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After 18mths, Horse Races return to Tortola on Boxing Day 2018
SEA COWS BAY, Tortola, VI - After some 18 months without, Horse Races is finally returning to Tortola on Boxing Day, 2018.
Veiled Transparency: RDA operates like NDP Gov’t – Skelton-Cline
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Social commentator and man of the cloth, Mr Claude O. Skelton-Cline is continuing his tirade against the Recovery and Development Agency (RDA) over the way it functions within the Virgin Islands (VI).
Bayly gets whopping $300,000+ to head ‘Alternate Gov’t’
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI: Many in the progressive class of the Virgin Islands (VI), have already concluded that the Recovery and Development Board (RDB) now law, is as powerful as an alternate government.
HoA to continue today Dec 20, 2018, in new sitting
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - The Virgin Islands’ (VI) House of Assembly (HoA) will meet again today Thursday, December 20, 2018, in a new session after an almost marathon meeting over the controversial Economic Substance (Companies and Limited Partnerships) Act of 2018.
‘We are in trouble’ - Hon Julian Fraser RA on Economic Substance Bill
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - The Virgin Islands (VI) could see itself facing economic blacklisting from the European Union (EU), if a Bill entitled “Economic Substance Company and Limited Partnership Act 2018,” tabled in the House of Assembly (HoA) yesterday, December 18, 2018, is not passed.
Secret plans unveiled for 'Palm Grove Centre' Land
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Demolished in August 2018, the Palm Grove Shopping Centre was one of the earlier buildings on Wickham's Cay, built as a mall.
Co-father of VI, Hon Ralph T. O’Neal OBE turns 85!
McNAMARA, Tortola, VI - The Co-father of the Virgin Islands (VI) Hon Ralph T. O’Neal OBE, turned 85 years of age on Saturday, December 15, 2018.
'Mitch' calls Hon Fahie a liar; Says he never asked to join VIP
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Hon Melvin M. Turnbull (R2) aka ‘Mitch,’ of the new Progressive Virgin Islands Movement (PVIM), lashed out at Opposition Leader and Virgin Islands Party (VIP) Chairman, Hon Andrew A. Fahie (R1) for claiming that he asked to join the VIP.
'I can confirm I have the wall report’- CoP Michael B. Mathews
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Speaking exclusively to Virgin Islands News Online (VINO), this afternoon, Friday, December 14, 2018, Police Commissioner Michael B. Mathews confirmed that in his possession is the Auditor General’s (AG) Report—received from Governor Augustus J. U. Jaspert aka ‘Gus’—on the small wall constructed by Education and Culture Minister, Hon Myron V. Walwyn (AL) around the Elmore Stoutt High School (ESHS).
Premier Away; Honourable Pickering Is Acting Premier
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Premier and Minister of Finance, Dr the Honourable D. Orlando Smith (AL), is away from the Territory, attending the United Kingdom's (UK) Joint Ministerial Council Meetings in London.