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Radio talk show hosts applaud historic move by Governor Duncan
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- It was not worded quite the same as Calypso Queen Sistah Joyce (Joycelyn Sears) hit song- Wha you bawlin fa?, but the message is one and the same.
FS Neil M. Smith Out! On vacation
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- It was yesterday March 23, 2017 that social network was abuzz with circulation that the Territory's youngest Financial Secretary and most powerful senior civil servant, Mr Neil M. Smith, was being forced out of office and was to be replaced by a United Kingdom national.
Gov Duncan Lies! Takes over $1.8M under Sec 103; added DPP to $$$ grab
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- In a hurriedly arranged press conference on March 16, 2017 requested by the United Kingdom appointed Governor John S. Duncan OBE on the steps of the Government’s Central Administrative Complex, reporters waited in anticipation as Mr Duncan finished his National Security Council (NSC) meeting.
Gov Duncan shamed the entire VI- Claude O. Skelton Cline
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Former Managing Director of the BVI Ports Authority, Mr Claude O. Skelton-Cline is questioning whether the recent move by His Excellency The Governor, John S. Duncan OBE, was justifiable, and has called on the Territory’s leaders to unite on what he feels was a shaming of the entire Virgin Islands (UK) by the UK elected hierarchy.
Reserved power used is ‘an attempt to take us back’- Hon Maduro-Caines
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- While many of the front bench Ministers of the ruling National Democratic Party Administration have been silent and embarrassed over Governor John S. Duncan OBE using his reserved power under Sec 103 (b) of the constitution to take $800,000 from the government coffers and place in the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force’s budget, another back bencher is speaking out.
Funding of the RVIPF is a great start- Opposition Leader
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Leader of the Opposition Hon Andrew A. Fahie (R1) has no issues with Governor John S. Duncan OBE exercising his reserved powers in the 2007 Virgin Islands Constitution to ensure additional funding to the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF).
Governor seems ‘hell bent’ on running the country- Hon Fraser
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- While there are many persons who believe it was necessary for Governor John S. Duncan OBE to exercise his reserved powers and instruct the Accountant General to immediately fund the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) especially in the wake of back to back murders, not everyone is applauding the move, including former Leader of the Opposition Hon Julian Fraser RA (R3).
Gov Duncan spanks NDP; Uses reserved power to finance police!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- In a hurriedly arranged press briefing today March 16, 2017 by the United Kingdom appointed Governor John S. Duncan OBE, the public was informed that for the first time in the Virgin Islands’ modern political history a Governor has used his reserved powers under the 2007 Constitution of the Virgin Islands to interfere in domestic affairs.
Premier Smith fires back @ Gov Duncan
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - The call to have deliberations of the Standing Finance Committee (SFC) be done as an open forum has been put to the government on numerous occasions in a bid to promote transparency of the people's business; however, this continues to be unheeded.
Gov Duncan agrees with Willock to ‘fund the police’; blasts NDP
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- They are not always on the same page or singing out of the same hymn book but Governor John S. Duncan OBE and former Permanent Secretary and Businessman Julian Willock are on the same page on two important issues affecting the Virgin Islands.
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