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‘I am vindicated over legal fees; Chickens coming home to roost’- Willock
BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI- Former Speaker of the House of Assembly (HoA) Mr Julian Willock has said he is now vindicated and that the public will agree whatever legal fees were spent in court matters involving him as Speaker was in the interest of the people.
Special Select Committee members must ‘search their conscience’- Willock
FISH BAY, Tortola, VI- Former Speaker of the House of Assembly (HoA) Hon Julian Willock says the members of the Special Select Committee of the HoA who were tasked with deciding whether or not he should be left to pay legal fees out of pocket due to a discontinued Injunction against three Commission of Inquiry (CoI) lawyers, need to check their conscience and that their decision is misguided.
Hypocrisy? Governor tax exempt yet taxpayers footing his legal bills
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - The United Kingdom appointed Governor H.E. John J. Ranking pays no taxes in the Virgin Islands (VI) according to the provision of the Payroll Taxes Act 2004.
‘We got a lot of energy for people who look like us’- Deputy Premier
DUFFS BOTTOM, Tortola, VI- While some persons have been protesting and demanding that Virgin Islander and Speaker of the House of Assembly Hon Julian Willock be made to pay legal fees incurred in a withdrawn case that challenged the hypocrisy and disrespect for the laws of the Virgin Islands by lawyers working for the Commission of Inquiry (CoI), Deputy Premier Dr the Honourable Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) has said he would not sacrifice his conscience.
Hons Vanterpool, Fraser & Wheatley to make up Special Committee on legal fee matter
DUFFS BOTTOM, Tortola, VI- At least three names have been announced to make up the Special Committee to consider all the facts available and then consider three possible recommendations in relation to whether the House of Assembly should stand the legal cost incurred by Speaker Hon Julian Willock for a withdrawn injunction that had initially sought to prevent three lawyers from working for the Commission of Inquiry while not being called to the Virgin Islands Bar.
Speaker only wanted CoI lawyers to follow VI’s law - Skelton-Cline
BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI – Radio Talk show host, Claude O. Skelton-Cline has defended the post of Speaker held by Hon Julian Willock under the constitution of the Virgin Islands (VI) as one who ultimately has a right to defend the laws of the territory as the presiding head of the House of Assembly.
Judge ordering Speaker to pay ‘is a judicial overreach’– Skelton-Cline
BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI- At least one clergyman has spoken out against the decision by Acting Commercial Court Judge Adrian Jack’s ruling that Speaker of the House of Assembly Hon Julian Willock should pay legal fees out of his own pocket despite filing an injunction in his capacity as Speaker of the House of Assembly.
HoA protest ends quietly as motion pushed back
DUFFS BOTTOM, Tortola, VI- Sworn critic of the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) Government and one of the organisers of the protest at the House of Assembly (HoA), Rosemary Cindy Rosan-Jones, along with a handful of her loyal followers, waited in vain for over seven hours outside the Save the Seed Energy Centre in Duffs Bottom, Tortola where the House of Assembly (HoA) held its sitting on November 1, 2021.
Cindy vows to ultimately cause HoA to be dissolved
DUFFS BOTTOM, Tortola, VI- Sworn critic of the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) Government and one of the organisers of the protest at the House of Assembly (HoA) today, November 1, 2021, Rosemary Cindy Rosan-Jones has vowed to cause the elected representatives in the HoA to be sent home.
Petition calls for Speaker to pay court bill out of pocket
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Even though the Speaker of the Virgin Islands had legitimate reasons to challenge the three attorney generals working in the Virgin Islands for the United Kingdom-sponsored Commission of Inquiry (CoI) and was seen as the Virgin Islands standing up for itself and making the statement that no one is above the law, some members of the public are having none of it.
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