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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]

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 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 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, […]

A study funded by the government has found that banks operating in the British Virgin Islands (BVI) are together owed hundreds of millions of dollars, and the persons owing are mainly customers in the territory. “BVI banks’ assets include $919 […]

Weeks after he completed university in the United States last year and returned to his homeland, Adonijah Lettsome was arrested for marijuana. The 24-year-old appeared before Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards today (June 23) for possession of two grams of marijuana. […]