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'Compromise could have been found' before Opposition HoA walkout - Hon Mather
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Opposition Member in the Virgin Islands House of Assembly (HoA) Hon Stacy M. Mather has called for the Government and Opposition to sit and discuss their differences before they get out of hand. Hon Mather, the Deputy Speaker, was referring to the recent Opposition walk-out of the HoA after the Question and Answer segment of the sitting was re-ordered on the Order Paper.
VI urged to invest, protect, respect & value nurses
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- A call was made for the people of the Virgin Islands to invest, protect, respect and value nurses, when the Territory observed International Nurses Day on Friday, May 12, 2023.
Ex FS lambasts Gov Rankin; Demands more respect for VI’s financial stewardship
EAST END, Tortola, VI- It has been over 40 years since the Virgin Islands came out of Grant-in-Aid from the United Kingdom (UK) and independently, without the help of the UK, began to successfully develop the Territory and making it an envy of the region.
Stop focusing on re-election & fix VI’s problems- Tola Radio host urges leaders
FAT HOGS BAY, Tortola, VI– Tola Radio VI morning radio host Dameon Percival has called on leaders of the Virgin Islands (VI) to fix VI’s problems rather than focus on their bid to get re-elected to public office.
Let’s get back our values!
Pastor Hugh B. Thomas
It is with great heaviness I write this letter. Being born a BV Islander in the mid-60s, I grew up in a time when respect, self-worth and dignity mattered. Children were children in their homes for there was parental authority in the house, so children grew up understanding authority.
‘Right to self-determination’ must be respected- VI Gov’t on Russia-Ukraine conflict
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The Government of the [British] Virgin Islands says it continues to monitor, with immense concern, the situation in Europe in regards to the ongoing conflict involving Ukraine and Russia and the global community, which situation continues to evolve and escalate.
Unity will get us through CoI ‘man-made disaster’ & pandemic– Dr the Hon Wheatley
BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI – Deputy Premier and Minister for Education, Culture, Youth Affairs, Fisheries and Agriculture, Dr the Hon Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) has called on the Virgin Islands to unite against the current challenges facing the territory.
BVI SDA Secondary School students empowered @ leadership forum
SEA COWS BAY, Tortola, VI- Secondary school students of the BVI Seventh-day Adventist School in Sea Cows Bay, Tortola, swapped their regular school uniforms for gold or red business attire on Thursday, January 30, 2020 as they were given a break from the usual class sessions to listen to a number of professionals deliver on how they could improve their personal and social development as emerging leaders.
‘Godfather of tourism on JvD’ Albert H. Chinnery honoured
GREAT HARBOUR, Jost van Dyke, VI- The Jost van Dyke administration building has now been officially reopened and it honours a late Customs Officer who had given more than 30 years of his life in service to the Virgin Islands.
'I used to call him Ralph ‘Telephone’ O’Neal' – Abigail O’Neal
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Abigail O'Neal aka 'Abby', the youngest daughter of the late first Premier and Member Emeritus of the Virgin Islands House of Assembly (HoA), Honourable Ralph T. O’Neal, OBE, said her father was a man who lived his life serving others.