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The House of Assembly passed the 2025 budget with amendments on Dec. 19 after a lengthy debate over two days that touched on the economy, infrastructure, healthcare, the minimum wage …
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Through Nov. 15, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions had secured 152 convictions and seen 94 acquittals in the Magistrates’ Court in 2022, DPP Tiffany Scatliffe-Esprit told legislators …
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Officers at the Virgin Gorda Police Station came in for sharp criticism last month when Police Commissioner Mark Collins appeared before the House of Assembly’s Standing Finance Committee, according to …
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We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: The annual deliberations of the Standing Finance Committee should be open to the public. Unfortunately, our pleas have fallen on deaf …
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