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Huge flaw in jury selection process- SFC Report
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Former Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and United Kingdom (UK) national, Kim Hollis QC has revealed that the current jury selection process in the Virgin Islands (VI) has a fundamental flaw that excludes a large category of residents from becoming jurors in the VI's court system.
Governor's Office looking to procure new $80K Lexus
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Even as the Territory is still in talks with the United Kingdom (UK) over the Loan Guarantee to secure funding for hurricane recovery and development, the Office of the Queen's representative, His Excellency Mr Augusts J. U. Jaspert, has its eyes set on two new luxury vehicles.
Increased reports of human rights breaches @ HMP- SFC Report
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Complaints Commissioner (CC) of the Complaints Commission, Mrs Sheila N. Brathwaite wants an independent third party designated to probe complaints about discrimination and human rights breaches in the Virgin Islands.
SFC Report: Local farmers dissatisfied with market space in RT
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The market space opposite Flow in Road Town has been seen by local farmers as not favourable for marketing their produce and are seeking to be relocated in the Pusser’s Parking Lot near Craft’s Alive.
PS Potter had no answer why Prison Museum not with Education & Culture
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- While the Old HM Prison Museum in Road Town, on the main Island of Tortola, made the news a few months ago because of poles erected in the road adjacent to the building that took up much needed parking space on the already congested Main Street, it also had the attention of the former Leader of the Opposition Hon Julian Fraser RA (R3) as to whose portfolio it was.
Civil Service increments not automatic; expatriate hiring up in service
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- While civil servants continue to complain of being a year or two behind with government paying them their promised increments, the Director of the Government’s Human Resources Department Mrs Michelle Donovan-Stevens told the House of Assembly’s Standing Finance Committee that these payments “are not automatic.”
Internal Audit eyes Police accounts, HR & HMP programmes- SFC Report
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- It must be clear that the Government system has two Audit Departments. There is the Office of the Auditor General mandated by the constitution and then there is the internal audit set up by the Ministry of Finance.
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