{"id":16328,"date":"2015-01-22T09:51:03","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T09:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viconsortium.com\/?p=16328"},"modified":"2015-01-22T09:51:03","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T09:51:03","slug":"mapp-appoints-new-members-to-pfa-vingn-and-wico-boards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.viconsortium.com\/?p=16328","title":{"rendered":"Mapp Appoints New Members To PFA, ViNGN And WICO Boards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a Public Finance Authority (PFA) meeting held Wednesday, Governor Kenneth Mapp, in his capacity as chairman of the board, moved to appoint new members to several governing boards, including the aforementioned PFA, the Virgin Islands Next Generation Network (ViNGN) and the West Indian Company (WICO).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The governor named\u00a0Finance Commissioner-designee\u00a0Valdamier Collens as executive director of the PFA board, and\u00a0Keith O\u2019Neale as its secretary.<\/p>\n<p>New members named to WICO&#8217;s board include\u00a0Randolph Knight, Joyce Dore-Griffin, Roberto Cintron, Ricardo Lettsome, Michael Watson, Michael Daswani, and Edward Thomas. Tourism Commissioner Beverly Nicholson-Doty will remain on the board\u00a0to represent the department she heads.<\/p>\n<p>Mapp also named Elizabeth Armstrong to the ViNGN board to represent WAPA. She replaces Hugo Hodge, WAPA&#8217;s executive director.<\/p>\n<p>A significant matter discussed at the\u00a0meeting was\u00a0the $1.5 million Agriculture Revolving Fund. 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