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Hon Neville A. Smith ponders overseas voting using E-legislation
DUFF'S BOTTOM, Tortola, VI - Deputy Speaker of the Virgin Islands (VI) House of Assembly (HoA) Hon Neville A. Smith (AL) has called for legislators to consider remote voting using electronic legislation.
Vincentians vote for new gov’t today, Nov 5, 2020
KINGSTOWN, St Vincent & Grenadines– The people of the CARICOM country of St Vincent and the Grenadines will cast their ballots today, November 5, 2020, to elect a new government.
Caribbean Elections 2020
Thomas C. Famous
For decades there has been a false narrative that elections in the Caribbean region were fraught with corruption, tainted votes and invalid outcomes.
Jamaicans go to the polls today, September 3, 2020
KINGSTON, Jamaica- The people of Jamaica will go to the polls today, Thursday, September 3, 2020, to decide whether the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) or the People's National Party (PNP) will form the Government for the next five years.
UPDATE: Dr Keith C. Rowley claims victory in T&T elections
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad & Tobago — Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Dr Keith C. Rowley Monday night, August 10, 2020, said his ruling People's National Movement (PNM) has won the general elections.
Trump, Brexit & Nazi Germany
By Dickson C. Igwe
Austere trickledown economics has created a dangerous world. The western world especially the US and UK are in a similar place the world sat in 1935. In the US and UK xenophobia and race hate has spiralled.
VI voted #1 place to visit in Caribbean
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The [British] Virgin Islands has been voted the #1 place in the Caribbean to visit for 2019, according to US News and World Report on June 23, 2019.
‘Vote wisely’ - Walwyn urges VI Citizens in 2019 Elections
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Ahead of today’s General Election in the Virgin Islands (VI), residents were urged to vote wisely especially as the territory is at a critical juncture—like other British Overseas territories—since the United Kingdom is having to impose pressure on key issues like same sex marriages.
Demographics: The 800-pound gorilla in the room
By Dickson C. Igwe
The Virgin Islands population mix, demographic, and migration patterns, and how these are used in Julius Caesar’s campaign, is the great unmentionable in the room.
NDP remains in! VIP remains out! In 2015 Elections
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Even as the official result of the 2015 General Elections has not been declared as the long and tedious counting of the Territorial At Large votes continues, President of the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) Mr Carvin Malone has congratulated the National Democratic Party as the elected Government and said the party will definitely be doing a postmortem to see which areas the party needs to strengthen in going forward.