This year’s staging of the Virgin Gorda Easter Festival was fun-filled, despite being curtailed, residents have said. The just-concluded festival climaxed with roughly 10 troupes participating in the Easter Parade and subsequent village entertainment on Monday. Governor Augustus Jaspert who […]

Local beauty Syvanna Charles copped the second runner-up position in the recently-held Miss Plus-size Universe competition. The event was held on Saturday at Sunset Shores Beach Hotel in St Vincent and the Grenadines. On her way to the top-three, Charles […]

In an effort to improve the delivery of festivals in the British Virgin Islands, government has pledged to provide funds to the festival organising committees sooner. This was revealed at the opening of the Roy O’Neal Festiville on Saturday night. […]

The dusty atmosphere at the Roy O’Neal Festiville in the Valley on Virgin Gorda did little to deter fans of Jamaican entertainer Dexta Daps from having a grand time on night one of the annual Virgin Gorda Easter Festival. Daps […]

Premier Andrew Fahie is challenging local businesses to donate towards the completion of classrooms at the Elmore Stoutt High School to ensure a smooth start to the 2019 September school year. He made the call at a contract signing ceremony […]

Premier Andrew Fahie has signed four contracts totalling $3.7 million for repairs to the L-shaped building at the hurricane-ravaged Elmore Stoutt High School campus in Road Town. This was done at the opening ceremony on the grounds of the high […]

Justice Ann-Marie Smith is set to rule on whether Mark Vanterpool will be sworn-in as the Fourth District Representative in the next two weeks. “Judgement will be ready on the 2nd of May,” Justice Smith said at the High Court […]

Police have charged the man believed to be the gunman in Monday night’s shooting with attempted murder. Charged is 21-year-old Kenai Jacobs of Long Look on Tortola. “Jacobs was charged additionally with possession of a control drug after a search […]

Interdicted police officer Starcy Huggins has been given a two-year suspended prison sentence for leaking police information back in 2013. Magistrate Ayanna Baptiste-DaBreo handed down the sentence on Wednesday. Huggins’ suspended sentence mandates that she will only serve two years […]

The active search for the 71-year-old US citizen who went missing while swimming in BVI waters nearly two weeks ago has been suspended. Information Officer for the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) Diane Drayton said the active search discontinued […]