Making healthy life choices from a young age lowers the risk of eventually suffering from dementia. That’s one of the messages the Virgin Islands Alzheimer’s Association wanted to share with residents during the Brain Health Fair on Friday at Queen Elizabeth II Park. “We’re presenting...
June 25, 2022
June 25, 2022
Chamber expo promotes VI businesses
The sun blazed and tourism season was winding down, but the co-owners of Golden Journey Concierge Service were full of enthusiasm as they talked to potential customers at the Buy BVI Business Expo, which was held Friday and Saturday at the Cyril B. Romney Tortola...
June 23, 2022
Joes Hill homes done early
About five months after government officials held a ground-breaking ceremony at the Joes Hill housing project in April 2017, Hurricane Irma decimated the territory, scuttling the development before it even started. But despite that early setback and challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, the project...
June 24, 2022
Malone crosses the aisle in House of Assembly
A week after the National Unity Government’s reform proposal was accepted by the United Kingdom — heading off a partial constitutional suspension and period of direct rule for now — at-large representative Carvin Malone crossed the aisle and joined the opposition in the House ofAssembly....
June 17, 2022
Reform plan a first for OTs
Forty-eight of 49. That’s how many Commission of Inquiry recommendations the new National Unity Government has pledged to complete over the next two years under the proposal recently agreed with the United Kingdom. If it succeeds, UK leaders have promised to abandon the remaining COI...
June 16, 2022
Reform proposal includes dozens of deadlines
Along with the broader governance reforms laid out in the proposal, the National Unity Government committed to an extensive list of deadlines for carrying out recommendations included in the Commission of Inquiry report. Below are some of the commitments that are expected to have the...
June 16, 2022
Fahie out on bond after Albion “Bobby” Hodge posts his $500k surety
Former Premier Andrew Fahie was released from the Federal Detention Center in Miami on Monday pending his trial after his lawyer and prosecutors argued over his bond for more than a month, according to the United States Bureau of Prisons website. Mr. Fahie’s hearing and...
June 17, 2022
SOL to replace Delta as BVIEC supplier
SOL will step in to provide No. 2 Diesel fuel and other services to the BVI Electricity Corporation through 2024, after the utility’s original contract with Delta Petroleum was terminated last month amid a public dispute in which Delta and BVIEC accused each other of...
June 16, 2022
Lost sailboat found near Culebra
After working on his sailboat into the evening of June 2, Nick Buckell returned to the mooring field at St. Thomas Bay, Virgin Gorda, the following morning to find that the 30-foot mono-hull had disappeared. He searched the harbour and other parts of the territory...
June 16, 2022
160 perform in DanceFest
It was a night of pirouettes, croisés and pliés during the annual BVI DanceFest on Sunday at the H. Lavity Stoutt Community College, where young dancers took the stage at the Eileene L. Parsons Auditorium to showcase what they’ve learned over the past year. “These...
June 17, 2022
‘Celebration to remember’ promised for Festival
After two years of muted celebrations during the Covid-19 pandemic, plans are underway to hold the August Emancipation Festival from July 24 to Aug. 5 under the slogan “Celebrate Freedom for Me and You, BVI Festival 2022,” the Virgin Islands Festivals and Fairs Committee announced...
