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VINO Editorial in response to BVI Beacon article on Free Speech
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Virgin Islands News Online (VINO) continues to be and is perhaps the only credible media house that has been consistent in this Territory for the past 10 years on the issue of freedom of speech, as we pride ourselves on providing accurate and ‘inside information’ that hit at the core of issues affecting the Territory.
Governor delaying Cyber Crime Bill over 'free speech' concerns
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Already debated and passed in the Virgin Islands (VI) House of Assembly (HoA), the Government proposed Computer Misuse and Cyber Crime Amendment Act of 2019 has been in the hands of the Territory's Governor, Mr Augustus J. U. Jaspert for assent since late 2019.
'I strongly detest & disagree' with attack in HoA on Hon Turnbull- Deputy Premier
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- 'Madam Speaker, I sat here the other night and listened to the attack on one of my colleagues sitting on the Backbench. And it would be almost remiss of me, Madam Speaker, as a senior Member if I was not to lend my voice to that particular issue and to say that I strongly detest and disagree with that kind of behaviour."
Controversial entertainment site names Premier Smith “Mumu of the day!”
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The newly established entertainment online site Krazy Hype.com, owned and operated by locals including the controversial and outspoken hospital worker Ramoamasagana ‘Masa’ Pemberton, labeled the Virgin Islands’ Head of Government Premier Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith as being the “Mumu of the day” in its online article last month, October 2015.