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February 20th, 2021
Brits caught transporting £200K cocaine to UK! Country corrupt?

LONDON, UK – More drug busts continue to surface in the United Kingdom (UK), yet the country has not been labelled as corrupt by the UK Press and other high-profile government officials over the drug busts.

January 28th, 2021
Concerns raised about UK's CoI website

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – A new Commission of Inquiry (CoI) website has been set up for the [British] Virgin Islands (VI) in over 60 global languages on a UK registered domain, bvi.public-inquiry.uk with the CoI address listed as RB 1.11 22 Whitehall, London, SW1A 2EG.

January 27th, 2021
CoI terms of reference so broad ‘I could fit in them’- Premier Fahie

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Premier and Minister of Finance, Hon Andrew A. Fahie (R1) has said the terms of reference of the Commission of Inquiry as announced by previous Governor Augustus J. U. Jaspert is not specific as required by the Commissions of Inquiry Act but is rather a witch hunt.

January 26th, 2021
Fahie Gov’t concerned CoI is ‘a conclusion already written’

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI– Virgin Islands (VI) Premier and Minister of Finance, Hon Andrew A. Fahie (R1) says his administration remains concerned that the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) issued by the ex-governor, Augustus J. U. Jaspert, with the backing of the United Kingdom (UK) Government, is a conclusion already made and an attack on local government.

January 23rd, 2021
Premier Fahie bids farewell to controversial Gov Jaspert

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Premier and Minister of Finance, Hon Andrew A. Fahie (R1) has said his official farewell to the controversial outgoing Governor Augustus J.U. Jaspert who leaves the territory today, January 23, 2021.

January 21st, 2021
VI Gov’t retains Withers law firm & UK MP C. Geoffrey Cox QC for CoI

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Premier and Minister of Finance, Hon Andrew A. Fahie (R1) said in an effort to ‘merely ensure transparency,’ his administration has retained international law firm Withers in the Virgin Islands (VI) and London, together with leading counsel, the Right Honourable Sir Charles Geoffrey Cox QC MP for the Upcoming Commission of Inquiry (CoI).

January 21st, 2021
January 18, 2021 a ‘Global Attack’ on the VI- Hon Malone

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Minister for Health and Social Development, Hon Carvin Malone (AL), in his personal capacity via a social media post, called the events of January 18, 2021, in the Virgin Islands 'a global attack' on the territory.

January 20th, 2021
Is CoI a prelude to UK taking control of VI? - Skelton-Cline asks

BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI - Honestly Speaking radio host Mr Claude O. Skelton-Cline has brought into question the true motives of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) ordered by outgoing Governor, Augustus J.U. Jaspert aka 'Gus' into the affairs Government of the Virgin Islands, pointing to previous CoI’s in other Overseas Territories (OTs) as an example of what could come.

January 19th, 2021
VI reputation on the line! – Premier calls for live broadcast of CoI

ROAD TOWN, TORTOLA, VI – [British] Virgin Islands Premier and Minister of Finance, Hon Andrew A. Fahie (R1) today, January 19, 2021, called for a live broadcast of the Commission of Inquiry, announced by outgoing embattled Governor, Augustus J.U. Jaspert.

January 19th, 2021
Retired UK constable Mark Collins appointed VI's Top CoP

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – As first and accurately reported by Virgin Islands News Online (VINO), United Kingdom national Mr Mark Collins will take up the post of Commissioner at the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) in April 2021.

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