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 …
October 7, 2024
May 30, 2024
Botched robbery doesn’t slow poker run
The 20th Leverick Bay Poker Run on Sunday was the second after the Covid-19 pandemic forced the event to take a three-year hiatus, and organisers dubbed it a success despite …
November 27, 2020
$1.6m going to isolation unit, lab expansion
A new isolation unit is under construction at the former Peebles Hospital, and lab services are expanding as the territory plans to reopen its borders to tourists in five days. …
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August 28, 2019
Senior home to be expanded
The paediatric ward in the old Peebles Hospital will be retrofitted to accommodate ten more clients for the Adina Donovan Home for the Elderly, Health and Social Development Minister Carvin …
January 31, 2019
Hospital to be renamed after Dr. Smith
House of Assembly members voted last week to rename Peebles Hospital in honour of Premier Dr. Orlando Smith. While the name of the newer hospital building will change, the original …
January 22, 2019
Peebles Hospital cost tops $114 million
This article originally appeared in the Beacon’s print edition on Jan. 17. The total cost of the new Peebles Hospital has exceeded $114 million, Health and Social Development Minister Marlon …
January 10, 2019
VI welcomes New Year’s, Christmas babies
On Jan. 2, Montae Warner decided to enter the world a week early, making him the Virgin Islands’ official first baby of the New Year. Montae’s mother, Shianne Kuntz, gave …
June 27, 2018
In their Words: Ralph Lewis
Ralph Lewis is an emergency medical technician and the founder of Lifeline Transport Service, which this month received a Kickstart microloan from Unite BVI. Besides his efforts to revive his …
May 14, 2018
Health Services Authority holds Perinatal Conference to look at health of mothers and babies
The average mortality rate for infants under 28 days old in the Virgin Islands in the past five years is around 9.52 per 1,000 live births. That’s better than the …
