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'We are not fully free people'- 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 [British] Virgin Islands to open their eyes and acknowledge that their freedom is not complete and therefore should work towards complete autonomy.
Premier believes Gov’s ‘power grab’ was to coincide with Fahie’s trial
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Virgin Islands Premier and Minister of Finance, Dr the Hon Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) believes the governor’s request for more powers to implement Commission of Inquiry (CoI) reforms in the territory was meant to surprise the people and to coincide with the trial of former premier Andrew A. Fahie.
New Gov't 'doesn't mean direct rule off the table'- Via C. Donovan-Hodge
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The [British] Virgin Islands public has been told not to get complacent in thinking that direct rule is off the table just because a new government has been sworn in.
UWI tells UK to ‘retreat’ from idea of direct rule in VI
KINGSTON, Jamaica — The University of the West Indies (UWI) has joined with CARICOM and the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) in calling on Britain to retreat from “stated political calls to subvert and subordinate the sovereignty of the people of the Virgin Islands.”
CARICOM ‘not standing’ for direct rule in VI- Dr Ralph E. Gonsalves
KINGSTON, St Vincent & the Grenadines – Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines, Dr Ralph E. Gonsalves has called ‘ridiculous’ the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) Report recommendation which calls for direct rule from London and a suspension of the local constitution in the [British] Virgin Islands.
Suspending constitution is 'taking hammer to kill mosquito'- TCI Public Servant
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI –Deputy Director of Radio Turks and Caicos and Former TCI Policy Support/Media & Civil Society Liaison Manager in the Office of the Governor, Damian D. Wilson, says why noting is outright bad and good, the Commission of Inquiry in the Turks and Caicos (TcI) Islands resulted in some negative adverse effects for the island.
OECS condemns a ‘UK takeover’ of VI
CASTRIES, St Lucia- As the people of the Virgin Islands (VI) begin to mobilise to demonstrate to the United Kingdom (UK) that they are not in favour of any direct rule as recommended in the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) Report, the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) has made it known that it stands with the people of the VI in rejecting direct rule by the UK.
Big demonstration against ‘direct rule’ in RT today May 2, 2022
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The people of the Virgin Islands will be stating their objection to any direct rule by the United Kingdom (UK) loud and clear from 8:00am today, Monday, May 2, 2022, at a demonstration slated for the parking lot of Government House in Road Town, Tortola.
Public meeting to discuss ‘UK rule’ set for today, May 1, 2022
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- With the threat of suspension of the 70-year-old Virgin Islands Constitution and the imposition of direct rule by the former colonisers United Kingdom (UK), Virgin Islanders have been expressing their concern about this large possibility.
CoI recommendations can be implemented without suspending constitution- Ag Premier
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- With the concern that the Virgin Islands would be making a retrograde step if its constitution is suspended and the United Kingdom (UK) imposes direct rule, Acting Premier Dr the Honourable Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) says the number of recommendations made in the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) Report aimed at reforming and strengthening the systems of government in the VI could be made without a full UK takeover of governance.
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