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March 5th, 2025
Teachers' salaries determined solely on qualifications- Hon de Castro

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- During a press conference on Tuesday, March 4, 2025, Minister for Education, Youth Affairs and Sports Hon Sharie B de Castro (AL), addressed concerns as it relates to how teachers' salaries are determined.

November 21st, 2024
Ex teacher found not guilty of indecent assault struggling to move on with life

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Jevaughn A. Nibbs of Ballast Bay was found not guilty of indecent assault by a Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, November 19, 2024.

October 21st, 2024
New info reveals Cindy Rosan received $20K upon job severance

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Following the leak of documents showing former Events Manager at The BVI Tourist Board and Film Commission (BVITBFC), Rosemary L. Rosan aka ‘Cindy’ seeking one million dollars for being sent home, new leaked documents show she received over twenty thousand dollars upon being made redundant in December 2020.

August 1st, 2023
‘I don’t like to hear about reparations’- Eileene L. Parsons

PALESTINA ESTATE, Tortola, VI- Cultural icon and former legislator Eileene L. Parsons, OBE does not believe the Virgin Islands (VI) should be fighting for reparations for slavery, and instead should just be grateful for where it has come.

September 1st, 2022
USVI senators approve $40M for retroactive wages owed since 1990

VI CONSORTIUM

FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI- "Pay the people what we owe them" was the consensus of senators when they voted to appropriate $40 million to thousands of retired and existing government employees, who are owed correct wage payments that stretch back three decades.

March 7th, 2022
'Pandemic' compensation for Public Health Unit being 'addressed'- MoH&SD

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Staff of the Public Health Unit (PHU) have been assured that the issue of compensation for works done during the COVID-19 pandemic is being addressed.

October 25th, 2020
'UK owes us apology & compensation for slavery'- Kishmet B. Daniel

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Rastafarian and Virgin Islander Kishmet B. Daniel believes the Virgin Islands is quite in order to call for reparations for the evil acts of slavery and thinks if Africans were the enslavers they would have paid reparations.

July 14th, 2020
Will UK make amends for slavery/colonialism in VI?

E. Benito Wheatley

As the United Kingdom (UK) confronts the issue of racism in British society and the country's longstanding problem of injustice toward people of African descent, it should not be forgotten that the people of the Virgin Islands (VI) are also victims of Britain’s dark legacy of slavery and colonialism.

October 29th, 2019
Turnbulls to receive compensation for land encroachment after 47 years – Dr Wheatley

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The Turnbull family of Myers Estate on Tortola will be compensated by the Government of the Virgin Islands, nearly 50 years after the Enis Adams Primary School encroached on their property, Minister for Education, Culture, Youth Affairs, Fisheries and Agriculture Dr the Honourable Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) has said.

April 11th, 2017
Hon Fahie wants to know price tag for Delta Petroleum court win!

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The United Kingdom Privy Council recently upheld a decision by the Court of Appeal in January 2014, which had ruled in favour of Delta Petroleum (Caribbean Ltd) in the case involving over 240,826.88 US gallons of petroleum which the Customs Department of the Virgin Islands (VI) forfeited from Delta's Pockwood Pond, Tortola facility in September 2012.

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