The Office of Management and Budget in collaboration with the Bureau of Information Technology, and the Department of Finance on Thursday announced the launch of an official government transparency website, found here.
The website, sometime in the making, contains a comprehensive database of revenues and expenditures of the territory’s funds, and is accessible to the public in accordance with Title 3, Chapter 33, Section 881a of Virgin Islands Code, according to the release.
The site will retain information for each fiscal year and has links for agencies within the Virgin Islands Government, the release said.
According to the release, the internet database includes the following:
- The appropriations, expenditures, or use of all public funds and receipt of all federal and public funds
- Annual government expenditures or funding actions provided to any entity, recipient or agency
- Local aid to each department
- Annual revenues
The release directs interested persons to visit the transparency website.
For more information, contact Freida Webster at (340) 774-0750 or [email protected].