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January 27, 2023

Throne speech promises wide-ranging reforms

Reforms to governance, education, environmental protection, health care and other areas are among the government’s legislative priorities for a new House of Assembly session that started Tuesday, Governor John Rankin …

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by Dana Kampa
August 15, 2022

EDITORIAL: Open the interests register with no restrictions

Our first draft of this editorial praised legislators for passing a bill last month to finally make the Register of Interests public, thereby promoting the sort of government transparency that …

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by BVI Beacon
June 2, 2022

EDITORIAL: Funding the reforms

Given the developments of recent weeks, it seems clear that badly needed governance reforms are coming to the Virgin Islands by the hook or by the crook. This is great …

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by BVI Beacon
May 3, 2022

EDITORIAL: Keep the press conferences coming

Kudos to Premier Andrew Fahie for holding regular press conferences in recent months, and to opposition members for hosting similar sessions fairly frequently as well. We hope this practice will …

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by BVI Beacon
April 13, 2022

EDITORIAL: Publish the COI report. Now.

For all the talk about transparency that has come out of the Governor’s Office in recent years, we were disappointed by Governor John Rankin’s decision not to release the Commission …

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by BVI Beacon
April 8, 2022

VI gets good marks in governance report

The future holds many possibilities for the governance of the Virgin Islands, and one expert said last week that the territory has a solid foundation for exploring ways to take …

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by Dana Kampa
April 1, 2022

EDITORIAL: Direct UK rule should be a very last resort

The stakes are high as the United Kingdom-appointed Commission of Inquiry prepares to submit its recommendations to Governor John Rankin next month. Following two similar COIs in the Turks and …

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by BVI Beacon
Commission of Inquiry
October 28, 2021

Facing COI, Fahie explains rocky UK relationship

In response to allegations of poor governance aired during the ongoing Commission of Inquiry, Premier Andrew Fahie last week described a pattern of systemic problems with the Virgin Islands’ constitutional …

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by Dana Kampa
October 24, 2021

Deputy premier slams inquiry at United Nations meeting

As the Commission of Inquiry continued its work here in the territory, Deputy Premier Dr. Natalio “Sowande” Wheatley repeated the government’s often-stated complaints about the process this month before a …

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by FREEMAN ROGERS
UN IN NY
October 13, 2021

COMMENTARY — Bad governance blamed for ‘hell on earth’

Poor governance is a road to hell on earth for a country or territory’s residents. Once upon a time, there was a land in Africa sitting on the fertile and …

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by Dickson Igwe
September 24, 2021

EDITORIAL: Boards mishandled, almost across the board

In recent weeks, hearings in the Commission of Inquiry have again highlighted a longstanding problem in the territory: Successive governments have used exceedingly poor practice when appointing and removing the …

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by BVI Beacon
September 1, 2021

EDITORIAL: As inquiry resumes, government must provide info

As the Commission of Inquiry resumes hearings on Monday, the government should turn over a new leaf by quickly and completely producing all requested information so that the probe can …

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by BVI Beacon
June 28, 2021

EDITORIAL: The Register of Interests is broken. No surprise there

In recent days, the Commission of Inquiry has shone a glaring spotlight on the long-standing need to reform the system through which legislators declare their interests, a task that leaders …

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by BVI Beacon
May 31, 2021

EDITORIAL: Government must respond fully to COI requests

After the Commission of Inquiry was announced in January, Premier Andrew Fahie and other leaders promised that the government would assist investigators by providing requested information as transparently as possible. …

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by BVI Beacon
February 10, 2021

EDITORIAL: A memo for Governor John Rankin

We welcome Governor John Rankin, who takes office at a time when the territory’s relationship with the United Kingdom is as strained as it has been in recent memory. He …

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by BVI Beacon
February 3, 2021

COMMENTARY — Better governance seen as key to independence

There will be no greater autonomy or independence in United Kingdom overseas territories until their residents trust local government. Recent crises in OT governance in the Turks and Caicos Islands …

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by Dickson Igwe
February 1, 2021

EDITORIAL: Inquiry will need a tightly focused strategy

With a monumental task to complete in only six months, the commission of inquiry must devise a tightly focused strategy for shining its powerful spotlight into the dark corners of …

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by BVI Beacon
January 21, 2021

Interview: Departing governor reviews tenure

  After arriving just 16 days before Hurricane Irma devastated the Virgin Islands in 2017, Governor Gus Jaspert has since been largely focused on the territory’s recovery and the Covid-19 …

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by Dana Kampa
July 22, 2020

EDITORIAL: Before airport expansion, transparency needed

If leaders in the new government proceed with their predecessors’ plan to expand the Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport, they must turn over a new leaf by being fully transparent …

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by BVI Beacon
airport Beef Island
July 3, 2018

EDITORIAL: Keep the campaigns clean, please

Though the general election likely won’t be held until next summer, campaign season is already in the air, with politics increasingly driving public dialogue on the airwaves, social media and …

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by The BVI Beacon

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