For the first time, the BVI’s financial services industry has provided information about some businesses registered here that will help the entities’ resident countries to collect valuable tax from their offshore activities. Eleven other countries labelled as notorious tax havens […]
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Only one round trip ferry per day when seaports reopen to int’l traffic
The BVI Ports Authority (BVIPA) has announced that there will be only one round trip ferry service per day when the Road Town Jetty reopens to international traffic on April 15. A press release from the BVIPA said this single […]
Banco opening on weekends!
Banco Popular is now operating on weekends in the British Virgin Islands. Starting April 3, the financial institution will be open for four hours on Saturdays. “The Tortola branch will resume Saturday operations from 9 am to 1 pm — […]
VINO publishes another racially charged cartoon of governor
The Julian Willock-owned Virgin Islands News Online (VINO) has published yet another racially charged cartoon of the territory’s governor on its website. In its latest cartoon, VINO portrays the sitting governor, John Rankin speaking about persons of African descent with […]
BVI, Eastern Carib’n countries to benefit from EU-funded projects
The BVI and other member states of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) are set to benefit from the implementation of two European Union (EU) funded projects centred around sustainability. The projects are the Biodiversity Support Programme for ACP […]
Travellers must now cover cost of transportation upon arrival in BVI
The government will no longer be footing the transportation bill for travellers who arrive in the territory and require transportation to any accommodation or quarantine facility. Since the territory reopened for visitors in December, government covered the cost of ground […]
Having problems with RDA? You can now lodge a complaint
The Recovery & Development Agency (RDA) has launched its Grievance Redress System (GRS); making it possible for individuals and groups to lodge a complaint against work involving RDA staff and externally-hired consultants and contractors. The RDA said the new system […]
WHO Report: COVID likely transmitted to people from animal
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has given the strongest indication to date that COVID-19 probably transmitted to people through an animal. WHO presented this hypothesis in a 120-page report released on Tuesday. The animal whose name recurred through the report […]
Calls for more vaccination centres territory-wide
If vaccination against COVID-19 is the key to the safe reopening of the BVI economy, then more testing centres should be made available across the territory to make the jabs more accessible to all residents. That’s the view of Chaunci […]
Wasted resources! Gov’t needs to centralise its technology strategy
Opposition Leader Marlon Penn has said he believes the government continues to develop scattered systems that contribute to state resources being wasted. Penn, who was speaking at a recent sitting of the House of Assembly recently, said an example […]
