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Did Premier & Opposition Leader boycott Governor Rankin's farewell ceremony?
GOVERNMENT HOUSE, Road Town, VI- Not one of the 14 elected members of the House of Assembly (HoA), including the Speaker of the HoA Honourable Corine N. George-Massicote, turned up this morning Thursday, January 18, 2024, for the farewell ceremony for the controversial UK-appointed Governor of the Virgin Islands, John J. Rankin, CMG.
'I will make myself available' for CoI- Speaker Willock
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- After snubbing the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) on Monday, June 14, 2021, to instead attend the opening of the Virgin Islands Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Members Training, Speaker of the House of Assembly (HoA) Honourable Julian Willock has announced he will make an appearance today, June 18, 2021.
On snubbing of Gov swearing in: ‘VI open country, we welcome people’- DG Archer
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Many residents remember the controversy last year when the National Democratic Party (NDP) Government used the Speaker of the House of Assembly (HoA), Hon Ingrid A. Moses-Scatliffe, to discontinue with the traditional location for the swearing in of the newly appointed senior civil servant in the United Kingdom Diplomatic Service.
NDP Gov’t continues to snub Police anniversary activities
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Several officers of the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) are crying shame on Premier and Minister of Finance Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith (AL) and his team of government ministers for their no-show at two activities that marked the beginning of the year-long celebrations of the RVIPF’s 50th anniversary as an independent constabulary.
Is Guy M. Hill being snubbed again for Chief Immigration Officer post?
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Our newsroom’s senior National Democratic Party (NDP) sources have confirmed that Acting Chief Immigration Officer Mr Ian B. Penn is expected to return to study leave this fall 2016, pending final approval from the Public Service Commission (PSC).
VI snubbed from anti-corruption summit in London
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- On the heels of the Panama Papers and the Virgin Islands and the international attacks on the Virgin Islands’ financial services industry, it has come as a major surprise that the Virgin Islands, along with Panama, was not invited to the first worldwide anti-corruption summit in London this week.
Claude O. Skelton-Cline snubbed? No invitation for opening of Pier Park!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- As the plot continues to thicken over the controversial Ports Development Project scheduled to open today February 16, 2016 despite a dark cloud hanging over the finance and cost, there seems to be more in the mortar.
Kim Collins left out St.Kitts-Nevis World Championship team
By Anthony Foster, Trackalerts.Com Writer
Kim Collins, the fastest St. Kitts and Nevis national ever, has been left out of the country’s team for the Moscow 2013 World Championships.
Olympic athlete Alexander snubbed, no welcome home by government!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Young J’maal Alexander, who represented the Virgin Islands (VI) at the recent 2012 Olympic Games in London, expressed to this news site that he was “disappointed” at the way in which he was welcomed home at the airport upon his return to the VI.
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