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VI’s Budget Day is November 15, 2012!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The fourth sitting of the second session of the House of Assembly (HOA) of the Virgin Islands will be held on Thursday November 15, 2012. The highlight of the sitting will be the Budget Address by the Virgin Islands’ Minister of Finance and Leader of Government Business Dr. the Honourable D. Orlando Smith.
Protocols need renegotiating – 3D Show caller
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – One caller to the 3D Talk Show aired on a local radio station on October 26, 2012 believes that it was wrong for Hon. Mark Simmonds MP, to say that the protocols for Effective Financial Management should not be renegotiated.
Putting the feet of the Virgin Islands politicians and policymakers to the fire
By Dickson Igwe
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Christmas is on the horizon and some voters in these Spectacular Antilles view their Senators as the veritable SANTA CLAUS. Apparently, a vocal and influential minority expect their Senator or Elected Representative, in addition to meeting the normal and reasonable requests of Joe Public, to pay also for vacations, home extensions, mortgage arrears, roof repairs, even lingerie. This is absurd, unbelievable! But apparently true.
Nothing to apologise for in Protocols for Effective Financial Mgmt – Hon. Pickering
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Minister for Natural Resources and Labour, Hon. Dr. Kedrick Pickering has said there is nothing that he needs to look back on and say he was sorry about with regard to his participation in the negotiation for the Protocols for Effective Financial Management.
VI cannot be broke & signing contracts, hiring consultants - Hon. Fahie
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Despite the rumblings that the Virgin Islands (VI) is broke, 1st District Representative, Hon. Andrew Fahie, pointed out that a series of contracts have been signed which seem to suggest that the talk is wrong.
Hon. Fahie: New hospital project drained Treasury
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – First District Representative Hon. Andrew Fahie firmly believes one of the components that played a significant part in the difficulty of the cash flow to the Territory’s reserve is the new Peebles hospital project.
A subtle call for independence?
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – “We must start to believe in self-determination, if we want grow up at some point as a Territory. We must not live in our parents' house and continue to accuse them of how they treating us, beating up on us and why they are not giving us….I believe at some point you have to pick up your bags and go through the door,” declared outspoken 5th District Representative Hon. Delores Christopher during her contributions to the debate last evening July 3, 2012 on the motion to review the Pro
Gov’t in breach of borrowing guidelines – Hon. Fraser
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Third District Representative Hon. Julian Fraser, RA finds it scary that the Virgin Islands Government was able to negotiate with the United Kingdom to be in breach of the borrowing guidelines until the end of 2015.
UPDATE - New fiscal protocols mean VI don't have to send budget to UK!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – "In these protocols, one will not find a requirement to send our budget to the United Kingdom (UK) for approval, nor will one find the heavy intrusive heavy hand of a concerned big brother, but instead will find a commitment by the Virgin Islands to manage itself responsibly, and a United Kingdom Government, who now recognizes that the people of this Territory can and will, if given the opportunity, take care of themselves responsibly," announced the Territory's Premier
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