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‘Of course it was a sick-out’- Skelton-Cline on nurses’ absenteeism
BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI- The host of Honestly Speaking, Pastor Claude O. Skelton-Cline, has said nurses’ recent absence from work at clinics across the Virgin Islands (VI) was in fact a sick-out.
Public Service Week boycott is just the beginning- Public servant
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- As Public Service Week comes to an end today, Friday, October 10, 2025, public officers are being encouraged to continue standing up for themselves and voice their concerns.
Sickout over! ER nurses reach agreement with BVIHSA
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Nurses at the Emergency Room of Dr D. Orlando Smith Hospital have reportedly halted their sickout in protest of poor working conditions at the medical facility.
Day 2: Hospital sickout/strike continues!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - It was our newsroom that was first to accurately report that some ten doctors, both locals and expatriates, were on an official sick-out that began around 9:00 AM on February 20, 2017.
Doctors on strike @ Peebles Hospital over pay!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Word just reaching our newsroom is that some eight to ten doctors have staged a sick-out at the public hospital in Road Town.
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