Got TIPS or BREAKING NEWS? Please call 1-284-442-8000 direct/can also WhatsApp same number or Email ALL news to:newsvino@outlook.com;                               ads call 1-284-440-6666

65 questions including on CoI & crime await Gov’t @ today’s HoA

- ‘Integrity in Public Life Act, 2021’ to get First Reading; Hon De Castro has questions for her Gov't
April 15th, 2021 | Tags: HOA questions CoI crime bills
When the Seventh Sitting of the Third Session of the Fourth House of Assembly of the Virgin Islands is held at Save the Seed Energy Centre from 10:00am today, April 15, 2021, there will be a long list of questions for the sitting Government. Photo: VINO/File
In a rare occurrence in the House of Assembly (HoA), questions will also come from the Government side of the aisle as the Junior Minister for Tourism and Territorial Member Hon Sharie B. De Castro will ask questions about the Commission of Inquiry into governance and what Government has been doing to help the police fight crime for the past three years. Photo: VINO/File
In a rare occurrence in the House of Assembly (HoA), questions will also come from the Government side of the aisle as the Junior Minister for Tourism and Territorial Member Hon Sharie B. De Castro will ask questions about the Commission of Inquiry into governance and what Government has been doing to help the police fight crime for the past three years. Photo: VINO/File
DUFF’S BOTTOM, Tortola, VI- When the Seventh Sitting of the Third Session of the Fourth House of Assembly of the Virgin Islands is held at Save the Seed Energy Centre in Duff's Bottom, Tortola from 10:00 am today, April 15, 2021, there will be a long list of questions for the sitting Government.

According to the Order Paper released today, 65 questions, some with many parts, are lined up under Questions and Answers to Questions.

Hon De Castro to ask questions!

In a rare occurrence, questions will also come from the Government side of the aisle as the Junior Minister for Tourism and Territorial Member Hon Sharie B. De Castro will bring up the matter of the Commission of Inquiry into governance.

Ho De Castro is to ask the Premier and Minister of Finance, Honourable Andrew A. Fahie (R1): “(a) What is the Government’s policy in respect of the recent Commission of Inquiry? (b) What is the function and remit of the independent Inquiry Response Unit set up by the Government under the Attorney General? And (c) What is the progress of its work to date?”

Hon De Castro will also want to know what resources have been given to the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force within the last three years to help combat crime and what are the plans to be implemented to reduce the apparent rise of more serious crimes.

Meanwhile, the Opposition Leader Hon Marlon A. Penn (R8) will have a series of questions on financial accountability.

Bills

Three Bills will get their Introduction and First Reading; the Integrity in Public Life Act, 2021; Cruising and Home Port Permit Act, 2021; and Merchant Shipping (Amendment) Act, 2021.

Some 8 bills are scheduled to get their Second and Third Readings, including the Cruising and Home Port Permit Act, 2021; Merchant Shipping (Amendment) Act, 2021; and Stamps (Amendment) Act, 2021.

The HoA Sitting will be carried live on CBN Radio 90.9 FM, CBN-Television Channel 101 on Flow TV and can also be followed on the HoA YouTube channel and online at www.cbnvirginislands.com.

9 Responses to “65 questions including on CoI & crime await Gov’t @ today’s HoA”

  • Rubber Duck (15/04/2021, 07:48) Like (2) Dislike (1) Reply
    This house meeting more than my child getting in the class room
  • #8 (15/04/2021, 07:49) Like (37) Dislike (4) Reply
    nothing from the representative for district 8. it's amazing when in the opposition how much they suddenly know about good quality leadership yet for 8 extremely long years the honourable 8 representative sat with closed lips allowing his political party members missed managed also wasted the tax payers money. ndp contributed strongly to the current commission of inquiry in our country(holla if yu hear me )
    • Hola loud and clear (15/04/2021, 08:54) Like (2) Dislike (0) Reply
      Exactly.....two of vip isnt because all this coi...serious
    • Styler (15/04/2021, 09:33) Like (3) Dislike (4) Reply
      I hear you loud and clear and agreed with you
    • 1eye (15/04/2021, 09:34) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
      He is also the Leader of the Opposition. Didn't you read that he has a series of questions for the Govt.
    • Rolling My Eyes (15/04/2021, 16:12) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
      So what would you like him to do now? Just sit there each session and twiddle his thumbs. God crying out loud....he is the LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION...he has to do the job that we the tax payers are paying him for. Struuppes
      • @ rolling my eyes (15/04/2021, 21:33) Like (2) Dislike (1) Reply
        just calm down for heaven sake as new opposition leader he can still reveal some actual facts about those planes; how that pier park money was distributed among his former colleagues how come contractors fully paid yet the wall not complete because the people of the territory have not gotten the juice about the millions anyway leave that for now because an upholder and the thief is one of the same, bird of a feather flock together. hold it down for now because he might be the next premier and might need a money favor
  • i would like to know (16/04/2021, 07:45) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    when i as a government worker going to receive my increment. it's been years since i see my pay jump in size


Create a comment


Submit comment

Create a comment

Submit comment
Disclaimer: Virgin Islands News Online (VINO) welcomes your thoughts, feedback, views, bloggs and opinions. However, by posting a blogg you are agreeing to post comments or bloggs that are relevant to the topic, and that are not defamatory, liable, obscene, racist, abusive, sexist, anti-Semitic, threatening, hateful or an invasion of privacy. Violators may be excluded permanently from making contributions. Please view our declaimer above this article. We thank you in advance for complying with VINO's policy.

Follow Us On

Disclaimer: All comments posted on Virgin Islands News Online (VINO) are the sole views and opinions of the commentators and or bloggers and do not in anyway represent the views and opinions of the Board of Directors, Management and Staff of Virgin Islands News Online and its parent company.