Topic: Financial Services, International Affairs (including the British Virgin Islands International Finance Centre) | Posted By: lstevens
Tuesday, 12 March 2019 - 2:28pm
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Virgin Islands, I am pleased to report to you that the European Union has announced today that it recognises the BVI as compliant with its fair taxation principles as well as being a cooperative jurisdiction.
Topic: International Affairs (including the British Virgin Islands International Finance Centre) | Posted By: lstevens
Friday, 4 January 2019 - 3:55pm
The Virgin Islands has been elected to serve as a Director on the executive board for the Caribbean Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (CAIPA).
Topic: Finance and Fiscal Policy, Financial Services, International Affairs (including the British Virgin Islands International Finance Centre) | Posted By: lstevens
Wednesday, 2 January 2019 - 1:44pm
Premier and Minister of Finance, Dr. the Honourable D. Orlando Smith, OBE announced that the BVI has passed important legislation which addresses the European Union’s (EU) concerns over “economic substance” and came into force from January 1, 2019.
Topic: Finance and Fiscal Policy, Financial Services, International Affairs (including the British Virgin Islands International Finance Centre) | Posted By: lstevens
Monday, 3 December 2018 - 3:12pm
Premier and Minister of Finance, Dr. the Honourable D. Orlando Smith, OBE will attend a number of high level meetings in London this week as he continues to promote the role of the BVI within the global economy.
Topic: International Affairs (including the British Virgin Islands International Finance Centre) | Posted By: lstevens
Tuesday, 16 October 2018 - 5:34pm
Governor of the U.S Virgin Islands, Mr. Kenneth E. Mapp is featured as he paid a courtesy visit on Acting Premier, Dr. the Honourable. Kedrick D. Pickering during his short visit to the Territory today, October 16.
Topic: Financial Services, International Affairs (including the British Virgin Islands International Finance Centre), Statutory Bodies | Posted By: aphillip
Tuesday, 18 September 2018 - 12:10pm
Premier and Minister of Finance, Dr. the Honourable D. Orlando Smith, OBE, will be leading a 2-week trade mission to Africa in November.
Topic: Financial Services, International Affairs (including the British Virgin Islands International Finance Centre) | Posted By: DSmith
Wednesday, 15 August 2018 - 6:33pm
Premier, Dr. the Honourable D. Orlando Smith, OBE has today announced that the Government is preparing its submission to the UK Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Select Committee Inquiry on the future of the UK’s Overseas Territories (OTs).
Topic: International Affairs (including the British Virgin Islands International Finance Centre), Passports, Nationality, and Visas, Tourism | Posted By: DSmith
Tuesday, 26 June 2018 - 6:46pm
Nationals of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have been granted access to enter and remain in the Virgin Islands for business and tourism related matters only, for a period of less than six months without the need for a visa.
Topic: Financial Services, International Affairs (including the British Virgin Islands International Finance Centre) | Posted By: DSmith
Saturday, 23 June 2018 - 8:40am
When the BVI Government decided in 2013 to open it’s office in Asia, it estimated that somewhere in the range of 40 to 60 percent of the BVI’s financial services business originated from China and rest of the Asia Pacific region.
