The BVI Electricity Corporation (BVIEC) said residents should pay their bills to help fund the reconstruction of infrastructure damaged by category 5 hurricane Irma, adding that its online payment portal has been restored. Nearly 100 percent of the BVIEC’s utility […]

A flash flood watch is in effect for low-lying and flood prone areas of the British Virgin Islands until 5pm this afternoon, October 11, said the Department of Disaster Management. A flash flood watch means that moderate to major flooding […]

Inclement weather and unsuitable ground conditions today forced local authorities to prematurely close early childhood centres on the island of Tortola. The Ministry of Education and Culture, which said it apologizes for any inconvenience caused by the indefinite closure, urged […]

Junior Minister of Tourism Archibald Christian has told the House of Assembly that persons have been trying to smuggle suspected looted items out of the British Virgin Islands (BVI), adding that looting is not part of the territory’s culture and […]

Residents of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) are being told to stop badmouthing Premier Dr D Orlando Smith and other persons involved in the recovery process, which comes after Hurricane Irma pounded the territory on September 6. Bishop Ishmael Charles, […]

Main Street in the British Virgin Islands capital was one of the hardest hit by category 5 hurricane Irma on September 6, 2017. Less than a week after the disaster, BVI News Online Journalist Horace Mills walked through a section […]

Governor Augustus Jaspert has disclosed that the Department of Disaster Management (DDM), which has transitioned to the National Emergency Operations Centre, recently lost its building as well as ‘nearly 40 years of investment in technology and equipment’. The items lost […]

By Davion Smith, BVI News Online Journalist While stating that the National Democratic Party administration should not be blamed for the devastation caused by Hurricane Irma, Leader of the Opposition Andrew Fahie said the government should not mislead residents and […]

PRESS RELEASE (HireBVI) – The two successive Category 5 hurricanes, Irma and Maria, have left the territory in a state of devastation. Rekeema Turnbull, Managing Director at HireBVI noted, “We understand and recognize that we have an important role to […]

Reports out of St Kitts are that Mervin O’Flaherty, who worked as a pilot and a prison officer in the British Virgin Islands, has been stabbed to death in his homeland of St Kitts. He recently returned to his country to lay his mother to rest. […]