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Archive for April, 2017

BVI cop defeats four in race for regional crown

BVI cop defeats four in race for regional crown

Constable Jeoverne Webb of the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) here in the British Virgin Islands fended off challenges from four contestants overnight to win a regional police pageant in Tortola. She went up against Constable Zamera Dean Frederick […]

by / on April 2, 2017 at 5:25 AM /
Fahie challenges authority of minister, civil servant

Fahie challenges authority of minister, civil servant

Leader of the Opposition Andrew Fahie has claimed that Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education Dr Marcia Potter has no legal authority to have written to the auditor general, requesting an investigation into a contract given to a private […]

by / on April 1, 2017 at 7:55 AM /
BVI Airways director in hospital

BVI Airways director in hospital

Director of Flight Operations at BVI Airways Bradley Goggin was stretchered from the Road Town headquarters of the privately owned carrier and taken to Peebles Hospital Friday afternoon, March 31. Attempts to verify his condition have been futile, but sources […]

by / on April 1, 2017 at 7:44 AM /
Voter rebellion!

Voter rebellion!

By Dickson Igwe, Contributor Niccolo Machiavelli was a prominent 15th Century political philosopher. He was political adviser to the Italian City State of Florence and its rulers. Machiavelli’s summa work was ‘THE PRINCE’. In that historic work, Machiavelli stated that […]

by / on April 1, 2017 at 5:54 AM /
Two accidents on Tortola; one on Anegada

Two accidents on Tortola; one on Anegada

Police were busy on the islands of Tortola and Anegada on Friday (March 31) investigating three motor vehicle crashes. Details of the incidents, up to publication time, were still sketchy. The victim in one of the accidents is a child, […]

by / on April 1, 2017 at 5:10 AM /