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June 24, 2025

Funds, staff low as clinics face struggles

The clinic in East End has closed its doors. Staff at the Anegada clinic recently fell ill because of poor working conditions. Major repairs at the main clinic on Virgin …

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by Allison Vaughn
May 23, 2025

BVIHSA strategic plan coming next month

About 40 healthcare stakeholders gathered last Thursday to provide feedback for an upcoming strategic plan designed to inform the operations of the BVI Health Services Authority for the next five …

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by Allison Vaughn
February 14, 2025

Catching cancer early

For Humphry Leue, the Cancer Screening Project he helped launch last week is meaningful on a very personal level. “I myself was diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer about two years …

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by Allison Vaughn
January 23, 2025

New healthcare training to starts today

The Virgin Islands has become the second United Kingdom overseas territory to introduce a UK-supported initiative designed to boost healthcare standards by training non-regulated medical staff. The Care Certificate Programme, …

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by The BVI Beacon
October 28, 2024

In five years, NHI paid five providers $90m

On Friday in the House of Assembly, Health and Social Development Minister Vincent Wheatley disclosed the amounts the National Health Insurance programme paid to the top five local healthcare providers …

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by Allison Vaughn
October 7, 2024

Health workers trained for emergencies

The BVI Health Services Authority has partnered with a United Kingdom-based company to help standardise the quality of emergency-response training for healthcare workers in the Virgin Islands. The initiative, which …

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by Allison Vaughn
September 26, 2024

Statutory board reforms continue

Over the past week, legislators passed four out of five bills designed to improve the governance of statutory bodies as the House of Assembly addressed its final reform recommendation from …

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by Allison Vaughn
September 16, 2024

EDITORIAL: Sister islands face a healthcare crisis

Virgin Gorda residents who spoke at a recent community meeting argued forcefully that improving their island’s healthcare system should be an urgent government priority. They are right. And the same …

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by BVI Beacon
Virgin Gorda meeting attendees
December 6, 2022

BVI Health Services Authority pledges to tackle staff concerns

With the worst of the pandemic in the rearview mirror, the BVI Health Services Authority announced on Nov. 24 that it is refocusing its efforts on bolstering non-emergency care and …

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by Dana Kampa
November 17, 2022

Minister: Virgin Islands facing nurse shortage

As the territory grapples with a shortage of nurses and other medical professionals, the BVI Health Services Authority is recruiting staff from Cuba, Ghana and the Philippines, according to Health …

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by ZARRIN TASNIM AHMED
August 7, 2021

New USVI-based health services chair approved

During an emergency meeting on July 29, the House of Assembly approved the appointment of a new BVI Health Services Authority Board chairman, Moleto Smith Jr., who is based in …

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by Dana Kampa
Health and Social Development Minister Carvin Malone said the House of Assembly’s emergency meeting on July 29 was to appoint a new BVI Health Services Authority Board chairman given pressing matters surrounding the pandemic. (Screenshot: HOA/YOUTUBE)
October 4, 2020

ANALYSIS: Six months into Covid-19, uncertainty remains

Six months have passed since the first two cases of Covid-19 were announced in the Virgin Islands on March 25, and government decisions to control the virus have been met …

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by ZARRIN TASNIM AHMED

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