The majority of primary schools currently under repairs will be ready within the first term of the 2018/2019 academic year, Education Minister Myron Walwyn has said. The minister made the remark while delivering his fourteenth update on the progress made […]

Disney Cruise Line has applauded the BVI Tourist Board for improving the territory’s visitor arrival experience, which they said was initially unpleasant in the British Virgin Islands. Disney said the experience was particularly bad at the Terrance B Lettsome International […]

A group with the sole objective of providing local government with ‘viable global investment opportunities’ is being established in the territory. The group is to be called the Economic Advisory Group (EAG) and will consist of both locals and expatriate […]

Government’s Human Resource Department has said the year 2017 has recorded the highest number of persons to retire from the public service in half-a-decade. According to Director of Human Resources, Michelle Donovan-Stevens, a total of 73 government workers had retired […]

  Local chef, Kenneth Molyneaux will be among the panel of judges in the upcoming Taste of the Caribbean Competition to be held in Miami on June 22 to 26. The owner of the Tropical Fusion Restaurant on Tortola and […]

By Alred Frett, Contributor Our people are hurting; our country shrinking in values, our emotions screeching in top gear and the asphalt still warm from the patter of last month’s marching feet as we enter a new hurricane season. Meanwhile, […]

Approximately 3,000 persons in the British Virgin Islands affixed their signatures to a petition objecting to the United Kingdom’s ‘public registers’ policy being imposed on British Overseas Territories. The petition will be officially handed over to the Governor Augustus Jaspert […]

By Esther Durand, BVI News Staff Before the disasters of 2017 *Anna was the working mother of a newborn baby boy who had her own apartment in Huntums Ghut. But, after hurricanes Irma and Maria, she became jobless and homeless […]

Marijuana laws could possibly become relaxed in the British Virgin Islands. Currently, possession and distribution of marijuana of any quantity are illegal in the territory. But, while speaking with journalists at a media conference on Wednesday, Premier Dr D Orlando […]

Regional online magazine the Caribbean Journal has ranked Anegada as one of the top 18 best islands to visit in the Caribbean this year. In the report published recently, the Journal highlighted Anegada’s recovery progress since hurricanes Irma and Maria […]