Declaring his fearlessness for firing people, Opposition legislator Mark Vanterpool said he believes all members of politically appointed boards should hand in their resignations whenever a new government enters office. Vanterpool made that statement in the House of Assembly while […]

House of Assembly (HOA) Speaker Julian Willock yesterday clashed with Opposition Leader Marlon Penn who accused Willock of continuous inconsistency with regards to his rulings. The confrontation happened after government legislator Neville ‘Sheep’ Smith made a snide remark about the […]

Opposition legislator and businessman Mark Vanterpool has questioned the presence of locally-based banks who he criticised for being averse to taking financial risks in the BVI. “As a territory and as a country, we must understand how they’re going to […]

Deputy Speaker Neville ‘Sheep’ Smith has said he believes young, successful BVIslanders are being unfairly labelled as drug dealers. Contributing to the debate on his government’s proposed Virgin Islands Investment Act, 2020, Smith told the House of Assembly the BVI […]

Attorney Richard Rowe of the locally-based Silk Legal said his firm’s fees pale in comparison to the potential cost of having the United Kingdom take direct control of the BVI’s affairs. Silk Legal was contracted to represent non-ministerial members of […]

Third District Representative Julian Fraser was recently in a no-nonsense mood regarding the glaring dereliction shown for bush-cutting in his constituency. Fraser said he was not accepting any excuses after the Minister for Social Development, Carvin Malone responded to a […]

While the BVI was swiftly able to find and isolate the contacts of the single local patient who tested positive for the Delta variant of COVID-19, the territory potentially has a bigger problem on its hands. No one knows how […]

With the territory medically and economically reeling from the ongoing health pandemic, local human resources company HireBVI will primarily focus on needy families for its annual back-to-school distribution drive. Unlike its previous back-to-school drives, HireBVI said it has decided to […]

The following is a media release from the Ministry of Education on the procedure for returning government-issued digital textbooks. Parents of students in the public school system who utilise the Virgin Islands Digital eBook/Textbook (VIDE) are asked to note the […]

Speaker of the House of Assembly, Julian Willock has filed an injunction to block three Commission of Inquiry (COI) attorneys from conducting any further “legal work” for the inquiry until they have been called to the BVI Bar. An injunction […]