The proposed Virgin Islands Police Act, 2023 which is currently before the House of Assembly (HOA) for debate, has removed an earlier provision to destroy fingerprints and other personal data of persons acquitted of charges faced by the police. This change is […]

After months of prodding for more female political leaders by political commentator Claude Skelton-Cline, former Director of the Water & Sewerage Department (WSD), Perline Scatliffe-Leonard has announced her bid for elected office. The former WSD boss told reporters at a […]

Now that assistance grants have shifted from the control of district representatives to the Ministry of Health & Social Development, plans are being implemented to bolster the staff at the Social Development Department. This is according to Health Minister Marlon […]

  Motorists who disobey lawful instructions from the police — to include refusing to disclose their identity — could face up to a year in prison under the government’s proposed Police Act of 2023. Under the proposed legislation, it is […]

The following is a media release from the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF). The Royal Virgin Islands Police Force executed an additional three search warrants and arrested a female on suspicion of money laundering yesterday as part of ongoing […]

A revised version of the government’s controversial policing Bill of 2019 is still proposing to give cops immunity when executing a warrant. However, the revised bill now includes an additional condition. The 2019 version of the proposed bill had attracted […]

Former Premier Dr D Orlando Smith has pushed back on calls that he should return to active politics to help navigate the BVI away from its current impasse with the United Kingdom (UK). Dr Smith made reference to his age, […]

More than 130 marijuana plants were recently found near land owned by the National Parks Trust. The Royal Virgins Islands Police Force (RVIPF) confirmed the discovery while providing responses to a BVI News inquiry yesterday, February 7. “Officers of the […]

Opposition Leader Julian Fraser has protested what he described as the horrors of unpaid and outstanding increments for public servants. “I don’t like the idea of running into a public officer and having to learn of the horrors that the […]

Premier Dr Natalio Wheatley has once again called for an end to the spate of gun violence that has ensnared the territory in recent years following yet another brazen daylight shooting.  The Premier’s call comes in the wake of the […]