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Penn-Sallah announces Independent At-Large Candidacy
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – R. Dancia Penn-Sallah QC OBE, a former Deputy Premier of the Virgin Islands (VI), today, January 24, 2019, announce her Independent At-Large Candidacy to contest the 2019 General Election of the VI to be held on February 25, 2019.
General Election scheduled for Feb 25, 2019; HoA dissolves
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Just as was first and accurately reported by Virgin Islands News Online (VINO) today, Premier and Minister of Finance, Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith (AL) have moments ago advised that the Virgin Islands (VI) House of Assembly (HoA) will be dissolved.
'We don't have to manufacture votes to win' – Hon Fahie
HUNTUMS GHUT, Tortola, VI – Chairman of the Virgin Islands Party (VIP), Hon Andrew A. Fahie has intensified the 2019 elections battled when he suggests that some parties contesting the upcoming 2019 General Elections in the Virgin Islands (VI) may have to manufacture votes to win.
‘Do not cast your votes the wrong way’ – Hon Walwyn
VALLEY, Virgin Gorda, VI – Leader and Chairman of the National Democratic Party (NDP 1), Hon Myron V. Walwyn (AL) is encouraging citizens to vote on issues rather than following party politics, given the current situation in the Virgin Islands (VI), post-Irma and Maria of 2017.
‘A vote for me is a vote for you’ - Kye M. Rymer to D5
HUNTUMS GHUT, Tortola, VI – Virgin Islands Party (VIP) Candidate for District 5, Mr Kye M. Rymer is promising to put the needs of his district first in his quest to become representative of the Huntums Ghut area at the upcoming 2019 General Elections in the Virgin Islands.
USVI ‘eating our lunch’ - Walwyn tells rally audience
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Embattled Chairman of the National Democratic Party (NDP 1), Hon Myron V. Walwyn, appears to be brewing war with sister Territory of the Virgin Islands (VI)—the United States Virgin Islands (USVI)—over some comments he made at a recent NDP rally.
VIP’s Flax-Charles proposes more tourism products
MARIA’S BY THE SEA, Road Town, Tortola, VI - At-Large candidate under the Virgin Islands Party (VIP), Ms Shereen D. Flax-Charles is planning to significantly expand the Virgin Islands (VI) tourism products if elected to office in 2019.
The Virgin Islands General Election of 2019 Part 2
By Dickson C. Igwe
Ok. Will the two-party culture of the Virgin Islands end at the 2019 General Election? This Old Boy does not believe so. However, there is a growing chorus, that party politics has failed the Virgin Islands. And that the 2019 General Election may well be the ‘swan song’ of two-party politics in the territory. Is there validity to that assertion?
Walwyn dispels rumors of 2019 Election Rigging
VALLEY, Virgin Gorda, VI – Embattled Leader and Chairman of the National Democratic Party (NDP 1), Hon Myron V. Walwyn (AL) is setting the record straight that the voting machines to be used in the upcoming 2019 General Elections in the Virgin Islands (VI) will not be used for elections rigging.
VIP’s Sharie B. deCastro pushes economic reform through education
MARIA’S BY THE SEA, Road Town, Tortola, VI - Educator & Businesswoman, Ms Sharie B. deCastro is proposing an economic strategy with an emphasis on education and development of human resources in her quest to bring economic reform to the Virgin Islands (VI) under the Virgin Islands Party (VIP).