The Virgin Islands will host more than 100 delegates from across the region this fall when the 11th Caribbean Tourism Organisation Human Resources Conference comes to Tortola, government announced recently. …
September 15, 2025
March 20, 2025
Despite criticism, Kartel show draws a crowd
Beneath a bright moon, an ocean of cell phone cameras pointed upwards as Jamaican dancehall artist Vybez Kartel took the stage just minutes after midnight. The crowd erupted, and photographers …
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September 4, 2024
Tourist Board markets VI in Vegas
Tourism Director Clive McCoy led a Virgin Islands delegation to Las Vegas this month for an event hosted by Virtuoso, a global network of luxury travel agencies. During Virtuoso Travel …
August 9, 2024
VI celebrates 190 years of freedom, thousands attend
Larina Loretta Jacobs-Lamothe has operated a booth at the August Emancipation Festival nearly every year for more than four decades. Asked this year about her favourite memory from that time, …
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May 31, 2024
Small crowds, big cheers at music fest
Dancing concertgoers crowded the stage in hopes of touching Jamaican dancehall performer Alkaline early Sunday morning at the Virgin Islands Music Festival. It was a high point for the three-day …
May 3, 2024
August Festival to mark 70 this year
There will be much to celebrate during this year’s August Emancipation Festival. “We’re celebrating not just the 70th anniversary of Festival, but we’re celebrating 190 years of emancipation, 190 years …
April 26, 2024
No cap on cruise visitors despite rapid rise
Cruise ship passenger arrivals are expected to hit a new record this year and then continue climbing, but no upper limit has been set, according to Communications and Works Minister …
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March 29, 2024
$670k budgeted for music festival
Government has allocated $670,000 for the Virgin Islands Music Festival in May but hopes to earn it all back through ticket sales, sponsorships and other revenue streams, Premier Dr. Natalio …
April 8, 2021
Coming to VI now more costly
Travellers arriving in the Virgin Islands during the Covid-19 pandemic are now required to pay more on top of the $175 fee charged to enter through the BVI Gateway portal. …
May 29, 2020
Caribbean islands prepare for tourism
When the doors of the Virgin Islands reopen to tourism, the territory’s leaders say, they intend to be ready. Some competing countries and territories in the region have announced plans …
November 26, 2019
Virgin Gorda graveyard to get ‘face lift’
The plantation-era grave site near the St. Thomas Bay ferry terminal in Virgin Gorda will get a “face lift” following a donation to the BVI Tourist Board, government announced Monday. …
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