It was a night when two international entertainers – Dean Fraser and Pressure Buss Pipe – ended up observing their birthday while on stage at the Road Town festival village. It was a night when three powerful performers – Rock […]

By Horace Mills, BVI News Online Journalist Sitting members of the House of Assembly are usually allowed to automatically contest the next general election for their respective parties, but representative of the Third Electoral District Julian Fraser will not enjoy […]

Police charged four men with robbery and confiscated an illegal gun amid simultaneous raids conducted early yesterday morning (August 3) at premises on Tortola and Virgin Gorda. The operation stemmed from an incident on July 17 when a man was […]

Residents of Sea Cows Bay and a number of other communities have been left in distress in the middle of the Emancipation Festival celebration because they have been without piped water for the last two days. The government-owned Water and […]

Two-time Soca Monarch competition winner Jevaughn ‘JJ’ Parsons has called on organisers of the Emancipation Festival to stop sidelining local artistes, adding that photographs of local participants should be prominently displayed on posters used to advertise the event each year. […]

By Davion Smith, BVI News Online Journalist Jevaughn Parsons, who goes by the stage name JJ, has defended his Soca Monarch title, thus giving the British Virgin Islands (BVI) bragging rights in the regional competition for yet another year. Dressed […]

By Davion Smith, BVI News Online Journalist While claiming that he has an open door policy, Premier and Minister of Finance Dr D Orlando Smith has told vendors and business owners not to sit quietly when they don’t receive payment […]

PRESS RELEASE: Reynold ‘Rey’ O’Neal, OBE received an extraordinary honour from Lord Sebastian Coe, President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) at the opening ceremony of the 51st IAAF Congress. The IAAF Plaque of Merit, awarded for meritorious services […]

Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Kim Hollis today told the Magistrate’s Court that a gunman was imported into the British Virgin Islands (BVI) to murder Dakeem Cheltenham last October. Although the actual gunman remains at large, prosecutors believe the man […]

While lamenting the prevalence of gun-related crimes in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions also decried the number of convicted persons who use their relatives as an excuse to get leniency from judges. […]