Former BVI Ports Authority employees with intimate knowledge of the cruise pier project are behind the delay of the audit being undertaken on the project, says Premier Dr D Orlando Smith. He told the House of Assembly on Thursday auditors […]

The Labour Department is expected to undergo a major overhaul, Labour Minister Dr Kedrick Pickering has said. The overhaul will include computerising sections of the Labour process and extending what can be described as isolated treatment to expatriates employed in senior executive […]

The government is planning to pump $300,000 into the agricultural sector in response to last year’s hurricanes, which caused local agriculture workers to suffer collective losses of roughly $13 million. These were the findings of a Department of Conservation and […]

At least three emergency services facilities are expected to be fully repaired in the next coming weeks. Those facilities are the Road Town and West End police stations, and Capoons Bay Fire Station. Premier Dr D Orlando Smith said work […]

PRESS RELEASE: Environmental Health Officers and key stakeholders in the design and construction of onsite disposal systems will receive training on how to prevent the pollution and contamination of drinking water supplies in two workshops next week. Chief Environmental Health […]

“The Virgin Islands Party (VIP) is laser focused. The VIP will not be pulled into the dual leadership of the National Democratic Party (NDP) tactics of using weapons of mass distraction!” Those were statements from Opposition Leader Andrew Fahie while […]

A male gunshot victim is receiving treatment at Peebles Hospital following a shooting on Tortola minutes after midnight on Thursday, July 19. The Royal Virgin Islands Police Force said the shooting happened in the Baughers Bay area of the island. […]

By Davion Smith, BVI News Staff Chairman-elect of the National Democratic Party (NDP) Myron Walwyn has said the renewed quest to discredit is eligibility to sit in the House of Assembly is ‘unfortunate’. “This matter comes up around election season […]

Interdicted police officer Starcy Huggins has been convicted of ‘breach of trust by a public officer’. Magistrate Ayanna Batiste DaBreo found Huggins guilty when the four-year-old matter concluded last Thursday. The cop now faces prison time of up to three […]

By Esther Durand, BVI News Staff Ninth District Representative Dr Hubert O’Neal has named the 2017 disasters and the subsequent closure of major Virgin Gorda resorts as the reasons he lapsed in fulfilling some of his campaign promises during general […]