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UK-backed enhancements to strengthen security & safety @ HMP
BALSAM GHUT, Tortola, VI- The Government of the United Kingdom (UK) has delivered on a promise to boost the British Virgin Islands’ prison system, located in Balsam Ghut, Tortola with a comprehensive support package aimed at enhancing security, operational efficiency, and staff protection at His Majesty’s Prison (HMP).
We don’t seem ‘to want that relationship with UK to be severed’- Cromwell Smith
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Talk show host Mr Cromwell Smith aka Edju En Ka is of the opinion the Virgin Islands does not want to sever its relationship with the United Kingdom (UK).
UK gov't to reset relationship with OTs- PM Starmer
LONDON, England, United Kingdom- Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (UK) Sir Keir R. Starmer has said his government is committed to resetting its relationship with the UK’s Overseas Territories.
UN Special Committee on Decolonisation on visiting mission to VI from today
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The United Nations Special Committee on Decolonisation, currently chaired by Menissa Rambally of Saint Lucia, will undertake a visiting mission to the Virgin Islands from today, August 26 to 27, 2024.
Hate riots engulf UK
LONDON, United Kingdom- Unrest, the worst seen in more than a decade, has gripped the United Kingdom (UK), following the stabbing to death of three girls and the wounding of eight others by a lone individual on Monday, July 29, 2024.
UK @ risk of recession after economy shrinks
LONDON, United Kingdom- The United Kingdom (UK), ‘the mother country’, is at risk of recession after revised figures showed the economy shrank between July and September.
United Nations Article 73(b)
Thomas C. Famous
More often than not, it seems as if people around the world have allowed themselves to believe that colonialism was and remains some fairytale read in a book. You know the stories in which the handsome Prince marries a glowing bride and all in the Kingdom live happily ever after.
OECS Director General slams UK over threat of direct rule 'hanging' over VI
SAINT GEORGES, Grenada – Director General of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Dr Didacus Jules has slammed the United Kingdom (UK) Government for what he called the threat of direct rule still hanging over the Virgin Islands, despite reforms coming out of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) being executed and often in advance stages of implementation.
VI people must wake up to rethink relationship with UK- Premier Wheatley
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Premier and Minister of Finance, Dr the Hon Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) has called on the people of the Virgin Islands (VI) to unite, stop the infighting, and send a strong message to the United Kingdom (UK) that it does not want a relationship where the UK can suspend the local constitution.
Mary Elizabeth Truss to become UK's next prime minister
LONDON, United Kingdom- Mary Elizabeth Truss, known to many as 'Liz Truss', will become the next prime minister of the United Kingdom (UK) after defeating Rishi Sunak in the Conservative Party leadership contest.
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