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Articles By: Julia Donavan

Jack sentenced for assaulting police

Jack sentenced for assaulting police

A man who punched a police officer and sprinted out of the East End Police Station to avoid being arrested for a crime has been fined $2,800. Magistrate Ayanna Baptiste DaBreo on Friday fined Everett Jack who pleaded guilty to […]

by / on May 22, 2017 at 7:15 AM /
Jamaica’s oldest newspaper: We now know McMaster

Jamaica’s oldest newspaper: We now know McMaster

Jamaica Gleaner – WITH so many top international athletes on show at the Jamaica International Invitational Meet inside the National Stadium last Saturday, not many local fans knew about Kyron McMaster of the British Virgin Islands, but after the Men’s […]

by / on May 22, 2017 at 6:59 AM /
HMS Brexit and the Brussels Iceberg

HMS Brexit and the Brussels Iceberg

By Dickson Igwe, Contributor The United Kingdom must skillfully negotiate its exit from Europe, or risk being torn apart. With the Brexit Referendum, Brussels has become a massive and ominous iceberg that the seafaring vessel, The HMS Great Britain, would […]

by / on May 22, 2017 at 5:13 AM /
VIDEO: McMaster runs world leading time

VIDEO: McMaster runs world leading time

Kyron McMaster from the British Virgin Islands this evening ran a world leading time and national record to win the Men’s 400 Metre Hurdles at the National Stadium in Kingston, Jamaica. He clocked 47.80 seconds over the distance. In doing […]

by / on May 20, 2017 at 10:12 PM /
Masa found guilty of gun possession

Masa found guilty of gun possession

Social media personality Ramoamasagana ‘Masa’ Pemberton has been found guilty of keeping an unlicensed firearm and unlawful possession of ammunition. Magistrate Ayanna Baptiste-DaBreo gave the verdict this afternoon (May 19) while stating that the evidence against Pemberton was overwhelming. She […]

by / on May 19, 2017 at 4:55 PM /
Inmate charged with attempted murder

Inmate charged with attempted murder

The young man facing a new charge of attempted murder is Mount Healthy resident Shakoy Lavacia, Information Officer at the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force Diane Drayton has confirmed. As BVI News Online reported moments ago, Lavacia, who has been […]

by / on May 19, 2017 at 12:40 PM /
Sex worker gets $300, told she can sue beater

Sex worker gets $300, told she can sue beater

Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards yesterday ordered Garry Smith to pay a total $6,300 for stealing from and beating a sex worker who he claimed did not give him his money’s worth of pleasure. The senior magistrate slapped Smith with a […]

by / on May 19, 2017 at 9:31 AM /
Probe and Prison – Fraser ‘smells’ UK appointments

Probe and Prison – Fraser ‘smells’ UK appointments

While crying shame on all persons involved in the appointment of Phil Sharman as the territory’s next Auditor General, member of the parliamentary opposition Julian Fraser said there is something that doesn’t ‘smell’ right about the list of United Kingdom […]

by / on May 19, 2017 at 8:41 AM /
Malone fined $500 – Compared to Donald Trump

Malone fined $500 – Compared to Donald Trump

After she fined Darier Malone $500 for calling a police officer a “punk mothers ***t”, Senior Magistrate Tamia Richards said in apparent jest that the offender is “more mature” than the US President Donald Trump. That is because the 23-year-offender […]

by / on May 19, 2017 at 8:37 AM /
OPINION: Welcome to the twilight zone where wrong means right

OPINION: Welcome to the twilight zone where wrong means right

By A C Frett, Contributor Just when we thought things couldn’t get worse, leaders across the world show us they can. International trade agreements are scrapped, crucial healthcare for the needy is withdrawn, basic education is rolled back, religious leaders […]

by / on May 19, 2017 at 8:36 AM /