamilton Lavity Stoutt the territory’s modern day Moses as, according to him, Hon Stoutt was someone whom God sent to lead his people.
First Lady, Hon Walwyn criticised for ‘divisive’ comments at HL Stoutt memorial
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – It was a morning set aside to celebrate the life and legacy of the late Virgin Islands’ Chief Minister and hero H. Lavity Stoutt; however, many were forced to express their disgust at what one person described as ‘foolish baby politic’ displayed by the Virgin Islands (VI) First Lady Mrs Lorna G. Smith, OBE, and Minister for Education and Culture Honourable Myron V. Walwyn.
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