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Articles By: Julia Donavan

Write To Read marches into summer programme

Write To Read marches into summer programme

PRESS RELEASE – With school about to break for the summer, Write To Read will be hosting the March Into Greatness Summer Program, which focuses on developing academic skills as well as the development of values and life skills in […]

by / on June 26, 2017 at 6:34 AM /
Premier tries to build confidence in BOSS

Premier tries to build confidence in BOSS

Days before the British Virgin Islands (BVI) implements a new system that will have far-reaching implications for the territory’s financial services industry, Premier Dr D Orlando Smith has claimed that the system is a world class platform that perfectly blends […]

by / on June 26, 2017 at 6:04 AM /
Underhill promises ‘adequate’ space

Underhill promises ‘adequate’ space

Principal at Elmore Stoutt High School (ESHS) Sandy Underhill said the additional classrooms that Government is building at her school should be able to adequately accommodate a projected 10 percent increase in the school’s population in September. “Our school is […]

by / on June 26, 2017 at 5:59 AM /
Injured persons ferried to Tortola for treatment

Injured persons ferried to Tortola for treatment

A vessel carrying two injured passengers arrived at the Road Town Jetty approximately 7:20pm, following reports of a motor vehicle accident on Virgin Gorda today, June 24. The injured parties were then removed from the vessel, stretchered to two awaiting ambulances, and […]

by / on June 24, 2017 at 7:09 PM /
Walwyn calls for trade school

Walwyn calls for trade school

Minister of Education Myron Walwyn has called for the establishment of a trade school in the British Virgin Islands. He directed the call at Premier Dr D Orlando Smith during a graduation ceremony yesterday (June 23) at the Virgin Islands […]

by / on June 24, 2017 at 5:30 PM /
Hospital goes ‘minutes’ without power

Hospital goes ‘minutes’ without power

Technicians were whipped into action at Peebles Hospital today (June 24) when the medical facility’s back-up generator failed to start during a power outage in Road Town, Tortola. Chief Executive Officer at the state-owned facility, Paula Chester-Cumberbatch, said no equipment […]

by / on June 24, 2017 at 5:28 PM /
Principal defends numbers as eight graduate

Principal defends numbers as eight graduate

By Davion Smith, BVI News Online Staff In an atmosphere filled with pride and even the merry sound of vuvuzelas, eight students celebrated the completion an educational journey into technical studies – a field into which too few natives of […]

by / on June 24, 2017 at 5:26 PM /
Nasty crash leaves persons in hospital

Nasty crash leaves persons in hospital

An unknown number of persons have been transported to Peebles Hospital following a nasty motor vehicle accident this morning, June 24. The accident is said to have happened in the Free Bottom Hill area of Tortola. BVI News Online understands […]

by / on June 24, 2017 at 1:12 PM /
A family conversation (part 1)

A family conversation (part 1)

By Shaina M. Smith, contributor  I had a conversation with two friends a few weeks ago on The Vigilate Dialogues television programme that was enlightening. It has put me to reflect on how as a society we have come to […]

by / on June 24, 2017 at 12:53 PM /
Ole England, Nostalgia, and Brexit

Ole England, Nostalgia, and Brexit

By Dickson Igwe, Contributor There is a lesson for these Virgin Isles, and for countries striving for social and economic prosperity in the proceeding narrative. It states that national success is not derived through the cynical adoption of populist xenophobia, […]

by / on June 24, 2017 at 10:00 AM /