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VI Festival & Fairs Committee accused of issuing bounced cheques!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Two vendors have approached our newsroom with returned cheques for insufficient funds written to them by the Festival and Fairs Committee (VIF&FC) within the past three weeks.
Recreational Trust staff complains over late payments & returned cheques
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The Virgin Islands Recreational Trust, a statutory agency under the Ministry of Education and Culture, is in an uproar again over late payments.
‘NDP practicing bold face corruption’ – Hon Andrew A. Fahie
SEA COWS BAY, Tortola, VI – Senior member of the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) and incumbent candidate for the First District Honourable Andrew A. Fahie said a vote for the National Democratic Party is a vote for the continuation of their alleged bold faced corruption.
‘Are non-balanced accounts to blame for Govt’s bad cheques?’ – Hon Fahie
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Premier and Minister of Finance Dr the Honourable D. Orlando Smith refused to say whether the issue of ‘bounced’ Government cheques stemmed from the National Democratic Party (NDP) Administration's failure to balance accounts in a timely manner.
Is anything happening at Recreation Trust for past three years?-Hon O’Neal
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Leader of the Opposition and former Virgin Islands Party Chairman Honourable Ralph T. O’Neal OBE (R9) told lawmakers last year that he has been up for the past two to three years to Virgin Gorda and doesn’t hear anything about the Recreation Trust.