Two-time Soca Monarch competition winner Jevaughn ‘JJ’ Parsons has called on organisers of the Emancipation Festival to stop sidelining local artistes, adding that photographs of local participants should be prominently displayed on posters used to advertise the event each year. […]

By Davion Smith, BVI News Online Journalist Jevaughn Parsons, who goes by the stage name JJ, has defended his Soca Monarch title, thus giving the British Virgin Islands (BVI) bragging rights in the regional competition for yet another year. Dressed […]

By Davion Smith, BVI News Online Journalist While claiming that he has an open door policy, Premier and Minister of Finance Dr D Orlando Smith has told vendors and business owners not to sit quietly when they don’t receive payment […]

PRESS RELEASE: Reynold ‘Rey’ O’Neal, OBE received an extraordinary honour from Lord Sebastian Coe, President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) at the opening ceremony of the 51st IAAF Congress. The IAAF Plaque of Merit, awarded for meritorious services […]

Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Kim Hollis today told the Magistrate’s Court that a gunman was imported into the British Virgin Islands (BVI) to murder Dakeem Cheltenham last October. Although the actual gunman remains at large, prosecutors believe the man […]

While lamenting the prevalence of gun-related crimes in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions also decried the number of convicted persons who use their relatives as an excuse to get leniency from judges. […]

Chairman of the Virgin Islands Festival and Fairs Committee Trefor Grant said it is too soon to tell whether Trinidadian Soca artiste Destra Garcia will still perform at this year’s Emancipation Festival. Garcia is scheduled to perform at the East […]

Three clients have completed the Safe Haven Transitional Centre’s rehabilitation programme successfully, and are now ‘on their own’ with the centre’s support. The Government Information Service, in a media release, identified the three clients merely as Lettsome, Todman, and Smith. […]

The man who was found hanging in a wooden shed near his family home in the Mayaba area of Tortola last evening has been identified as Luvan Francis, otherwise known as Dust. He is said to be just over 40 […]

The gunman who robbed The Struggling Man’s Place in Sea Cows Bay last evening escaped on foot in the area, BVI News Online has confirmed. There is also confirmation that he took approximately $1,000 from the establishment, where a restaurant […]