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October 13th, 2021
USVI Gov't renews no-bid $70K contract for AG's daughter

VI CONSORTIUM

FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI- The government of the US Virgin Islands (USVI) has renewed for another year a $70,000 no-bid contract for Kmisha Victoria Counts, the daughter of USVI Attorney General Denise George, to "represent the USVI as a tourism destination and to increase tourism and travel to the territory from various target market regions in the Continental United States."

May 23rd, 2019
Court dismisses case brought against VI Gov’t by Claude O. Skelton-Cline

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Word just reaching our newsroom is that the case brought against the then National Democratic Party (NDP) Government in 2016 by former Managing Director of the BVI Ports Authority (BVIPA) Mr Claude O. Skelton-Cline, after he was denied a contract renewal, has been dismissed.

April 18th, 2016
Skelton-Cline snubbed; No contract renewal –Governor John S. Duncan OBE

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- After a live press conference held by the former Managing Director of the BVI Ports Authority Claude O. Skelton-Cline on April 12, 2016, to what he said was a ‘clear my name’ event, the same day the United Kingdom appointed Governor John S. Duncan OBE held his own interview with a local radio station.

February 3rd, 2016
Skelton-Cline's contract the subject of Cabinet discussions- Hon Vanterpool

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Minister for Communications and Works Honourable Mark H. Vanterpool (R4) was yesterday February 2, 2016 non-committal regarding the renewing of Claude O. Skelton-Cline’s contract as Managing Director of the BVI Ports Authority (BVIPA).

January 27th, 2016
Where is Claude O. Skelton-Cline? Why is he so quiet over Ports scandal?

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- As the BVI Ports Authority Development Project corruption scandal reaches its peak with a whopping $82.9 Million price tag on a $45 Million project that was scaled back in the first place, one officer at the centre of it all is the former Managing Director of the BVI Ports Authority, Mr Claude O. Skelton-Cline.

September 4th, 2014
VI’s Attorney General Dr. Christopher P. Malcolm out!

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - This news site's sources within the National Democratic Party (NDP) Administration have confirmed that at the end of his contract around December of 2014 Dr. Christopher P. Malcolm will no longer be the Territory’s Attorney General.

July 15th, 2014
White Expat in! Locals shut out for TRC post!

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - It is well established that in Corporate Virgin Islands locals along with their Caribbean brothers and sisters are locked out from top positions and are left doing for the most part low level and marginal paying jobs.

April 12th, 2013
UPDATE: Docs. may not always agree with contract negotiations - Hon Skelton

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - "We losing doctors all the time. We losing doctors and nurses and it’s an ongoing thing it’s not just a one-off thing." This forms part of the response given by the Minister for Health and Social Development Honourable Ronnie W. Skelton on the recent resignation of a key Internal Medicine medical practitioner Dr. Anthony Abrahim, who allegedly worked at Peebles Hospital for 8 months without his contract being renewed.

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