In a Government Information Services release, it has been announced that the Customs Department will be transitioning to a modernized and improved version of the Customs Automated Processing System (CAPS) beginning May 25. Commissioner of Customs, Wade N. Smith, while speaking on the importance of evolving the CAPS system stated that as technology improves the … Continued
The Government of the Virgin Islands through the Government Information services is reminding persons that requests to home quarantine are to be made five to seven days prior to travel date into the British Virgin Islands. Chief Environmental Health Officer Mr. Lionel Michael said this allows for the home quarantine inspections and approval by the … Continued
The COI has held a series of hearings over the last two weeks of which the primary focus has been the production of information and documents. There are further such hearings this week. However, the Commissioner has also heard a series of applications concerning formal participation in the COI, and has made orders allowing the … Continued
ADÉX – Writer & Visual Artist The 2021 Saint Lucia elections is gearing up to be a battle of the bases, and the Saint Lucia Labor Partys’ (SLP) base is simply larger. So instead, the United Workers Party has gambled on making this election about its leader Allen Chastanet but that has been a dismal … Continued
The British Virgin Islands Ports Authority is advising the public that the current international ferry passengers schedule and passenger limit remains. There continues to only be one daily round trip ferry service for this initial period with a maximum of 50 passengers per trip. Ferry passengers arriving and departing the British Virgin Islands must reserve … Continued
Leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition, Honourable Marlon Penn said “We have to be ready to reopen to cruise ships calling to the Territory.” Honourable Marlon Penn expressed to date, we have not received any updates or any information on the progress, processes and/or logistics of the reopening of the Cyril B. Romney Tortola Pier … Continued
NPR Tanitoluwa Adewumi, a 10-year-old in New York, just became the country’s newest national chess master. At the Fairfield County Chess Club Championship tournament in Connecticut on May 1, Adewumi won all four of his matches, bumping his chess rating up to 2223 and making him the 28th youngest person to become a chess master, … Continued
AP Like more than 120 million other Americans, Jan Massie is fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and can pretty much give up wearing a mask under the latest guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But she’s still covering her face, even as the temperature rises in her native Alabama, because of benefits she … Continued
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City flattened three buildings and killed at least 42 people Sunday, Palestinian medics said, in the deadliest single attack in the latest round of violence. Despite the toll and international efforts to broker a cease-fire, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signaled the fourth war with … Continued
VI CONSORITIUM Five-time NBA champion, two-time NBA M.V.P., three-time NBA Finals M.V.P. and fifteen-time NBA All Star player, Tim Duncan — a St. Croix native — will officially have another accolade associated to his name on Saturday: hall of fame inductee. Mr. Duncan will be officially inducted on Saturday into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall … Continued
