Jamaica Gleaner – WITH so many top international athletes on show at the Jamaica International Invitational Meet inside the National Stadium last Saturday, not many local fans knew about Kyron McMaster of the British Virgin Islands, but after the Men’s […]
Archive for May, 2017
HMS Brexit and the Brussels Iceberg
By Dickson Igwe, Contributor The United Kingdom must skillfully negotiate its exit from Europe, or risk being torn apart. With the Brexit Referendum, Brussels has become a massive and ominous iceberg that the seafaring vessel, The HMS Great Britain, would […]
VIDEO: McMaster runs world leading time
Kyron McMaster from the British Virgin Islands this evening ran a world leading time and national record to win the Men’s 400 Metre Hurdles at the National Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica. He clocked 47.80 seconds over the distance. In doing […]
Masa found guilty of gun possession
Social media personality Ramoamasagana ‘Masa’ Pemberton has been found guilty of keeping an unlicensed firearm and unlawful possession of ammunition. Magistrate Ayanna Baptiste-DaBreo gave the verdict this afternoon (May 19) while stating that the evidence against Pemberton was overwhelming. She […]
Inmate charged with attempted murder
The young man facing a new charge of attempted murder is Mount Healthy resident Shakoy Lavacia, Information Officer at the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force Diane Drayton has confirmed. As BVI News Online reported moments ago, Lavacia, who has been […]
Sex worker gets $300, told she can sue beater
Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards yesterday ordered Garry Smith to pay a total $6,300 for stealing from and beating a sex worker who he claimed did not give him his money’s worth of pleasure. The senior magistrate slapped Smith with a […]
Probe and Prison – Fraser ‘smells’ UK appointments
While crying shame on all persons involved in the appointment of Phil Sharman as the territory’s next Auditor General, member of the parliamentary opposition Julian Fraser said there is something that doesn’t ‘smell’ right about the list of United Kingdom […]
Malone fined $500 – Compared to Donald Trump
After she fined Darier Malone $500 for calling a police officer a “punk mothers ***t”, Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards said in apparent jest that the offender is “more mature” than the US President Donald Trump. That is because the 23-year-offender […]
OPINION: Welcome to the twilight zone where wrong means right
By A C Frett, Contributor Just when we thought things couldn’t get worse, leaders across the world show us they can. International trade agreements are scrapped, crucial healthcare for the needy is withdrawn, basic education is rolled back, religious leaders […]
Fahie may be used, Fraser suggests
A suggestion is being made that Leader of the Opposition and Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee Andrew Fahie may be used as a pawn in a United Kingdom-linked affair that “doesn’t smell right”. Opposition member Julian Fraser made the […]