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New details about the government’s planned referendum on same-sex marriage are included in a draft resolution Gazetted recently by Cabinet. No date has been set for the referendum — which …
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As more countries around the world continue to legalise same-sex marriage, the BVI Christian Council is doubling down on its opposition to the practice here in the Virgin Islands. Following …
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With government facing a lawsuit seeking to legalise same-sex marriage in the Virgin Islands, Premier Dr. Natalio “Sowande” Wheatley announced on Monday that the public will get to air their …
Less than two weeks after the BVI Christian Council delayed a legal challenge to the territory’s same-sex marriage ban, BVICC Vice President Rosemarie Flax used the council’s “Weekly Devotion” to …
The first challenge to the territory’s same-sex marriage ban was scheduled to be heard last month in High Court, but the case was delayed after last-minute legal manoeuvring by the …
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A bill tabled this month in the United Kingdom House of Lords aims to legalise same-sex marriage throughout the British overseas territories, but the Governor’s Office said the bill is …
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In a case that could have far-reaching consequences for gay rights in the Virgin Islands, two women who have been legally married under United Kingdom law since 2019 are seeking …
The United Kingdom government has no plans to impose same-sex marriage or to phase out belongership in the overseas territories, according to its Sunday response to the Feb. 21 report …
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Cayman Islands Premier Alden Mclaughlin announced last week that his government plans to appeal the chief justice’s historic decision to legalise same-sex marriage on the grounds that the judge exceeded …
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The Cayman Islands legalised same-sex marriage on Sunday, following a landmark Grand Court decision which ruled that preventing such unions violated the rights to a private and family life guaranteed …
Once again, United Kingdom politicians have missed the mark in their handling of the overseas territories, with a parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee releasing an extremely tone-deaf report on the future …
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A long-awaited report on the United Kingdom’s governance of its overseas territories has stated that belongership systems like the one in the Virgin Islands are wrong and their “discriminatory elements” …
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