The British Virgin Islands(BVI)remains in the limelight after its premier, Andrew Fahie, was apprehended in Miami, Florida, accused of medication trafficking as well as cash laundering .
Mr Fahie, Oleanvine Maynard-who is the taking care of supervisor of the BVI’s port authority-as well as the latter’s child Kadeem Maynard were all arrested on costs of conspiring to import greater than 5kg of cocaine into the US after apparently being caught up in a sting operation at the city’s flight terminal by covert Drug Enforcement Administration(DEA)representatives impersonating traffickers.
The BVI, located to the east of Puerto Rico and also the United States Virgin Islands and north of Anguilla, is a British Overseas Territory, its locals British residents because 2002. The island chain– the biggest land masses of which are Tortola, Virgin Gorda, Anegada and Jost Van Dyke– is a parliamentary freedom however its utmost exec authority is its guv, that is selected by the Queen on the guidance of the British government.Its protection and also foreign events continue to be the duty of the UK.
Responding to Mr Fahie’s apprehension, British international secretary Liz Truss said she was “horrified by these serious accusations” versus the leader of the ruling Virgin Islands Party as well as included that she and also Mr Rankin would certainly be holding an emergency situation conference to”set out next steps”.
One of those steps will be to quickly publish a recently finished report by the Commission of Inquiry into just how the area is governed, she said.The very first European to set eyes on the Virgin Islands was renowned traveler Christopher Columbus in 1493 throughout his second trip to the Americas, who called them after the Christian tale of St Ursula and also
the Eleven Thousand Virgins.They were subsequently declared by Spanish colonists, prior to the Dutch built an irreversible settlement on Tortola in 1648. Premier Andrew Fahie(British Virgin Islands government&)The island was captured by the British in 1672, that ultimately annexed Anegada as well as Virgin Gorda 8 years later and transformed the archipelago right into a centre for sugar walking cane growing, delivery in African slaves to work its plantations.
This technique endured until 1830s, when the abolition of enslavement within the British Empire accompanied a collection of ravaging cyclones that tore through the islands’walking cane areas.
The BVI was formerly administered with the British Leeward Islands or as component of a grouping with St Kitts and Nevis before they acquired different nest standing in 1960 as well as ended up being autonomous in 1967.