Police have reported the discovery of a single high-powered weapon along with four other firearms after an early morning raid was carried out in the Spooner’s Estate area. In a media release sent out by the Royal Virgin Islands Police […]

The government has announced the appointment of Samuel Jack Husbands as Chair of the Labour Arbitration Tribunal. The announcement comes days after the disclosure that someone had been selected and approved for the post after a year-long vacancy. The appointment […]

Labour Minister Lorna Smith is already making good on her election promise to improve the work permit process in the BVI. Yesterday, the Ministry announced that the processing of Executive Work Permits (EWP) will now be exclusively done by the […]

Ahead of its inaugural flights to the territory on June 1, American Airlines (AA) yesterday conducted a successful test flight to the BVI’s Terrance B Lettsome International Airport on Beef Island. Works Minister Kye Rymer said the AA carrier departed […]

Daunting hills and winding paths are just some of the various obstacles shared by residents who expressed concerns about how enumerators will achieve success in accounting for all residents once the long-overdue census begins next month. However, while agreeing that […]

Sixth District Representative Myron Walwyn has urged the government to be more honest in its assessment of the state of the territory and more diligent about the plight of businesses. Walwyn, while speaking during a recent House of Assembly sitting, […]

Organisers of a recently-held Men’s Health Fair are urging men to do their prostate cancer screenings after worrying results were identified among men who were screened at the event. The annual Prostate Cancer Screening and Men’s Health Fair was held […]

The Guyanese community in the BVI will be hosting a vigil on May 26, to honour the 19 students who died in a fire in Mahdia, Guyana earlier this week. Reports are that the fire broke out some time after […]

Communications and Works Minister, Kye Rymer, has suggested that there may be some misconceptions on the part of persons who look at the territory’s large annual budget and question the state of the territory’s infrastructure. As he addressed colleagues in […]

Although the BVI has grown to become a multilingual community, enumerators for the national census will not be able to accommodate all the non-english speakers residing here. Director of the Central Statistics Office, Raymond Phillips said his office is aware […]