Financial allocations to electoral districts could be abolished under a Progressive Virgin Islands Movement (PVIM) government, PVIM candidate for the Fifth District, Wade Smith, has suggested. Smith said if elected, those funds would be utilised ‘more wisely’ and diverted to […]

The three years worth of outstanding salary increments that the National Democratic Party (NDP) said it will pay to civil servants by mid-March amounts to approximately $9 million, party leader Myron Walwyn has said. He said those monies are now […]

Pointing to his track record as Second District Representative over the last three-and-a-half years, Progressive Virgin Islands Movement (PVIM) candidate Melvin ‘Mitch’ Turnbull believes he has done enough to be given a second chance at the upcoming polls. Speaking in […]

Premier Dr D Orlando Smith said he feels no penitence as he concludes his nearly two decades of service in representational politics. Dr Smith expressed those sentiments as he gave his final address to the territory Monday evening. Premier Smith […]

A Jamaican man accused of selling a fishing boat and engine that did not belong to him has been granted $40,000 bail at the Magistrate’s Court. Charged with theft is fisherman and construction worker, Chevon Russell. He was not required […]

Phase one of the construction of the Iris O’Neal Medical Centre on Virgin Gorda is substantively complete. The Ministry of Health gave that notice in a media release on Monday. “This completion supports the improvement of community-based healthcare delivery as […]

Chairman of the National Democratic Party (NDP) Myron Walwyn is promising to grow the territory’s reserve fund by roughly $20 million in a matter of months if his party is re-elected into government. Speaking at an NDP political event in […]

The Progressive Virgin Islands Movement (PVIM) believes it can “greatly decrease” the cost of food in the British Virgin Islands. At-Large candidate Curnal Fahie, the man the PVIM has presented to champion the undertaking, proposes to cut food costs through […]

A West End man was fined $3,000 and given a suspended sentence after he obtained roughly $15,000 from his employer through forgery. Derrick Penn pleaded guilty to eight counts of forgery and eight counts of obtaining property (money) on a […]

National Democratic Party (NDP) candidate for the Fourth District, Mark Vanterpool, has blasted his political rivals for what he believes to be their sudden emergence in the constituency to now appear as saviours of the district. He described his rivals […]