Last Thursday morning, attorneys, judges and Premier Dr. Natalio “Sowande” Wheatley followed Dame Janice Pereira and a police honour guard to the Multi-purpose Sports Complex for a special sitting of …
October 31, 2024
June 6, 2024
Accused of rape, Jarecki says relationship was ‘consensual’
Ninety-one-year-old billionaire Dr. Henry Jarecki — the owner of Guana and Norman islands in the Virgin Islands — has been sued in United States court by a female model who …
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March 20, 2024
Virgin Gorda native named VG magistrate
A Virgin Gorda native has been appointed to serve as the island’s magistrate. Hakim Creque, who Governor Daniel Pruce appointed effective March 5, will sit full-time on the sister island …
July 8, 2020
October 1, 2018
EDITORIAL: Bring on the plastic ban
Take a walk through Road Town, and you are likely to see Styrofoam and plastic littering the ground, the mangroves and the harbour. This sight is unacceptable anywhere, but it …
September 4, 2018
COMMENTARY — Past nationality laws deemed unfair
I indicated earlier that the provisions of the 1948 Nationality Act did not favour ancestral Virgin Islanders and that fact was not generally known here. It may be that the …
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