By Esther Durand, BVI News Staff A facility dedicated to the performing arts will soon replace the Sir Rupert Briecliffe Hall in Road Town, Tortola. According to Culture Minister, Dr Natalio Wheatley the facility will be demolished “in the not […]

Preliminary indications of the meetings between Premier Andrew Fahie and United Kingdom officials suggest that negotiations went well. These indications came from Premier Fahie in a series of updates on his visit to the UK where he and a delegation […]

While expressing concern over the recent two-year sentence handed down to Shamoii Dagou for looting a television set after Hurricane Irma, senior legislator and Third District Representative Julian Fraser has taken aim at High Court Judge Ann-Marie Smith.  Justice Smith is the […]

Ravindra Maywahlall has been appointed as the new Country Manager of Flow, British Virgin Islands (BVI). A media release from the telecoms provider said Flow’s parent company C&W Communications officially made the appointment recently. C&W’s Vice President for the Central […]

The Cane Garden Bay sewerage project has moved one step closer to becoming a reality. The much-talked-about project is now open for tender and will remain open until 10 am on October 1. “The Government of the Virgin Islands invites […]

Phase One of the National Addressing System (NAS) Pilot Programme is being rolled out this month. NAS is a framework designed to establish a reliable and consistent method of assigning a geographic and numeric address to all buildings and persons […]

Virgin Gorda resident Jakeya Fergus has been fined $4,000 after admitting to dishonestly using a Colombian man’s debit card to purchase designer earrings, among other things. The 18-year-old unemployed woman was given up to March 12 next year to pay […]

Operations at the Central Administration Complex in Road Town are being affected by a malfunctioning cooling system. A government-commissioned media release has said this malfunction in the air conditioning has resulted in the Ministry of Transporation, Works & Utilities shortening […]

Warwick James Reid, the Australian who was caught with multiple currencies totalling US$107,005.24 at the TB Lettsome International Airport has been fined a total of $10,000. Reid was fined for failing to declare monies’ and ‘untrue declaration’. If he fails […]

Residents in Sea Cows Bay and West End could receive a more reliable water supply by the end of 2019. Director of the Water & Sewerage Department Pearline Scatliffe-Leonard told BVI News last month that this is possible because the […]