While government continues to consider the lone bid of about $37 million for 38 miles of roadwork across the territory, $1.8 million has been allocated to carry out remedial works …
April 26, 2024
January 14, 2021
Irma housing aid stops taking applications
Though the government’s Housing Recovery Assistance Programme was allocated a $9 million boost in May under the umbrella of a Covid-19 pandemic stimulus package funded mostly by the Social Security …
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July 22, 2020
Banks look beyond moratoriums
Last week, Republic Bank Managing Director Michelle Palmer-Keizer spoke to one of her customers, a small-business owner who had received a six-month moratorium on her bank loan. “She said, ‘I’m …
May 14, 2018
Government to subsidise loans for some property owners
Some property owners rebuilding from the September hurricanes will be eligible for subsidised loans under an agreement that the government signed Friday with the National Bank of the Virgin Islands. …
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March 26, 2018
Microloans offered for small businesses
In August, therapist Kelvin Fahie had just opened his addiction-counselling practice, A Place Where Healing Begins, in Road Reef. Thanks to last year’s Kickstart BVI Small Business Loan Programme, he …