Months after the release of the Commission of Inquiry (COI) report, former Deputy Premier Dr Kedrick Pickering has said the BVI is no longer at the proverbial crossroads, but is now staring into an abyss. The COI report initially recommended […]
Archive for November, 2022
‘We are small but mighty’! Charity Rymer speaks in UK parliament
If Charity Rymer’s presentation in the United Kingdom (UK) House of Commons is anything to go by, the BVI’s future is looking quite bright. The young Virgin Islander who resides in the UK, delivered an address to the UK Youth […]
I’m not that stupid! Pickering says he won’t run as independent
Former Deputy Premier Dr Kedrick Pickering has argued that party politics has failed the BVI and said the territory has now come to a place where it needs to have more “independent minded thinking people”. However he wanted to assure […]
Gov’t shouldn’t be re-elected with dysfunctional incinerator
Opposition Leader Julian Fraser has suggested that legislators in government should not be re-elected amid existing health hazards such as the continued burning at the Pockwood Pond dump site and non-functional Burt Point sewerage treatment plant. The incinerator suffered a catastrophic […]
HOA Speaker saved Fahie’s seat from being vacated — Fraser
Opposition Leader Julian Fraser has argued that he believes the First District seat would already have been vacated and a by-election triggered had it not been for the intervention of House Speaker Corine George-Massicote. Instead, the incumbent First District Representative […]
Are more high profile arrests on the horizon?
With the arrest of former Education Minister Myron Walwyn earlier this week, the territory remains on alert, wondering whether more arrests will be made in the coming weeks. Walwyn was the third person arrested and charged for breach of trust […]
Bureaucrats will run circles around National Unity Gov’t
Opposition Leader Julian Fraser, who has been a legislator for the last 20 years, has highlighted the inexperience of members of the National Unity Government who he suggested are ill-equipped to govern or handle public service ‘bureaucrats’. And as the […]
Native BVIslander Angela Burnett Penn cops international award
Native Virgin Islander Angela Burnett Penn has received international recognition for her work as author of The Irma Diaries and for climate change activism in the Caribbean. Burnett Penn has copped the Rising Star Award 2022 from The Edward J. Bloustein School […]
Legislators were never going to remove Fahie — Dr Pickering
Former Deputy Premier, Dr Kedrick Pickering has argued that legislators were never going to remove the now-disgraced former Premier Andrew Fahie from the House of Assembly (HOA) as they had suggested would happen. Dr Pickering gave his take on the […]
New contract process cumbersome, slowing down execution of projects
Opposition Leader Julian Fraser has indicated that elected leaders are finding it difficult to deliver vital projects needed by constituents because of the new tendering requirements brought on by the United Kingdom (UK) to foster transparency within the BVI government. […]
