Government Information Service (press release) – Child protection workers benefit from a week long specialized training to build professional knowledge and skills to prevent and respond to child abuse and neglect. Chief Social Development Officer Mrs. Annie Malone Frett said […]

There is an adage that ‘lightning doesn’t strike in the same place twice’. That may not be totally true for a British Virgin Islands family that has been plunged into uncertainty for a second time in roughly one year. The […]

Police said a search is ongoing for the man who went missing after he allegedly jumped from a boat that flipped in British Virgin Islands waters yesterday, July 11. Residents have identified the missing man as Deshaun ‘Bongo’ Bryan. The […]

While claiming that the market in Road Town is not suitable for vendors, former Chief Immigration Officer Edmund Maduro said he will pray for God to get rid of anyone who tries to remove vendors from the streets of the […]

Still defending the removal of vendors from the streets of Road Town, City Manager Janice Brathwaite-Edwards said another reason for the action is that the illegal vendors have been depriving established businesses of sale. She said some of the vendors […]

Police have confiscated seven illegal firearms and ‘several’ rounds of ammunition since the start of the year, according to the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force (RVIPF), which also declared that it is engaging the community in a territory-wide crackdown to […]

Leader of the Opposition Andrew Fahie has lamented that the premier has used his mid-term address to boast about the health of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) economy, adding that everyone else in the territory knows the local economy is […]

Two natives of the United States have been called before the Magistrate’s Court to answer to several charges following a 2015 boat collision that left one of the accused men nursing injuries. Those charged are 55-year-old boat captain John Magnaldi, […]

Premier Dr D Orlando Smith is away from the territory attending meetings in the United Kingdom (UK), where he will discuss Brexit, which is the UK’s impending exit from the European Union (EU). Brexit will directly affect the British Virgin […]

A 26-year-old native of Jamaica and resident of Lower Estate on Tortola, Nickail Chambers, has been charged with unlawful possession of a firearm with intent to injure. The charge stems from an incident in which shots were fired at Fort […]