The BVI government has established four fully vaccinated ports of entry across the territory to receive fully vaccinated international travellers and crew members. Premier Andrew Fahie made the announcement during a live tourism update on Tuesday June 15, where he revealed that Cabinet had signed onto the new initiative which comes into effect on Thursday … Continued
Speaker of the House of Assembly Julian Willock has said that he believes the rights of the members of the House continue to be violated by the Commissioner of Inquiry, Sir Gary Hickinbottom. In a media release statement issued from the Office of the Speaker on Monday June 14, Willock expressed his discontent with several … Continued
Speaker of the House of Assembly (HOA) Julian Willock has criticised the Commissioner of Inquiry following his request to have Members of the House submit a position paper on the topic of good governance. Willock’s statement came during his presentation at the BVI Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Members Training, on Monday June 14. He said that … Continued
The Commission of Inquiry (COI) will be implementing a specialist IT system to manage the thousands of documents submitted during its investigations into the British Virgin Islands government and public sector. This is according to the COI’s Commissioner Sir Gary Hickinbottom, who made the statement during a recent live hearing on the Inquiry’s YouTube page. … Continued
The BVI government is taking steps to further strengthen the territory against acts of money laundering, after recently approving a National Anti-Money Laundering and Countering of the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Policy and a National AML/CFT Strategy for 2021-2023. Both the policy and the strategy were recently approved in Cabinet during a May 19 meeting … Continued
The BVI government has allegedly submitted more than 85,000 documents to aid with the ongoing investigations of the Commission of Inquiry (COI). Speaker of the House of Assembly Julian Willock made the declaration on Friday June 6, in a media release issued by his Office. The release dispelled rumors suggesting that Members of the House … Continued
Documents submitted by the government of the Virgin Islands to assist with the Commission of Inquiry (COI) investigations have been deemed incomplete. This is according to the COI’s Commissioner Sir Gary Hickinbottom, who made the statement during the Inquiry’s first live hearing on YouTube on Wednesday. Sir Hickinbottom was referring to documents submitted during a … Continued
The first live-stream display of the ongoing Commission of Inquiry (COI) is scheduled for tomorrow Wednesday June 2, on social media platform YouTube. This is according to the Secretary to the Commission Steven Chandler, who made the disclosure during a media release on Monday May 31. Chandler stated that while the previous sittings of the … Continued
President Trump is the first president in U.S.A. history to be impeached twice. The House of Representatives passed an article charging President Donald Trump with “incitement of insurrection” for his role in last week’s deadly Capitol attack. Trump will most likely stay in office and finish out his term because it takes a Senate conviction to remove him from … Continued
(THE NEW YORK TIMES) – Big businesses often donate to both political parties and say their support is tied to narrow issues of specific interest to their industries. That practice became increasingly fraught last week, after a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol and some Republican lawmakers tried to overturn Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s win in … Continued
