Opposition Leader Marlon Penn has lambasted Premier Andrew Fahie’s efforts at putting forward a resolution that seeks to establish a committee to ultimately decide who should pay House Speaker Julian Willock’s legal costs for an aborted court injunction. The injunction […]

Territorial At-large Representative and Junior Minister for Trade, Shereen Flax-Charles recounted her horror after first viewing a despicable cartoon that was run on the Julian Willock-owned Virgin Islands News Online (VINO) website.  The offensive cartoon, which was quickly pulled after […]

Premier Andrew Fahie seized upon a statement made by Opposition legislator Melvin ‘Mitch’ Turnbull in the House of Assembly (HOA) last evening, interrupting Turnbull’s contribution numerous times to dispute his claims. Turnbull was at the time referring to some of […]

Suggestions have been made that Cabinet possibly meddled in the legal matters relating to the use of lawyers assigned to other House of Assembly (HOA) members for the Commission of Inquiry (COI). A decision was made months ago that, to […]

It is not an uncommon practice for the Magistrate’s Court to proceed with the trial for persons who cannot be located by the court, according to prosecutor Kristian Johnson. Johnson’s statement comes after the court found three men guilty of […]

Premier Andrew Fahie has moved to appoint a special parliamentary committee to determine what permission Speaker Julian Willock received when he filed a court injunction against attorneys with the Commission of Inquiry, and whether this legal action was warranted. The […]

Premier Andrew Fahie said he has never used his powers as the leader of government’s business or as Finance Minister to prevent any bill or motion from being debated or properly ventilated in the House of Assembly (HOA). The Premier […]

Political commentator Claude Skelton-Cline has called for an urgent reassessment of the priority of the education system in the BVI.  Skelton-Cline‘s comments come in the wake of a sequence of deplorable events which has seen teachers engaging in industrial action […]

The financial services and commercial litigation sector are expecting a marked increase in face-to-face operations now that the BVI has eased COVID-19 restrictions in the territory. According to Vanessa King, the head of Banking & Finance at O’Neal Webster Law […]

Premier Andrew Fahie has denied ever being against a multi-million dollar drug bust that happened late last year, and suggested his views were misrepresented in the UK Guardian newspaper.  The drug bust, which was the largest in BVI history at […]