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Local Politics

March 15th, 2024
‘Work on 50 of the 50 CoI framework recommendations has begun’- Premier

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Virgin Islands Premier and Minister of Finance, Dr the Hon Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) has reported that work on all 50 of the CoI framework recommendations has begun, with the work split into a number of actions for completion by the May 2024 substantive deadline for full implementation.

March 8th, 2024
VI census just 30% complete ahead of June 2024 deadline– Hon Lorna G. Smith

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Deputy Premier and Minister for Financial Services, Trade, and Labour, Hon Lorna G. Smith, OBE (AL) has urged persons in the [British] Virgin Islands to take part in the national census, as the population census is far behind its deadline.

February 9th, 2024
OT Minister wants ‘top priority’ given to outstanding CoI reform actions

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI– UK Minister for Overseas Territory (OT) David H. Rutley has laid down the gauntlet and called for top priority to be given to the outstanding Commission of Inquiry (CoI) reforms to be carried out in the Virgin Islands under the Dr the Hon Natalio D. Wheatley administration.

January 30th, 2024
We will be whatever we allow ourselves to be

Alred C. Frett

Being Called on to Fight for a Lost Cause:

All our lives we were taught to ‘go along in order to get along’... Society conditioned us to be weak-kneed and feeble-minded; always ready to ignore our own needs while sacrificing ourselves for others... Welcome to a New World… Today, we are about to embark on a journey of Facts, but if you are stuck on valuing yourself through the Eyes and Mouths of others, this Message may be too deep for you to fathom.

January 26th, 2024
Carvin Malone crossed floor because Unity Gov’t was ‘afraid’ of Britain- Hon Walwyn

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI– Opposition Member in the Virgin Islands (VI) House of Assembly (HoA), Hon Myron V. Walywn (AL), in paying tribute to Mr Carvin Malone, said the late former legislator sacrificed his political career to keep the territory informed when he crossed the floor to join the Opposition after the Government of Unity formed following the release of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) Report in 2022.

January 6th, 2024
Premier plans to write OT Minister over Gov's request of ‘additional powers’

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Virgin Islands (VI) Premier and Minister of Finance, Dr the Hon Natalio. D. Wheatley (R7) has shared plans to write UK Minister for Overseas Territories (OT), Hon David H. Rutley for support ‘to stay true to democracy’ against the Governor's plan for additional powers the VI.

January 6th, 2024
UK ‘Unlikely’ to lift reserved Order in Council before CoI reforms– Gov Rankin

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Outgoing Governor of the Virgin Islands (VI) H.E. John J. Rankin, CMG said with the Government of Premier Dr the Hon Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) seemingly unable to meet the May 2024 deadline for the CoI reform process, it is unlikely that the UK Order in Council in reserve to suspend the VI’s constitution will be lifted.

January 2nd, 2024
‘We can't allow politics to destroy us’- Premier warns HoA for 2024

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - [British] Virgin Islands (VI) Premier and Minister of Finance, Dr the Hon Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) has warned that for the House of Assembly (HoA) to advance the cause of the Virgin Islands, legislators must not allow politics to cause them to fight and make the VI seem more vulnerable than it already is.

November 10th, 2023
‘I am not anti-police… I come from a family of police officers’- Willock

FAT HOGS BAY, Tortola, VI– Former Speaker of the Virgin Islands House of Assembly (HoA) Julian Willock has refuted claims from Guavaberry Media editor Rosemary Cindy Rosan that Virgin Islands News Online (VINO), a subsidiary of Advance Marketing and Professional Services Inc (AMPS), has an agenda against the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF).

November 3rd, 2023
Premier ‘stooped to a new low’ in Biwater blame game– Hon Fraser

ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI – Senior legislator Hon Julian Fraser RA (R3) has accused Premier and Minister of Finance Dr the Hon Natalio D. Wheatley (R7) of stooping to a new low over the blame game connected to VI’s water woes, which he says has resulted in the Premier blaming his own party government for a poor contract with Biwater.

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