By the end of next year, Long Look should have a new social home complex to house residents who are homeless or facing other struggles, officials said last week. During …
November 17, 2025
October 24, 2025
Symposium celebrates neurodiversity
Neurodiversity took centre stage this month when more than 150 people attended Lemonade BVI’s second annual ADHD and Dyslexia Symposium. The event, which was held Oct. 11 at the Save …
July 30, 2025
EDITORIAL: Strategic plan a big step toward better healthcare
It is no secret that the Virgin Islands’ public healthcare system is struggling, with two community clinics shuttered and other facilities across the territory understaffed, under-equipped and under-resourced. This month, …
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July 28, 2025
170 residents screened for diabetic eye disease
More than 170 people were screened for a condition known as diabetic eye disease through a free programme offered across the territory over the past eight months. The first screening …
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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 …
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 …
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, …
January 2, 2025
Economy takes centre stage at budget debate
The House of Assembly passed the 2025 budget with amendments on Dec. 19 after a lengthy debate over two days that touched on the economy, infrastructure, healthcare, the minimum wage …
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November 7, 2024
Free eye tests offered for Diabetes Month
On Tuesday morning, several residents waited patiently in the BVI Diabetes Resource Centre in Road Town for a free screening to determine if they are at risk for an eye …
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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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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 …
November 21, 2023
Government urges public to report adverse medical reactions
Anyone who experiences side effects from taking medicine should report them to health authorities, officials said last week during the territory’s observance of Medicine Safety Week. “It doesn’t matter if …
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October 20, 2023
VI hosts two regional healthcare meetings
Providing health care in the Caribbean is becoming more complex as small countries attempt to retain staff, contend with cancers and other noncommunicable diseases, and keep hospital services financially viable. …
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October 17, 2023
Leaked report details healthcare crisis on sister islands
Sharon-Flax Brutus, a resident of Virgin Gorda, vividly remembers lying on a boat and travelling to Tortola for emergency medical help while going through a miscarriage and thinking, “I hope …
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November 25, 2022
Virgin Islands women offered free pap smears
Arliene Penn credits a pap smear screening in 2001 with saving her life by detecting her cervical cancer before it progressed to an advanced stage. Now she is using her …
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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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April 3, 2020
Cuban medical personnel on the way to the territory
In an effort to source medical assistance with the coronavirus response, the Virgin Islands has reached out internationally, and 30 medical personnel are coming soon from Cuba, according to Premier …
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February 21, 2020
Premier reps Virgin Islands at Caricom meeting
Premier Andrew Fahie signed an agreement this week designed to help bring medical schools to the territory, he said while attending the 31st Inter-Sessional Meeting of the Conference of Heads …
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