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Winner aiming to make impact through music

Winner aiming to make impact through music

Twenty-seven-year-old Guyana native Charles ‘Winner’ Bakker is hoping to make waves on the music scene with his positive, just-released singles. Bakker, who is a recruit firefighter at BVI Airport Authority, has been composing and compiling songs but never recorded them […]

by / on March 16, 2018 at 6:18 AM /
‘Gov’t marketing a lie to residents’

‘Gov’t marketing a lie to residents’

By Davion Smith, BVI News Journalist Why did the Premier Dr D Orlando Smith postpone today’s critical Budget Address for a tsunami exercise that only lasted one hour? That is the question weighing on the minds of a number of […]

by / on March 15, 2018 at 2:36 PM /
Police arrest two in double-murder investigation

Police arrest two in double-murder investigation

Police have arrested two persons on suspicion of murdering Michael Stevens and Clevaughn Sweeney. Police arrested a 25-year-old man from West End and a 32-year-old man from Free Bottom. Police did not release the names of the murder suspects. Meanwhile, the […]

by / on March 15, 2018 at 12:08 PM /
Budget Address postponed for tsunami exercise

Budget Address postponed for tsunami exercise

The long-awaited Budget Address from Premier Dr D Orlando Smith has been postponed. A media release from the House of Assembly’s public relations department said the budget address, which was scheduled for today, is being put off until Monday, March […]

by / on March 15, 2018 at 9:13 AM /
Road Town ferry terminal getting upgrades

Road Town ferry terminal getting upgrades

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Communications and Works Anthony McMaster has said upgrades being are done to the ferry terminal in Road Town nearly complete. According to McMaster, the added development to the facility includes more floor space, a […]

by / on March 15, 2018 at 8:47 AM /
Necker Island to reopen in October

Necker Island to reopen in October

Necker Island will officially reopen for business in October. Necker is one of the outer islands in the British Virgin Islands and is owned by British business tycoon, Richard Branson. Like the four main islands in the BVI, Necker was […]

by / on March 15, 2018 at 7:10 AM /
Sister Island schools advance, sweep wins in debates

Sister Island schools advance, sweep wins in debates

Two schools from the sister islands have advanced to the final round of the Inter-Secondary School Debate after defeating schools on the main island of Tortola yesterday, March 14. Yesterday’s winners are Bregado Flax Educational Centre (BFEC) on Virgin Gorda […]

by / on March 15, 2018 at 7:03 AM /
Drug offender sentenced to 42 months in prison

Drug offender sentenced to 42 months in prison

Leshaughn Smith has been sentenced to three-and-half years (42 months) in prison for importation of cannabis. He was sentenced on Wednesday, March 14. Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards ordered that the sentence run from the date he was first remanded. He […]

by / on March 15, 2018 at 6:57 AM /
BVI completes tsunami exercise

BVI completes tsunami exercise

PRESS RELEASE: The British Virgin Islands (BVI) participated in a simulation exercise to test their tsunami response strategies. The exercise entitled ‘Carib Wave 18’ (Caribbean Wave 18) took place today Thursday, March 15. Caribbean Wave 18 provided an opportunity for the […]

by / on March 15, 2018 at 5:46 AM /
Harrigan now charged with Daway’s murder

Harrigan now charged with Daway’s murder

Rafael Harrigan has been charged with murder. That officially makes the 27-year-old the third person accused of killing Trumayne Daway in Brandywine Bay late last month. The other two accused persons are 21-year-old Maybelline Rodriguez and 26-year-old Vernon Bernard. Up […]

by / on March 14, 2018 at 1:56 PM /