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June 11th, 2020
Dr Robert A. Mathavious announces retirement from BVI FSC

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- In a bombshell announcement on June 10, 2020, the Board of Commissioners of the BVI Financial Services Commission (BVI FSC) announced that its long-time Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Dr Robert A. Mathavious will be retiring in December 2020.

August 19th, 2019
Tahesia G. Harrigan-Scott calls time on illustrious athletic career

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The Virgin Islands most successful female sprinter Tahesia G. Harrigan-Scott has hung up her spikes after a successful professional career that spanned well over a decade.

June 19th, 2017
BFEC Principal & Deputy on the out!

VALLEY, Virgin Gorda, VI - Parents and teachers alike are already pondering who will appointed to head the Bregado Flax Educational Centre-Secondary Division on Virgin Gorda, as the principal and deputy are both heading off on retirement come the end of this academic year, according to reports reaching this news site.

June 25th, 2015
Fmr legislator Ralph T. O’Neal ‘taking it easy’ in retirement

WEST END, Tortola, VI – In giving very short remarks after receiving Rotary’s ‘Paul Harris Fellow’ award on Saturday June 20, 2015, the man who has given some 40 years of service to the territory in leadership positions in government, Ralph T. O’Neal OBE, has announced that he is “taking it easy” now that he has retired.

January 14th, 2015
Hunt is on for new Complaints Commissioner!

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The search is on for a new Complaints Commissioner, one of a handful of constitutional posts in the civil service under the Complaints Commissioner Act, No 6. 2003.

May 28th, 2014
Wheatley praises VI First Ladies as O'Neal announces retirement

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Commentator Douglas Wheatley praised the role played by first ladies in the Virgin Islands following the announcement of Opposition Leader Ralph T. O’Neal’s retirement from the political landscape yesterday, May 27, 2014.

May 16th, 2014
EXCLUSIVE: ‘I am not retiring, I am rethreading’ – Mrs Rosamarie Flax

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - With 47 years of professional service in the Financial Services Industry of the Virgin Islands, Mrs Rosemarie Flax has attained the status of retirement but according to her she is not retiring but rather re-threading.

May 17th, 2012
Selwood’s retirement yet to be confirmed!

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Students, parents and staff members at the Elmore Stoutt High School (ESHS) are saddened by the news that Music Teacher and Assistant Principal Author Selwood would be retiring, but he revealed to this news site the decision is not final seeing that his request for retirement has not yet been granted.

April 12th, 2012
Expat recruited over retirement age for T&CP, says Donovan-Stevens

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - In a time when many indigenous Virgin Islanders are being forced out once they reach the retirement age of 60 years, many were surprised to learn that an expatriate over the age of 60 was recruited for a senior position as the Deputy Director of the Town and Country Planning Department (T&CP).

March 30th, 2012
Commissioner Frazer is a man of integrity, firm but fair- Morris

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Assistant Police Commissioner David Morris has described outgoing Police Commissioner Reynell Frazer as a man of integrity, who believed in the law and upholding it and that it was an honour and a pleasure working with him.

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