Carwill Potter, the 72-year-old man charged with two Immigration-related offences has been sentenced to prison. During his sentencing hearing recently, Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards ordered Potter to spend 30 months at Her Majesty’s Prison for smuggling 21 illegal immigrants into […]

PRESS RELEASE: Flow joined the global community in celebrating Girls in Information Communication Technology (ICT) Day observed on April 26, 2018 under the theme ‘Expand Horizons; Change Attitudes’. The telecommunications provider held informational sessions with female students of the Virgin […]

PRESS RELEASE: Despite a season suspended by hurricane challenges, the Bitter End Yacht Club’s long relationship with Virgin Islands Search & Rescue (VISAR) carries on strong in 2018, through logistic and sponsorship support of their annual fundraising event, ‘Swim the […]

Newly-elected President of the Horse Owners Association, Lesmore Smith has announced plans to get the Ellis Thomas Downs ready for the annual Emancipation horse racing event held in August. According to a media release from the Association, at least two […]

An inmate at Her Majesty’s Prison in Balsam Ghut has reportedly attacked a prison officer who was deployed to the BVI from the UK. It is said the prison officer sustained a number of injuries, including lacerations to the face. […]

Police today responded to a multiple-vehicle collision in the parking lot of Bobby’s Supermarket in Road Town. Circumstances surrounding the accident are not presently known to BVI News, but a rental vehicle involved in the crash sustained considerable damage. When our […]

The Royal Virgin Islands Police Force has reported that the street value of the drugs recently found in luggage belonging to Jamaican visitor Jillany Mullings is $1,590,000. Local law enforcement reportedly held Mullings nearly a month ago trying to smuggle […]

The Virgin Islands Search and Rescue’s (VISAR) fundraiser held on Sunday has been deemed successful. The annual event dubbed Swim and Stand Up Paddling (SUP) was hosted at Leverick Bay on Virgin Gorda. “It was fantastic. We had a really […]

By Dickson Igwe, Contributor OK, a very savvy mind, who over the decades has been a major player in the Virgin Islands offshore finance industry, told this writer that he was not overly concerned about the UK government decision to […]

PRESS RELEASE: The Environmental Health Division is alerting new and renewing food handlers on Tortola and Virgin Gorda of the Food Handlers Clinics scheduled for the month of May. The schedule is as follows: May 10 at Nature’s Way East […]