By Esther Durand, BVI News Staff Complaints Commissioner Sheila Brathwaite has called for the creation of a Human Rights Commission in light of heightened complaints from inmates and families of inmates at Her Majesty’s Prison. According to the 2020 Standing […]

By Kamal Haynes, BVI News Staff History was created in the British Virgin Islands on Friday, December 20 as the Terrance B Lettsome International Airport welcomed its largest-ever commercial flight to the territory. An estimated 60 passengers travelling on Titan […]

With the increasing number of criminal cases being lodged to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (ODPP), roughly a half-dozen job vacancies for prosecutors have been made available. Principal Crown Counsel Tiffany Scatliffe-Esprit gave that indication while addressing […]

Stating that he believes the entity is being neglected, Representative for the Second District Melvin ‘Mitch’ Turnbull is urging the government to do more for the Virgin Islands Cadet Corps. The Opposition legislator made the plea at a recent sitting […]

History was created on Jost Van Dyke on Friday as the island’s first public building was named in honour of a local. Following the damage it sustained during the September 2017 disasters, the Jost Van Dyke Administration building was renovated […]

By Dickson Igwe, Contributor OK. Life, death and Christmas are interwoven themes. And the songwriter states that: “Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year”. And it certainly is. One can literally smell when Christmas is in the air. […]

Unite BVI has collaborated with government to donate a combined total of $300,000 to fund the newly-established Marine Training Programme at the H Lavity Stoutt Community College. This was revealed in a government-commissioned media release which said that government had […]

BVI pensioners who are members of CIBC First Caribbean International Bank (FCIB) and Scotiabank have raised concern about the acquisition of those two institutions by GNB Financial Group Ltd and Republic Financial Holdings Ltd, respectively.  This is according to Leader […]

Opposition legislator Julian Fraser has said he is not pleased that after more than a year since its establishment, the Recovery & Development Agency (RDA) has still not been given the chance to operate as it should. When the RDA […]

Repairs to several substations of the Virgin Islands Fire & Rescue Service across the territory are expected to be completed in 2020. This is according to Works Minister Kye Rymer who gave an update in a recent session of the […]