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A series of stories looks at the Virgin Islands political scene as midterm approaches: What is the political pulse of the country approximately two and a half years ...
Politician, businessman and Managing Director of the Virgin Islands Stand Point Elton Callwood says the current government is not listening to the concerns of the ...
Communications and Works Minister Mark Vanterpool’s recent statement that the job of the Opposition is to oppose has been dismissed by social commentator Edmund ...
Social Commentator Douglas Wheatley has underscored the need for a new approach to be adopted regarding the assessment and selection of candidates to contest general ...
Education Minister Myron Walwyn says if Chief Minister Lavity Stoutt was alive today he would have been proud about the strides made in Education and the Financial ...
Indicating that he is sometimes overwhelmed by criticisms regarding the capital projects he spearheads, Works Minister Mark Vanterpool has declared he is pandering ...
Education Minister Myron has tried to clarify the reason behind his ministry’s decision not to resume the “Let’s Get It” television programme that was ...
The National Democratic Party (NDP) administration is about to hit the road with another community sensitization programme; this time called “Government On The ...
Two weeks after same-sex marriage was overwhelmingly approved by parliamentarians in Britain, one British overseas territory said it does not intend to discuss the ...
Former public servant Julian Willock said the time has come for the British Virgin Islands to seriously start discussing the issue of independence, adding that such ...
Education Minister Myron Walwyn said the time has come for legislators to get into the trenches and help the territory’s youth amid claims that some have been ...
An impassioned plea for local business operators to employ persons released from prison has been made by Education Minister Myron Walwyn and supported by Premier Dr. ...
Tough-talking social commentator Edmund Maduro is claiming that many local boat captains are not being employed, partly due to racial discrimination. Placing the ...
Persons in the British Virgin Islands yesterday started pondering their fate hours after parliamentarians in their motherland overwhelmingly approved same-sex ...
Third District representative Julian Fraser said business operators should consider employing people with savings they have amassed as a result of government’s ...
Opposition member and First District representative Andrew Fahie is calling on the current administration to put all differences aside and work together in unity. ...
As the BVI kicks off its Farmers’ Week celebrations, one social commentator is claiming that successive governments have failed to develop local industries. ...
Claiming that voters in the British Virgin Islands have spent the last 16 years committing political suicide, businesswoman Patsy Lake has challenged them to desist ...
It was a bumpy ride for Third District representative Julian Fraser when he appeared on the “Speak Out BVI” radio show last evening to promote the job and career ...
First District representative Andrew Fahie is adamant that he did nothing wrong when on Saturday he used a public meeting in his constituency to announce the ...
Chairman of the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) Ralph T. O’Neal is under more fire this afternoon, with one influential member of his party’s congress accusing him of ...
First District representative Andrew Fahie has promised the residents in the First District that for 2013 , he will “preach, teach and reach every First ...
First District representative Andrew Fahie has presented what he describes as documented actions showing that the National Democratic Party administration has been ...
A member of the Opposition alleged last week that there is a plot afoot by members of Government to muzzle opposing House of Assembly members. Third District ...
Opposition member and Third District representative Julian Fraser said since the 2011 general elections the situation in the territory was a difficult one but he has ...
The public is hereby reminded that continuous voter registration is in effect, accordingly, all persons who have become eligible to be registered as voters are ...
Months after Premier Dr. Orlando Smith tried to explain the reason his government hired consultants, fresh concerns are being raised by one Opposition member. First ...
With one member of the House of Assembly raising fresh concern about some BVI lawyers practicing overseas, Premier Dr. D. Orlando Smith has assured the territory ...
Education Minister Myron Walwyn said the government should not fear paying the ultimate political price for the proposed expansion of the cruise ship pier and the ...
First District representative Andrew Fahie says some public servants are afraid to associate with him since he is out of government adding that some persons run away ...
Local political activists who think the newly installed Minister for the UK Overseas Territories would hop onto their political bandwagons may have to think twice. ...
Government officials from both the British Virgin Islands (BVI) and the United States Virgin Islands (USVI) will meet in St. Thomas, USVI today to address areas of ...
Opposition member and Third District representative Julian Fraser wants Premier and Minister of Finance, Dr. D. Orlando Smith, to say what measures government has in ...
