Citizens of the OECS

Historical background

Classes will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Road Town Senior Building across from the Happy Lion Restaurant. Registration deadline is June 26 and a fee of $75.00 must be paid.

t has been developed to give information and precise locations of scheduled work, road updates, completed works, water upgrades and detour options, where necessary. Updates on the map will be made periodically as they become available.

Deputy Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Communications and Works, Mr. Andrew St. Hilaire stated that various measures are being made to control the mold in the building and enhance the quality of air.

It is an honour and a privilege for me as your Governor to officiate at this formal ceremony to hear the oaths and affirmations by the new Premier and Ministers of the new government of the Virgin Islands.

The Government of the Virgin Islands is pleased that the infrastructural rehabilitation and road stabilisation programme under the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) portfolio is progressing.

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Communications and Works Mr. Anthony McMaster in an update on projects said that the Parham Town project is now 100% complete with the addition of a new drainage component. He said Pleasant Valley is also complete per contract and is undergoing other works which include re-fencing.

On his return to office Premier Smith was greeted by the staff of the Premier’s Office and the Ministry of Finance, and subsequently met with the Permanent Secretary, Mr. Brodrick Penn, along with the Financial Secretary, Mr. Neil Smith to receive a ministerial update on the work of the two offices.

Assistant Commissioner of Enforcement, Mr. Clinton Romney said that officers and their dogs underwent advanced scent detection methods using new K-9 training methods that covered all areas of contraband interdiction.

Topics to be discussed include: knowing yourself as a man and your personality pattern, understanding how to love in a relationship, co-parenting, violence in relationships, and men’s sexual health.

The Office of Gender Affairs and the Family Health Unit of the Ministry of Health and Social Development will host the conferences on Tortola and Virgin Gorda as part of activities to observe Men’s Month.