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Akeem R. Pickering tipped to be BVI Ports Authority Managing Director!
PASEA ESTATE, Tortola, VI- Word reaching our news centre from sources within the BVI Ports Authority’s Board of Directors is that former Deputy Director Akeem R. Pickering will be the new Managing Director of the BVI Ports Authority (BVIPA).
Dr Neil M. Smith tipped to be General Manager of BVIEC
LONG BUSH, Tortola, VI- Word reaching our news centre is that the current Director of Programme Strategy at the Virgin Islands Recovery and Development Agency (RDA), Dr Neil M. Smith, has been tipped to be the new General Manager for the BVI Electricity Corporation (BVIEC).
CRC should 'recommend referendum on independence'- Skelton-Cline
BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI – Commentator and advocate for change, Mr Claude O. Skelton-Cline says coming out of the Constitutional Review Committee (CRC) Report on the Virgin Islands should be a recommendation on a date for a referendum on independence.
$1.2M contract approved for exterior works to RT O’Neal Admin Complex
WICKHAM’S CAY II, Tortola, VI- The Cabinet of the Virgin Islands met virtually on December 22, 2021, when, among other things, it accepted a recommendation for a $1.2M contract to be awarded for “Exterior Building Envelope Repair” to Ralph T. O’Neal Administration Complex.
Dean B. Fahie tipped for Acting MD @ BVI Ports Authority
PORT PURCELL, Tortola, VI- Word reaching our news centre from persons familiar with the appointment is that Operations Manager at the BVI Ports Authority (BVIPA) and former Deputy Commissioner of Customs, Mr Dean Byron Fahie has been recommended by the Board of Directors to act in the post of Managing Director.
Why Virgin Islanders and other Residents are never listened to?
Donald E. de Castro
Over the years since I returned home in 1986 (and, I do believe the situation existed before I returned) this government and past governments in their endeavour to develop this territory, in numerous instances sought advisers and consultants. In the vast majority of cases, they always used non-Virgin Islanders.
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