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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.
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.
‘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.
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.
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.
‘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.
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.
Hon. Fraser’s win an ‘Act of God’ - Maduro
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Commentator Edmund G. Maduro believes that the election of Third District Representative Hon. Julian Fraser, RA as the new Chairman of the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) on Thursday, May 28, 2014 was an act of God.
We have a war to fight - Chairman Fraser
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – “I will do for this Territory what I have been doing for my district,” said the newly elected Chairman of the Virgin Islands Party Honourable Julian Fraser RA, during his first speech to the VIP members and others at last night’s elections.
Carvin Malone ready for Govt’ seat!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Newly elected President of the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) Mr Carvin Malone says that he is keener on seeing his party getting its act together by revitalizing, if not all, most of its principles according to its constitution.
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