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May 31st, 2022
Stockholm Syndrome in the Virgin Islands

Thomas C. Famous

Stock·holm syn·drome

noun

"feelings of trust or affection felt in many cases of kidnapping or hostage-taking by a victim toward a captor."

March 28th, 2022
EU Blacklist is about racism & discrimination towards competition- Caribbean Economist

HAMILTON, Bermuda – Caribbean Economist Marla Dukharan in her analysis of economic measures from Europe on small Caribbean states says that those measures are used as a disguise to stymie competition in the region using racism and discrimination.

January 5th, 2022
UK PM allegedly failed to isolate when exposed to Covid positive case

LONDON, United Kingdom- In yet another allegation of hypocrisy and being a law unto himself, United Kingdom Prime Minister Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson has been accused of failing to self-isolate last January despite coming into close contact with a Downing Street aide who tested positive.

November 10th, 2021
UK MPs & press turn against Sir Geoffrey for representing VI in CoI

LONDON, United Kingdom- Prominent lawyer and United Kingdom (UK) Parliamentarian Sir Charles Geoffrey Cox, QC is now feeling the wrath for choosing to defend the Government of the Virgin Islands in the UK-backed Commissioner of Inquiry (CoI) called by the controversial ex-governor Augustus J. U. Jaspert, the buddy of the corrupt accused UK Prime Minister Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson.

November 2nd, 2021
Jaspert had said ‘CoIs are expensive & reveal nothing’- Premier Fahie

DUFFS BOTTOM, Tortola, VI- With the Opposition often insinuating that Premier and Minister of Finance Hon Andrew A. Fahie (R1) was often running to the Governor to persuade him to call a Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into government when he was in the Opposition, the Premier has again sought to set the record straight.

October 12th, 2021
CoI: UK lawyer calls out hypocrisy of UK regarding governance in VI

WICKHAM'S CAY II, Tortola, VI- With many already questioning the motive of the one-sided Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into Governance in the Virgin Islands, United Kingdom lawyer Sir Charles Geoffrey Cox QC, who is representing Government Ministers and the Attorney General before the CoI, has again raised suspicion about the reason the CoI was called and the fact that Governors for the past three to four decades did nothing about Cabinet decisions that the CoI is now taking issues with.

October 7th, 2021
Gary R. Hickinbottom’s own son called him a bully!

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Already accused of bullying and making unreasonable demands of Ministers of Government and public servants in the [British] Virgin Islands (VI), it has come to light that the Commissioner of the Inquiry into governance in the VI, Sir Gary R. Hickinbottom, was even accused of being a bully and making unreasonable demands by his own son.

August 27th, 2021
UK PM’s ‘dodgy dealings hang over him like a bad smell’- Labour Party MP

LONDON, UK- “These latest revelations prove that the prime minister appears to be allergic to telling the truth about the dodgy dealings and the web of conflicts of interests, secret loans and cover-ups that hang over him like a bad smell.”

August 20th, 2021
VI’s very limited resources strained ‘with very broad & imposed’ CoI- Premier

DUFF’S BOTTOM, Tortola, VI- Although burdened with a Commission of Inquiry (CoI) by the United Kingdom (UK) Government, which has evaded calls for a CoI into its own handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and allegations of corruption, the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) Government led by Premier Andrew A. Fahie (R1) continues to forge ahead with legislation to improve the lives of the territory’s people.

August 1st, 2021
‘We must not fall victim' to old divide & rule trick- Deputy Premier

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- As the Virgin Islands observes Emancipation Day today, August 1, 2021, Deputy Premier and Minister for Education, Culture, Youth Affairs, Fisheries and Agriculture, Dr the Honourable Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) has urged Virgin Islanders to reflect and be grateful for the progress made as a people and to reject attempts by forces to bring about division that can derail the territory and its young democracy.

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