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May 20, 2025

EDITORIAL: COI brought major progress, but work must not stop now

After three long years, two conflicting narratives have emerged about the Commission of Inquiry reforms. On one extreme is the view that they will usher in a golden era of …

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by BVI Beacon
March 31, 2025

EDITORIAL: High time for a human-rights watchdog

Consider a worker who is victimised because of his race or religion. Or an expatriate whose employer confiscates her passport in order to control her movements. Or a woman who …

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by BVI Beacon
February 19, 2025

EDITORIAL: Register of Interests a shameful COI fail

The House of Assembly and Governor Daniel Pruce should be ashamed of themselves for leaving in place absurd rules limiting the public’s access to HOA members’ Register of Interests. In …

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by BVI Beacon
January 14, 2025

EDITORIAL: Aligning HOA agenda with national plan is wise

We are cautiously optimistic about the sensible plans included in the legislative agenda unveiled in the recent Speech from the Throne even though the to-do list appears overly ambitious for …

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by BVI Beacon
December 3, 2024

EDITORIAL: Great March lessons still ring true today

Kudos to the hundreds of residents who took part in the recent re-enactment of the 1949 Great March. Together, they staged an impressive and appropriate commemoration of an enormously important …

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by BVI Beacon
November 22, 2024

Public airport meetings to start Tuesday in Road Town

The government still hasn’t released the completed part of an ongoing review of the proposed airport expansion, but residents will get a chance to weigh in on the long-delayed project …

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by FREEMAN ROGERS
Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport
November 12, 2024

EDITORIAL: Government must stop backpedaling on airport transparency

We fear we spoke too soon. Last November, we praised the Virgin Islands government for preliminary steps that should have boosted transparency surrounding the proposed expansion of the Terrance B. …

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by BVI Beacon
September 19, 2024

House tackling last COI reform

The House of Assembly began tackling its final Commission of Inquiry reform this week as legislators debated the first of five bills designed to improve the governance of five statutory …

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by Allison Vaughn
September 12, 2024

EDITORIAL: COI reforms must be finished, then followed

We are disappointed that the government and the governor missed their Aug. 31 deadline to complete the Commission of Inquiry reforms, but the delay does not detract from the extensive …

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by BVI Beacon
August 29, 2024

EDITORIAL: Public needs answers on giant salary mistake

Like many residents, we are dumbfounded. We cannot even begin to understand how the government’s laudable attempt to update all public officers’ salaries to a “living wage” misfired so badly …

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by BVI Beacon
July 12, 2024

HOA okays Skelton contract worth $36k monthly

The House of Assembly has passed a motion to allow Opposition Leader Ronnie Skelton to retain his seat even though a company he leads is renewing a $36,000-a-month contract to …

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by Shaun Connolly
June 18, 2024

EDITORIAL: From us to you, 40 years later

Much has changed in the 40 years since The BVI Beacon was born in a small wooden house on Main Street in Road Town. But one thing that has not …

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by BVI Beacon
June 4, 2024

EDITORIAL: New COI reform target must be met

May 31 marked the expiration of the original two-year deadline to implement the 48 agreed governance reforms recommended by the 2022 Commission of Inquiry report. With Governor Daniel Pruce now …

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by BVI Beacon
May 13, 2024

EDITORIAL: With no freedom-of-info law, Virgin Islands falling behind

Imagine the following scenarios. A concerned East End resident wants to know where burglars have struck in her neighbourhood. A voter wonders if a government minister is favouring a certain …

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by BVI Beacon
March 12, 2024

EDITORIAL: Anti-money laundering regime must be improved dramatically

The Virgin Islands received a harsh wake-up call last month. The latest mutual evaluation by the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force highlighted glaring deficiencies in the territory’s systems for combatting …

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by The BVI Beacon
March 5, 2024

EDITORIAL: HOA must fix flawed Register of Interests

Ever since the Register of Interests Act was passed in 2008, the register has not functioned properly because legislators have used every trick in the book to hamstring it. For …

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by BVI Beacon
January 26, 2024

In exit interview, Rankin talks COI, Fahie arrest, Covid

Was the United Kingdom aware of allegations linking then-Premier Andrew Fahie to crimes before it launched the Commission of Inquiry? Did Governor John Rankin authorise the United States sting operation …

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by FREEMAN ROGERS
Outgoing Governor John Rankin
December 5, 2023

EDITORIAL: Finally, airport business case put to tender

It’s about time. After more than a decade of bumbling attempts to expand the Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport, government is finally taking the proposal back to the drawing board …

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by BVI Beacon
November 21, 2023

In a first, government seeks full business case for airport expansion

The BVI Airports Authority is seeking proposals for a comprehensive business case to decide the way forward for the development of the Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport. The study — …

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by FREEMAN ROGERS
airport runway
November 14, 2023

EDITORIAL: HOA should stop bickering and get down to business

Elected officials’ recent squabbles in the House of Assembly reflect a failure to work together and carry out the important business of governing the Virgin Islands. During the HOA meeting …

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by BVI Beacon
October 10, 2023

EDITORIAL: Crown land reform a long time in coming

We are delighted that the government plans to launch a public crown land register that can be viewed online. Even better, the register is only one part of ongoing reforms …

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by BVI Beacon
October 9, 2023

Gov’t aims to reform debt management

As part of ongoing efforts to implement reforms suggested by the 2022 Commission of Inquiry report, the government is working with the Commonwealth Secretariat to improve the way public debt …

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by BVI Beacon
September 25, 2023

Public crown land register promised

A public Crown Land Allocation Register will be created soon and posted online, according to Ronald Smith-Berkeley, the permanent secretary in the Ministry of Environment, Natural Resources and Climate Change. …

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by FREEMAN ROGERS
Crown land
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 …

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by BVI Beacon
Prospect Reef Resort
September 17, 2023

Constitutional review gets six extra months

The Constitutional Review Commission has requested and received a six-month extension beyond its original June deadline to produce a report, Premier Dr. Natalio “Sowande” Wheatley said recently in the House …

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by FREEMAN ROGERS
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