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Hon. Vanterpool: Gov't is too big…needed to reduce size!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Appearing before the 2012 Standing Finance Committee (SFC), Attorney General Christopher Malcolm Phd., on behalf of Ray Harris, Chairman of the Law Reform Commission, was grilled about the status of the Law Reform Commission and whether it was still needed.
Auditor General: “I had seen contracts issue & bush not cut”
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - The Virgin Islands’ Auditor General Mrs. Sonia Webster appearing before the 2012 Standing Finance Committee (SFC) to defend her budget when asked by the Minister for Education and Culture Honourable Myron V. Walwyn what were the reasons for an audit being conducted, told the Members that at the beginning of the year each high risk area of each Ministry and Department was looked at and a spending plan was prepared.
David Morris: People do not talk to & …do not trust the Police!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - The Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) making their presentation before the 2012 Standing Finance Committee (SFC), saw Members raising concerns about Police effectiveness, funding and issues of vacancies.
Alvin Christopher: House of Assembly not a rubber stamp for Cabinet!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Second District representative and former Government Minister J. Alvin Christopher told the 2012 Standing Finance Committee (SFC) during a presentation by the Financial Secretary, Neil Smith when discussing the public debt and deficit that the Virgin Islands arrived in the financial circumstances because “we constantly made commitments based on Cabinet decisions”.
Smith-Berkeley: Eight to ten vendors operate at Smugglers Cove illegally
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - As was first brought to the attention of the public by Virgin Islands News Online, the saga at one of Tortola’s beaches located on the western end of the island caught the attention of Members of the House of Assembly during the 2012 Standing Finance Committee (SFC) deliberations.
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