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UPDATE: Locals can continue providing service despite Jet Centre- Premier
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The Jet Centre facility for the Terrence B. Lettsome International Airport awarded to IAM Caribbean Inc is not a major project, according to Premier and Minster of Finance Dr. the Honourable D. Orlando Smith.
This Week We Feature Young Professional Darryl E. F. Flanders
By Cathy O. O. Richards
“I am 6ft 7, very tall, a lot of people ask me, do you play basketball? For fun in the past but not really, I am the type to more go for the shots in the work place rather than going playing basketball.” That’s the first presenting feature of our Young Professional for this Week, Mr Darryl E. F. Flanders.
UPDATE: Low flying aircraft may have belonged to US Coast Guard
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The mystery low flying aircraft that was seen circling Tortola on the night of June 5, 2013 is believed to be that of the US Coast Guard.
UPDATE: Anegada airport operating as non-certificated aerodrome
THE SETTLEMENT, Anegada, VI - The Auguste George Airport in Anegada has been reopened but only to domestic flights.
Small aircraft allegedly registered in VI crashes into Florida home; 3 killed
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Three persons were killed when a small plane they were in burst into flames when it crashed into a home in eastern Florida on Friday January 4, 2013.
All airports remain open in the Virgin Islands
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Despite the Virgin Islands being under a Flash Flood Warning from Tropical Storm Rafael, all of the three Virgin Island's Airports remain open. This is according to Denniston S. Fraser, Managing Director of the BVI Airports Authority.
A done deal? Airport expansion to be completed by 2015
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Today June 29, 2012, Minister for Natural Resources and Labour Hon. Dr. Kedrick Pickering has announced that the final construction of the runway extension, which is expected to be completed by December of 2015, will be extended approximately 2000 feet eastward into the sea and approximately 500 feet towards the west.
Glenn Harrigan to chair BVI Airports Authority Board
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI [1:22 p.m.] - Word just in to Virgin Islands News Online from its well placed sources inside the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) and team of reporters around the VI, is that businessman Glenn Harrigan has been approved by the Orlando Smith Cabinet to be Chairman of the British Virgin Islands Airports Authority (BVIAA).