Technicians were whipped into action at Peebles Hospital today (June 24) when the medical facility’s back-up generator failed to start during a power outage in Road Town, Tortola. Chief Executive Officer at the state-owned facility, Paula Chester-Cumberbatch, said no equipment […]

By Davion Smith, BVI News Online Staff In an atmosphere filled with pride and even the merry sound of vuvuzelas, eight students celebrated the completion an educational journey into technical studies – a field into which too few natives of […]

An unknown number of persons have been transported to Peebles Hospital following a nasty motor vehicle accident this morning, June 24. The accident is said to have happened in the Free Bottom Hill area of Tortola. BVI News Online understands […]

By Shaina M. Smith, contributor  I had a conversation with two friends a few weeks ago on The Vigilate Dialogues television programme that was enlightening. It has put me to reflect on how as a society we have come to […]

By Dickson Igwe, Contributor There is a lesson for these Virgin Isles, and for countries striving for social and economic prosperity in the proceeding narrative. It states that national success is not derived through the cynical adoption of populist xenophobia, […]

A study funded by the government has found that banks operating in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) are together owed hundreds of millions of dollars, and the persons owing are mainly customers in the territory. “BVI banks’ assets include $919 […]

Weeks after he completed university in the United States last year and returned to his homeland, Adonijah Lettsome was arrested for marijuana. The 24-year-old appeared before Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards today (June 23) for possession of two grams of marijuana. […]

The adage ‘it takes a village to raise a child’ may be considered too old-fashioned for some people. But, for Ashaala Shanae Jenkins, it was a British Virgin Islands village that made the big difference between life and death. Jenkins, […]

By Davion Smith, BVI News Online Staff Elmore Stoutt High School (ESHS) graduation, which took place yesterday at the Multipurpose Sports Complex in Road Town, is certainly one for the British Virgin Islands history books. Why? Students from the recently […]

By Horace Mills, BVI News Online Staff The British Virgin islands (BVI) government has received a strong vote of confidence regarding its handling of the economy, and is being told that it may be envied by much larger economies such […]