One of the general consensuses emerging from the stakeholders meeting about the issues faced at the Labour Department is that the transition to an online application platform last year has caused a severe backlog in processing work permits. The Acting […]

Premier Andrew Fahie has insisted that there is no impropriety involved regarding a personal home he is building and the reconstruction of the Frenchman’s Cay bridge; both of which reportedly involve the same contractor. When the Premier appeared on his […]

Minister of Labour and Immigration Vincent Wheatley said he cannot assign anyone to the Labour Department to help alleviate the short staff issue because public service workers are the responsibility of the Deputy Governor’s Office. Speaking at a stakeholders meeting […]

Education Minister Dr Natalio Wheatley has promised that a comprehensive education review will be done for the local school system this year. Dr Wheatley made the promise while appearing on the governing Virgin Islands Party’s (VIP) Let’s Talk radio show earlier this […]

Social Security Minister Vincent Wheatley has argued that the territory’s National Health Insurance scheme has a fundamental problem. Minister Wheatley made the assertion when he appeared on JTV’s the Big Story recently. “NHI has a fundamental problem that we are […]

American rapper and music mogul Sean ‘P Diddy’ Combs has been sighted in the British Virgin Islands. The 52-year-old was captured on amateur video footage arriving through the Terrance B Lettsome International Airport on Beef Island. He was spotted with […]

Just days after announcing the BVI’s COVID-19 death toll to be 58, the Ministry of Health today announced even for fatalities. The territory’s COVID-related deaths have increased by three persons, bringing the total to 61. These latest casualties were all […]

Information reaching BVI News is that a middle-aged man has been arrested and charged for having sexual intercourse with a minor. Highly-placed sources told our news centre that the accused man is 50 years old. BVI News understands the man […]

Virgin Islander Dr Derrick Gordon, an Associate Professor at Yale University’s Department of Psychiatry, is one of the several black members of faculty celebrated for Black History Month. The university recognised him this month for his research in the mental […]

Premier Andrew Fahie said his government is confident that another airline will be operating commercial flights in the territory by the end of the year. Speaking on the Virgin Islands Party (VIP) radio show Let’s Talk this week, Fahie said the […]