A 42-year-old father was today convicted of molesting his underage daughter. The St Vincent and The Grenadines native was found guilty when he appeared before Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards inside a de facto courtroom at the House of Assembly building […]

Police arrested and charged roughly 10 persons between February 25 and March 3 for a number of offences. These include serious criminal offences such as murder, wounding, and less serious traffic offences, among other things. In its latest arrest blotter, […]

A bill that will protect the identities of witnesses involved in certain court cases is being introduced in the British Virgin Islands. The bill is being titled Witness Anonymity and once implemented, a court will have the ability to effect a […]

Getting assistance from other regional law enforcement agencies might become something the British Virgin Islands is entitled to receive. That is according to Commissioner of Police, Michael Matthews. He and other police commissioners from British Overseas Territories are currently meeting […]

Education Minister Myron Walwyn has announced plans to make agriculture more prominent in the local school curriculum. Addressing a gathering at the H Lavity Stoutt Memorial Celebration on Monday, Walwyn said the events following the September 2017 hurricanes influenced the decision. […]

Though admitting that the controversial billboard recently erected in Road Town is a bit unsettling, Premier Dr D Orlando Smith has dismissed the persons who commissioned the advert as ‘petty’. The sign is implicitly calling for a referendum of some […]

Text messages have shown that Maybelline Rodriguez was an integral player in the elaborate plan that led to Trumayne ‘Passion’ Daway’s murder on February 27, prosecutors said in court today. “She was, say the Crown, the honeytrap that brought Mr […]

The recent upsurge in gun crime is beginning to hurt the local business sector, and the BVI Chamber of Commerce and Hotel Association (BVICCHA) plans to intervene. That is according to BVICCHA Chairman, Louis Potter. “Crime is never something that […]

Education Minister Myron Walwyn has been praised for the British Virgin Islands’ accomplishment in the 2017 Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) exams. The BVI was ranked at the top of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) for having the most […]

Government will be introducing a new law to govern architects and engineers practising in the British Virgin Islands. Governor Augustus Jaspert said the law should be brought before the House of Assembly sometime this year. “As we build stronger and […]