The prospect of finding new jobs on Virgin Gorda has become more protracted; this as a resort that once employed hundreds of people today announced that it has scrapped initial plans to reopen this year. Rosewood Little Dix Bay resort did […]

Premier and Minister of Finance Dr D Orlando Smith has named some ‘priority areas of industry’ that he said are being targeted as the Trade Department swings back into operation following widespread destruction of businesses and homes during category 5 […]

While claiming that there has been a ‘marked improvement’ in terms of the recovery efforts on Virgin Gorda, Governor Augustus Jaspert disclosed that mains electricity should return to that island today, September 27. But he noted that there is a […]

While appealing for help in identifying the body of a man that was recovered from a ghut below Treadfalls in the Sea Cows Bay area of Tortola on Monday (September 25), police said their investigation so far has not uncovered […]

The man at the forefront of recovery efforts in the British Virgin Islands, Governor Augustus Jaspert, said he is heading to the United Kingdom (UK) to – among other things – have discussions with the British government regarding further assistance […]

By Davion Smith, BVI News Online Journalist Students and teachers are required to undergo mandatory counselling to work through the ‘trauma’ caused by Hurricanes Irma and Maria. Minister of Education Myron Walwyn said all educators must get counselling before they […]

The government has urged residents to invest in solar panels for their homes, but the minister of health and social development is suggesting that Government should help the poorer residents purchase the solar panels. “There are quite a number of […]

Persons are now being prosecuted and punished for looting business establishments after Hurricane Irma. Governor Augustus Jaspert made the announcement today, September 26. “I’m pleased to report that a number of looters have been prosecuted and sentenced and I am […]

A prison official in St Lucia has noted that seven high-risk prisoners who were transferred from Her Majesty’s Prison, Balsam Ghut, have been separated from the local prison population in that country. This was disclosed by Virginia Lesmond-Joseph, programme manager […]

Davion Smith, BVI News Journalist Government ministers are calling on their leader, Premier Dr D Orlando Smith, to take action against landlords who have been hiking the cost of rent and wrongfully evicting tenants in the aftermath of Hurricanes Irma […]