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Source: [1] [2] 1 January – New Year's Day 3 March – Lavity Stoutt's Birthday (In lieu of 7 March) 18 April – Good Friday 21 April – Easter Monday 9 June – Whit Monday ...
14 January - Former Health Secretary, Carvin Malone, who led the Territory through the Covid-19 pandemic dies. [1]25 January - The Virgin Islands Deposit Insurance Corporation, providing a government backed guarantee for bank deposits in the Territory.
Cabinet of the British Virgin Islands [42] Office Members Notes Premier: Natalio Wheatley: Minister of Finance Governor: John Rankin: Ministers Lorna Smith Deputy Premier Minister for Financial Services, Labour and Trade Kye Rymer: Minister for Communications and Works Sharie de Castro Minister for Education, Youth Affairs and Sports Vincent ...
The third session of the House of Assembly first met on 23 June 2015, [6] and therefore in the ordinary course of things the latest possible date of the next British Virgin Islands general election would have been one day short of four years and two months after that date, i.e. on 22 August 2019.
The judiciary of British Virgin Islands is based on the judiciary of the United Kingdom. The Territory is a member state of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court. Judges in the British Virgin Islands are appointed by the Judicial and Legal Services Commission of the Supreme Court [12] rather than elected. By convention judges are always appointed ...
The House of Assembly of the British Virgin Islands, until 2007 known as the Legislative Council, [1] has 15 members: 13 directly elected for four-year terms (nine in single-seat constituencies and four "at large"), and two ex officio members (the Attorney General and a Speaker chosen from outside the house).
Joe Biden is expected to unveil new sanctions targeting Russia's economy as part of measures to bolster Kyiv's war effort before Donald Trump takes office.
The official currency of the British Virgin Islands has been the United States dollar (US$) since 1959, the currency also used by the United States Virgin Islands. [3] The British Virgin Islands enjoys one of the more prosperous economies of the Caribbean region, with a per capita average income of around $47,000 (2022 est.) [47]