Finding enough impartial jurors to hear court cases in the territory has proved challenging in recent years, but a solution may be on the horizon as legislators this week debated …
October 21, 2022
October 21, 2022
Gov’t Programme Hands over 18th Home
More than five years after Hurricane Irma, another resident has received a brand-new home to replace the one she and her family lost in the 2017 storms, government announced. Thanks …
October 21, 2022
31 new citizens take oath
The Virgin Islands is home to 31 new British overseas territory citizens who recited the Oath of Allegiance and Pledge of Loyalty to the United Kingdom during a naturalisation ceremony …
October 21, 2022
Expanded literary festival coming next month
World-renowned Caribbean writers including Kei Miller, Tiphanie Yanique, Tobias Buckell, and Desiree C. Bailey are scheduled to headline the second BVI Literary Arts Festival from Nov. 3-6 as part of …
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October 21, 2022
Friendship Day to return on Saturday
A celebration marking the 50th anniversary of British Virgin Islands-United States VI Friendship Day will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday at the Cyril B. Romney Tortola Pier Park …
October 20, 2022
United Kingdom minister is mostly pleased with Commission of Inquiry reforms
After reviewing Governor John Rankin’s first quarterly review of the ongoing Commission of Inquiry reforms, the new United Kingdom minister for the overseas territories said this week that he is …
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October 14, 2022
Temporary classrooms to be demolished
As the Recovery and Development Agency works to complete four new buildings on the main campus at Elmore Stoutt High School, it signed a contract for demolition of the temporary …
October 14, 2022
Bush-cutting delayed
The Ministry of Communications and Works has experienced administrative delays in attending to bush-cutting across the territory, according to MCW Permanent Secretary Ronald Smith-Berkeley. The delays were caused by “changes …
October 14, 2022
Workshops teach marine safety
Jacob Adolphus, emergency communications officer at the Department of Disaster Management, stood on the patio of the Flax Administration Building on Virgin Gorda and spoke urgently into a VHF radio. …
October 13, 2022
Public officer charged for Fahie letter
Najan Christopher, director of the International Affairs Secretariat, has been charged in connection with a diplomatic note that was allegedly sent without authorisation to request diplomatic immunity for then-Premier Andrew …
October 13, 2022
Another primary school temporarily closes
Based on reports of a “significant number of students” feeling unwell, government closed Alexandrina Maduro Primary School in Baughers Bay on Oct. 6, according to the Ministry of Education, Culture, …
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October 13, 2022
After 20 years, public service compensation review starts
Asked to identify their primary job-related concern, 79 percent of Virgin Islands public officers who took a recent survey mentioned insufficient pay. Those concerns may soon be addressed with the …
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October 13, 2022
BVI Christian Council leader lists homosexuality with child abuse, drug abuse, war
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 …
October 13, 2022
Christian Council delays same-sex marriage case
The first challenge to the territory’s same-sex marriage ban was scheduled to be heard last month in High Court, but the case was delayed after last-minute legal manoeuvring by the …
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October 13, 2022
Premier responds to governor’s review
Three days after Governor John Rankin released his first quarterly review on the implementation of the Commission of Inquiry recommendations, Premier Dr. Natalio “Sowande” Wheatley said the document included criticisms …
October 13, 2022
Hats off to mental health
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 …
October 7, 2022
Breast cancer month kicks off with race, bingo
To mark the start of Breast Cancer Awareness Month on Saturday, The Valley Sound Lions Club in Virgin Gorda hosted the three-kilometre Walk/Run for a Cure in collaboration with the …
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October 7, 2022
Public sector celebrates health
Dozens of public officers and other residents were busy catching the “wellness wave” on Monday afternoon during the Healthy by Design Wellness Fair. At one of several tents set up …
October 6, 2022
Kudos and ‘concern’: Governor reviews reforms
Governor John Rankin on Oct. 4 published his first quarterly report on the ongoing reforms recommended by the Commission of Inquiry, guardedly praising the overall progress while also noting a …
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October 6, 2022
Did Rankin okay Fahie sting in VI?
Nearly six months after then-Premier Andrew Fahie was arrested in Miami, new questions are arising about whether United Kingdom officials knew of the sting operation here that led to his …
October 6, 2022
Two dead after boat flips near West End
A 6-year-old girl and a Tortola businesswoman are dead after a boat capsized near Little Thatch Island on Sunday evening, police said. Ten people were aboard the 30-foot-plus powerboat, which …
October 6, 2022
Drones to help track sargassum in the Virgin Islands
To help address the increasing amounts of sargassum washing up on the territory’s shores, public officers are learning to use drones to monitor and report deposits of the seaweed in …
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October 6, 2022
East End sewerage work under way, but no end date announced
Roadwork is ongoing following the resumption of the East End/Look Sewerage Project, which has faced decades of delays as successive administrations promised to connect the village to a treatment plant …
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October 4, 2022
Volunteers clean up 8,828 feet of coastline
Volunteers across the territory joined in a belated observance of International Coastal Cleanup Day last weekend, clearing piles of waste from shorelines at Salt Island; Spring Bay on Virgin Gorda; …
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October 4, 2022
Former minister lies in state in Sea Cows Bay
Former legislator Cyril Lewis Walters laid in state on Sept. 29 at the Sea Cows Bay Methodist Church following a House of Assembly resolution passed on Sept. 27 in his …
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