Many persons inside and outside the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) might know her as ‘Superintendent’. But on June 9, Officer Jacqueline Vanterpool was acknowledged as something entirely more respectable — Commander. Militantly robed in her ceremonial attire and her […]

Junior Tourism Minister Archibald Christian has sought to set the record straight about his absence at The Queen’s annual Birthday Parade in the territory. The chairs which had been reserved for several legislators, including Christian, had remained conspicuously unoccupied at […]

PRESS RELEASE: Twenty-one persons are now British citizens after having been previously naturalised as British Overseas Territories citizens. The new citizens accepted their certificates and recited the Oath of Allegiance to Her Majesty the Queen and the Pledge of Loyalty […]

By Davion Smith, BVI News Staff Another internal campaign video has emerged in the public domain – this time of first-term legislator Melvin ‘Mitch’ Turnbull throwing his hat in the ring for Vice President of the National Democratic Party (NDP). […]

As residents await the Department of Disaster Management’s (DDM) full list of marine and land-based emergency shelters for the 2018 hurricane season, Bishop John Cline has said the doors of the newly-renovated New Life Baptist Church in Duffs Bottom would […]

By Davion Smith, BVI News Staff Authorities responsible for the National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme are hoping to effect policy changes to reduce revenue losses; some of which are projected to affect the scheme this year. Director of the Social […]

The result of the upcoming presidential race in the National Democratic Party (NDP) is what political observers are eager to see when the party hosts its biennial Convention on June 23. However, the NDP has announced a number of other […]

A 16-year-old has been implicated in the April 2018 burglary of iSmart in Road Town. Following investigations, police reportedly charged the Elmore Stoutt High School student with burglary. Information to our news centre is that police suspect the teen was […]

PRESS RELEASE: Deputy Premier and Minister for Natural Resources & Labour Dr Honourable Kedrick Pickering has met representatives of the BRE Group in Hertfordshire County to discuss support for the recovery of the British Virgin Islands. On 12 June the […]

PRESS RELEASE: Retired Deputy Governor, Mrs Rosalie Adams; Director of the Department for Disaster Management, Ms Sharleen Da Breo and former public servant Mr Elihu Rhymer have been awarded Honours in the Queen’s 2018 Birthday Honours List. Mrs Adams has […]