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Archive for January, 2021

Minister of Health & Social Development Carvin Malone.

BVI places travel ban on DR as country’s COVID cases pass 40K

The BVI government has moved to ban all tourist-related travels from the Dominican Republic to the territory effective Monday, January 11. Health Minister Carvin Malone said in a statement on Friday that Cabinet decided to implement the ban due to […]

by / on January 8, 2021 at 4:52 PM /
Restaurants, bars, nightclubs disregarding health protocols

Restaurants, bars, nightclubs disregarding health protocols

The government has levied fines and taken remedial action against several restaurants, bars and nightclubs that breached public health protocols over the recent holiday period. “Investigations have been conducted and a number of these businesses have been placed under additional […]

by / on January 8, 2021 at 2:21 PM /
Positive coronavirus test sample

Health Ministry reports that 6 residents test positive for COVID

Health Minister Carvin Malone has announced that six members of the BVI community have contracted COVID-19 with one person currently receiving treatment at hospital. The minister confirmed that the person who is hospitalised isn’t critically ill. In addition to the […]

by / on January 8, 2021 at 12:33 PM /
Premier unfazed by ‘bloggers’ on online news sites

Premier unfazed by ‘bloggers’ on online news sites

Premier Andrew Fahie has said he is unfazed by the comments scores of readers leave below news stories on local online news sites. Speaking during the January 5 sitting of the House of Assembly, Premier Fahie said he doesn’t pay […]

by / on January 8, 2021 at 7:35 AM /
Derelict vehicles dumped in Road Town

Companies, residents to cash in on derelict vehicles

Health & Social Development Minister Carvin Malone has announced that his ministry will be entering into a sales agreement with companies interested in purchasing scrap metal directly from the government. Minister Malone said the move is part of the territory’s […]

by / on January 8, 2021 at 7:20 AM /
Tourist Board signs incentive deal with evoJets

Tourist Board signs incentive deal with evoJets

The BVI Tourist Board & Film Commission (BVITB&FC) has entered into a partnership agreement with the private aviation company, evoJets, to provide incentives valued more than a thousand dollars when persons utilise the service to travel to the territory. This […]

by / on January 8, 2021 at 6:45 AM /
Neville Smith

Improved and publicly accessible disaster plan needed for BVI

Territorial At-Large Representative, Neville Smith has said he believes a national disaster plan easily accessible to the general public is needed in the British Virgin Islands. Smith made the comments during a recent session in the House of Assembly while […]

by / on January 8, 2021 at 6:30 AM /
Possible COVID exposure if you were at an Old Year’s party on VG

Possible COVID exposure if you were at an Old Year’s party on VG

Following a positive COVID-19 result from a person who recently attended an old year’s party at a club in Virgin Gorda, the Ministry of Health is advising all persons who visited the location on the night to contact local health […]

by / on January 7, 2021 at 2:41 PM /
Third District Representative and Chairman of the Progressives United, Julian Fraser.

VIP has done more for D3 in 2 years than the NDP did in 8 years

Senior Opposition legislator Julian Fraser has said he has gotten more achieved for his constituency under the Andrew Fahie-led administration than the previously governing National Democratic Party (NDP). The Fahie administration has only been in the government for almost two […]

by / on January 7, 2021 at 9:06 AM /
Attorney General Baba Aziz and Premier Andrew Fahie.

Baba Aziz’s nationality cost him the Attorney General position

While noting the difficultly in finally getting a local to hold the post, Premier Andrew Fahie has said if the former Attorney General (AG) Baba Aziz was a BVIslander, he would still have been in that position to date. Aziz, […]

by / on January 7, 2021 at 8:38 AM /