Government has accepted a recommendation education minister Myron Walwyn recently made for operators of charter boats to lose a special incentive they usually enjoy during the typically slow tourism business period each year – May to November. As a result, […]

The office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has dropped the case it had started against Jareem Fahie, who was accused of injuring another person. No clear indication was given as to why the case was being dumped. Fahie’s […]

The Department of Disaster Management (DDM) said it is important for members of the public to become familiar with the location of land-based emergency shelters, as well as the list of marine shelters. It said persons should know “the details […]

Twenty-five uniformed officers were awarded yesterday for good conduct and long service to the British Virgin Islands. A number of residents showed up to witness the moment, which was part of a grand celebration in honour of Queen Elizabeth’s 91st […]

Two persons from the British Virgin Islands have been named on Queen Elizabeth II Birthday Honours List for 2017, and will soon be formally honoured. They are veteran educator Cicely Malone and former Commercial Court judge Edward Bannister, QC. Governor […]

By Horace Mills, BVI News Online Staff Shauna-Kay Miller is a guru in the culinary arts and home economics, having taught in that field both here in the British Virgin Islands and in Jamaica where she also co-owns the Sweet […]

Rebekha Persaud has claimed that she lied to law enforcers under ‘duress’ in an attempt to protect Kenaz Hazell who has been implicated in a deadly bar robbery at Long Look, Tortola. During the robbery at Fahie Boy’s Bar on […]

By Horace Mills, BVI News Online Staff The sincerity of the National Democratic Party government’s spoken abhorrence towards crime is again being questioned; this after no member of the administration was seen at a major event hosted yesterday to promulgate […]

While Kenaz Hazell was ordered remanded when he appeared in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday (June 16), more persons are said to be at large in relation to the murder of businessman Frankie Fahie and a robbery that took place during […]

Musicians from across the British Virgin Islands sent a powerful message of peace from a ‘Stop The Crime’ concert held at Tortola Pier Park last evening in response to the territory’s murder rate that currently stands at six. Children and […]