As the territory experiences a major surge in COVID-19 cases, reports have surfaced about some businesses threatening to sack employees who opt not to get vaccinated. Employees of a local hardware store on Tortola as well as those from a […]

The Commission of Inquiry (COI) will be continuing with its proceedings notwithstanding the major surge in COVID-19 cases locally and the strain this has caused on the government resources. The territory’s current active cases are now said to be more […]

The sitting government’s 2020 ‘stimulus grant’ programme to assist small, medium and micro enterprises (SMEs) that were negatively impacted by the health pandemic, was improperly regulated and failed to fulfil most of its expectations. This is according to the details […]

This story has been updated A June 2012 internal audit report of the government’s operations in 2011 showed that there were numerous instances where Belonger status was granted arbitrarily and opaquely. Furthermore, the audit, which was not designed to be […]

Below is a media release from the BVI Health Services Authority dated Wednesday July 7, 2021. The BVI Health Services Authority has been made aware of a false report that is questionably attributed to an employee of our organisation and […]

The number of active positive COVID-19 cases in the British Virgin Islands is now nearing 700 persons. The territory’s latest epidemiological summary dated July 7 shows that 659 persons in the BVI have the virus. The summary says 622 are […]

Below is a statement from Premier Andrew Fahie on CARICOM’s continued show of support to his administration amid the UK-sanctioned Commission of Inquiry ongoing in the BVI. Premier and Minister of Finance, Honourable Andrew A. Fahie welcomes the statement of The […]

Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Gaston Browne, said the regional bloc would “stand in solidarity” with the BVI if the government decides to suspend its cooperation with the Commission of Inquiry (COI) to focus on the territory’s COVID-19 outbreak. […]

Deputy Premier Dr Natalio Wheatley has said he will speak with the Premier and Minister of Finance, Andrew Fahie about the possibility of compensating businesses that have been ordered closed because of the current COVID-19 outbreak. The BVI now has […]

Implementing another lockdown in the BVI might be a futile measure to help stem the current COVID-19 outbreak locally, Health Minister Carvin Malone has suggested. Malone gave that indication during the VIP’s Let’s Talk radio show last evening when asked about […]