Avanell Sylvester couldn’t help but cry as she spoke about children who have been sexually abused. She knows some of them. It is for that reason that she has been championing at her workplace – Scotiabank in Road Town – […]
Articles By: Julia Donavan
Winter sentenced to 5 years for gun, gets advice
Omarie Winter has been sentenced to five years in prison. Magistrate Ayanna Baptise-DaBreo sentenced the 19-year-old this morning (April 28) in relation to an illegal handgun and eight rounds of ammunition. He was sentenced to six months imprisonment for the […]
Josephine Rhymer laid to rest
Scores of relatives and friends assembled in Cane Garden Bay on Wednesday (April 26) to pay final respects to one-half of the British Virgin Islands’ longest married couple, Josephine ‘Mama’ Rhymer. She passed away on April 12 at age 97, […]
Gov’t mulls up to 300% increase in cruise permit fees
By Horace Mills, BVI News Online Staff The government has announced the new cruise permit fees it is proposing for local and foreign vessels day-tripping in the British Virgin Islands (BVI). The biggest increase is by 300 percent for locals […]
Prisoner on the run after escaping on VG
Police have issued an appeal for help in locating a resident of the Valley, Olanzo Dore, 31, who they said escaped custody after he was placed on remand by the Magistrate’s Court in Virgin Gorda. Prison and police officers were […]
OneMart pulls Robin Hood flour, related products
OneMart supermarket today announced that it is no longer selling Robin Hood flour and all products related to Robin Hood flour, in light of a recently issued food recall warning. “We were made aware of the issue as it developed […]
Trump frightening, but don’t panic – BVI TOLD
By Davion Smith, BVI News Online Staff While assessing Donald Trump’s presidency of the United States, a university professor urged the British Virgin Islands (BVI) not to panic although it may face frightening repercussions, including possible blows to its main […]
Gold rings, new junior league in basketball competition
PRESS RELEASE – As momentum continues to build for the 2017 annual Hon Julian Fraser Save the Seed National Basketball League, the competition is getting even more exciting. The League is pleased to announce that, in celebration of its 5th […]
PHOTOS: Revelers living their name in USVI
The neighbouring US Virgin Islands came alive yesterday morning as a relatively large number of revelers descended onto the streets of St Thomas to do as their name suggests – revel. The event, J’ouvert 2017, was held as part of […]
BVI chided for fake youth centre, limited political will
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has decried what it said is the limited political will in the British Virgin Islands to implement a legal requirement for the establishment of a youth custody and training centre for juveniles convicted of […]
