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Business Watch: Little Switzerland
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Little Switzerland at the Cyril B. Romney Tortola Pier Park was the latest business featured on Retail Therapy and In Our Kitchen on Thursday, July 18, 2024.
DMV unveils 70th Festival Commemorative License Plate
POCKWOOD POND, Tortola, VI- The Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) in the [British] Virgin Islands has unveiled the winning design for the commemorative license plate celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Emancipation Festival.
Hon Skelton wants public debate on Minimum Wage Report now tabled in HoA
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI—The Minimum Wage Review Report, which was prepared by the Minimum Wage Advisory Committee in April 2024, was on Tuesday, July 16, 2024, tabled at the 15th Sitting of the First Session of the Fifth House of Assembly (HoA).
Andy Morrell found not guilty of causing death of Frandy M. Martin Jr
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Nearly three years after popular local musician and volleyball player Frandy M. Martin Jr lost his life in a boating collision off Duff’s Bottom, Tortola, businessman Andy Morrell has been found not guilty of manslaughter.
225 youngsters employed in territory-wide beautification project
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- 225 youngsters between the ages of 11 and 17 are being engaged in a beautification project across the Territory.
200 more Kenyan police officers arrive in Haiti
ST KITTS & NEVIS OBSERVER
A new planeload of 200 more police officers from Kenya arrived Tuesday in Haiti as part of the multinational U.N.-backed mission led by the East African country to neutralize the armed gangs that have taken over many urban areas in Haiti with detriment to law enforcement and commerce of all types.
‘Debt’ necessary to avoid ‘deaths’ after Hurricane Beryl — PM Gonsalves
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Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves says incurring national debt is necessary to prevent deaths following the impact of Hurricane Beryl.
VI Inquiries Bill ‘never should have left the Cabinet’- Hon Fraser
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI—The Virgin Islands Inquires Bill 2024, in its present form, should have never made its way out of Cabinet and is, in fact, a testament that the “Ministers of Cabinet not doing their job or they don’t know what their jobs are.”
RVIPF to reveal its candidate on Friday for regional police pageant
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) will reveal its contestant for this year’s Caribbean Federation of Police Welfare Association’s (CFPWA) True Blue Beauty Pageant during a coronation at the Road Town Police Station from 6:30 PM on Friday, July 19, 2024.
‘Clash of the fungi bands’ to mark 1st anniversary of Carrot Bay Cultural Thursdays
CARROT BAY, Tortola, VI – Two leading Virgin Islands fungi bands will perform at this week's edition of Carrot Bay Cultural Thursdays in what is being billed as a “clash of the fungi bands”.
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