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Premier Dr Natalio Wheatley

UK agency to provide report on making BVI waters safer

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 […]

by / on November 7, 2022 at 2:06 PM /
Julian Fraser.

Unity Gov’t honeymoon over? Fraser promises to ‘heat things up’

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’ […]

by / on November 7, 2022 at 7:56 AM /
BVI’s first ‘special education’ policy coming soon

BVI’s first ‘special education’ policy coming soon

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 […]

by / on November 7, 2022 at 7:44 AM /
Local media personalities, Cindy Rosan (left) and Floyd 'Heritage' Burnett.

Cindy Rosan and Tola Radio mend fences

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 […]

by / on November 7, 2022 at 7:39 AM /
Dr Kedrick Pickering

BVI at brink of abyss, Dr Pickering warns

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 […]

by / on November 7, 2022 at 6:03 AM /
Charity Rymer. (Photo provided)

‘We are small but mighty’! Charity Rymer speaks in UK parliament

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 […]

by / on November 4, 2022 at 5:02 PM /
I’m not that stupid! Pickering says he won’t run as independent

I’m not that stupid! Pickering says he won’t run as independent

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 […]

by / on November 4, 2022 at 9:45 AM /
The incinerator/waste facility at Pockwood Pond on Tortola.

Gov’t shouldn’t be re-elected with dysfunctional incinerator

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 […]

by / on November 4, 2022 at 8:38 AM /
Fraser

HOA Speaker saved Fahie’s seat from being vacated — Fraser

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 […]

by / on November 4, 2022 at 8:32 AM /
Lead organiser of the 'We the People are Fed Up' motorcade protest, Cindy Rosan-Jones during the event on Saturday, June 12.

Are more high profile arrests on the horizon?

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 […]

by / on November 4, 2022 at 7:54 AM /