New Arrangements for BVI Road Town Vendors
Important information to BVI Vendors. All Road Town Vendors are warned that they should have valid trade licence for 2006 for using tents, booths and other temporary structures, otherwise their trade operations will be admitted illegal and swept during the week of May 22 by the BVI Trade and Consumer Affairs Department.
Under the BVI Business, Professions and Trade Licences Act, 1990, vendors conducting operations without the above-mentioned trade licence are liable to the payment of a fine not exceeding $2,000. The fine can be even supplemented by a certain term of imprisonment.
This was explained by City Manager Ms. Eugenia O'Neal. She also noticed that "vendors with a valid trade license are not supposed to keep their tents, booths and vans in their vending locations at times when they are not in use," and " "untenanted tents, booths and vans on public or unoccupied property within the environs of Road Town will be removed after May 22 as part of the Trade and Consumer Affairs Department sweep."Ms. Eugenia O'Neal said that the Government of British Virgin Islands is planning to improve Road Town and uphold law and order in the capital of the offshore jurisdiction, thus ut us making efforts to make vendors to comply with the requirements of their trade licences.
Ms. O'Neal added that BVI Government is concerned about the negative effect of the tents and booths on Road Town's appearance at the period when all efforts are being made to beautify different areas.
Therefore, all businesses in the BVI offshore jurisdiction, starting with restaurants and bars, mobile and roadside vendors and ending with day care centres and pre-schools, will be able to receive the license from the Trade Department only after inspection and approvement of their operating premises. Starting from January 1, 2006, this concerns both first-time applicants and renewal. Before being licenced, they should meet inspection and the regulations of all relevant Government institutions.
For example, the certificate of a food handler is not a license to conduct business. Food business operators are expected to register with the Public Health Department of the British Virgin Islands. Before getting a trade licence, they will be inspected by the Environmental Health Division.
The Department of Trade and Consumer Affairs is co-operating with the Environmental Health Division and other agencies to make regular the registration and licensing of busineses operating within the BVI offshore territory.
Under the BVI Business, Professions and Trade Licences Act, 1990, vendors conducting operations without the above-mentioned trade licence are liable to the payment of a fine not exceeding $2,000. The fine can be even supplemented by a certain term of imprisonment.
This was explained by City Manager Ms. Eugenia O'Neal. She also noticed that "vendors with a valid trade license are not supposed to keep their tents, booths and vans in their vending locations at times when they are not in use," and " "untenanted tents, booths and vans on public or unoccupied property within the environs of Road Town will be removed after May 22 as part of the Trade and Consumer Affairs Department sweep."Ms. Eugenia O'Neal said that the Government of British Virgin Islands is planning to improve Road Town and uphold law and order in the capital of the offshore jurisdiction, thus ut us making efforts to make vendors to comply with the requirements of their trade licences.
Ms. O'Neal added that BVI Government is concerned about the negative effect of the tents and booths on Road Town's appearance at the period when all efforts are being made to beautify different areas.
Therefore, all businesses in the BVI offshore jurisdiction, starting with restaurants and bars, mobile and roadside vendors and ending with day care centres and pre-schools, will be able to receive the license from the Trade Department only after inspection and approvement of their operating premises. Starting from January 1, 2006, this concerns both first-time applicants and renewal. Before being licenced, they should meet inspection and the regulations of all relevant Government institutions.
For example, the certificate of a food handler is not a license to conduct business. Food business operators are expected to register with the Public Health Department of the British Virgin Islands. Before getting a trade licence, they will be inspected by the Environmental Health Division.
The Department of Trade and Consumer Affairs is co-operating with the Environmental Health Division and other agencies to make regular the registration and licensing of busineses operating within the BVI offshore territory.
posted by Brian Obvi, Offshore Analyst | 10:39 AM
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