Education Minister Dr Natalio Wheatley has contended that UK appointed governors are now using their powers of assent to legislation as a veto power. The term ‘veto’ refers to a constitutional right to reject a decision or proposal made by […]

Jeanette Scatliffe Boynes has officially been appointed as the Director of the Social Security Board (SSB) after serving as Acting Director since January of this year. Her substantive appointment to the post takes effect beginning January 1, 2022. The motion […]

Much of the government’s debate contributions on the recently passed Integrity in Public Life Act have centred on the ease with which public officials are constantly being labelled as corrupt, without any consequences attached. But Opposition Leader Marlon Penn has […]

The Ministry of Health is currently in its second phase of the Pfizer vaccine distribution in the territory. The second phase sees all frontline workers and senior government managers being able to receive their first, second or booster dose of […]

Labour Minister Vincent Wheatley has said he believes there has been a breakdown of trust between public officials and residents.  While debating the Integrity in Public Life bill recently, Minister Wheatley argued that it was important for this trust to […]

The Fahie Clan came out winners of the second staging of the Cyril B. Romney Tortola Pier Park Christmas Family Feud and walked away with $2,500 as the prize. The Family Feud Competition, which replicates the popular daytime game show […]

Opposition legislator Julian Fraser has insisted that community members and legislators by extension, are not ‘wholesale bandits’ as the government’s latest proposed legislation appears to suggest. Fraser questioned whether any proverbial ‘atrocities’ committed to this day have been so egregious […]

Amid heavy political opposition against his administration, Premier Andrew Fahie has challenged the former ruling National Democratic Party to name at least one piece of good governance legislation passed under its watch. The territory’s leader was at the time debating […]

Opposition Leader Marlon Penn said the government’s proposed Integrity in Public Life Act should not grant unfettered power to the Integrity Commission it will establish. According to Penn, one of the clauses in the bill lends itself to creating a […]

Now that the House of Assembly has passed the 2022 budget, Labour & Immigration Minister Vincent Wheatley said the Virgin Islands is one of two British Overseas Territories operating without a deficit budget going into the new fiscal year. Wheatley […]