The Environmental Health Department is doing assessments territory-wide to determine priority areas to minimize the breeding of mosquitoes, Premier Dr D Orlando Smith has announced. Out of fear that the recent heavy rains associated with a tropical wave may result […]
Archive for August, 2017
Massive dust nuisance – cleanup too slow?
Local health authorities have been silent about it, but there is a massive dust nuisance all over Road Town that has left a number of pedestrians coughing and covering their noses – sometimes with dust masks. People are scared to […]
Uninsured merchant loses about $27K, chides DDM
A number of businesses operators in Road Town – including one whose goods are not insured – set up tents at their store entrances on the weekend as they made another frantic attempt to sell shoes and clothes that were […]
Recovery is steady and swift – DDM
While claiming that the territory has been making ‘steady and swift progress’ in recovering from the impact of a recent tropical wave, the government-owned Department of Disaster Management (DDM) has shed more light on three landslide and drainage experts who […]
COMMENTARY: ‘It was a sign’
By Sandra Phillip Hodge, Contributor A few weeks ago, we saw something in the Territory that hadn’t been seen for a long time – a whopping mango crop. There were mangoes left, right, and center; all kinds, all over the […]
Two cruise ship calls cancelled
Two cruise ship calls scheduled for August 15 and 16 have been cancelled as a result of the tropical wave that caused widespread flooding and landslides in the territory last week Monday, August 7. Premier Dr D Orlando Smith said […]
COMMENTARY: BVI emancipation – reality or fantasy?
By Alred Frett, Contributor It should be a given that governments are there to serve the people and should never willfully and maliciously block or compete against the private sector. Unfortunately, there are many complaints about such problems and I […]
Premier defensive: 30,000 can do the cleanup!
Premier Dr D Orlando Smith has defended a decision to not have a British vessel assist in the recovery process following widespread flooding and landslides, adding that the 30,000 residents and citizens of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) should get […]
British ship turned back – Premier
While declaring that he is pleased with the resilience and progress being demonstrated following heavy rainfall in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) on Monday, Premier Dr D Orlando Smith said it has been decided that a British ship relatively near […]
Tropical wave may be very close by Monday
The Department of Disaster Management (DDM) said it, as well as the Antigua and Barbuda Meteorological Services, is monitoring a number of weather events, especially an approaching tropical wave and an area of disturbed weather in the far eastern Atlantic. […]
