H. Lavity Stoutt Community College students will be sharing their campus with uniformed police officers for the first time next week as the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force begins a …
September 30, 2011
September 29, 2011
David Swain walks free
David Swain, the Rhode Island man convicted in 2009 of murdering his wife Shelley Tyre during a 1999 wreck-diving excursion off Cooper Island, walked away a free man after more …
September 28, 2011
Hibiscus on display at show
On Sunday afternoon at the J.R. O’Neal Botanic Gardens, Eudean Legair sat down to have her face painted. Purple being her favourite colour, she had a purple hibiscus drawn on …
September 28, 2011
Sports Briefs (Sept. 29, 2011)
Cycling BSAFE is offering a Learn to Ride clinic to children of all ages, on Saturday.
September 28, 2011
Activists warn about global warming
More than two dozen residents held hands and formed a circle around cones
September 28, 2011
Delays plague cocaine case
A flurry of dramatic language flowed freely in Magistrates’ Court Tuesday
September 28, 2011
UK seeks input from OT residents
Got an idea of how to improve the relationship between the Virgin Islands and the British government? Now’s your chance.
September 28, 2011
VI moves to second phase of OECD review
An international organisation that recently found deficiencies in the territory’s
September 28, 2011
Premier hospitalised briefly
Premier Ralph O’Neal was taken to Peebles Hospital last Thursday after a “brief episode of discomfort,” according to Government Information Services.
September 28, 2011
FCO declines to review lemur decision
The United Kingdom is standing by a decision from Natural Resources
September 28, 2011
DR man fined, deported for illegal entry
A man who claims he stowed away on a cruise ship and later illegally
September 28, 2011
US: Alleged coke smugglers were headed to VI
Five men were formally charged in the United States Virgin Islands
September 28, 2011
TRC finds ‘dominance’ in telecoms markets
The territory’s three telephone companies are each “dominant” in some of the markets
September 27, 2011
Fire and Rescue Services to mark 25
The Virgin Islands Fire and Rescue Services will celebrate its 25th anniversary next week.
September 27, 2011
Andre Penn appeal set for Friday
The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court of Appeal is set to hear an appeal tomorrow on behalf of Andre Penn,
September 27, 2011
VIP launches D-2, D-4 candidates
Premier Ralph O’Neal took the stage in support of two of his party’s incumbents who launched re-election campaigns recently: Alvin Christopher launched in the Second District on Friday, Dr. Vincent …
September 26, 2011
Cleanup nets more trash than in ’10
Volunteers collected a record number of plastic bottles from the territory’s shoreline during this year’s International Coastal Cleanup activities, according to the Conservation and Fisheries Department.
September 26, 2011
Premier: Election Day is Nov. 7
Virgin Islands voters will go to the polls Nov. 7, Premier Ralph O’Neal announced Friday evening in Cane Garden Bay during the launch of Second District candidate Alvin Christopher.
September 23, 2011
Public servants’ elections guidelines issued
“This is not a witch hunt,” Deputy Governor Inez Archibald told about 40 government employees today during an “HR Talk” about how public employees should behave at election time.
September 23, 2011
Burglary leads to jail time
Samuel Harris was sentenced to six months in Her Majesty’s Prison Friday, after previously pleading guilty to burglarising Mala’s West Indian Delights in Baughers Bay and stealing two 22-inch plasma …
September 23, 2011
Man found shot near RT museum
A Horsepath man was found Thursday with a single gunshot wound in an abandoned vehicle near the Old Sugar Works Museum on Station Avenue in Road Town, police said.
September 21, 2011
Magistrate: I was wrongly interdicted
Magistrate Charmaine Rosan-Bunbury has been interdicted from duty since May 4, but it’s in the public interest to share her story now, she told reporters last Thursday during a briefing …
September 21, 2011
Police: Two more arrested in coke case
Two people were arrested Tuesday who police believe assisted Linda Todman-Huggins, the customs officer who admitted to taking a bribe in exchange for helping load suitcases allegedly containing drug money …
September 21, 2011
Officials halt work on Road Town building
Work has apparently stopped on a Wickhams Cay I construction project,
September 21, 2011
Sargassum hits VI shores
Sargassum, the brown algae commonly found in the Sargasso Sea region of the mid-Atlantic, has inundated shorelines in the Virgin Islands and around the region in recent weeks.