Tuesday, October 9 – The Opposition Virgin Islands Party has prepared a raft of questions to be answered in the House of Assembly today, mainly relating to ...
One of the main provisions stipulated in the Protocols for Effective Financial Management, which should have been implemented by government since August – the ...
About 50 people made the trek to the Cane Garden Bay community center in the Second District last evening (October 3), as they sought to further unravel the fine ...
PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos Islands — Both parties are in the Turks and Caicos Islands well under way in running their campaigns for the upcoming ...
In the latest twist to the Sea Cows Bay saga, Complaints Commissioner Elton Georges is claiming that he could have summoned and compelled former government minister ...
A verbal spat has developed between Complaints Commissioner Elton Georges and Third District Representative Julian Fraser. The tit-for-tat follows a report Georges ...
Acting Premier and Minister for Natural Resources Dr. Kedrick Pickering has made it clear that despite the criticisms and objections the Airport Extension Project ...
The question could be asked if the Opposition members in the House of Assembly have ran out of questions. Well, after a barrage of questions from members of the ...
Having to apologise several times to the Speaker for using the word “damn” and at one point telling a legislator to sit down, Health Minister Ronnie ...
LONDON, England – In a surprise move as part of an ongoing reshuffle of his Cabinet by British Prime Minister David Cameron, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office ...
Minister of Culture Myron Walwyn is claiming that politics and a reluctance to observe governmental systems affected aspects of the recently concluded Emancipation ...
Monday, September 3 – His Excellency the Governor Mr. Boyd McCleary, CMG, CVO today delivered the Speech from the Throne outlining the Government’s legislative ...
The question as to if the government of the Virgin Islands breached the recently signed document, Protocols for Effective Financial Management, which was signed with ...
Opposition member and First District representative Andrew Fahie has made it clear that he is not on any witch hunt why he is asking so many questions in the House ...
Leader of the Opposition and the longest standing member of the House of Assembly, Ralph O’Neal, has said the 30 questions submitted by opposition member and First ...
Talk Show host Doug Wheatley believes that the recent statements made by Communications and Works Minister Mark Vanterpool at a function for the BVI to begin talks ...
Premier Dr. D. Orlando Smith is leading a three-member delegation to the inaugural session of the OECS Assembly taking place in the Parliament Building in Antigua. ...
The House of Assembly approved a three-member committee yesterday to review the Protocols for Effective Financial Management and determine the implications for the ...
Minister for Health and Social Development Ronnie Skelton has said that Opposition Member and First District Representative Andrew Fahie would not have made his ...
First District Representative Andrew Fahie has accused a minister of government of cultivating a culture of disrespect in the territory and eroding the tradition of ...
Opposition member and Third District representative Julian Fraser wants to know the date set by BiWater for delivering water into the government’s distribution ...
Minister for Education and Culture Myron Walwyn defended the 10 questions that he asked Opposition Member and Third District Representative Julian Fraser during the ...
Third District Representative Julian Fraser is of the opinion that the newly announced partnership between the United Kingdom government and the BVI government is an ...
Member of the opposition and Third District representative Julian Fraser wants the House of Assembly to set up a select committee to review the Protocols for ...
Second District Representative Alvin Christopher believes the Virgin Islands Protocols for Financial Management should be subjected to a debate in the House of ...
Leader of the Opposition Ralph T. O’Neal has thanked members of the House of Assembly for looking out for him when he was hospitalized and when he was recovering ...
Several motions are to be presented to the House of Assembly today (Thursday) to allow members to sit on various committees. The five motions are to be presented to ...
People in the Eighth District will have the opportunity this evening to question their representative Marlon Penn on the work done in the district and also to voice ...
Leader of the Opposition Ralph O’Neal says its seems that under the current administration that when “someone runs for council and they lose, they get a ...
Legislators were notably absent from the May 1 public meeting held at the St. George’s Church Hall by the Road Town Anti-Crime Group. Member of the organisation, ...
Opposition Leader and representative for the Ninth District Ralph O’Neal is calling on Premier Dr. D. Orlando Smith and Minister for the Overseas Territories Henry ...
Opposition Leader Ralph O’Neal said the Protocols on Effective Financial Management that was signed by Premier and Minister for Finance Dr. D. Orlando Smith this ...
