At least three emergency services facilities are expected to be fully repaired in the next coming weeks. Those facilities are the Road Town and West End police stations, and Capoons Bay Fire Station. Premier Dr D Orlando Smith said work […]
Archive for July, 2018
Env’l Health Division moves to improve disposal systems
PRESS RELEASE: Environmental Health Officers and key stakeholders in the design and construction of onsite disposal systems will receive training on how to prevent the pollution and contamination of drinking water supplies in two workshops next week. Chief Environmental Health […]
Fahie: VIP won’t be pulled into NDP’s ‘weapons of mass distraction’
“The Virgin Islands Party (VIP) is laser focused. The VIP will not be pulled into the dual leadership of the National Democratic Party (NDP) tactics of using weapons of mass distraction!” Those were statements from Opposition Leader Andrew Fahie while […]
Man injured in Baugher’s Bay shooting on Thursday
A male gunshot victim is receiving treatment at Peebles Hospital following a shooting on Tortola minutes after midnight on Thursday, July 19. The Royal Virgin Islands Police Force said the shooting happened in the Baughers Bay area of the island. […]
‘Unfortunate’ | Walwyn responds to eligibility witch-hunt
By Davion Smith, BVI News Staff Chairman-elect of the National Democratic Party (NDP) Myron Walwyn has said the renewed quest to discredit is eligibility to sit in the House of Assembly is ‘unfortunate’. “This matter comes up around election season […]
4-year case ends | Cop convicted for leaking information
Interdicted police officer Starcy Huggins has been convicted of ‘breach of trust by a public officer’. Magistrate Ayanna Batiste DaBreo found Huggins guilty when the four-year-old matter concluded last Thursday. The cop now faces prison time of up to three […]
Hurricanes prevented me from fulfilling old campaign promises
By Esther Durand, BVI News Staff Ninth District Representative Dr Hubert O’Neal has named the 2017 disasters and the subsequent closure of major Virgin Gorda resorts as the reasons he lapsed in fulfilling some of his campaign promises during general […]
Trade to be transformed | BVI ranks low in ease of doing business
The Department of Trade, Investment Promotions and Consumer Affairs is to be overhauled; partly to improve the territory’s ranking as it relates to the ease of doing business. Junior Minister for Trade Marlon Penn said the British Virgin Islands is one of […]
COMMENTARY: The Trump economy and deflation
By Dickson Igwe, Contributor There are lessons to be learned from a booming USA; the proceeding story is second of a series of narratives on Donald Trump’s business first, protectionist, economics. The US economy is booming this July 2018. The […]
UPDATE: Aircraft crash victim dies
The individual rescued from the aircraft that crashed in the sea at the Terrence B Lettsome International Airport on Beef Island has died. The Royal Virgin Islands Police Force made the pronouncement minutes before 6 o’clock on Wednesday afternoon, July 18. […]
