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Appointment system coming March 1 @ Immigration Dept
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Changes continue to be made at the Immigration Department in order to reduce the length of time persons spend doing business there. As of March 1, 2018, persons can now schedule appointments to receive services from the Immigration Department at their convenient time.
Poor service & frustration continue at Department of Immigration
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Acting Chief Immigration Officer, Geraldine Ritter-Freeman had said in November 2017 that there were many challenges facing the Department of Immigration and had pleaded with the public to bear with it as it seeks to return to normal service in a timely manner.
Winners & losers of work permit fee increases
Alred C. Frett
Replacing Reality with Fantasy and Democracy with Dictatorship: We are all different and yet we are all the same because as the pinnacle of Homo sapiens we share more in common than we differ...
Take ‘a serious look’ @ how work permits are issued- Hon Maduro-Caines
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI –Sixth District Representative Honourable Alvera Maduro-Caines made a very firm representation in the Seventh Sitting of the Second Session of the Third House of Assembly (HoA) on Tuesday June 6, 2017, calling on Government to “take a serious look at how work permits are being issued” in the Virgin Islands.
People feel like 'the walls of Jericho are falling'- Doug Wheatley
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Bringing into focus, the doctors “sick-out” at Peebles Hospital, host of the Speak Out BVI show on ZBVI 780 AM, Doug Wheatley, on Tuesday February 21, 2017 said many people who approach him on the streets, perceive that “nothing seems to be working” and it looks like the “walls of Jericho are falling.”
We need clear Labour & Immigration policies- John Samuel
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Retired public servant and businessman, Mr John Samuel has blasted the Government on their issuing of work permits “to all and sundry”, lamenting that the policies in that regard needs to be revisited.
VI musician work permits on agenda for IVIC meeting today
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The unresolved issue regarding work permits for musicians from the Virgin Islands to perform in the US Virgin Islands (USVI) will be on the agenda for discussion when Premier Dr The Hon D. Orlando Smith and USVI Governor Kenneth E. Mapp convene the seventh meeting of the Inter Virgin Islands Council (IVIC) at Government House in the USVI today, September 2, 2016.
We are doing the decent thing with Little Dix Bay workers - Dr Pickering
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Minister for Natural Resources and Labour Dr The Honourable Kedrick D. Pickering (R7) said the closure of Rosewood Little Dix Bay and Biras Creek on the sister island of Virgin Gorda has created exceptional circumstances which necessitate a departure from the norm in preferring VIslanders and Belongers over non-Belongers.
‘VIP to revamp immigration policies’ – Irene F. Penn-O’Neal
CAPOON’S BAY, Tortola, VI – At Large candidate for the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) Irene F. Penn-O’Neal said if and when elected to office, the VIP will prepare a comprehensive population policy, along with a population strategy that will guide the issuing of work permits to foreign workers settling in the territory.
Stephanie I. Faulkner-Williams Out! Michelle A. McLean In! as Deputy LC
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- While it happened without a whisper, the Labour Department of the Government of the Virgin Islands has a new Deputy Labour Commissioner.