Manager for the Department of Waste Management, Mr. Neville Allen has said that the Territory wide clean up undertaken in December saw the collection of tons of waste.

The Central Statistics Office (CSO) is said to be working diligently on plans to commence the 2020 Population and Housing Census in June of this year.  

Public service entities and their non-government organisation partners met today to identify how to combine their resources and expertise while working to restore the Territory’s mangroves.

Principal Crown Counsel in the Office of the Director of Prosecutions, Mrs. Tiffany Scatliffe-Esprit has been appointed as Acting Director of Public Prosecutions with effect from December 14, 2019. 

The remaining ten percent of Public Officers of the Virgin Islands can expect to receive their 2016 increments by the end of February.

The data collected as part of the United Kingdom Government’s Conflict, Stability and Security Fund Overseas Territories Seabed Mapping Programme has been handed over to the Government of the Virgin Islands.

The Premier and Minister of Finance of the British Virgin Islands Honourable Andrew A. Fahie has today said that the good tax cooperation between the British Virgin Islands and France has been overlooked in the French Government's decision to include the jurisdiction, among others newly added, to its list of non-cooperative states and territories in tax matters.

The 2020 Law Year of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court (ECSC) will commence for the first time at the start of a calendar year, on Monday, January 13.

Mr. Rhodni Skelton, Deputy Director of the British Virgin Islands Tourist Board and Film Commission (BVITB&FC), has been appointed to act as Director of Tourism during the absence of the Director of the Tourism, Mrs. Sharon Flax Brutus.  Mrs. Flax Brutus is currently on vacation leave and returns to office in the latter half of February 2020.

Representatives from the Canadian Bank Note Company’s Project Team will be installing the first phase of the Border Management and Electronic Visa System next week.