A three-year-old drug-related matter against a Carrot Bay man was thrown out of the Magistrate’s Court on Friday after several ‘deficiencies’ relating to the handling of evidence and general procedure was raised. Prior to Friday’s dismissal, Renardis Donovan, a farmer, […]
Archive for December, 2018
Works on decrepit fire station start Monday | $795K contract to rescue ill officers
By Davion Smith, BVI News Staff Immediate action is to be taken to rehabilitate the Road Town-based Virgin Islands Fire & Rescue headquarters which has been in a state of disrepair for the last 15 months; resulting in widespread health […]
BVI newcomer gets 6 months in prison, fined $5K for gun
A relative newcomer to the territory — Jhoncarlos Castillo of the Dominican Republic — was sentenced to six months imprisonment and fined $5,000 after he was caught with a rusting, unlicenced 9mm Taurus handgun in September. The 21-year-old gardener pleaded guilty to keeping […]
Another promise: West End port to reopen by early 2019
An early 2019 timeline has been promised for the port in West End to reopen and accept public ferries. This, the latest of several promises from the Ministry of Communication & Works was made by the minister responsible for ports, Mark […]
USVI man fined $5K for 60 grams of marijuana
A US Virgin Islands native was fined $5,000 at the Magistrate’s Court on Thursday after he was held with 60 grams of cannabis in the Valley on Virgin Gorda. Twenty-nine-year-old Hakeem Leonard pleaded guilty to possession of a controlled drug […]
‘We need saving’: Over 30 firemen fall sick in chronic work conditions
By Esther Durand, BVI News Staff More than two dozen fire officers stationed at the hurricane-ravaged Virgin Islands Fire & Rescue headquarters in Road Town have fallen ill to the dilapidated conditions they have been forced to work under for […]
Just? Scatliffe gets below minimum penalty for gun crime
Despite the 2015 amendment to the BVI’s gun laws which state that convicted gun offenders be sentenced to a minimum of five years in prison, fined at least $50,000 OR both, Halim Scatliffe — the man found with a loaded […]
UPDATE ON BLACKOUT: Power restoration begins across sections of BVI
Power has been restored to sections of the territory since the major outage on several islands Thursday morning. The extent to which power has been restored is not immediately clear. BVI News can, however, confirm restoration in a number of areas […]
PVIM clarifies: Says Mitch did not ‘ask’ for a ministerial post, he was ‘offered’
By Esther Durand, BVI News Staff Hours after Melvin ‘Mitch’ Turnbull told members of the media that he had asked NDP Chairman Myron Walwyn for a ministerial post if the party was re-elected into government, the first-term legislator has issued […]
I’d welcome Dr Pickering to PVIM with open arms — Skelton
Leader of the Progressive Virgin Islands Movement (PVIM) Ronnie Skelton has said he would be glad if Deputy Premier Dr Kedrick Pickering joined his political movement. “With open arms. He’s a friend of many, many years,” Skelton commented while responding […]
