The local business and entrepreneurial sector is experiencing a “substantial increase”. That is according to the Director of Trade, Investment Promotions and Consumer Affairs, Karia Christopher. The trade director did not provide statistics but said her department will be hosting […]

While noting that Education Minister Myron Walwyn has fed the public with some amount of ‘false’ information, Auditor General Sonia Webster has impliedly described the minister’s recent response to her office’s special report on the Elmore Stoutt High School perimeter […]

Quito’s Gazebo in Cane Garden Bay has reopened after a six-week setback caused by scarce building materials on Tortola and subsequent shipping interruptions. Owner of the tourist hotspot, Quito Rymer, said the million-dollar upgraded Gazebo was unveiled at a soft launch […]

By Esther Durand, BVI News Staff After about a 15-month hiatus due to the havoc caused by the 2017 natural disasters, the British Virgin Islands will once again host its annual Boxing Day races. Twenty-one horses are set to compete […]

A Carrot Bay man was sentenced to a total of three-and-a-half years at Her Majesty’s Prison after he was found cultivating more than 200 cannabis plants last year. Alson Quashie was sentenced on Friday after Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards found […]

Despite a mandate from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) and the United Kingdom that the Recovery and Development Agency (RDA) should handle and have full control over monies from the CDB’s $65 million loan, local government is currently the body managing those […]

The man largely in charge of managing the territory’s purse, Glenroy Forbes, has said the time is ripe for the British Virgin Islands to explore the idea of having greater self-determination. The Financial Secretary said the territory needs to have a […]

A Long Trench resident charged with manslaughter two years ago has been acquitted. Anthony Cheltenham was found not guilty by a nine-member-jury last Thursday. His attorneys Valerie Stephens-Gordon and Stacy Abel successfully argued that the incident was nothing more than […]

Seventeen new recruits have been sworn into the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) and nearly half of the batch are BVIslanders. The other countries represented are St Vincent, Jamaica, Guyana, St Lucia and Dominica. A media release from the […]

By Dickson Igwe, Contributor Self-sufficient economies are good for national security, national health, and economic growth. Non-self-sufficient economies are slave economies, dependent on foreign powers, for their existence. Now, countries that feed their populations from their own geography and natural […]