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Scotiabank brings tech to help customers control finances
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Regional Banking institution Scotiabank announces new enhancements to its Alerts feature to give customers more control of their banking.
‘Gov’t’s finances are sound as any in the world’- Dr Smith
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- With approximately $50M overspent on the Cruise Pier Project, $7.2M given to a defunct airline for direct flights and some $1.6M on a small wall around the Elmore Stoutt High School, to name a few controversial spendings, Premier and Minister of Finance Dr The Hon D. Orlando Smith (AL) is maintaining that the National Democratic Party (NDP) has been strategic and frugal with tax payers money.
NDP Gov’t ‘must come clean’- Hon Andrew A. Fahie
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Newly elected Chairman of the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) Hon Andrew A. Fahie (R1) has urged the National Democratic Party (NDP) Government to shelve the “fancy speeches” and “come clean” with the people regarding the territory’s economy.
No money for Office of DDP in 2015- Report
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Former Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Mr Wayne L. Rajbansie, writing in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions Annual Report 2015, listed the lack of finance as one of the major challenges of the department at the time.
UPDATE: Motion to review VI’s financial management for HOA today!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Due to the lengthy session last Friday June 29, 2012, several motions, including one for the review of the Effective Financial Management Protocols, which was signed on April 23, 2012 between Premier Dr. D Orlando Smith and United Kingdom's MP Henry Bellingham, will be heard today July 3, 2012 in the House of Assembly (HOA).
VG Hospital is in Johnson’s Ghut – PPA charges
LONG LOOK, Tortola, VI - The People’s Patriotic Alliance (PPA) says if access to health services is a priority for every Virgin Islander then the facilities would have already been in place because money is obviously not the problem but noted that the problem was about mixed up priorities.