New work is set to get under way soon on the Long Swamp section of the East End/Long Look Sewerage Project, one of the new government’s first steps in delivering on decades-long attempts to provide the area with sewage services through the Paraquita Bay treatment plant.
The new House of Assembly is taking shape. The past week saw the appointment of Progressive Virgin Islands Movement leader Ronnie Skelton as opposition leader and the setting of ministerial portfolios for members of the Virgin Islands Party-led administration.
Governor John Rankin used his discretionary powers under the Constitution to recall the House of Assembly on April 17 so that it could pass a law to validate the status of 688 people who were granted belongership in 2019 and early 2020 even though they did not meet all the necessary requirements.
When government unveiled a “futuristic and organic” design for the new West End Ferry Terminal last February, it proved so controversial that the Recovery and Development Agency launched a poll five months later to let residents decide between that concept and two others.