Premier Dr Natalio Wheatley said the BVI is set to receive a report from the United Kingdom (UK) that will assist the territory in making its waters safer. Following the boat accident in October that left a woman and a […]

Opposition Leader Julian Fraser has promised that the public will now be seeing more of the parliamentary opposition. Fraser gave that indication during a recent community meeting held in the First District last week. “I have not been the ‘opposition’ […]

Education Minister Shari de Castro said her Ministry is in the final stages of drafting the territory’s first Special Education Policy aimed at improving the learning experience of children with exceptional abilities. De Castro said the policy will cater for […]

Social commentator Cindy Rosan has announced that she has dropped the lawsuit against Tola Radio and Floyd ‘Heritage’ Burnett who hosts the popular programme, Morning Braff on that platform. In July this year, Rosan announced that she had filed a […]

Months after the release of the Commission of Inquiry (COI) report, former Deputy Premier Dr Kedrick Pickering has said the BVI is no longer at the proverbial crossroads, but is now staring into an abyss. The COI report initially recommended […]

If Charity Rymer’s presentation in the United Kingdom (UK) House of Commons is anything to go by, the BVI’s future is looking quite bright. The young Virgin Islander who resides in the UK, delivered an address to the UK Youth […]

Former Deputy Premier Dr Kedrick Pickering has argued that party politics has failed the BVI and said the territory has now come to a place where it needs to have more “independent minded thinking people”.  However he wanted to assure […]

Opposition Leader Julian Fraser has suggested that legislators in government should not be re-elected amid existing health hazards such as the continued burning at the Pockwood Pond dump site and non-functional Burt Point sewerage treatment plant. The incinerator suffered a catastrophic […]

Opposition Leader Julian Fraser has argued that he believes the First District seat would already have been vacated and a by-election triggered had it not been for the intervention of House Speaker Corine George-Massicote. Instead, the incumbent First District Representative […]

With the arrest of former Education Minister Myron Walwyn earlier this week, the territory remains on alert, wondering whether more arrests will be made in the coming weeks. Walwyn was the third person arrested and charged for breach of trust […]