Topic: Cabinet, Good Governance, House of Assembly | Posted By: DSmith
Tuesday, 2 March 2021 - 7:23pm
On January 19, 2021 the former Governor, His Excellency Augustus J. U. Jaspert, appointed Sir Gary Hickinbottom, to hold a Commission of Inquiry (COI), to inquire into whether corruption, abuse of office or other serious dishonesty in relation to officials, whether statutory, elected or public, “… may have taken place in recent years.”
The Cabinet Office is notifying the public that Statutory Instrument No. 17 Imposition of a Curfew (No.4) Order, 2021 is now available on the Virgin Islands Official Gazette website at https://eservices.gov.vg/gazette/. The Instrument was published in an extraordinary issue of the Gazette No. 18 dated 24th February, 2021.
The Cabinet Office is notifying the public that Statutory Instrument No. 12 Imposition of a Curfew (No.3) Order, 2020 is now available on the Virgin Islands Official Gazette website at https://eservices.gov.vg/gazette/.
His Excellency, the Acting Governor Mr. David Archer, Jr. chaired the Meeting held on 7th January, 2021, in the absence of Governor August Jaspert, who was overseas on official leave.
The Cabinet of the Virgin Islands acknowledges the interruption of the publicising of Cabinet decisions in 2020. However, the Cabinet remains committed to good governance principles of transparency and accountability.