Dancing in the streets by the hundreds for the first time in years, the Virgin Islands community showed up in force to celebrate being outside together for the 68th annual …
August 7, 2022
May 6, 2022
Work underway on Red Bay dock
Work is under way on a new dock at Red Bay after more than a decade of delays, officials said this week. Speaking in front of a small crowd inside …
April 28, 2022
TWU: New sewer lines coming
By mid-May, the Transportation, Works and Utilities Ministry hopes to begin installing about 1,100 feet of sewer lines from the Joes Hill burial ground to the Road Town roundabout, TWU …
April 27, 2022
Report cites storms, mosquitoes, and Covid among main threats facing East End/Long Look
After a series of meetings last November in which the BVI Red Cross asked East End/Long Look residents to identify the greatest risks to their community, the BVIRC is planning …
November 25, 2021
How many lobsters? Company’s numbers, plans shift
In a series of 2017 Facebook videos, British entrepreneur Giles Cadman stands beside the ocean and describes his company’s plan to build a lobster farm next to the protected Beef …
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November 12, 2021
As part of community policing initiative, sergeant holds East End movie night
On Saturday, police Sergeant Jacqueline Tom-Christopher’s Chamber of Secrets Girls Club hosted a movie night in an East End parking lot as part of the force’s community policing initiative, according …
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October 15, 2021
Burglar caught in the act, police say
Germaine Wattley, 44, of Chapel Hill was arrested and charged with burglary and breach of curfew when he was apprehended by police on morning patrol while entering a business in …
August 25, 2021
Pipe laid as EE sewerage project starts
The Covid-19 pandemic has hampered numerous infrastructure projects in the territory by causing raw material shortages, delaying supply shipments, and limiting working hours. But progress nevertheless has been made, including …
July 23, 2021
Police use pepper spray to disperse gathering
As some residents continue to socialise in defiance of the pleas from health officials to stay home and limit person-to-person contact, a police officer used pepper spray to disperse a …
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May 15, 2021
$300k contract signed for EE centre
Community centres in the Virgin Islands serve as gathering spaces in good times and as vital shelters during storms, but many of them have sat in ruins since taking severe …
March 19, 2021
East End sewer lines to be laid soon
For longer than Transportation, Works and Utilities Minister Kye Rymer has been alive, government has been attempting to build the first public sewerage system in East End and Long Look, …
November 5, 2020
East End sewerage project relaunched
Government plans to award at least 40 petty contracts worth $6,142,500 to restart and complete the long-delayed East End/Long Look sewerage project, Premier Andrew Fahie announced during a re-commissioning ceremony …
August 8, 2020
East End fire station now first satellite emergency base
A waterproof, airtight container that could store a dozen solar- or battery-powered communications devices — including radio transmitters — sits in an office at the newly re-opened East End/Long Look …
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May 11, 2020
Police arrest two after East End car chase, charge both with drug possession
Two Virgin Islanders were arrested and charged with unlawful possession of a controlled drug, and one was charged with additional crimes, after a police chase through East End Saturday afternoon, …
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February 28, 2020
Rymer: Sewerage in Cane, East End to get priority
As government forges ahead with the National Sewerage Project, the Ministry of Transportation, Works and Utilities will prioritise Cane Garden Bay and East End/Long Look “for a comprehensive overhaul and …
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August 15, 2019
East End festival renews focus on culture
When the sun came up on Aug. 7 and hundreds of people were dancing their way through East End, Jessika Robinson knew she had to be in the thick of …
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October 5, 2018
Three VI communities planning to get ‘smart’
Three communities in the territory are at the forefront of an initiative that is aiming to make neighbourhoods safer and more eco-friendly in the face of natural disasters. Through a …
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