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HoA adjourned abruptly; Next meeting date unknown
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Opposition Members will have to wait a while longer to have their questions answered, as the House of Assembly (HoA) was abruptly adjourned yesterday, Tuesday May 1, 2018.
Julian Willock supports Lorna G. Smith’s interview; Rejects comparison
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Political aspirant, businessman and former Permanent Secretary Mr Julian Willock has come to the defense of the Territory’s First Lady and Interim Director of BVI Finance, Mrs Lorna G. Smith OBE.
‘Establishing additional economic pillars now critical’- Hon Fahie
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- There is no surprise that the Territory is on high alert after the United Kingdom (UK) Government on Tuesday May 1, 2018 agreed in the House of Commons to support a bill to make public the beneficial owners of companies in their Overseas Territories (OTs).
'VI Open for business' map app to receive special international award
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - The ‘BVI Open for Business’ map application that was launched on January 5, 2018, by the government following the aftermath of the hurricanes of September 2017 has been selected to receive a Special Achievement in Geographic Information System award.
HoA resumes today May 1, 2018 with Answers to Questions
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The House of Assembly (HoA) is to resume its sitting today Tuesday May 1, 2018 at the Chambers in Road Town, the capital city, when the Premier and other frontbench Ministers are to answer questions from both Opposition Leader Hon Andrew A. Fahie (R1) and Hon Julian Fraser RA (R3).
Messages of love & anti-racism to Sister ‘Jane’ & Brother ‘What’
Alred C. Frett
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UK Parliament agrees to Public Register for OTS
LONDON, United Kingdom- In what has been termed by some as “kicking a man while he is down”, the House of Commons has made a potentially lethal blow to the Financial Services Industry of the Overseas Territories (OTs), including the hurricane ravaged Virgin Islands, by siding with a bill brought by the United Kingdom (UK) backbench to force overseas territories to put in place public registers of beneficial ownership.
‘Pray that God stay the hands of those voting’ on Public Register- Bishop Cline
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Cognisant of the significant adverse effect public registers revealing the names of beneficial owners of financial offshore companies could have on the Territory’s financial services industry, President of the BVI Christian Council Bishop John I. Cline has called on the churches to pray that a vote in the House of Commons on Tuesday May 1, 2018 will be in favour of the Virgin Islands and other Overseas Territories (OTs).
Import duty exemption post hurricanes was abused- Hon Fraser
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Honourable Julian Fraser RA, Opposition Member and Third District Representative, during the Fourth Sitting of the Third Session of the Third House of Assembly (HoA) on Friday April 27, 2018, expressed that the exemption import duty system which the government of the day implemented was abused by some persons while the individuals that desperately needed the system did not benefit.
TAG is celebrating Mothers in May
SLANEY POINT, Tortola, VI- Tortola Auto Group (TAG) is inviting all to join the celebration of mothers with their best deals ever in May.
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