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September 17th, 2024
Starting salaries for USVI teachers set to reach $52,503 by 2025

VI CONSORTIUM

FREDERIKSTED, St Croix, USVI- Governor Albert A. Bryan Jr announced on Tuesday, September 17, 2024, a new wage agreement with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Locals 1825 and 1826, resulting in salary increases for the territory's teachers, paraprofessionals, and support staff.

December 1st, 2021
UPDATE: CIBC Bank re-opens after COVID forced RT branch closure

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - The CIBC FirstCaribbean branch in Road Town, Tortola re-opened today, Wednesday, December 1, 2021, for most services except in-branch deposits and withdrawals or the opening of new accounts.

January 3rd, 2020
AG's Chambers holding up Prospect Reef salaries - SFC Report

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Even as promises have been made to pay the current staff of the hurricane damaged Prospect Reef facility, those payments are still outstanding since August of 2018, according to new information coming out from the 2019 deliberations of the Standing Finance committee (SFC).

April 15th, 2013
Incinerator workers want more money & interaction with Minister

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - "We are the ones doing the dirty work to keep this British Virgin Islands clean and everyday you can hear the minister going all over, having this and that conference, meetings and workshops with other workers but they are not coming to us down here, yes because this is the place that handling the nasty stuff, their shirt and tie too clean to come here," said a worker attached to the the Solid Waste Municipal Incinerator Plant.

October 17th, 2012
DPU encourages employers to observe cost of living stats

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – The Development Planning Unit (DPU) has encouraged employers to approach the unit to conduct an observation of cost of living statistics whenever they are considering whether to raise salaries for their staff.

September 5th, 2012
David Morris racks up over 140K in salary & allowances

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - It pays in the Virgin Islands, if you are an expat from the United Kingdom on contract and your name is David Morris the Acting Police Commissioner.

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