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Woman stabbed to death – 6 murders in 6 months

Woman stabbed to death – 6 murders in 6 months

A man who was shot in Jamaica in 2014 is being questioned in relation to the fatal hacking of his Jamaican wife this evening in the Greenland community of East End, Tortola, British Virgin Islands. The man, who is originally […]

by / on June 10, 2017 at 10:07 PM /
Festival to honour Turnbull, Lettsome, Blyden

Festival to honour Turnbull, Lettsome, Blyden

The Virgin Islands Festival and Fairs Committee (VIFFC) will use its 2017 Emancipation Festival on Tortola to honour three stalwarts of the community. Alda Dawson-Lettsome is being honoured in East End, the late Neil ‘Melee’ Blyden in Road Town, and […]

by / on June 10, 2017 at 5:49 PM /
Pageant Clash? Brin resigns from committees

Pageant Clash? Brin resigns from committees

Janette Brin has resigned controversially from the Miss BVI Pageant Committee, noting that she thinks the pageant should be headed by a native of the British Virgin Islands. The pageant committee from which she resigns is a subsidiary of the […]

by / on June 9, 2017 at 4:16 PM /
Hospital worker dies suddenly

Hospital worker dies suddenly

Staff at the state-owned Peebles Hospital has been left in grief following news of the passing of a co-worker who reportedly died while seeking treatment at the medical facility this morning, June 9. She has been identified as 37-year-old Kishan […]

by / on June 9, 2017 at 4:06 PM /
Carrot Bay men charged for marijuana

Carrot Bay men charged for marijuana

Two residents of Carrot Bay have been arrested and charged with illegal possession of marijuana stemming from separate police operations. They are 61-year-old Alden Potter and 28-year-old Marley Donovan. According to the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force, both men were […]

by / on June 9, 2017 at 2:59 PM /
Austerity and Theresa May’s last dance!

Austerity and Theresa May’s last dance!

By Dickson Igwe, Contributor Theresa May gambled and lost on June 8, 2017. This, despite her Conservative party winning the most seats in Westminster. May lost the expectations game. She called the general Election to strengthen her parliamentary majority. She […]

by / on June 9, 2017 at 1:10 PM /
Dirty socks left at burglary scene -George charged

Dirty socks left at burglary scene -George charged

Tyrone George has been charged in relation to a third case of burglary. The prosecution claimed that, in the latest incident that unfolded at Kingston Hill on Tortola in 2012, the accused left his used socks at the crime scene. […]

by / on June 9, 2017 at 1:06 PM /
Walwyn takes constitutional review to college

Walwyn takes constitutional review to college

By Horace Mills, BVI News Online Staff Minister of Education Myron Walwyn yesterday pitched the issue of self-determination among 190 college graduates, telling them not to buy into the cynicism that local people can’t competently manage the affairs of the […]

by / on June 9, 2017 at 8:22 AM /
PHOTOS: 190 graduates vow to ‘be the change’

PHOTOS: 190 graduates vow to ‘be the change’

While persons stated their expectations of 190 college graduates here on Tortola yesterday, the graduating class declared that it will not shy away from using its degrees and certificates to influence positive change. “We are the gateway to changing the […]

by / on June 9, 2017 at 8:06 AM /
Top achiever Julissa Cedano: I tried not to give up

Top achiever Julissa Cedano: I tried not to give up

Julissa Cedano spent a short time telling her success story to BVI News Online before she was light-heartedly whisked away mid-sentence by loved ones who eagerly wanted to celebrate the achievements. That level of elation was quite understandable considering that […]

by / on June 9, 2017 at 7:45 AM /