UPDATE: Micro Business Companies Bill 2017 finally passed!
The Bill is to help small business owners cut back on the red tape for incorporating their companies.
During the last two days of the continuation of the Eleventh Sitting of the Second Session of the Third HoA, members struggled to maintain a quorum as many Legislators were on duty travel, including Premier and Minister of Finance Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith (AL).
The HoA will again continue on Thursday December 7, 2017 at 10:00 AM, according to a Parliamentary spokesman Linton V. Leonard.
See previous article published November 23, 2017
HoA met today Nov 23, 2017; to continue Friday Nov 24!
The Virgin Islands (VI) House of Assembly, which is the lawmaking body of the Territory, met today November 23, 2017 quietly, as it continued in a Committee of the whole House.
It was the continuation of the Eleventh Sitting of the Second Session of the Third House of Assembly (HoA).
Elected Members and an Ex Officico Attorney General took all day in committee, as they deliberated over the Micro Business Companies Act 2017.
The Bill is intended to help small businesses to cut back on many of the red tapes of doing business in the Territory, and avoid many of the complex legal burden faced.
The HoA will continue tomorrow Friday November 24, 2017 at 10:00 AM following today's recess at the Ritter House Arbitration Centre, on Wickham's Cay II.
Hurricanes destroyed seat of the Legislature
The Parliamentary Chambers in Road Town on the main island of Tortola was severely damaged by Hurricanes Irma and Maria, the killer storms that destroyed the British Overseas Territory of the VI in September 2017 leaving death, destruction, widespread looting and panic in the streets for food and gasoline.
Premier and Minister of Finance Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith (AL) has estimated that the damages to the islands from the two monster storms is around 3.64 billion US Dollars.
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