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If US sweeps VI of green card holders '90% will be gone'- Premier Fahie
PARAQUITA BAY, Tortola, VI- Speaking at a consultation meeting on the ‘fast track’ Residency and Belonger Status Regularisation initiative to give status to eligible persons residing in the Virgin Islands (VI) for fifteen years and more, Premier and Minister of Finance Honourable Andrew A. Fahie (R1) said the practice of Virgin Islanders birthing their children out of the territory is eating away at the "indigenous" population.
Businessman & pioneer Charles O. Penn aka ‘16’ has passed
EAST END, Tortola, VI- A family spokesman has confirmed the passing of father, grandfather, businessman and East End pioneer, Mr Charles Obel Penn (aka Sixteen).
Radio personality Neil A. Blyden aka ‘Mr Melee’ is dead
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Word just reaching our newsroom from our Team of Reporters around the Virgin Islands (VI) is that larger than life radio personality Mr Neil A. Blyden has passed.
Long-time Civil Servant Joyce C. Nibbs-Leslie passes
SEA COWS BAY, Tortola, VI- Word reaching our newsroom is that former long-time civil servant Mrs Joyce C. Nibbs-Leslie, an indigenous Virgin Islander, has died. She was 66 years of age.
Virgin Islanders a minority in their homeland!-2010 census
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - After some four years waiting for the report to be released, the Virgin Islands 2010 Population and Housing Census was laid on the Table of the House of Assembly on November 17, 2014 by Premier and Minister of Development Planning, Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith.
Sowande Uhuru: “Who is a Virgin Islander”
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - With all the talk buzzing around the territory about who and what is a ‘Virgin islander’ Natalio Wheatley aka Sowande Uhuru, saw it best to address this matter on a local talk show which he co-Hosts with Cromwell Smith aka Edju En Ka.