The ICA (BVI) Group Corporation has signed an agreement for redevelopment of the government-owned Prospect Reef Hotel, promising hundreds of jobs and a project estimated to cost $90 million. Representative of the ICA Group, Ali Nawaz Shaikh, made the promise […]

Justice Mario Mitchell today called off the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions’ (ODPP) quest to further prosecute former legislator Irene Penn-O’Neal, in relation to the gun charges of which she was freed two years ago. The ODPP wanted […]

The government said it is taking action to address the undermined road in North Sound, Virgin Gorda. Minister of Communication and Works Mark Vanterpool made the announcement while he assessed numerous projects the Government has undertaken on the sister island. […]

A 46-year-old man who reportedly claimed he beat another man for threatening to shoot him has been put on $30,000 bail. Val Hendricks is before the Magistrate’s Court on common assault and criminal damage charges. He was not made to […]

Jillian Fahie has been called before the Magistrate’s Court for allegedly stealing more than $8,000 from the BVI Airports Authority (BVIAA), which employed her as a cashier at the Terrence B Lettsome International Airport. The 41-year-old is accused of creating […]

By Davion Smith, BVI News Online Journalist Kaydia Smith, at only 13 years old, already experienced the glare of gender bias. She however is on a mission to help curb it by showing the world that females can reach the […]

A resident, Jane Tyrrell, has been getting support as she pushes to have Premier Dr D Orlando Smith ban plastic straws and Styrofoam containers from the British Virgin Islands. Through an online petition that started in May, she, so far, […]

British Virgin Islands athlete Kyron McMaster finished second at the prestigious Müller Anniversary Games in London yesterday – his first international clash since May when he set a world leading 47.80 seconds in Jamaica. He, yesterday, also became the first […]

Premier and Minister of Finance Dr D Orlando Smith will present the mid-year review of his government’s work in a radio and television simulcast at 8 o’ clock this evening, July 10. The government’s Director of Communication, Arliene Penn, said […]

By Dickson Igwe, Contributor Globalization and the one world order have been supplanted by a resurgent western nationalism. This is a new beast based upon cultural power, not race. OK. Culture directs power and wealth, more than the other way […]