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Seven days before the general election, Dr. Karl Dawson stood outside the House of Assembly to protest burning at the Pockwood Pond dump that had been sending clouds of acrid …
Continue reading “At dumpsite, ministers promise better, but incinerator still down”
The Virgin Islands Party won six of 13 seats in the House of Assembly on Polling Day, falling one shy of the majority needed to form a government, election officials …
Continue reading “Coalition likely after no party wins majority”
Reynold “King Paido” Phillips wouldn’t have missed the calypso competition on Sunday night at the Virgin Gorda Easter Festival. After all, he had a title to defend. Because of the …
Continue reading “‘King Paido’ keeps crown in first VI calypso contest since 2019”
The end of the Althea Scatliffe Primary School building in Road Town came all too soon for many graduates, who gathered on its lawn on April 1 to share their …
Continue reading “Alums say good-bye to Althea Scatliffe Primary School”
When leaders broke ground on the Huntums Ghut Economic Zone in October 2020, they said the project would include three commercial warehouses that would accommodate up to six businesses each. …
Under a new agreement, the Virgin Islands government will receive guidance from the Florida-Caribbean Cruise Association on “enhancing” the territory’s “product” and increasing cruise calls, the trade association announced last …
Continue reading “BVIPA keeps deal with cruise group secret”
Last year, the Commission of Inquiry blasted then-Premier Andrew Fahie for overstepping his authority and unlawfully revoking the membership of the Climate Change Trust Fund Board before the end of …
Twenty years after the government procured 134 acres of land on behalf of H. Lavity Stoutt Community College, only 13 acres have been transferred to the school, Natural Resources and …
Continue reading “Minister pledges to finalise land transfer to college”
During the Covid-19 pandemic, BVI Tourist Board Marketing Manager Lynette Harrigan quickly became known as the go-to source for travellers struggling to navigate the territory’s fast-changing entry protocols. In honour …
Continue reading “After Covid work, Harrigan honoured by king”
The territory’s four telecommunications providers all have recently renewed their unitary licences, allowing them to continue operating here for a second 15-year period subject to compliance assessments every five years, …
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Arliene Penn credits a pap smear screening in 2001 with saving her life by detecting her cervical cancer before it progressed to an advanced stage. Now she is using her …
Continue reading “Virgin Islands women offered free pap smears”
Less than two weeks after the BVI Christian Council delayed a legal challenge to the territory’s same-sex marriage ban, BVICC Vice President Rosemarie Flax used the council’s “Weekly Devotion” to …
About 50 students wearing all sorts of attention-grabbing hats marched and danced from the Festival Village Grounds to Queen Elizabeth II Park on Monday morning. The parade celebrated World Mental …
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 …
Continue reading “Government denies cancelling horse track lease”
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 …
Continue reading “Gov’t to subsidise electricity bills through December”
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. …
Continue reading “Gov’t mum on reports that customs boss sent on leave”
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 …
Continue reading “‘Unity government’ sworn in, but UK still silent”
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 …
Continue reading “Willock resigns, claims he was a “sacrificial lamb””
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]”
