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Increasing pressure for transparency in Financial Services - Report
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – There continues to be increasing pressure on the Virgin Islands (VI) and other International Finance Centres (IFCs) from a range of quarters according to the BVI International Financial Centre (BVIIFC) Annual report of 2012.
Transparency: the panacea of good government
By Dickson Igwe
A story titled ‘CALL TO END CORRUPTION WORLDWIDE’, penned by Bailey Penn, appeared after the following narrative on transparency was written. This ‘Life Watcher’ considers it fortuitous indeed that the Op Ed piece appeared in the BVI Beacon of October 31, 2013. The piece could not have appeared at a better time. It provides the perfect introduction for a story extolling the virtues of transparency in Virgin Islands politics.
BVITB promises transparency for Lobster Fest & Restaurant Week 2013
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – “Based on events that happen like this all around the world you are going to need one hundred to two hundred and fifty thousand [dollars] to pull off an event like this. We are doing both, both events will cost the BVI less than eighty thousand dollars.”
Premier Smith says negotiations transparent in cruise pier development
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The National Democratic Party (NDP) Government has sought to shed some light in relation to negotiations for the Cruise Pier development project, assuring that all negotiations and subsequent decisions were made in a transparent manner.
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