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February 4, 2025

EDITORIAL: Online entry system hints at e-gov’t promise

Despite a bumpy rollout in recent weeks, we hope the territory’s first online entry system will prove to be a big step in the right direction that will help lead …

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by BVI Beacon
October 19, 2023

Tourists run for their lives during airport shooter drill

New Jersey nurse Nancy Winter came to the Virgin Islands for a five-day vacation to relax, snorkel and share some beach time with her long-time friends. She wasn’t expecting gunmen. …

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by FREEMAN ROGERS
Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport
November 19, 2021

Three tourists, one driver injured in taxi accident

Police are investigating a Saturday afternoon traffic accident involving a tourist taxi, which left three passengers and the driver seriously injured, police stated on Monday.  The passengers were treated at …

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by Joey Waldinger
October 8, 2020

Draft reopening protocols complete but not public

With less than seven weeks until the Virgin Islands’ borders are set to reopen to non-residents for the first time since late March, government has launched a series of meetings …

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by Dana Kampa
August 25, 2020

EDITORIAL: Plan for tourism opening needed now

Following the government’s recent announcement that expatriates will be allowed to enter the territory starting in September, one big question remains about plans for the border reopening: When will tourists …

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by BVI Beacon
April 24, 2020

Visitors ‘stuck’ in British Virgin Islands

Because of the territory’s pandemic lockdown measures, many visitors have been “stuck” in the territory, Natural Resources, Labour and Immigration Minister Vincent Wheatley said last Thursday in the House of …

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by Dana Kampa
March 3, 2020

2019 tourism approached pre-Irma levels

A total of 894,991 tourists visited the Virgin Islands during 2019, reaching nearly 80 percent of pre-Irma levels and more than doubling 2018 numbers, Premier Andrew Fahie announced last Thursday …

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by ZARRIN TASNIM AHMED
July 24, 2018

COMMENTARY — Will runway project bring enough planes?

If the Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport runway is extended and terminal upgraded, will major airlines from North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and so on dash to start nonstop …

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by Edgar Leonard
April 18, 2018

US lifts travel warning for VI

When the United States Department of State implemented a new travel warning system on Jan. 10, it placed the Virgin Islands on a list with countries like Honduras, Sudan and …

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by CLAIRE SHEFCHIK

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