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Premier to meet with local banks for talks on helping VI residents

- said there will soon be extended banking hours for Banco Popular customers on VG
Premier and Minister of Finance Honourable Andrew A. Fahie (R1), centre, during the launch of Banco Popular on Virgin Gorda on November 6, 2019. Hon Fahie has said he will be holding talks with local banks to see how residents can be further assisted during this COVID-19 pandemic. Photo: GIS
Customers of Banco Popular on Virgin Gorda will soon see extended hours for their convenience, Premier and Minister of Finance Hon Andrew A. Fahie (R1) has announced. Photo: VINO
Customers of Banco Popular on Virgin Gorda will soon see extended hours for their convenience, Premier and Minister of Finance Hon Andrew A. Fahie (R1) has announced. Photo: VINO
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI- With persons in the Virgin Islands still having a difficult time with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic that has affected lives and livelihoods, Premier and Minister of Finance Honourable Andrew A. Fahie (R1) plans on meeting with the banking sector to discuss ways residents can be further assisted.

The Premier said the sister islands will not be forgotten during these talks.

“I would also like to say that very soon I will be having meetings with the banks in the territory again to get updates on the progress on different areas where we see that they can work in tandem with the Government to help alleviate some of the stress of the people of the Virgin islands through these trying times of COVID-19 and also other areas to help our sister islands,” Honourable Fahie said during a press conference on Friday, November 26, 2021.

Extended banking hours on VG

Meanwhile, Premier Fahie said customers of Banco Popular on Virgin Gorda will soon see extended hours for their convenience.

“I have had discussions with many persons, elected persons in my government, we have also had discussions on the matter of the Banco Popular in Virgin Gorda (VG) in terms of their hours.”

“And, we are pleased to report that Banco Popular is moving with haste to have this matter rectified and should be rectified within the next two weeks at the most if not before. That is what has been reported to me so we can look forward to the hours of the bank in VG to be extended.”

He did not say how many more hours will be added on, nonetheless, the extension would benefit residents of the island immensely being the only bank operating there at the moment.

14 Responses to “Premier to meet with local banks for talks on helping VI residents”

  • Land Registry (29/11/2021, 08:34) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
    What does ‘BP’ stands for?
  • All of them is sellouts (29/11/2021, 08:38) Like (19) Dislike (1) Reply
    Publicity stunt
    • @ All of them is sellouts (29/11/2021, 16:04) Like (5) Dislike (1) Reply
      Facts just look at them not wearing their muzzles but the public must ! We definitely are sheep
  • Laugh out loud (29/11/2021, 08:44) Like (6) Dislike (0) Reply
    Banco Popular “ Moving with HASTE”
  • Hurry up (29/11/2021, 09:25) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
    and loose the juice
  • Hmm (29/11/2021, 10:09) Like (7) Dislike (0) Reply
    Banco need fix the darm machines properly. A simple deposit u could never get done without gettin in a long drive tru line
    • smfh (29/11/2021, 18:59) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
      Tomorrow is pay day and only the one in the drive tru workings, it’s 7pm all day them machine down it’s not good banco not at all. And that’s withdraw only if u see ppl lineup trying to get money all ppl tryin to do deposit have to walk away to now join that long line tomorrow to deposit 100 dollars
  • Fixit (29/11/2021, 14:59) Like (9) Dislike (1) Reply
    What we need from our banks:

    -Consistently working ATMs
    -More ATM locations island(s) wide
    -Employ and properly TRAIN staff
    -More attractive interest rates for borrowers
    -More attractive crediting services offered to eligible young ppl(stop telling ppl in order to borrow they need credit but in order to build credit u need to borrow, IT MAKES NO SENSE)
    -Customer service overhaul, from as simple as answering their phones
    -Make more information and access to services available online. eg. in order to query a mortgage qualifications, the website would say visit your local branch, no one wants to spend 3 hours at the bank just to get some information or talk to someone. These are things that can be done over the phone(if they wud answer) or simply make the basic requirements/information accessible online to the public.

    The list can go on and on these are just a few things that annoy ME personally.
    • Styler (29/11/2021, 20:10) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
      Fixit I quite agree with you, even to pin your ATM card it’s an appointment, you can pin on line but to use our local supermarket it must be pinned for when they swipe the card it’s asking for you to enter PIN number and when you used the on line pin it says invalid that’s not good enough.
  • @Land Registry (29/11/2021, 15:05) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    BP in relation to the article should be the acronym for Banco Popular.
  • big boy (01/12/2021, 14:07) Like (0) Dislike (0) Reply
    Give me the name off all the local Banks .


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