ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The Government will not be waiting on Biwater to set up sewerage treatment plants but rather it will be taking matters into its own hands and set up sewerage treatment plants to address the long standing sewerage woes of the Territory.
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The Water and Sewerage Department (WSD) has come in for heavy criticism from the Minister responsible, who stated that the WSD is a problem with millions of dollars in deficits and action needs to be taken to address the situation urgently.
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – All incremental costs that will be associated with the new raw water source that Biwater is seeking will be undertaken by the company and not reflected in the tariff to affect customers.
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The preservation of the entrepreneur spirit in the community is key to stabilising the Virgin Islands, emphasised businessman Meade Malone, and Government should not focus on overseas companies to stroke the economy.
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – With reports circulating that BiWater, a company hired by the previous administration to remedy water and sewerage woes on Tortola, has now submitted a new proposal to source water, one of its harshest critics has declared the company is a fiasco that has to go.
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The reassurance that quality water will begin flowing through the water network lines on Tortola by the end of summer was once again given, as work on the Biwater project forges full speed ahead to meet the deadlines it has set out and in keeping with its two year contract with Government.
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- All water and sewerage contracts issued by Government are currently being reviewed.
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Although being of the view that axed Government contracted officer Ray George went against the development of his own VIslanders by siding with the controversial Biwater project, Cromwell Smith believes he should not have been “thrown out”.
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Information reaching Virgin Islands News Online is that Ray George, a government contract officer assigned to special projects including Biwater within the Ministry of Communications and Works, has been terminated with immediate effect.
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The highly criticized Biwater project, which the National Democratic Party (NDP) campaigned heavily against and which the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) even admitted may have been a factor in them being unseated from office at the November 7, 2011 elections, was not discussed at the Overseas Territories Consultative Council (OTCC) meeting in London recently.
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