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Auditor General Sonia Webster is investigating how the government dramatically underestimated the cost of public-service salary increases awarded last year, according to Premier Natalio “Sowande” Wheatley. He made the disclosure …
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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A private register of interests for senior public officers. New integrity rules. The creation of a government department known as the Virgin Islands Public Service Learning Institute. All are among …
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The government is collaborating with the H. Lavity Stoutt Community College on a new public-officer training programme set to launch early next year. The Virgin Islands Public Service Learning Institute …
In spite of the tireless efforts of this community’s usual heroes, we fear that many needy residents are falling through the cracks as the territory struggles to respond to the …
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Government is making progress on delayed increment payments to public officers, with the goal of paying all of the 2016 increments by the end of November and paying 2017 increments …