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‘Supa Cop’ urges taxi drivers especially to get tint tested for free on Friday
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The motoring public, particularly taxi drivers, is being encouraged to take advantage of a free tint testing exercise at the Road Town Police Station from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM on Friday, March 15, 2024.
Celebrity Millennium is here! Signals return of cruise tourism to VI
WICKHAM'S CAY I, Tortola, VI- The Celebrity Millennium Cruise of the Royal Caribbean family has arrived in the Virgin Islands, signalling the return of cruise tourism for the territory after more than a year of absence due to the global coronavirus pandemic.
Gov’t to meet with taxi operators today, June 30, 2021
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- As the Virgin Islands prepares to welcome the first passenger cruise ship in more than year, the Celebrity Millennium, on Thursday, July 1, 2021, taxi and livery operators have been invited to a meeting today, Wednesday, June 30, 2021.
VI taxi drivers to receive COVID-19 stimulus pack
DUFF'S BOTTOM, Tortola, VI - Taxi operators who ply their trade in the Virgin Islands will soon be the recipients of a government piloted COVID-19 economic stimulus package to make up for lost income as a result of lockdown measures to prevent the spread of the Novel Coronavirus in the territory.
Jevaughn J. Parsons appointed Director of Taxi & Livery Commission
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The Taxi and Livery Commission has been making steady progress towards regulating the transportation-for-hire industry since the new Board was appointed in October 2019, according to Minister for Transportation, Works and Utilities, Honourable Kye M. Rymer (R5).
'Full year of Cruise ships from April 2015' – Hon. Mark H. Vanterpool
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Taxi operators yesterday heard that there was one good thing that all the cruise liners have indicated to the Government team that attended a caucus in St Martin recently was that Royal Caribbean, Norwegian Cruise Line, Disney, the European Groups among others, which was that their customers have indicated through surveys was that they want to come to the Virgin Islands perhaps more than many other places in the Caribbean.
Gov’t has given away our taxi rights! – Edmund Maduro
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – In an emotionally charged response to revelations emerging from government’s berthing agreement signed with Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) and Disney Cruise Line (DCL), talk show host and social commentator, Edmund Maduro has lashed out at the Territory’s leaders for allegedly selling off the rights of locals.
Premier in no position to give answers – Sam Henry
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – While noting that he is willing to wait for something effective to be done, talk show host, Julio S. Henry believes Premier Dr The Hon. D. Orlando Smith is currently in no position to provide solutions to the problems facing the territory with the cruise pier debacle.
‘We are BVIslanders just like everybody else’- Anegada taxi operators
THE SETTLEMENT, Anegada, VI - "It’s this government and the government of the past that guilty of neglecting the people of Anegada. We are a small group over here, yes but we have equal rights just like Tortola, just like Virgin Gorda. We are BVIslanders just like everybody else," said Mr Jerry D. Vanterpool, a resident and businessman at Anegada during a meeting of taxi drivers and officials from the Ministry of Communications and Works in Anegada on Friday February 8, 2013.
Taxi operators to get second plate!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The Ministry for Communications and Works is in the process of implementing a two-license plate policy for taxi operators, disclosed Hon. Mark Vanterpool to this news agency on February 3, 2012.
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