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Visitation to inpatient units & ER suspended @ D. Orlando Smith Hospital
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Visitation to the inpatient units and emergency room of the Dr. D. Orlando Smith Hospital on Tortola has been ‘briefly’ suspended.
HoA Sitting for this week postponed
DUFF’S BOTTOM, Tortola, VI- Speaker of the House of Assembly (HoA) of the Virgin Islands (VI), Honourable Julian Willock has postponed the HoA sitting scheduled for Thursday, April 8, 2021.
Coronavirus measures: VI suspends VISA exemption for Chinese nationals
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- As the Virgin Islands intensifies efforts to prevent the 2019 Novel Coronavirus from reaching its shores and spreading, a decision has been made to suspend the VISA exemption for Chinese nationals entering the Territory.
Magistrate suspends drivers licence for CGB boat captain
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Magistrate Samuel Jack Husbands suspended a driver’s licence belonging to Cane Garden Bay resident Dwight Callwood for six months, after his reckless driving caused a traffic collision in Road Town on January 19, 2018.
Jockey suspended for punching horse
PORT LINCOLN, Australia- A jockey has been suspended for punching his horse before a race in South Australia.
BFEC students allegedly suspended for not cleaning windows properly
VALLEY, Virgin Gorda, VI- Parents of students attending the Bregado Flax Education Centre (BFEC) are upset that the school has allegedly taken a decision to suspend some students for not properly cleaning windows during detention.
Brian Williams suspended for 6 months
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"NBC Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams is being suspended for six months without pay following revelations that he exaggerated tales from an Iraq War mission in 2003.
Hospital parking lot project suspended!
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The works on the parking lot opposite Peebles Hospital has been suspended because the Public Works Department (PWD) had to do some redesigning for the road “right in front” of the lot, revealed Minister for Communications and Works Hon. Mark Vanterpool in an interview with this news agency yesterday February 20, 2012.