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Flow gives customers more options to pay bills

Flow gives customers more options to pay bills

In keeping with its focus on improving customer experience, Flow has launched FastPay, a new digital payment platform that now makes it easier, secure and more convenient for Flow customers to pay their bills. FastPay complements the current online payment […]

by / on July 20, 2021 at 8:57 AM /
Contributed photo of Seabourn Odyssey

Seabourn returns to BVI this week but passengers can’t come ashore

As the BVI struggles with an internal COVID-19 outbreak that has claimed the lives of at least 17 persons in a matter of weeks, another cruise line will be making its inaugural return call to the British Virgin Islands this […]

by / on July 20, 2021 at 8:03 AM /
HOA Clerk Phyllis Evans (left) and the Speaker Julian Willock.

HOA Clerk reportedly told not to dictate how legislators use funds

Clerk of the House of Assembly (HOA), Phyllis Evans has indicated that she’s been told not to dictate how legislators dispense funds to their constituents. The Clerk made the disclosure while giving evidence before the Commission of Inquiry (COI) recently. […]

by / on July 20, 2021 at 6:32 AM /
Guests only! Hotels exempted from ‘no in-house dining’ policy

Guests only! Hotels exempted from ‘no in-house dining’ policy

Restaurants located at local hotels have been exempted from the government’s recent policy mandating food establishments to close for in-house dining. The government had made that decision because of the major uptick in COVID-19 cases and deaths locally. But in […]

by / on July 20, 2021 at 6:14 AM /
Bazz Natural Juices booth at Craft Alive in Road Town.

Outrage! Crafts Alive without electricity for months, vendor says

A shop owner at the Crafts Alive Village has described as “terrible” the conditions under which he is forced to conduct business since electricity has been disconnected to the area for more than three months. Abdul Shabazz, a fruit smoothie […]

by / on July 19, 2021 at 9:14 AM /
Premier Andrew Fahie

Premier denies impropriety in barge contract, stimulus grants

Premier Andrew Fahie has insisted there has been no impropriety on his part in granting a contract to EZ Shipping to host the government’s radar equipment and assist in detecting smuggling activity in the BVI’s territorial waters. The government was […]

by / on July 19, 2021 at 8:49 AM /
Premier bemoans double standards with use of age-old COI law

Premier bemoans double standards with use of age-old COI law

Premier Andrew Fahie has questioned the apparent double standard he said exists with the use of an archaic law to establish the ongoing Commission of Inquiry (COI). The BVI’s current COI Act dates back to 1880 and has been repeatedly […]

by / on July 19, 2021 at 7:07 AM /
The festival grounds in Road Town.

Nearly 800 new COVID vaxxers recorded from drive-thru campaign

Nearly 800 persons took their first jab of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine at the weekend through the government’s vaccination campaign dubbed Operation Protect Each Other Drive-Thru Vaccination. The campaign happened at the festival grounds in Road Town and was part […]

by / on July 19, 2021 at 7:01 AM /
RVIPF returning to full complement

RVIPF returning to full complement

Below is a media release from the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force. The Royal Virgin Islands Police Force continues to do its part to aid in the territory’s return to a place of relative safety after close to four dozen […]

by / on July 19, 2021 at 6:55 AM /
BVI’s COVID death toll up to 17

BVI’s COVID death toll up to 17

The COVID-19 death toll in the BVI is still rising. At 5 pm on Sunday, July 18, the Ministry of Health confirmed three more COVID-related deaths; bringing the total number of deaths in the territory to 17. The latest deceased […]

by / on July 19, 2021 at 6:38 AM /