A daycare teacher who reportedly inflicted 11 lashes on a two-year-old infant for soiling the school’s bathroom walls with faeces was slapped with a fine and a suspended sentence on Wednesday. Magistrate Shawn Innocent ordered 52-year-old Jamaican Sharon Salmon to […]
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Fake visa cases climbing, 3 more held with counterfeits
Local authorities have apprehended even more persons with fake British Virgin Islands visas. Like the previous two cases, these newest fake visa carriers are also from the Dominican Republic. They have been identified as 21-year-old Wilbin Encarnacion Rodriquez, 31-year-old Carlos […]
HMP recruits 9 new prison officers, most from wider C’bean
Nine new prison officers have been recruited at Her Majesty’s Prison in Balsam Ghut. Eight were recruited from other Caribbean countries while one is from the British Virgin Islands. The exact nationalities of these individual new recruits are not immediately […]
Miss World Int’l Chair donates $5K in supplies to VG school
Chairwoman of the Miss World International Organisation, Julia Morley, has donated $5,000 worth of school supplies to the Valley Day school in Virgin Gorda; delivering on a promise she made during a visit to the territory back in February. Morley […]
Duo mortgaged house to buy fake visas, bogus BVI jobs
Edward Jesismar Carmano Ortiz and Mady Miguelina Marte Rodriguez took out a mortgage on their family home in the Dominican Republic to fund what they believed to be genuine BVI visas and Labour clearance documents. But not only were the […]
More domestic violence victims having court cases dropped
More and more victims of domestic violence are choosing not to pursue a case against their abusive partners when it is brought before a local court. In the past two weeks, the Magistrate’s Court has dismissed at least five matters […]
Teachers being trained in school emergency response
Forty pre-primary to secondary-level educators are being trained on how to handle emergencies that may arise while on their respective school campuses. Throughout the three-day course, teachers will be trained in how to administer First Aid and CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation). […]
Cabinet waives tender process for $132K repair contract to ESHS
As time elapses further into the academic year, repairs are yet to begin on the L-shaped building at the hurricane-ravaged Elmore Stoutt High School (ESHS) campus in Road Town. Cabinet, however, has decided to waive the tendering process required to […]
Fake visa holders rearrested, back before court after dismissal
The two Hispanic visitors whose matter was dismissed after being caught with fake visas and counterfeit Labour documentation at the TB Lettsome International Airport nearly two weeks ago are back before the court on fresh charges. Magistrate Innocent had dismissed […]
VG airport ready for flights, facility reopens
Residents and visitors are now being invited to start booking flights through the Taddy Bay Airport of Virgin Gorda as the facility as reopened. The airport reopened last Friday, November 2, Managing Director of the BVI Airports Authority (BVIAA) Denniston […]
