Trade license renewals halted as active COVID cases near 1000
The renewal of trade licenses at the Trade Department has been temporarily suspended.
The news comes as health officials in the BVI have announced that active positive cases of the COVID-19 virus in the territory have climbed to nearly 1,000 persons as of yesterday January 6.
According to the government release, the temporary suspension of trade license renewals runs until January 13.
The government said in a notice this week that the enforcement of late fees will be delayed until February 15 in the interim.
The notice also requested that all work permit applications be forwarded to the Department of Labour as scheduled and stated that inter-departmental arrangements will be made with the Department of Trade accordingly.
The public is being further reminded that the Department of Trade has only been providing limited remote services since January 4 and this will continue up to today, January 7.
The Trade Department said physical operations will resume on Monday, January 10 and in the interim, persons can email [email protected].
Several other government departments have also chosen to offer only remote services in the past few days as COVID-19 cases in the territory continue to rise rapidly.
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Don’t see the gas stations or supermarket closed.
WTF
If the government of the day used to listen we would not be in this predicament today
And they themselves were holding events?
The issue is not just events, we must look at the sudden increase every time vaccines arrives.
Both vaccines and these cruise ships are playing a major role in the increase.
You are very smart. Since cruise ships return to the VI the number of cases have increased. Because govt agreed with the cruise lines not to test passengers upon arrival, we don’t know what passengers are positive or negative.
And what is the problem not having trade license renewals available on line?
100% agreed.
we still got to feed our families and pay our staff, so i guess we open illegally untill they up and running again
i’m glad I renewed mines almost two months ago. can never go wrong with doing things well ahead of schedule.