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April 26th, 2021
TCI makes COVID vaccines mandatory for work-permit holders

COCKBURN TOWN, Turks & Caicos Islands- COVID-19 vaccinations have been made mandatory for work-permit holders in the British Overseas Territory of Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI).

February 14th, 2021
Persons out of VI for 6 months required to submit new WP applications

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Expatriate workers who are out of the Territory for six months or more with expired Work Permits (WP) will be required to submit new applications.

August 19th, 2020
Plans underway to have 70% locals, 30% expats in workforce- Hon Wheatley

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Government legislator and Minister for Natural Resources, Labour and Immigration, Honourable Vincent O. Wheatley (R9) said plans are underway to change the current employment ratio, which sees at least 70 per cent of expatriates versus 30 per cent locals in the Territory’s labour force.

August 10th, 2020
'Majority of people do not want to bear cost of quarantine'- Premier Fahie

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- As persons continue to voice their opinion on the recent decision by Government to put a hold on work permit and work permit exemption holders returning the Virgin Islands, Premier and Minister of Finance, Honourable Premier Andrew A. Fahie (R1) said a large percent of such persons trapped outside the Territory due to the existing ban was not willing to pay for the two-week quarantine.

June 23rd, 2020
Local youth condemns discrimination against expats

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- As hundreds of persons of different races and colour took to the streets of Road Town, Tortola, on June 20, 2020, in a peaceful demonstration against racial injustice and police brutality following the public killing of a black man, George P. Floyd Jr, by a white police officer in Minneapolis, USA, on May 25, 2020, a young Virgin Islander used the opportunity to condemn discrimination against Caribbean expatriates and called fo

May 23rd, 2019
Wrong cannot conquer right

Lorna M. George

When I graduated in 1984 and returned to Peebles Hospital to work, my stay there only lasted four months. As a result of my Christian values and my love for people I could not get involved in the wrong things I saw happening there. I refused to do what they wanted me to do. No one can make me do what is wrong. If my conscience condemns me I am not going to do it. I abhor wrong.

May 28th, 2018
‘Expats will probably have to go back home’ – Dr Pickering

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - As the people of the Virgin Islands (VI) fight against the establishment of the public registers of beneficial ownership, Dr The Honourable Kedrick D. Pickering (R7), Deputy Premier and Minister for Natural Resources and Labour, strongly expressed that if this Bill stands, many expatriates will have to leave the VI because the government will not be able to pay them.

April 4th, 2018
'Sunset Legislation to address post-hurricane policies'- Premier Smith

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The public will remember that on March 1, 2018 Opposition Leader and First District Representative, Honourable Andrew A. Fahie (R1), grilled the Premier and Minister of Finance, Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith (AL), on the issue of expatriates being asked to leave the territory even though they have been given new job offers.

March 2nd, 2018
'Why are expatriates being asked to leave?'- Hon Fahie to Premier Smith

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI –“ If persons that are here are leaving because they have completed their task and they are looking work and then told that they don’t have work now based on how things went with Irma and they have been here for years and we know them. Why are we bringing in more than we put out to come to get work, isn’t something wrong with that formula?”

February 6th, 2018
Banks already have buyers lined up to purchase property in default- Hon Christopher

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - During the Fifth District Recovery and Development Plan public consultation meeting held at Althea Scatliffe Primary School on February 5, 2018, Fifth District Representative Honourable Delores Christopher pleaded with the Premier and Minister of Finance, Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith (AL), to investigate banks that are selling people's properties who cannot pay for them quickly enough.

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