When a three-member United Nations mission visited the Virgin Islands for the first time nearly 50 years ago, it found that a major obstacle in the territory’s path toward independence …
February 13, 2025
January 23, 2025
Walwyn wall case tossed
A magistrate tossed out charges against two former Virgin Islands education officials on Jan. 21, effectively ending a criminal case linked to a 2014 wall project at the Elmore Stoutt …
January 16, 2025
20-year-old dead amid shooting spree
A 20-year-old man was shot to death shortly before 2 a.m. yesterday morning near his Purcell Estate residence amid a series of violent incidents across Tortola over 24 hours, police …
December 6, 2024
Government gets earful at airport meetings
At the start of the second of three public meetings held last week to discuss the government’s proposal to expand the Virgin Islands’ main airport, Clive Smith told attendees that …
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November 28, 2024
Three airport options unveiled at public meetings
The government’s latest proposals to expand the runway at the Virgin Islands’ main airport were unveiled at a public meeting the evening of Nov. 26, but major details about the …
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September 26, 2024
Fahie’s lawyers pull out as his funds come up short
Former premier Andrew Fahie has launched an appeal of his United States conviction on drug-conspiracy charges, but the Florida appeal lawyer who previously represented him is withdrawing from the case …
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September 12, 2024
Virgin Gorda health crisis sparks cries and demands
With emotion audible in her voice, Charlene Henderson spoke slowly in short sentences that commanded the room’s attention. “Bucky was dying. He could hardly breathe. He was breathing through his …
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August 5, 2024
Andrew Fahie sentenced to 11 years in prison
MIAMI, Florida – Former premier Andrew Fahie sat expressionless in a Miami courtroom this afternoon as a federal judge sentenced him to a little over 11 years in prison for …
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July 25, 2024
Fahie says US informant, not him, led drug conspiracy
Former premier Andrew Fahie is pushing back against prosecutors’ contention that he led a plan to smuggle cocaine into the United States, instead arguing that it was a Drug Enforcement …
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July 15, 2024
VI officials mum on US claim that Fahie aimed to bribe Wade Smith
After two years of public speculation about the identity of alleged co-conspirators in the cocaine-smuggling scheme that landed ex-premier Andrew Fahie in a Miami prison, United States prosecutors recently linked …
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July 8, 2024
Veteran UK cop to oversee law, justice reforms
A 30-year veteran of the United Kingdom’s policing service has been named the “implementation manager” responsible for overseeing immediate priority reforms across the Virgin Islands’ law-enforcement and justice-administration agencies. Governor’s …
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July 4, 2024
US aims to jail Fahie for life
Last month, former premier Andrew Fahie asked a Miami judge to sentence him to the minimum 10 years in prison for conspiring to smuggle thousands of kilograms of cocaine into …
June 28, 2024
Blistering review blasts law enforcers
Police and prison holding facilities described as “squalid” and “inhumane.” Evidence left unsecured on police officers’ desks in a “chaotic” manner. An unsafe police gun range where shooting drills occur …
June 27, 2024
Maynard gets 9 years for cocaine conspiracy
During a friendly lunch meeting in St. Thomas in March 2022, Oleanvine Maynard explained her financial goals to an undercover operative she believed to be a member of Mexico’s Sinaloa …
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June 13, 2024
Eyeing minimum, Fahie asks for 10 years
An attorney for ex-premier Andrew Fahie argued last week that he was accused of acting only as a “figurehead” in the cocaine-trafficking scheme that led to his conviction and should …
June 6, 2024
Accused of rape, Jarecki says relationship was ‘consensual’
Ninety-one-year-old billionaire Dr. Henry Jarecki — the owner of Guana and Norman islands in the Virgin Islands — has been sued in United States court by a female model who …
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May 2, 2024
Maynard sentence delayed
United States District Court Judge Kathleen Williams has once again delayed the sentencing of Oleanvine Maynard, forcing the former BVI Ports Authority managing director to wait until June to know …
April 11, 2024
Fahie sentencing delayed to June
Former premier Andrew Fahie’s sentencing on drug-conspiracy charges was initially scheduled for this month in Miami, but it has been delayed until June 25 after his lawyer requested more time …
April 8, 2024
Q3 incorporations tick up slightly
More companies were incorporated in the territory in the third quarter of 2023 than in the previous three months, a bright spot for a financial services sector that has grappled …
March 7, 2024
Fahie guilty verdicts stand, and lawyer mum on possible appeal
A United States judge ruled today that the Feb. 8 guilty verdicts against former premier Andrew Fahie will stand despite concerns reportedly raised by two jurors shortly after his trial, …
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March 7, 2024
1,800 kilos of cocaine seized at sea
Police seized 60 bales containing about 1,800 kilograms of cocaine shortly after 8 p.m. Tuesday after intercepting a go-fast boat near Hodges Creek in what they described as the territory’s …
March 7, 2024
Lawyers still at odds over Fahie jurors
United States attorneys who led the recent prosecution of former premier Andrew Fahie on drug-conspiracy charges are open to the idea of an inquiry into last month’s contested guilty verdict, …
February 23, 2024
Next steps unclear in Fahie drug case
Two weeks after a Miami jury found former premier Andrew Fahie guilty of a cocaine trafficking conspiracy, his future remains uncertain as attorneys spar over whether the court should investigate …
February 12, 2024
Fahie verdict in question after two jurors changed minds, Herald reports
Two jurors in the drug conspiracy trial of former Virgin Islands premier Andrew Fahie said they changed their minds shortly after delivering a guilty verdict last week, plunging the case …
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February 8, 2024
Ex-premier Andrew Fahie found guilty of cocaine scheme
MIAMI, Florida — Former Virgin Islands premier Andrew Fahie was found guilty on Thursday afternoon of conspiring to smuggle thousands of kilograms of cocaine into the United States while laundering …
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