“The Virgin Islands Party (VIP) is laser focused. The VIP will not be pulled into the dual leadership of the National Democratic Party (NDP) tactics of using weapons of mass distraction!” Those were statements from Opposition Leader Andrew Fahie while […]

A male gunshot victim is receiving treatment at Peebles Hospital following a shooting on Tortola minutes after midnight on Thursday, July 19. The Royal Virgin Islands Police Force said the shooting happened in the Baughers Bay area of the island. […]

By Davion Smith, BVI News Staff Chairman-elect of the National Democratic Party (NDP) Myron Walwyn has said the renewed quest to discredit is eligibility to sit in the House of Assembly is ‘unfortunate’. “This matter comes up around election season […]

Interdicted police officer Starcy Huggins has been convicted of ‘breach of trust by a public officer’. Magistrate Ayanna Batiste DaBreo found Huggins guilty when the four-year-old matter concluded last Thursday. The cop now faces prison time of up to three […]

By Esther Durand, BVI News Staff Ninth District Representative Dr Hubert O’Neal has named the 2017 disasters and the subsequent closure of major Virgin Gorda resorts as the reasons he lapsed in fulfilling some of his campaign promises during general […]

The Department of Trade, Investment Promotions and Consumer Affairs is to be overhauled; partly to improve the territory’s ranking as it relates to the ease of doing business. Junior Minister for Trade Marlon Penn said the British Virgin Islands is one of […]

By Dickson Igwe, Contributor There are lessons to be learned from a booming USA; the proceeding story is second of a series of narratives on Donald Trump’s business first, protectionist, economics. The US economy is booming this July 2018. The […]

The individual rescued from the aircraft that crashed in the sea at the Terrence B Lettsome International Airport on Beef Island has died. The Royal Virgin Islands Police Force made the pronouncement minutes before 6 o’clock on Wednesday afternoon, July 18. […]

Social commentator Julio ‘Sam’ Henry has rubbished claims by NDP leader Myron Walwyn that persons vying to become Premier should only run ‘At-Large’ and not at the district level. According to Henry, former Chief Ministers H Lavity Stoutt, Dr Willard […]

Up to 2,300 jobs could be lost in the British Virgin Islands if public registers of company beneficial ownership are implemented, a government-commissioned study has revealed. British research company Capital Economics said these job losses would happen over the next […]