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May 13th, 2013
Keep focus on crime & not the photo - Sowande Uhuru

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Commentator and talk show host, Natalio Wheatley aka Sowande Uhuru has expressed that focus should remain on crime that is taking place within the Territory and not a photo that was taken at the crime scene by this news site.

May 13th, 2013
Plight of young men in VI of concern – Sowande Uhuru

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – After offering his condolences on the recent passing of murder victim, Melbourne Francis, social commentator Natalio Wheatley aka Sowande Uhuru suggested something needed to be done in the Territory to avoid similar incidents, especially with young men.

May 11th, 2013
'Doug' Wheatley appalled at plans to fit schools with AC units

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Social commentator and radio host Douglas Wheatley expressed his displeasure at plans to place air condition units at schools throughout the Territory and believed that the this may have contributed to the current mould situation at the Isabella Morris Primary School in Carrot Bay.

April 29th, 2013
Local minority situation untenable in RVIPF; HM Prison - Wheatley

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The issue of a minority contingent of locals on staff within the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) and Her Majesty’s Prison at Balsum Ghut has long been one of great concern within the Territory.

April 16th, 2013
Natalio Wheatley says marijuana laws need 'reflection'

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – With the recent incarceration of VG Calypso Monarch Joycelyn Searles aka Sistah Joyce for failing to pay a marijuana possession fine, talk show host and commentator Natalio Wheatley aka Sowande Uhuru is all the more convinced that the Territory needs to take an even more introspective look at legislation governing the use of cannabis sativa (marijuana).

February 24th, 2013
3D Show against extended terms for Govt

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Should elected governments in the Virgin Islands have more than one consecutive term in office or an added number of years to the four years that they have currently under the constitution? Not so says Natalio Wheatley aka Sowande Uhuru.

February 20th, 2013
We dropped the ball on healthcare – Doug Wheatley

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Host of the Speak Out BVI radio programme, Mr Douglas Wheatley believes that “we dropped the ball” with regard to the healthcare situation in the Virgin Islands.

January 15th, 2013
Sowande Uhuru lashes HOA contract award system to fellow legislators

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Social commentator Natalio Wheatley aka Sowande Uhuru has once again criticised the legislative measure that allows Members of the House of Assembly (HOA) to have the support of their colleagues in receiving government contracts, some of which may result in conflict with their work in the legislature.

October 28th, 2012
Protocols need renegotiating – 3D Show caller

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – One caller to the 3D Talk Show aired on a local radio station on October 26, 2012 believes that it was wrong for Hon. Mark Simmonds MP, to say that the protocols for Effective Financial Management should not be renegotiated.

September 25th, 2012
Labour Minister’s HOA statement ‘inconsistent’ – Sowande Uhuru

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Natalio Wheatley aka Sowande Uhuru took issue with some of the statements made recently by the Minister of Labour and Natural Resources, Hon. Dr Kedrick Pickering in the House of Assembly.

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