This Week’s Senate Calendar July 1-5

University of the Virgin Islands

33rd Legislature of the Virgin Islands Senate Calendar

Monday, July 1
9 a.m.
Committee on Finance
University of the Virgin Islands Great Hall, Albert A. Sheen Campus, St. Croix
Agenda:
The committee will receive testimony on the proposed Fiscal Year 2020 Executive Budget for the Government of the Virgin Islands
9 a.m. — Division of Personnel
LUNCH – Noon
1 p.m. — Department of Public Works
3 p.m. — Bureau of Information Technology

Tuesday, July 2
9 a.m.
Committee on Finance
University of the Virgin Islands Great Hall, Albert A. Sheen Campus, St. Croix
Agenda:
The committee will receive testimony on the proposed Fiscal Year 2020 Executive Budget for the Government of the Virgin Islands
9 a.m. – Gov. Juan F. Luis Hospital and Medical Center
LUNCH – Noon
1 p.m. – Frederiksted Health Care Inc.
3 p.m. – Department of Licensing and Consumer Affairs

Wednesday, July 3
EMANCIPATION DAY

Thursday, July 4
4TH OF JULY

Friday, July 5
10 a.m.
Committee on Culture, Historic Preservation and Aging
Earle B. Ottley Legislative Hall, St Thomas
Agenda:

The committee in collaboration with the Office of the Senate President will present a program in celebration of the “Year of Return, Ghana 2019,” the International Decade of People of African Descent and in observance of Virgin Islands Emancipation and Freedom Weekend.

The “Year of Return, Ghana 2019” is a major landmark spiritual and birthright journey inviting the Global African family, home and abroad, to mark 400 years of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Jamestown, Virginia. It celebrates the cumulative resilience of all the victims of the Trans-Atlantic slave Trade who were scattered and displaced throughout the world in North America, South America, the Caribbean, Europe and Asia.

Guest presenters:
Alex Quaison-Sackey – namesake and relative of the first black African to serve as president of the United Nations General Assembly.
Azia Corbett Suleiman – director of Earth Mamas Pan African Dance
Myron Allick – representative of the Sackey family
Assata Afua – director of Black Power Theater