With less than a day’s notice on Friday, the BVI Postal Service stopped shipping all mail containing goods bound for the United States and its territories until further notice. In …
September 5, 2025
August 1, 2025
6,000 celebrate Christmas in July
About 6,000 people came to Pond Bay, Virgin Gorda for music, food, drinks and fun to celebrate Christmas in July on Saturday, according to the event’s organisers. The beach was …
July 31, 2025
10 Puerto Ricans rescued from boat
After receiving a distress call via 911 on Saturday, the police Marine Unit responded to a boat that was taking on water in Road Harbour with ten people aboard, police …
July 22, 2025
Med students get their ‘white coats’
By the end of the month, students at the Virgin Islands’ first medical school will be living here and taking classes, officials said. The Ponce Health Sciences School held a …
May 16, 2025
‘Welcome to 284 Airways’
As students entered the Multi-purpose Sports Complex on Friday morning, they were greeted by an exuberant volunteer. “Welcome to 284 Airways!” she said. They were then asked to prepare their …
April 22, 2025
VI kicks off Puerto Rico push
A Virgin Islands delegation took the territory’s famous full moon parties abroad on April 12 by hosting an event at Vivo Beach Club in Carolina, Puerto Rico. Organised by the …
April 19, 2024
Caribbean resorts and tourism operators pay a high price for sargassum
The 2023 sargassum season started early at the Bolongo Bay Beach Resort on St. Thomas in the United States Virgin Islands. Around the end of March, staff launched the response …
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April 19, 2024
Infrastructure woes and foetid tap water in paradise
With its seaside villas, luxury resorts and yachting anchorages, Virgin Gorda is known for laidback luxury. But last August, the island’s residents started complaining about the foetid odour of their …
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April 19, 2024
Sargassum: That ‘brown gold’?
Biofuel. Bricks. Paper. Beauty products. A carbon capture system. Many Caribbean entrepreneurs see an unprecedented economic opportunity in the sargassum that has regularly swamped the region since 2011. But despite …
March 9, 2024
In a first, surfers rep VI abroad
Alongside surfing greats like Gabriel Medina and John John Florence, three young men from the Virgin Islands faced off against some of the world’s best surfers last month in Puerto …
November 29, 2023
Virgin Gorda gets new flights to Puerto Rico
From Thursday to Monday during this tourism season, travellers will be able to fly between Virgin Gorda and Puerto Rico aboard eight-seater planes operated by the Connecticut-based airline Tradewind Aviation. …
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July 27, 2023
‘Christmas in July’ draws thousands
Though July is in the heart of the summer season, the holiday spirit was alive and well in the Virgin Islands over the weekend. The annual Christmas in July event …
January 10, 2020
Hurricane-stricken Puerto Rico hit with quakes
Residents of Puerto Rico in the midst of recovering from Hurricane Dorian faced another natural disaster this week. Early Tuesday morning, the Puerto Rico Seismic Network reported a 6.6-magnitude earthquake …
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August 1, 2019
Puerto Ricans take over for Christmas in July
From Nanny Cay to Virgin Gorda to Anegada to seemingly everywhere in between, this year’s “Christmas in July” was a virtual phalanx of Puerto Rican- flagged boats, with about 450 …
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October 25, 2018
Caribbean hurricane recovery: around the region
As Virgin Islands residents took stock of hurricane devastation last year, they also heard reports trickling in from more than a dozen other countries and territories throughout the Caribbean that …
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July 31, 2018
REPORTER’S NOTEBOOK (July 26, 2018)
Tourism problems, tourism solutions At a tourism stakeholder meeting hosted by the BVI Tourist Board on Tuesday morning, one attendee raised his hand and made an interesting point: Some of …
April 20, 2018
Islands Adrift: As climate warms, Caribbean ill-prepared
PUERTO RICO CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM — Dinelle Henley fears for her native Cane Garden Bay, one of the most iconic and pristine beaches of the Caribbean. Like much of the …
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