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Cabinet to receive census update by March 2014 – SFC report
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – After being completed nearly four years ago, census results are yet to be made available to the public after being promised for the third quarter of 2013.
Air British Virgin Islands: Flying with limited flight data
By Dickson Igwe
In an online news piece of November 8, 2013, on BVINEWS, a news story that also appeared on Virgin Islands News Online, the story in BVI news titled, “ECONOMY MAY WORSEN”,’ Honourable Julian Fraser stated that, “a major overhaul of the Development Planning Unit is a must, for until our leader has ready access to reliably accurate statistics, nothing substantial can be expected.”
E-government drive could help end delays in stats provision - Premier
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Work currently being done towards improving the Administration’s e-government drive is expected to increase the frequency of useful statistics such as those provided for tourism through the Development Planning Unit (DPU).
Tourist numbers for second quarter still not ready – Flax-Mars
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – BVI Tourist Board Director, Mrs Sharon Flax-Mars has indicated that tourist arrival numbers are still outstanding for the second quarter of this year.
Human resources blamed for census delay - Report
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Citing an absence of resources among other reasons, the Development Planning Unit in its Annual report of 2012 disclosed that detailed census information will not be available until the third quarter of this year [September, 2013].
REPORT: No crime statistics available from DPU
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The Development Planning Unit in its Departmental Report for 2011 has stated that due to unsolved issues relating to data sources, production of crime statistics has proved especially difficult for the Unit.
National Accounts Survey to assist VI's economic development
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Economic development is critically important to the sustainability of these Virgin Islands, according to Premier and Minister of Finance Dr. D. Orlando Smith, OBE during his 2012 Budget Address.
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