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More work to be done on RT Market Square
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The new Road Town Market Square will soon be seeing more works done to further improve the modern facility.
12 of 16 kiosks nearing completion @ Road Town Market Square- Hon Rymer
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Deputy Premier and Minister for Communications and Works, Honourable Kye M. Rymer (R5) has said 12 of the 16 kiosks at the Road Town Market Square are near completion and the remaining four are slated to be completed by December 2022.
New ESHS buildings ‘still on track for September’ opening- Premier Wheatley
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Many persons taking a look at the construction of the new Elmore Stoutt High School (ESHS) buildings would get the impression the buildings would not be ready for the September school term. The National Unity Government has faith the buildings will be ready.
Thieves continue to target tools left unsecured- RVIPF
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) is reporting a spike in theft of tools for a second week in a row and is urging the public to place added security around these items.
Expat contractors overcharging locals to build - Hon Fahie
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - “Those persons who are here on work permit that are now charging outside the norm, whether it be $100 a day for a labourer, they now want to charge a lot more. I say we go and see how much was put in for their work permit, see who they are working under.”
$65K still owed to contractors in Georgie Hill Road project
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Minister for Communications and Works Honourable Mark H. Vanterpool revealed during last week’s sitting of the House of Assembly that some $65,000 remains outstanding to contractors in the Georgie Hill Road Project.
Premier Smith assures contractors of due payments ‘soon’
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI –Contractors who have not been paid by government for works done over a period of time have been promised their payments “soon” by Premier and Leader of Government Business, Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith.
Are Fahie & Fraser trying to embarrass the gov’t? – Cromwell Smith asks
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – “Regarding [legislators] Fahie and Fraser, I don’t quite understand what they are attempting to do; I think the country is at a stage where we need solutions to challenges and maybe I haven’t been paying enough attention, maybe I haven’t been paying attention at all, I hear a lot of criticisms but I’m not hearing solutions,” remarked Cromwell Smith aka Edju En Ka.
New MC&W rule: Contractors must hire apprentices!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The Communications and Works Ministry will make it mandatory for contractors hired to execute large scale projects, to employ young men as apprentices, stated Hon. Mark Vanterpool, the subject Minister, at a sewerage contract signing on March 8, 2012 at the Administrative Complex.
Gov’t inks $866,681 petty contracts for RT sewerage project
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Ten local contractors have been hired by the Ministry for Communications and Works to begin phase one of the Road Town sewerage project with the contracts valuing $866,681.