Fifty-two persons have been granted government scholarships to study abroad. The Cabinet approved the recommendations of the BVI Scholarship Committee to award these scholarships when they met this month. The government will fund the tuition for these 52 applicants for […]

Health Minister Carvin Malone said registration will likely begin today for BVI residents interested in receiving the Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson vaccine in the US Virgin Islands (USVI). According to Malone, the protocols are currently being finalised by Chief […]

Premier Andrew Fahie has come out against detractors that have accused his government of being at a standstill and of practising cronyism. Fahie, who was speaking on the governing VIP’s Let’s Talk radio show last evening, said the truth on […]

The government’s recently implemented burial protocols mandate that only immediate family members of deceased persons are allowed to view the bodies of their dead. Immediate family members are classified as parents, siblings, children, spouses. The protocols further state that viewings […]

The Whistleblower and Contractor General Acts — two significant pieces of legislation passed in the House of Assembly several weeks ago — are still awaiting assent from Governor John Rankin. The two Acts were championed as centrepieces of the government’s […]

The BVI’s Financial Investigation Agency (FIA) has joined in to bemoan the reported lack of trust among local law enforcement agencies in the territory. In an invited position statement to the Commission of Inquiry (COI) recently, FIA Director Errol George […]

The BVI’s COVID-19 death toll has now climbed to 31 persons. The previous death toll reported last Friday stood at 25 people. Health Minister Carvin Malone made the disclosure Tuesday evening on the VIP’s Let’s Talk radio programme. “We don’t […]

A winding, near 40-minute speech from Premier Andrew Fahie did little to put critics at bay after he set out to clear the air last evening about why his government needed to hire political ministerial advisers. Instead, there were clear […]

Below is a July 26 statement from Premier Andrew Fahie on Cabinet’s decision to hire up to nine political advisers to support government ministers. Good day and God’s Blessings to all Virgin Islanders and residents. I wish to set the […]

Staff at the Dr D. Orlando Smith Hospital were left traumatised after coming face to face with the unusual reality of nearly four deaths per day during the height of the BVI’s COVID-19 surge in recent weeks.  CEO of the […]