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Sharie B.Y. deCastro named to Recovery Agency Board
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Just as our newsroom had first and accurately reported back in February 2018 Mr Robert A. Mathavious has been appointed Chairman of the Recovery and Development Agency Board mandated by the United Kingdom to manage monies borrowed by the Territory to assist in its recovery and development following the catastrophic hurricanes of September 2017.
One killing is too much - Sharie B. Y. de Castro
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- With the shooting death of local businessman Frankie J. Fahie marking the territory's first homicide for 2017, political candidate in the 2015 general elections and businesswoman Sharie B. Y. de Castro has seized the initiative to speak out against crime in the Virgin Islands.
VI Education system is failing -Rotary Youth Forum hears
WICKHAM'S CAY II, Tortola, VI– The education system in the Virgin Islands (VI) came in for a blasting by a team of panelists who was very candid about the weaknesses and shortfalls of the system and those responsible. The team bashed the systems being used for elevating a person to the position of principal and the absence of technology in the classroom among other things.
Premier blasts online news sites for headlines on Hong Kong Office opening
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Premier and Minister of Finance Dr the Honourable D. Orlando Smith has expressed his disappointment about the headlines carried by local online news sites on the recently opened Office in Hong Kong, which is now headed by his wife Mrs Lorna Smith.
St. John Festival Parade brings out big crowd!
BY LYNDA LOHR — St John Source
CRUZ BAY, St John, USVI- Hot, hot, hot describes both the weather and Thursday’s St. John Festival Parade as residents and visitors took to Cruz Bay’s streets to join in the fun.