Just days after announcing the BVI’s COVID-19 death toll to be 58, the Ministry of Health today announced even for fatalities. The territory’s COVID-related deaths have increased by three persons, bringing the total to 61. These latest casualties were all […]
Archive for February, 2022
Middle-aged man charged for having sex with minor
Information reaching BVI News is that a middle-aged man has been arrested and charged for having sexual intercourse with a minor. Highly-placed sources told our news centre that the accused man is 50 years old. BVI News understands the man […]
Yale University celebrates BVIslander for Black History Month
Virgin Islander Dr Derrick Gordon, an Associate Professor at Yale University’s Department of Psychiatry, is one of the several black members of faculty celebrated for Black History Month. The university recognised him this month for his research in the mental […]
New airline to start operating in BVI in another 6 to 7 months — Premier
Premier Andrew Fahie said his government is confident that another airline will be operating commercial flights in the territory by the end of the year. Speaking on the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) radio show Let’s Talk this week, Fahie said the […]
HM Customs makes $61K drug find in coal shipment
Earlier this week, officers from Her Majesty’s Customs discovered some 6,140 grams of a substance suspected to be marijuana hidden in bags containing coal. Assistant Commissioner of Enforcement Gerald Flemming said the discovery was made after the Customs K9-Unit executed […]
Premier encourages residents to power homes with solar energy
Premier Andrew Fahie is encouraging Virgin Islanders to get into electricity generation through solar energy and sell excess electricity to the BVI Electricity Corporation (BVIEC). Speaking at the commissioning service for a few electric shuttles that the government purchased for […]
Pickering takes fall for failure to expand airport under NDP gov’t
Former Deputy Premier Dr Kedrick Pickering has accepted responsibility for failure to extend the Terrance B Lettsome Airport runway under the previously governing National Democratic Party (NDP) administration. “Any failure with respect and regard to the airport development, I have […]
Gov’t made embarrassing gamble by declining UK’s loan guarantee
Opposition Member, Julian Fraser, said the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) government made a gamble in refusing a loan guarantee offer of $426M from the United Kingdom (UK) when it entered office just over a year after hurricanes Irma and Maria. […]
Hilda Stoutt passes at 84 | Son remembers his mom
The family of Hilda Stoutt — the widow of BVI’s first Chief Minister, H Lavity Stoutt — today confirmed that she passed peacefully on Tuesday, February 8, 2022, at the Dr D Orlando Smith Hospital. Mrs Stoutt’s son, Preston Stoutt, […]
Public Health Unit promoting improved wellness and fun for 2022
The Public Health Unit in the Ministry of Health and Social Development is on a quest to promote improved health, wellness and fun for the 2022 new year according to National Epidemiologist Harmonie Massiah-Brewley. Massiah-Brewley said COVID-19 has contributed to […]
