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VI immigration laws unreasonable/unjust to expats - Magistrate Richard G. Rowe
ROAD TOWN Tortola VI - An age-old concern has had its most visible effect on hundreds of expatriates who worked in the British Overseas Territory of the Virgin Islands (VI) and a prominent attorney at law and substitute magistrate, Jamaican Richard G. Rowe, has no problem calling a spade a spade.
‘Local police officers discriminated against’ – Attorney Richard G. Rowe
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – An attorney at law practicing in the Virgin Islands, Richard G. Rowe has come out strongly against what he calls the glaring disparity, which sees police officers recruited from the United Kingdom being paid much higher than those from the territory or other places in the Caribbean.
‘Time served!’ - Elroy G. OKeiffe freed
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Following deliberation which concluded in the Court of Appeal on Friday October 3, 2014 it was ruled that Elroy G. OKeiffe should be freed as the court agreed with his attorney Mr Richard G. Rowe that his client’s time spent in prison sufficed for the charges he had pleaded guilty to.