A quarter after 10 a.m. last Thursday, sirens rang out across the territory, signaling residents to get to higher ground for a tsunami drill. All told, 6,854 people in the …
March 27, 2025
March 27, 2025
Skelton: ‘He stabbed me in the front’
A new rift has reopened old wounds in the House of Assembly. Ronnie Skelton said this week that Myron Walwyn “stabbed” him “in the front” to replace him as leader …
March 27, 2025
Break-in attempts caught on camera, cops say
After homeowners used social media to circulate video footage of break-in attempts, police made an arrest in connection with a string of burglaries and attempted burglaries reported in Diamond Estate, …
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March 27, 2025
Man charged in East End burglaries
Following investigations into a series of break-ins in the East End area, police have arrested Kurt Rabsatt of Old Plantation and charged him with burglary, they said Saturday. Mr. Rabsatt …
March 27, 2025
VG man dead after stabbing
A Virgin Gorda man is dead and another has been charged with manslaughter following a stabbing shortly after 8 a.m. last Thursday in Gun Creek, VG, police said. After the …
March 24, 2025
Rights watchdog in the works again
The territory’s 2007 Constitution provided for the creation of a commission charged with helping protect human rights in the Virgin Islands. It was never formed. But now, after 18 years …
March 24, 2025
Science fair tackles local problems
When Amanda Penn was asked to use science to address a problem facing the Virgin Islands, her mind turned to farming. For her science fair project this year, the Elmore …
March 24, 2025
New minister role could be first for OTs
Premier Natalio “Sowande” Wheatley’s bid to create a new “minister of state” role in his government could be an attempt to expand the Cabinet “through the back door,” according to …
March 21, 2025
Water outages plague residents
Across the territory in recent weeks, many residents and businesses have gone without public water for days at a time as complaints have reached a fever pitch. The government has …
March 21, 2025
Rotary club launches memorial scholarship
On Tuesday afternoon in the library at H. Lavity Stoutt Community College, more than 40 people gathered to witness the official launch of the James Harris Scholarship Programme. The initiative, …
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March 21, 2025
VI braces after US stocks plunge
The Virgin Islands will likely feel blowback from recent turmoil on Wall Street sparked by United States President Donald Trump’s trade wars, experts have warned. Ahead of a threatened wave …
March 21, 2025
USVI charterers told to prep for rising fees
Leaders appear to be nearing a compromise in a bitter dispute over a planned fee increase for foreign-based charter boats using Virgin Islands waters. United States VI Lieutenant Governor Tregenza …
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March 20, 2025
Despite criticism, Kartel show draws a crowd
Beneath a bright moon, an ocean of cell phone cameras pointed upwards as Jamaican dancehall artist Vybez Kartel took the stage just minutes after midnight. The crowd erupted, and photographers …
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March 20, 2025
Tourist dies at The Baths
A tourist was found unresponsive in the waters near The Baths on Virgin Gorda on March 12, police said Monday. “Initial inquiries indicate that the deceased was part of a …
March 20, 2025
One dead in car accident
A fatal vehicle accident occurred shortly after 11 p.m. Friday in the Brewers Bay area, police said the next day. “The circumstances surrounding the lone-vehicle accident are unknown at this …
March 20, 2025
Maynards to be free years early
The mother and son serving prison time for conspiring with then-premier Andrew Fahie to import cocaine into the United States in 2022 are now set to be released several years …
March 20, 2025
Roadside robbery, gunshots reported
An armed robbery on the Ridge Road in the Meyers area and a report of gunshots in the Purcell Estate area were among a “few incidents” over the weekend that …
March 20, 2025
Virgin Gorda teen charged in stabbing
Following a stabbing shortly after 7 p.m. on March 15 in Virgin Gorda, a 17-year-old boy was arrested and charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm, police said. “Preliminary investigations …
March 20, 2025
Four charged as two guns seized
Early on the morning of March 11, police carried out an operation that led to the arrest of two men and two women and the seizure of illegal guns, ammunition …
March 18, 2025
Opportunity seen in Trump turmoil
United States President Donald Trump’s erratic handling of the US economy has drawn concern here and abroad, but some business leaders believe it could mean opportunity for the Virgin Islands’ …
March 17, 2025
Crumbling downs
More than two years after the Ellis Thomas Downs closed amid a property dispute, no reopening date is in sight. “We have not yet been able to secure the existing …
March 17, 2025
Gov’t launches ‘guide’ on discretionary powers
As part of the reforms coming out of the 2022 Commission of Inquiry report, government announced on Friday that it had provided public officers last month with a “policy guide” …
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March 17, 2025
New policy to guide district projects
A new “Civil Mitigation Policy” will help ensure fairness and accountability in district-level infrastructure projects like road repairs, ghut clearing, drainage works, retaining walls and utility expansions, according to Communications …
March 14, 2025
PAW has fixed 5,000 dogs, cats
A black dog under PAW BVI’s care joined more than 100 human attendees last Thursday at Government House to celebrate the non-profit organisation’s recent accomplishment of sponsoring the spaying or …
March 14, 2025
Auction raises funds for museum
During an auction on the evening of March 7 at Government House, historian Mitch Kent held up a plastic-sheathed copy of an 1867 London newspaper containing a story about the …
