The Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sustainable Development has cancelled the six remaining public meetings on a planned national tourism policy, replacing them with “target focus group sessions” that have …
May 1, 2025
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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March 24, 2025
Rights watchdog in the works again
The territory’s 2007 Constitution provided for the creation of a commission charged with helping protect human rights in the Virgin Islands. It was never formed. But now, after 18 years …
January 24, 2025
Summit to inform tourism plan
After Premier Natalio “Sowande” Wheatley called for a “shared vision” last Thursday at the first Virgin Islands Tourism Summit, Shereen Flax-Charles had a question. “What are the plans to balance …
October 23, 2023
Residents weigh in on belongership
During a series of public meetings held over several days, residents got a chance to weigh in on potential government plans to create an immigration policy, amend the Immigration and …
