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April 12th, 2022
UPDATE: 'He ripped my underwear off': Woman accuses USVI Senator

VI CONSORTIUM

FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI- Days after the territory learned that an employee in Senator Steven D. Payne’s office had accused him of sexual harassment during a work trip, a social media post from four years ago has come to light, in which a different woman recounted what she said was her own experience with the man she described as a “father figure”.

February 12th, 2018
‘Charmaine R. Rosan-Bunbury faced sexual harassment’ @ AG Chambers- Sister Cindy

FAT HOGS BAY, Tortola VI- It was a bombshell funeral service yesterday Sunday February 11, 2018 at the Fat Hogs Bay Seventh-day Adventist Church on Tortola for the first full time locally appointed Magistrate, Charmaine R. Rosan-Bunbury.

August 16th, 2017
Female USVI national guard recruits passed around like ‘property’- Gov Mapp

VI CONSORTIUM

CHARLOTTE AMALIE, St Thomas, USVI- After reading the findings of a yearlong investigation conducted by the National Guard Bureau on the behaviour of some at the [US] Virgin Islands National Guard, Governor Kenneth E. Mapp, during a Tuesday August 15, 2017 press conference at Government House eviscerated the perpetrators who the report found had preyed on young women, referring to them as “predators.”

July 19th, 2016
'I am taking allegations of sexual harassment 'most seriously’- CoP Matthews

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Following allegations by a female officer in the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) of being a victim of sexual harassment in the workplace, Commissioner of Police Michael ‘Mick’ Matthews has said the officer making the allegations has his full support.

July 12th, 2016
Calypsonian 'speaks out' against sexual harassment in VI

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Calypsonians are often referred to as social commentators, who ‘speak out’ against social and political ills of a society. This is exactly what well known calypsonian Queen Shereen (born Shereen Flax) was about when the Virgin Islands Emancipation Festival Calypso Elimination was held at the Tortola Pier Park parking lot on Saturday July 9, 2016.

March 25th, 2016
‘Leave the people girl children’- Hon Fahie warns senior public officials

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Saying that it may sound harsh but he has to deal with it in the House of Assembly as he has “girl children” too, Opposition Member Hon Andrew A. Fahie (R1) has warned against some public officials engaging in sexual harassment of females and even males in the work place.

November 23rd, 2015
Sexual harassment, videos & cover-ups! Is this the new VI culture?

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The Virgin Islands seems to be no different from the developed world, when coming to sexual harassment in the work place, homosexuality and having some of these acts captured on videos. However, it appears that we do a better job of covering them up.

April 3rd, 2013
Premier Smith not aware of any sexual harassment claims against Minister

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- For months the Government Central Administration Building and the streets have been filled with chatter about an alleged sexual harassment situation reportedly involving a Minister of Government and a civil servant.

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