A tropical storm has now developed in the Atlantic and is forecast to pass near or over portions of the Windward Islands OR south of the Leeward Islands where the BVI is located on Friday, July 2. At 5 am […]

The Ministry of Natural Resources, Labour, & Immigration is closed from Thursday, July 1 until further notice. The ministry issued that announcement minutes of 8 pm on Wednesday. “The reason for closure is that two members of staff have tested […]

The National Parks Trust (NPT) has decided to put a limit on the number of persons allowed to access the territory’s national parks at any given time. The Trust did not disclose what this limit will be when it announced […]

The Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF) said an unknown number of persons have already been arrested in relation to the Virgin Gorda bank robbery that occurred at 10:30 am on Friday, March 20. In a subsequent media release Friday […]

PRESS RELEASE:The Virgin Islands Recovery and Development Agency (RDA) – a statutory Agency established by the Government of the Virgin Islands with the purpose of ensuring the timely and proper implementation and execution of the Recovery to Development Plan of the Virgin […]

While noting that their remit is not to police the 2019 election season, the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association British Islands and Mediterranean Region (CPA BIMR) has said residents of the British Virgin Islands are the ones who are ultimately responsible to […]

Power has been restored at the Terrance B Lettsome International Airport on Beef Island and the facility has now reopened. Electricity was restored at the facility at 1:15 pm, Diana Maduro of the BVI Airports Authority told BVI News. PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED ARTICLE The […]

The public is notified that all liquor licence applications are to be submitted to the Environmental Health Division no later than November 22. This will ensure that pre-requisite inspections are carried out within a reasonable time-frame for the sitting which […]

PRESS RELEASE: Persons with Chronic Diseases in the territory will soon benefit from a Self-Management Programme courtesy the Family Health Unit of the Ministry of Health and Social Development in collaboration with the BVI Health Services Authority. The Stanford University […]

On September 25, 2016, BVI News Online published a story under the headline: POPE TO COURT: I used cutlass; not gun. In that story, a Mr Simeon Pope was reported as being charged for threatening language and being arrested for […]