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CGB shoreline revetment project commences
CANE GARDEN BAY, Tortola, VI – Deputy Premier and Minister for Natural Resources and Labour Dr The Honourable Kedrick D. Pickering (R7) has made a public appeal to land owners to prepare themselves to give up some of their lands to government for the purpose of restoring beaches.
Family court needed – Dr Kedrick D. Pickering
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – A new conversation has started among residents in the Virgin Islands following the suggestion by Deputy Premier and Minister for Natural Resources and Labour Dr The Honourable Kedrick D. Pickering (R7) that a children and family court may be necessary for the territory.
Denying access to beaches must be condemned- Hon Pickering
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Labelling it is a “difficult and thorny issue” that needs public airing, Deputy Premier and Minister for Natural Resources and Labour Dr The Hon Kedrick D. Pickering (R7) said the issue of persons being denied access to beaches in the Virgin Islands needs to be debated and condemned “in all its forms.”
‘Treat your inheritance well’- Hon Pickering as Copper Mine Visitor Center opens
COPPER MINE POINT, Virgin Gorda, VI- Deputy Premier Dr The Honourable Kedrick D. Pickering (R7), who is also the Minister for Natural Resources and Labour, has challenged Virgin Islanders to understand the value of their inheritance and treat it well.
Fighting crime a matter of national resources- Hon Fraser
EAST END, Tortola, VI - Leader of the Opposition Honourable Julian Fraser (R3) exhibited a high level of maturity and passion for the safety and security of the Virgin Islands when he showed his ability to put politics aside and defend the Representatives of the Seventh and Eighth Districts, who are Members on the opposite side of the aisle in the House of Assembly.
Address Sugar Mill beach access issue to prevent ‘unwarranted outcomes’- Hon Fahie
WEST END, Tortola, VI- First District Representative and Opposition Member Hon Andrew A. Fahie has urged the Minister for Natural Resources and Labour Dr The Hon Kedrick D. Pickering (R7) to immediately address the contentious issue of access to the beach near the Sugar Mill Hotel in Apple Bay on the West End of Tortola, Virgin Islands.
Give more prominence to Rockefeller- Hon Pickering
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Twelve years (12) after his death and fifty-two (52) years after Laurance Spelman Rockefeller, the American philanthropist and conservationist, donated some 86 acres of land after purchasing it from farmers to the Virgin Islands (VI) Government for the establishment of the Sage Mountain National Park, Deputy Premier and Minister for National Resources and Labour, Dr The Honourable Kedrick D. Pickering (R7) has advocated for him to be given greater prominence at the park.
‘Much more than a building’: Sage Mountain National Park gets Visitor Centre
SAGE MOUNTAIN, Tortola, VI- Fifty-two years after Sage Mountain which boasts of the highest peak of 1,716 feet and some 86 acres in the Virgin Islands (UK), became the first National Park, it has again made history.
‘More than just talk’ – Hon Pickering on Fisheries as 3rd economic pillar
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Deputy Premier and Minister for Natural Resources and Labour Dr The Hon Kedrick D. Pickering (R7) says turning the fisheries sector into the territory’s third economic pillar is more than just talk for the National Democratic Party (NDP) government.
Buy back sold out small islands – Edmund G. Maduro
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Prominent Minister of government Dr The Honourable Kedrick D. Pickering (R7) has constantly come under a hail of allegations of him being the main culprit in selling out islands and lands to his ‘rich white friends’.
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