The clause that forbade parties and candidates from making election promises they knowingly cannot deliver on has been removed from newly introduced Code of Conduct for Political Parties and Candidates. According to Permanent Secretary in the Deputy Governor’s Office, Carolyn […]

Political candidates affiliated with a party can no longer assign two or even one polling agent to monitor their individual interests at the polling station on Election Day. Amendments to the territory’s Election Act now reserves that right for political […]

The number of candidates in Progressives United is steadily increasing as the party has made another addition to the team. Verna Smith is the latest addition and was announced on Monday as the Julian Fraser-led party’s second At-Large candidate. Progressives […]

Cedar International and St Georges Secondary schools have earned their spots in the semi-final round of the Inter-Secondary Schools debates slated for March 6. The two schools emerged triumphant over their competitors during the first leg of the competition at […]

PRESS RELEASE: The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association British Islands and Mediterranean Region (CPA BIMR) will conduct an Election Observation Mission (EOM) to the British Virgin Islands 2019. CPA BIMR were invited by the Governor with approval of the Premier and Leader […]

Police have identified the man who was shot and killed in Huntums Ghut Sunday night as 34-year-old Dominica native, Erran Charles. While bringing some clarity on the shooting, law enforcers said the second gunshot victim is a 17-year-old. The teen […]

Police presence has been increased at the Elmore Stoutt High School (ESHS) in Pasea Estate in light of what is being described as a ‘disturbance’ at the facility Monday morning. “Police were called to assist and deployed a number of […]

Though commending VIP Chairman Andrew Fahie for ‘long years of service’ as representative of First District, Sylvia Romney-Moses — the Progressive Virgin Islands Movement (PVIM) candidate hoping to unseat the five-term legislator — said the district has straggled under Fahie’s […]

National Democratic Party (NDP) candidate for the Ninth Electoral District, Dr Hubert O’Neal, said he intends to make good on his 2015 election promise and provide emergency helicopter services for his district if re-elected into office for a second consecutive […]

Progressives United candidate for the Fifth Electoral District Dirk Walters wants structures in the district to be built in an aesthetically less modernised manner to attract more visitors to the British Virgin Islands. Speaking at his campaign launch in Huntums […]