As workers loaded trash on Monday behind the incinerator building in Pockwood Pond, Waste Management Director Marcus Solomon pointed up to a wooded area on the nearby hillside. The site, …
August 30, 2024
July 4, 2024
EDITORIAL: Airport survey questions raise questions
Words matter. And we fear that the verbiage chosen for a public survey circulated as part of the business case for the planned airport expansion could produce skewed and incomplete …
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March 1, 2024
National Emergency Operations Centre delays blamed on Ukraine war and Covid
The construction of the new National Emergency Operations Centre in McNamara was delayed by issues associated with the Covid-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but the project should be …
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September 18, 2023
EDITORIAL: Prospect has prospects
We are glad that the new government is jump-starting long-delayed plans to redevelop the Prospect Reef Resort. To hear Premier Dr. Natalio “Sowande” Wheatley tell it, leaders seem to be …
July 31, 2023
With Power52 boss in bankruptcy, Anegada solar farm’s future unclear
More than two years after his company won a $4.6 million contract to build a major solar plant on Anegada, American developer Rob Wallace Jr. broke ground last December alongside …
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June 27, 2022
EDITORIAL: It’s time to stop flushing raw sewage into the ocean
In 1974, when the Virgin Islands’ population was less than 11,000, the government’s annual agenda included a national sewage treatment plant that would help eliminate the need to flush Tortola’s …
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February 21, 2022
EDITORIAL: Work permit process isn’t rocket science
We are extremely disheartened that the online work-permit system implemented last year has been discontinued. As local businesses struggle to recover from the pandemic, they can ill afford this giant …
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November 10, 2020
EDITORIAL: Government’s silence on stimulus is deafening
At a time when thousands of Virgin Islands residents are unemployed or otherwise struggling due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we are disturbed by the government’s failure to adequately account for …
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February 10, 2020
EDITORIAL: The ferry system is a national embarrassment
Operating a reliable, convenient ferry service between Tortola and St. Thomas is not rocket science. It is not even ferry science. It is plain common sense. But despite decades of …
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January 2, 2019
As eco-law delayed, mangroves and wetlands left exposed
Government officials recently threatened to fine a South African businessman who removed a large swath of mangroves and other vegetation from the Paraquita Bay lagoon as part of efforts to …
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