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HoA Speaker calls on UK Foreign Secretary to investigate Hickinbottom
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Speaker of the House of Assembly (HoA) Honourable Julian Willock has written to the United Kingdom (UK) Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs and First Secretary of State, Dominic R. Raab, calling for an investigation into the conduct of the lone Commissioner of the Inquiry into governance in the Virgin Islands, Sir Gary R. Hickinbottom.
CoI lacks ‘prima facie’ by having no preliminary evidence - Attorney Richard G. Rowe
BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI – Attorney Richard G. Rowe of Silk Legal has said the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) in the Virgin Islands is one that reinforces colonialism and suggested it may even be hypocritical as it comes in the face of the United Kingdom (UK) resisting its own internal CoI as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic, yet imposing an inquiry on the Virgin Islands at the same time.
UK MP Dominic R. Raab praises sterling handling of COVID pandemic in VI
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – UK MP and Secretary of State for Foreign Commonwealth and Development Affairs, Rt Hon Dominic R. Raab has praised the Andrew A. Fahie (R1) Government for its sterling handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Virgin Islands (VI).
UK Gov’t disregards law to cut aid spending
LONDON, UK - British MP, Dominic R. Raab, who serves as Foreign Secretary and First Secretary of State in the United Kingdom Government of Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, has been warned that he is breaking the law from Thursday, April 1, 2021, when a cut to the UK’s international aid budget comes into force without being approved by Parliament.