A member of the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force has described as misguided, an alleged attempt to conceal cocaine in buckets of mortar-like substances presumably from sniffer dogs. Detective Constable Thomas Himbury made the remark while he testified yesterday in […]
Archive for March, 2017
Project to curb pollution delayed
More than two years after Government made a budgetary allocation for the acquisition of scrubbers to address the issue of pollution at the incinerator in Pockwood Pond on Tortola, the said scrubbers are yet to be manufactured and paid for […]
Champions!
Eslyn Henley Richiez Learning Centre’s Blue House students are once again champions of the schools’ fifth annual Spelling Bee and General Knowledge Quiz Competition. The competition was held yesterday (March 14) as part of the Education Week 2017 activities. The […]
Lawmakers square off in parliament over BVI Airways
By Horace Mills, BVI News Online Staff Tempers flared in the House of Assembly this afternoon over highly controversial and damaging claims that the privately owned BVI Airways has been involved in insider trading in the United States. Insider trading […]
FAMILY: Murder convict was child of privilege
In a written judgment handed down this month, the High Court has given a summary of the social inquiry report done before it sentenced Kenyatta Boynes to life imprisonment with possible parole after 30 years for the offences of murder […]
Commonwealth Day activities a major success
Parents associated with the Ivan Dawson Primary School in Cane Garden Bay joined students and staff yesterday (March 13) to capitalize on a grand opportunity in celebrating Commonwealth Day. While the Day was being observed, funds were being raised to […]
Homosexual crew ready for sailing regatta
A homosexual and transgender sailing crew known as Trekr Adventures has announced that it is gearing up to visit the British Virgin Islands (BVI) this month to participate in the 2017 BVI Spring Regatta. The group said the arrangements were […]
Are we using our education to build or destroy?
Minister of Education and Culture Myron Walwyn has questioned whether the British Virgin Islands (BVI) has been getting value for its investment in the education system, and whether people have been using their education to build or to destroy the […]
Home intruder gropes woman’s buttocks
A man who trespassed into a family’s residence and groped a woman on her buttocks has been granted $30,000 bail in the Magistrate’s Court. Marshall Senhouse pleaded guilty to criminal trespass, being armed with an offensive weapon, and indecent assault […]
WARNING: Rough seas expected tomorrow
Department of Disaster Management (press release): A small craft warning is in effect as sea conditions are expected to become rough by early tomorrow. As a result of these developing conditions, sea bathers are also advised to exercise caution. Although […]