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 […]
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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. […]
Not an easy road for Unity Gov’t — Mitch
Minister of Natural Resources and Labour Melvin ‘Mitch’ Turnbull has hinted that the BVI’s affairs were not in a good state when the Government of National Unity assumed power earlier this year. While making a statement in the House of […]
Burden I carry for BVI has cost me tremendously — Skelton Cline
Political commentator and clergyman Claude Skelton Cline said the burden he has carried for the territory has cost him dearly. The Honestly Speaking radio show host was at the time commenting on the failures of the party system in the BVI and […]
BVI’s rising crime a symptom of deeper faults
Former legislator Dr Kedrick Pickering has argued that the rising crime rate in the territory is “a symptom of other underlying problems”. Dr Pickering told residents in Virgin Gorda at a campaign rally last evening that there are a lot […]
