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‘I have questions for all the ministers’- Hon Stacy R. Mather
BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI- Opposition and Alliance member Hon Stacy R. Mather (AL) has said he has questions for every member on the government’s side of the House of Assembly (HoA), during the next sitting.
July 1, HoA Special Sitting in honour of late Parsons
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The House of Assembly of the Virgin Islands will hold a Special Sitting on Tuesday, July 1, 2025, in honour of the late former legislator Eileene Lucia Parsons, OBE.
HoA continues today, March 31, 2025; No voting in of new Deputy Speaker
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Legislators in the Virgin Islands will return to the House of Assembly (HoA) today, Monday, March 31, 2025, for the continuation of the Third Sitting of the Second Session of the Fifth House of Assembly.
Opposition vows to reintroduce Vote of No-Confidence Motion
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI— A No Confidence Motion will be brought again against the Virgin Islands Party's incumbent administration, according to Second District Representative Honourable Melvin M. Turnbull.
HoA to focus on National Sustainable Development Plan during new session
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The Second Session of the Fifth House of Assembly (HoA) began today, Tuesday, January 7, 2025, with Governor Daniel Pruce delivering the Speech from the Throne.
'There is merit' to many of the clauses in Vote of No Confidence- Hon Smith
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Ousted former Deputy Premier and Minister for Financial Services, Labour and Trade Hon Lorna G. Smith, OBE (AL) has said there are things in the Opposition’s Vote of No Confidence that she can agree with.
Linton V. Leonard In! Appointed Deputy Clerk of HoA
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Virgin Islander Linton V. Leonard has been appointed Deputy Clerk of the House of Assembly (HoA) of the Virgin Islands. The appointment takes effect from January 2024.
VI’s HoA represented @ CPA Conference in Guyana
GEORGETOWN, Guyana- The House of Assembly of the Virgin Islands (VI) took part in the Forty-sixth Regional Conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) Secretariat in Georgetown, Guyana.
Pastor Salmon urged HoA members to look into crime & violence
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Pastor Winston Salmon has made an urgent plea to members of the House of Assembly (HoA) to take a deeper look into crime and violence in the Virgin Islands, before offering the opening prayer of the Eighteenth Sitting of the First Session of the Fifth House of Assembly on Thursday, August 22, 2024.
‘It’s like we have multiple personalities’ in HoA in front the cameras - Hon de Castro
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- She is usually not very confrontational but Minister for Education, Youth Affairs and Sports, Honourable Sharie B. de Castro (AL) had enough of the “nonsense” on display by some Members of the Opposition during the continuation of the 17th Sitting of the 1st Session of the 5th House of Assembly (HoA) on Friday, August 16, 2024.

