By Horace Mills, BVI News Online Staff Kierra John, an aspiring hotel manager who defied the odds to top the secondary school leaving exam and bring pride to a school often stigmatized without justification, is somewhat of a maverick. In […]
Archive for June, 2017
More than a Mile -Man leads cops to marijuana farm
While noting the seriousness of the offences brought before her yesterday, Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards ordered Alson Quashie remanded after the 56-year-old farmer pleaded guilty to cultivating 220 marijuana plants. Quashie also pleaded guilty to being in possession of 78.3 […]
One Mart not affected by Conagra Brands recall
PRESS RELEASE: The Management of One Mart Supermarket has moved quickly to reassure its customers that it did not have in stock any of the recently-recalled products from the Chicago, USA-based Conagra Brands. Conagra Brands, in cooperation with the US […]
‘Domestic violence is a community problem’
Director of the Family Support Network Dr Sylvia Simmons again has raised concern about domestic violence in the territory; this after a 27-year-old Jamaican woman was butchered at the Tortola house she shared with her husband. The murder was witnessed […]
Gov’t touts job creation as anti-crime strategy
Minister responsible for youth affairs Myron Walwyn said Government is using its job creation drive as a crime-fighting strategy. “This is also part of the government’s crime-fighting strategy because you hear sometimes people will say that unemployment is a contributing […]
Woman trailed, accused of cheating before murder
New information reaching BVI News Online from highly placed sources are that Jamaican native Sherika Nelson was murdered when she resisted efforts to prevent her from leaving the matrimonial home during a heated quarrel. She was attacked and butchered with […]
Neil Smith sent elsewhere, replaced by Glenroy Forbes
Amid concerns over the handling of affairs at the Ministry of Finance, Neil Smith has been replaced as Financial Secretary in that ministry. His replacement is Glenroy Forbes. Smith has been sent to the recently established Office of International Business […]
USVI man held after cocaine bust at airport in BVI
A native of the neighbouring US Virgin Islands (USVI) is on remand at Her Majesty’s Prison following reports that he landed at the Terrence B Lettsome International Airport last week with luggage containing four kilograms of cocaine. Kadeem Jamal Hodge […]
INSPIRE BVI: K’Nesha now living a childhood dream
By Horace Mills, BVI News Online Staff K’Nesha Greenaway could have been elsewhere. But she is on the ground in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) rooting for advancement of her native land. In fact, the aspiring judge perhaps would have […]
Chichester finally graduates
Just in case you missed it; Miss British Virgin Islands 2013 Rosanna Chichester has come public to explain the ‘poor decisions’ that resulted in her graduating last week Thursday for the first time in her 27 years. In a riveting […]