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Activist wants breakfast & lunch programme in public schools
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Outspoken local resident Kishma V.S. Penn wants the Virgin Islands Government to implement a breakfast and lunch programme in public schools to assist struggling families.
“Economy is not all that great”- Hon. Alvera Maduro-Caines
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- Another National Democratic Party (NDP) legislator has publicly disputed and contradicted the claim by their leader, Premier and Minister of Finance Dr. the Honourable D. Orlando Smith, that the economy of the Virgin Islands is “robust and getting better.”
Dr. Potter calls for ESHS lunch prog to be revisited
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – With the Elmore Stoutt High School Lunch Programme only started this school term, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Irad Potter says there is a need for it to be revisited to ensure the foods served are nutritionally sound for students and that the authorities should dictate what vendors serve.