A team of engineers from Puerto Rico is currently installing seismic equipment across the territory and is expected to complete the first phase of installation this week. Director of the Puerto Rico Strong Motion Programme Dr Jose Martinez-Cruzado said this […]

A Virgin Gorda man who claimed he was the peacemaker in a fight at a festival event on the sister island last year, has been slapped with multiple charges. During his appearance before Magistrate Shawn Innocent on Thursday, the accused, […]

The Dominican Republic duo held at the Beef Island airport with fake BVI visas and Labour documents last week has been sentenced on Thursday to three months at Her Majesty’s Prison. Magistrate Shawn Innocent also fined the Spanish-speaking offenders – […]

Director for Overseas Territories in the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Ben Merrick is currently in the territory on a visit focused on local governance, financial services, and the recovery of the British Virgin Islands. During his four-day visit, the […]

The Department of Disaster Management (DDM) has issued an alert of thunderstorms immediately northwest of the British Virgin Islands. Residents are being told to brace for what is being described as “heavy rainfall” on Thursday, November 8. “Possible ponding of […]

A 27-year-old man who pleaded guilty to stealing a dinghy from his employers at The Moorings and selling it has been sentenced. Kasim Harrigan, who is currently unemployed because of the incident, received a six-month prison sentence that has been […]

The territory’s considerable fossil fuel imports are well on the way to see a 20 percent decrease in the next two to three years; now with the successful implementation of the BVI Electricity Corporation (Renewable Energy) Regulation. This law came […]

A daycare teacher who reportedly inflicted 11 lashes on a two-year-old infant for soiling the school’s bathroom walls with faeces was slapped with a fine and a suspended sentence on Wednesday. Magistrate Shawn Innocent ordered 52-year-old Jamaican Sharon Salmon to […]

Local authorities have apprehended even more persons with fake British Virgin Islands visas. Like the previous two cases, these newest fake visa carriers are also from the Dominican Republic. They have been identified as 21-year-old Wilbin Encarnacion Rodriquez, 31-year-old Carlos […]

Nine new prison officers have been recruited at Her Majesty’s Prison in Balsam Ghut. Eight were recruited from other Caribbean countries while one is from the British Virgin Islands. The exact nationalities of these individual new recruits are not immediately […]