ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The first five months of this year have seen 524,084 tourists visiting the Virgin Islands, which is a slight decrease of 0.4 percent compared to the same period last year, revealed Premier Ralph T O’Neal at today’s July 12 House of the Assembly that is currently underway.
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – A bill that would allow Virgin Islanders special concessions to import building materials for first homes, villas or offices is to be read for the first time in the House of the Assembly today July 12.
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – As the Virgin Islands (VI) House of Assembly gets closer to being dissolved within the coming months, they will meet again, today Tuesday, July 12, 2011 at its Chambers in Road Town.
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The National Democratic Party (NDP) has made it publicly known in advance that one of its questions to the House of Assembly, which is expected to resume on Tuesday July 12, 2011, would be about the balance of the consolidated funds of the territory.
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Minister for Education and Culture Andrew Fahie said he will not sit by and see the education system which he worked so hard to develop being destroyed by those who are using “politics in a sugar coat” to question the integrity of the 2011 secondary school leaving results.
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Leader of the opposition, Dr. D. Orlando Smith is perturbed that even though the figures indicate that the National Democratic Party (NDP) left some $82M in the reserves when they left office in 2007, there is still talk that his party left the country broke.
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Speaking on Tuesday June 21, 2011 in the House of Assembly (HOA) of the Virgin Islands on the Bill brought by the Acting Attorney General entitled; Service Commissions Act, 2011, two At-large members of Parliament lashed out at one of the provisions in the Bill.
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Since 1934, the methods of payments for court fees has now been amended with the passage of the Courts of Justice Fees (Amendment) Act, 2011 to include methods of payments other than postage stamps.
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Appointing road wardens, who will be the eyes and ears for Government and the District Representatives regarding road maintenance, is not a “friend thing”, announced Minister for Communications and Works Julian Fraser, RA.
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – If residents’ electricity bills continue to increase, the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) Government may not only write off November’s bill but instead go a step further and write off December’s as well, said Minister for Communications and Works Julian Fraser, RA today Tuesday June 21, 2011 in the House of Assembly.
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