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March 1st, 2022
VIP holds regular Congress Meeting; No Snap Elections; No NDP merger!

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- A few weeks ago, Premier and Minister of Finance Honourable Andrew A. Fahie (R1) announced at a media conference that there will be “no snap elections”, throwing cold water on the Leader of the Opposition's claims that there will be one and that he is “ready”.

January 31st, 2022
Hon Penn ready for elections but can’t get own party’s support- Skelton-Cline

BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI- Opposition Leader and Member of the National Democratic Party (NDP) Hon Marlon A. Penn (R8) has been telling the public that he is ready to be Premier and ready for any snap elections; however, commentator Claude O. Skelton-Cline has since exposed Hon Penn as speaking empty words.

January 20th, 2022
UPDATE: Mia A. Mottley & BLP crush Opposition DLP 30-0 in Barbados elections

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados- Mia A. Mottley, who shot to international fame during the Cop26 climate talks and oversaw Barbados’s break with the Queen last year, has-as expected-won a second term as the Caribbean nation’s prime minister.

December 28th, 2021
Barbados PM calls snap election for January 19, 2022

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados- Barbados' Prime Minister Mia A. Mottley on Monday, December 27, 2021, called for snap general elections to take place on January 19, 2022.

September 10th, 2021
Opposition Leader says he is 'ready' to become Premier

EAST END, Tortola, VI- Leader of the Opposition Honourable Marlon A. Penn (R8) has promised his constituents that if he is elected into the office of Premier, he would not be a dictator.

February 11th, 2019
Black History Month, Local Elections & Valid Opposition

By Alfred C. Frett

Black History Month and the Making of Elections:
We are almost midway in Black History Month – The shortest and most unstable month with the habit of changing every four years… Nonetheless, many are finally recognizing our old History as a bunch of lies forced on us and harder to correct as time goes by… ‘Piss-torians’ and bad leaders have knowingly ensnared us with their self-interest fables; designed to have us hate one another.

April 25th, 2018
'There will be General Elections no later than November 2018'- Claude O. Skelton-Cline

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- According to the constitution of the Virgin Islands the territory is expected to have its national election in 2019, four years after the last election held in 2015. However, Political and social commentator Mr Claude O. Skelton- Cline believes elections will be much sooner.

February 18th, 2018
'I am really glad with how the VIP is progressing'- Hon Fahie

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Members of the public and talk show hosts have always expressed concern that the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) will not be ready in the event a snap election is called and have often called on the party to pull itself together in order to be a viable alternative to the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP).

January 26th, 2018
‘No candidates selected yet to run with VIP’- Natalio D. Wheatley

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The Opposition Virgin Islands Party (VIP) has today January 26, 2018 announced that no candidates have been selected by its 76 Member Congress to contest the 2019 general elections.

December 28th, 2017
NDP base of supporters eroded because of lack of trust- Bishop Cline

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- With the mismanagement of the Territory’s finances, the divide in the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP), and the lack of confidence in the leadership of Premier and Minister of Finance Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith (AL), many are wondering if snap elections will be called.

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