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BVIPA offices & warehouses will be closed on July 7, 2025
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The BVI Ports Authority (BVIPA) is informing members of the public that its offices and warehouses on Tortola and Virgin Gorda will be closed to the public on Monday, July 7, 2025.
Despite the complaints, ‘you are living your best life’ in VI- Claude O. Skelton-Cline
BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI- Talk show host and pastor Claude O. Skelton-Cline has said everyone is living their best lives in the Virgin Islands (VI) right now.
Immigration expands online services
NATION NEWS
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados- In its ongoing quest to becoming fully digital, the Immigration Department yesterday rolled out an online entry visa application portal to go with online payments.
Church leaders join in expressing concern over transparency in FID appointment
JAMAICA OBSERVER
KINGSTON, Jamaica- Church leaders have joined in expressing concern over transparency in relation to the recruitment process for the post of chief technical director at the Financial Investigations Division (FID).
Obama and Bush call Trump’s USAID closure a ‘travesty’ as report warns of 14 million extra deaths
THE GUARDIAN
WASHINGTON, D.C., USA- Barack Obama and George W Bush have criticised the closure of the US Agency for International Development (USAID), as a study warned it could result in “a staggering number” of avoidable deaths – more than 14 million over five years.
BVIEC reports 24% reduction in electricity costs for recent billing cycles
LONG BUSH, Tortola, VI- The British Virgin Islands Electricity Corporation (BVIEC) Financial Controller, Mr Florencio Taray, has addressed frequently asked questions from the public regarding the revised, transparent electricity bill that came into effect in April 2025.
Qantas says 6 million airline customers' data impacted by cyberattack
UPI
MASCOT, New, Australia- Australian airline Qantas announced Wednesday that it was targeted by a cyberattack that led to the data of six million customers being exposed.
Honour late Eileene L. Parsons by 'taking up mantle of patriotism'- Premier Wheatley
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Premier and Minister of Finance Dr the Honourable Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) has encouraged all residents of the Virgin Islands (VI) to emulate the patriotism exhibited by the late Eileene L. Parsons, OBE.
US issues warning to nationals living or wanting to travel to Haiti
LOOP NEWS
The United States says that while routine domestic commercial air travel has resumed between several airports in Haiti, US citizens should only seek to leave the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country “when they feel it is safe to do so.”
Inquiry finds British committed genocide on Indigenous Australians
BBC NEWS
British colonists committed genocide against Australia's Indigenous population in Victoria, a landmark Aboriginal-led inquiry has found.
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