While stating that the coordinates a few hours before midnight on Tuesday had been taking the centre of Hurricane Irma between the islands of Tortola and Virgin Gorda, Governor Augustus Jaspert made an appeal for residents to stay indoors. The […]

Governor Augustus Jaspert has announced that 56 people checked into nine emergency shelters across the British Virgin Islands (BVI) up to nightfall on Tuesday, September 5. He added that there is still space to accommodate more persons as the approaching […]

By Davion Smith, BVI News Online Journalist Highly placed sources that helped to evacuate residents from the island of Anegada aboard Speedy’s ferry this afternoon said 106 residents boarded the vessel as part of efforts to escape the potentially devastating […]

Tropical Storm Jose, the 10th tropical storm of the season, has developed near latitude 12.3 degrees north and longitude 39.1 degrees west. The National Hurricane Centre in the United States, in its 11 o’ clock advisory this morning, stated that […]

The leadership of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) is this afternoon appealing for residents to remain calm amid what it said is potentially the strongest hurricane to hit the territory in recent memory. “We are extremely concerned about the hurricane’s […]

While announcing that elective surgeries have been postponed, community clinics will be closed today, and persons will no longer be allowed to visit patients at hospital, the BVI Health Services Authority (BVIHSA) said operations will continue at Peebles Hospital during […]

Governor Augustus Jaspert and Premier Dr D Orlando Smith said persons who fail to heed an advice for them to ‘consider’ leaving Anegada will be left at severe risk without immediately available help, adding that residents of other vulnerable areas […]

By Davion Smith, BVI News Online Journalist One of the young ladies who tied for second position in the 2017 Miss BVI pageant, Helina Hewlett, has been selected to represent the British Virgin Islands (BVI) in the Miss World final […]

Amid uncertainty about the extent to which category 5 Hurricane Irma will affect the British Virgin Islands (BVI), residents told BVI News Online that they are not taking the appeals for them to be prepared lightly. They shared their views […]

The National Hurricane Center based in the United States, at 8 o clock this morning, announced that Hurricane Irma has become an ‘extremely dangerous’ category 5 hurricane. It added that preparations ‘should be rushed to completion’ in the hurricane warning […]