Local husband and wife chefs, Neil and Erika Cline have been invited aboard a cruise ship to cook for guests for a week. The power couple will be showcasing BVI cuisine aboard Holland America’s MS Prinsendam from March 16 to […]

The BVI Health Services Authority (BVIHSA) has recorded its first pacemaker insertion procedure. The surgery was conducted at Peebles Hospital on March 13 by Dr Roger Miller, a cardiothoracic surgeon with more than eight years experience in that speciality. The procedure […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]