A Fat Hogs Bay man accused of clobbering a man in the head with a rock has been brought before the court for assault occasioning actual bodily harm. Neville Alphonso, a middle-aged construction worker was not required to plea to […]

Four Sea Cows Bay residents were charged on Thursday in connection to gun and drug offences, local police are reporting. Charged with keeping an unlicensed firearm, unlawful possession of ammunition, and two counts of unlawful possession of a controlled drug […]

A 25-year-old government employee attached to the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force reportedly told police he was only ‘following the crowd’ when he allegedly looted a 32-inch flat screen television from an electronics store after Hurricane Irma last year. Shamoii […]

A few hundred international students have already expressed interest in the medical school that is being established in the BVI, Education Minister Myron Walwyn has said. This offshore school — which is called the University of Science Arts and Technology […]

Residents and visitors will have to wait a while longer before the Taddy Bay Airport on Virgin Gorda reopens. The BVI Airports Authority (BVIAA) had said the airport would have reopened by October 29 of this week. But when contacted […]

At least two relatively old matters involving deceased persons have appeared on the court’s list in the past two weeks, causing the Magistrate Shawn Innocent to decry the increasingly recurring shortcomings of the judicial system locally. The deceased person in […]

While prosecutors are alleging that it was an offence motivated by race, a 23-year-old Long Bush man accused of assault has testified that he was acting in self-defence when he reportedly injured a Caucasian male on September 26 three years […]

More than half-a-million dollars in pledges have been donated so far to outfit the Nurse Iris O’Neal Medical Centre on Virgin Gorda. Donations are pouring in through a recently-launched pledge programme for the medical facility, which is expected to be […]

Political parties and candidates who will be participating in the upcoming general elections are being warned against making promises they knowingly cannot deliver. This policy has been outlined in a draft of a code of conduct for political parties and […]

Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Communication and Public Works Anthony McMaster says he welcomes the help that the Recovery and Development Agency (RDA) brings. His remarks come on the heels of talks by at least one legislator that the […]