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February 10th, 2025
DWM looking to permanently remove derelicts from VI- DWM Director

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- The Department of Waste Management (DWM) is currently seeking to find a solution for the removal of all derelict vehicles from the Territory.

January 27th, 2025
Hons Fraser & Wheatley say they were never in favour of new derelict site

SEA COWS BAY, Tortola, VI- It seemed like Deputy Premier Julian Fraser, RA (R3) and Health Minister Vincent O. Wheatley (R9) were caught off guard by how the relocation of derelict vehicles to Havers occurred.

January 25th, 2025
‘I stored derelict vehicles on my property for years without pay'- Ashley Ritter speaks

COX HEATH, Tortola, VI- With all the controversy over the storage of derelict vehicles on Tortola and reports of residents in Havers who are demanding that the derelict vehicles be removed from the new site, one landowner involved is speaking out.

December 28th, 2024
Gov’t finds new site as landlord evicts over cost for derelict vehicles storage

POCKWOOD POND, Tortola, VI- It was a few months ago when controversy erupted over a new land lease and cost to store derelict vehicles in Pockwood Pond, on the main Island of Tortola, on land belonging to business tycoon M. Ashley Ritter.

November 1st, 2024
DWM seeking land on Tortola to store derelict vehicles & scrap metals

POCKWOOD POND, Tortola, VI- The Department of Waste Management is requesting quotations from property owners or their legal agents on Tortola to lease two acres of non-residential land for the sole purposes of storing and processing scrap metal and derelict vehicles for a period of 12 months.

March 16th, 2022
Gov’t’s appeal against unjustified fuel price increases had an ‘impact’- Skelton-Cline

BAUGHERS BAY, Tortola, VI- Opposition Leader Hon Marlon A. Penn (R8) may have slammed the attempt by the Government of the Virgin Islands to take action to mitigate unjustified price increases as just ‘a smoke screen’ and ‘hot air’; however, commentator Claude O. Skelton-Cline has said the announcement alone had an immediate impact.

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