Two visitors who were allegedly caught travelling on Tortola with $52,000 cash — which is said to be amassed through gambling — has been brought before the Magistrate’s Court. Charged with possession of proceeds of criminal conduct are 33-year-old Dominica […]

The three suspects who were arrested in connection to the February 3 murder of Erran Charles are no longer in police custody. The Information Unit of the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force gave that update while responding to inquiries from […]

In monitoring the economy of the British Virgin Islands — one of its borrowing countries — the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) has recorded an increase in real gross domestic product (GDP) for the territory last year. GDP is the total […]

Virgin Islands Party (VIP) candidate for the Fourth Electoral District Luce Hodge-Smith has slammed the constituency’s current representative, Mark Vanterpool, on what she said was an ‘unacceptable’ performance as district rep in the last eight years. She made the statement after […]

Chairman of the Progressive Virgin Islands Movement (PVIM) Ronnie Skelton is promising to provide assistance to local taxi operators in a manner that could potentially grow the transportation-for-hire sector in the British Virgin Islands. Skelton said the assistance would come […]

National Democratic Party (NDP) candidate seeking re-election in the Eighth District Marlon Penn plans to form a cooperative between local fisherfolk and government. “In this relationship with government, we will assist with the establishment of local and external markets to […]

By Dickson Igwe, Contributor Brexit presents a dilemma for Virgin Islands politics during a month of general elections. How does Brexit affect the Virgin Islands? Will Brexit happen? And if Brexit takes place will Brexit be sustainable in an aging […]

Though keen not to outrightly name the perpetrators of the political mudslinging that has been largely directed at him, NDP Chairman Myron Walwyn has given innuendos about who he believes is behind the character assassination attempts. He described the practice […]

In light of the territory’s first murder for 2019 which happened in the Fifth District community of Huntums Ghut a week ago, Virgin Islands Party (VIP) candidate for that constituency Kye Rymer has now made crime reduction and prevention a […]

By Esther Durand, BVI News Staff At least two parties will have their leaders square off in a political debate scheduled for Thursday, February 21 at the H Lavity Stoutt Community College (HLSCC) in Paraquita Bay on Tortola. None of […]