The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) are once again being criticised for their actions – or lack thereof – in swiftly prosecuting serious crime in the British Virgin Islands. On Monday, Magistrate Shawn Innocent bewailed that more […]

A 53-year-old man of no known place of abode was given a four-year sentence on Monday for his latest run-ins with the law, and after begging the court to place him in a safe haven from the streets. Magistrate Shawn […]

    Local farmers, fishermen and entrepreneurs will be displaying their products and culinary skills at a cultural food fair being held on Friday. The food fair will be held behind the Central Administration Complex in Road Town, beginning at 10 […]

Statistics at the end of August have shown that crime has dropped by nine percent, and local police are catching just fewer than half of every 100 persons that commit an offence. Police Commissioner Michael Matthews said those were the statistics cited […]

A Huntums Ghut resident has confessed that a quantity of cocaine and cannabis found in his home two years ago belonged to him and that he intended to distribute it. Halim Scatliffe pleaded guilty to possession of a controlled drug […]

The British Virgin Islands has reached a three-year high in the number of new companies that have incorporated with the territory’s international business and finance centre. The BVI Financial Services Commission’s (FSC) quarterly report said 9,798 new companies incorporated between January […]

Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards has found Haiti national Luc Eloi guilty of being part of a smuggling ring that sneaked 21 immigrants into the British Virgin Islands last year. She said she is convinced ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’ that Eloi […]

The two St Vincent residents who were implicated for unlawful possession of a prohibited firearm and unlawful possession of ammunition last year have been acquitted. Former Operations Manager Warren Mitchell and former boat captain Martin Lee were found not guilty […]

By Dickson Igwe, Contributor Anyone who understates the climate change threat is living in ‘wonderland’. Hurricanes Irma and Maria, and the September 2017 floods brought the climate change reality to the British Virgin Islands, in a very ‘rude awakening’. This […]

PRESS RELEASE: Cable & Wireless Business (C&W Business) is leading the charge to safeguard business networks in the British Virgin Islands from natural disasters. Business continuity was the focus of their presentation to members of the legal fraternity and finance […]