Premier and Minister of Finance Honourable Andrew A. Fahie said in a statement titled ‘Get Ready To Move: Our Economy Is Going Into Overdrive’ that the initiative is one of the many which the Government of the Virgin Islands plans to introduce to acquire additional streams of revenue to strengthen the economy in the midst … Continued
In a Government Information services release, Registrar General Stephanie Benn has said that she is convinced that her staff at the Civil Registry and Passport Office (CRPO) will be working together to exceed the expectations of the public following their participation in a Leadership Through Mentoring Training and Team Building workshop. Mrs. Benn, who is … Continued
Three persons, one male and two females, were charged for keeping an unlicenced firearm after a search warrant executed yesterday by several units within the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force on a home in Little Apple Bay on the western end of Tortola uncovered a glock pistol and several rounds of ammunition. Police charged Delano … Continued
Preliminary inquiries surrounding the body recovered from the waters near Village Cay Marina on Thursday April 29th, suggests that the deceased is Ryan Smolderen, 65, a native of South Africa, who resided on the vessel Silent Wings dock at the marina. Positive identification is still to be made. Smolderen was reported missing earlier in the … Continued
AVIAREPS Italy now joined by France and the Nordics to provide public relations and marketing support. Following through on a mandate from Premier Honourable Andrew A. Fahie and the Board of Directors, to have one agency with the optimal combination of public relations, travel trade connections and expert knowledge of the markets to represent the … Continued
Guyana police are searching for the boyfriend of a woman, whose body was found in a shallow grave on Friday. Police said that the 15-year-old sister of Shonnette Dover, led investigators to the area where the body was buried after she had been shot by her boyfriend, while he was cleaning a gun on the … Continued
Construction work on The Bregado Flax Educational Centre – Secondary Division and the Ivan Dawson Primary School are said to be nearing completion. Deputy Premier And Minister for Education, Culture, Youth Affairs, Fisheries and Agriculture, Dr. the Honourable Natalio D. Wheatley while addressing the Seventh Sitting of the Third Session of the Fourth House of … Continued
A petition started by Mr. Stacy Mather, Director at the YEP to Deputy Premier and Minister for Education Dr. the Hon. Natalio D Wheatley seeks to instill a mandate that all Youth in Virgin Islands to be able to swim by age 10. The petition states, “The Virgin Islands (UK) is known as the sailing … Continued
NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian scientists appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to publicly release virus data that would allow them to save lives as coronavirus cases climbed again Friday, prompting the army to open its hospitals in a desperate bid to control a massive humanitarian crisis. With 386,452 new cases, India now has reported … Continued
JERUSALEM (AP) — A stampede at a religious festival attended by tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews in northern Israel killed at least 45 people and injured about 150 early Friday, medical officials said. It was one of the country’s deadliest civilian disasters. The stampede began when large numbers of people thronged a narrow tunnel-like … Continued
