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Following an online news report about the recent closure of Ellis Thomas Downs, government issued a statement last week denying that it cancelled a lease granted to the Thomas family …
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Following a dramatic increase in the cost of electricity since the start of the war in Ukraine, the Virgin Islands government will subsidise residential power bills through the end of …
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The recent Commission of Inquiry reported finding evidence that the Premier’s Office under former Premier Andrew Fahie may have obstructed government auditors investigating Covid-19 assistance programmes. A new law is …
A global human resources association now has a new presence in the territory. The Virgin Islands chapter of the Society of Human Resource Management installed its inaugural executive board during …
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The Virgin Islands has transformed in the five years since it was devastated by Hurricane Irma on Sept. 6, 2017. Scroll down to compare scenes photographed shortly after Irma to …
The non-profit organisation Unite BVI will fund infrastructural works needed to relocate students displaced after the Althea Scatliffe Primary School was closed on June 17 due to structural issues, officials …
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It’s about time. More than three years ago, then-Premier Andrew Fahie’s newly elected government unlawfully disbanded the Climate Change Trust Fund Board, stalling years of hard work and showing a …
Continue reading “EDITORIAL: Gov’t right to apologise and re-form climate board”
Amidst an ongoing police investigation into the Customs Department, at least four online news sites reported on Aug. 19 that Customs Commissioner Wade Smith had been placed on administrative leave. …
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Following DNA tests and other forensic analysis, police believe that skeleton remains found in December belong to Walter Todman, an 83-year-old who went missing almost four years ago, they said …
Hours after the House of Assembly voted to revoke Andrew Fahie’s premiership on Thursday, Dr. Natalio “Sowande” Wheatley was sworn in to head a new “national unity government” that is …
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Speaker of the House Julian Willock plans to resign from the House of Assembly on the request of acting Premier Dr. Natalio “Sowande” Wheatley, Mr. Willock said at the start …
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Premier Andrew Fahie and BVI Ports Authority Managing Director Oleanvine Maynard have been accused of agreeing to allow cocaine to pass through Tortola ports in exchange for a percentage of …
Continue reading “Criminal complaint details claims against premier, port boss [FULL COMPLAINT]”
Premier Andrew Fahie was detained in Miami on Thursday morning on charges related to conspiracy to import a controlled substance and money laundering, Governor John Rankin announced Thursday afternoon. “As …
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When Donald De Castro was a boy in the 1940s, mangroves lined the shore and cays in front of his family’s small waterfront home in Road Town. “We used to …
Continue reading “Mangrove destruction leaves VI ever more vulnerable to climate change”
Lobsters are cannibals. Their larval development is long and complex, and they are voracious feeders. For decades, these three challenges have thwarted scientists and entrepreneurs seeking what has been called …
British entrepreneur Giles Cadman received bad news in early 2020. That January, the Virgin Islands Planning Authority rejected his company’s proposal to build a nearly three-acre lobster farm beside the …
Continue reading “Landowners ‘dismayed’ over approval for lobster farm that was previously denied”
In a series of 2017 Facebook videos, British entrepreneur Giles Cadman stands beside the ocean and describes his company’s plan to build a lobster farm next to the protected Beef …
Continue reading “How many lobsters? Company’s numbers, plans shift”
British entrepreneur Giles Cadman told the Beacon that he is the “ultimate beneficial owner” of Caribbean Sustainable Fisheries, the Virgin Islands-based company behind the planned East End lobster farm. He …
As the Commission of Inquiry continued its work here in the territory, Deputy Premier Dr. Natalio “Sowande” Wheatley repeated the government’s often-stated complaints about the process this month before a …
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Four years after Hurricane Irma gutted the Road Town fire station, renovation of the ground floor is finished, complementing second-storey repairs carried out in 2019 and bringing the project one …
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Deputy Premier Dr. Natalio “Sowande” Wheatley, H. Lavity Stoutt Community College President Dr. Richard Georges, and 33 other Virgin Islands residents were among the signatories of an Aug. 30 petition …
Continue reading “VI petition opposes United States’ Cuba embargo”
The killing of an inmate and the injury of at least two others in a recent brawl at Her Majesty’s Prison should spark a thorough investigation resulting in a comprehensive …
Continue reading “EDITORIAL: Prison probe should result in public report”
The North Sound Administration Building on Virgin Gorda was handed over from the Recovery and Development Agency to Deputy Governor David Archer Jr. last week following the completion of repairs …
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Public officers’ employment records and bank account numbers were among the information included on hundreds of documents strewn on the ground around a dumpster at the Ralph T. O’Neal Administration …
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When Deputy Premier Carvin Malone announced on April 16 that a patient at Dr. Orlando Smith Hospital had tested positive locally for Covid-19, he implied that she had waited too …
Continue reading “After wife’s Covid death, widower left with questions”
