While disclosing an 87 percent pass rate among the territory’s first batch of Grade 12 students, as well as the performance of public secondary schools, Minister of Education Myron Walwyn said the overall grades being provided this year are more […]

By Horace Mills, BVI News Online Staff Minister responsible for airports Dr Kedrick Pickering today declined to answer specific questions posed about the fate of the proposed extension of the runway at Terrence B Lettsome International Airport, adding that the […]

Director of Public Prosecutions Kim Hollis has told the court that, during a police interview, Lennox Da Silva ‘clearly admitted’ to cutting his Jamaican wife’s throat on the ill-fated night of Saturday, June 10, 2017. The 52-year-old native of St […]

By Davion Smith, BVI News Online Staff In a bid to employ more young locals, Government said it will be cracking down on employers who are hiring persons from abroad to do entry-level jobs here in the British Virgin Islands […]

  Noting that the British Virgin Islands (BVI) has been experiencing an influx of visitors and expats who speak Mandarin and French, Minister of Education Myron Walwyn said, come September, six schools will participate in the pilot programme to introduce […]

By Horace Mills, BVI News Online Staff Kierra John, an aspiring hotel manager who defied the odds to top the secondary school leaving exam and bring pride to a school often stigmatized without justification, is somewhat of a maverick. In […]

While noting the seriousness of the offences brought before her yesterday, Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards ordered Alson Quashie remanded after the 56-year-old farmer pleaded guilty to cultivating 220 marijuana plants. Quashie also pleaded guilty to being in possession of 78.3 […]

PRESS RELEASE: The Management of One Mart Supermarket has moved quickly to reassure its customers that it did not have in stock any of the recently-recalled products from the Chicago, USA-based Conagra Brands. Conagra Brands, in cooperation with the US […]

Director of the Family Support Network Dr Sylvia Simmons again has raised concern about domestic violence in the territory; this after a 27-year-old Jamaican woman was butchered at the Tortola house she shared with her husband. The murder was witnessed […]

Minister responsible for youth affairs Myron Walwyn said Government is using its job creation drive as a crime-fighting strategy. “This is also part of the government’s crime-fighting strategy because you hear sometimes people will say that unemployment is a contributing […]